Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal battery.<\/p>\n
This is Honor\u2019s first flagship launch \u2014 Robot Phone<\/a> aside \u2014 since it announced its collaboration<\/a> with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera island<\/a> is Arri-inspired, drawing from the \u201cthree-lens turret\u201d design first introduced in 1937\u2019s Arriflex 35, complete with a knurled texture around the main lens.<\/p>\n Arri has played a part in the camera itself, contributing the ability to shoot in Arri LogC3, together with 14 preset Arri Look LUTs, access to Arri\u2019s wider library of official and third-party LUTs, and support for the APV 10-bit 4:2:2 codec. The cameras themselves include a 200-megapixel main lens using a 1\/1.28-inch-type sensor, a 3.5x telephoto using the same resolution and a 1\/1.4-inch sensor, and a 50-megapixel ultrawide \u2014 though this latter lens doesn\u2019t support all the Arri Cinema Mode features. A \u201ccinema-grade\u201d directional microphone should help with video recording too. Less technically impressive, but just as useful, will be the square-format selfie camera, which like Apple\u2019s Center Stage<\/a> will be able to capture in either landscape or portrait.<\/p>\n