Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max has a big camera and a bigger battery

01The announcement

This is Honor's first flagship launch - Robot Phone aside - since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera…

This is Honor's first flagship launch - Robot Phone aside - since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera…

02What actually changed

Image: HonorDominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. The new camera island is Arri-inspired, drawing from the “three-lens turret” design first introduced in 1937’s Arriflex 35, complete with a knurled texture around the main lens.Arri used variants of this three-lens turret design across most of its film cameras.

03Who should care

Image: HonorArri 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’s 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 — though this latter lens doesn’t support all the Arri Cinema Mode features.

04How to try it

A “cinema-grade” directional microphone should help with video recording too. See the full write-up from The Verge via the source link for quotes and complete context.

05What to watch next

For primary quotes and complete technical detail, see The Verge's original report linked above.