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Xiaomi 14T Pro review: Cameras

The cameras aren’t massively changed from the Xiaomi 13T Pro but those lenses were already fairly spectacular, so I don’t consider it to be a problem. The 50-megapixel main lens now has a slightly wider f/1.6 aperture and captures excellent detail in good lighting.

You can once again choose to shoot in either Leica Authentic or Leica Vibrant profiles, with the former being better suited to moody shots with its deep contrast and more muted colours and the latter dialling up the saturation for vibrant, impactful shots.

Night photography is also excellent, plucking out plenty of detail and keeping visual noise to a minimum. Colours look a little overprocessed in places but, overall, this is a great effort.

The 50-megapixel (f/2.0) telephoto camera is a bit of a weird one, as the camera app only switches to it in portrait mode or by selecting the 2.6x zoom on video – in standard photo mode, you’re just doing a 2.6x digital zoom via the main camera, with the telephoto lens only kicking in for hybrid zooms between 20x and 30x.

Once you’ve finally got the telephoto camera engaged, however, it’s a great shooter. You’ve once again got two styles to choose from – Leica Portrait and Master Portrait – and both do an excellent job of separating the subject from the background and reproducing natural skin tones. The differences are subtle but the most notable changes are that Master is warmer and Leica has more pronounced contrast.

Beyond that, however, the zooms are fairly unimpressive. The 5x digital zoom is decent enough but going beyond that sees the detail and contrast levels drop substantially, leaving images looking blurry and washed out.

Detail drops off with the 12-megapixel (f/2.2) ultrawide camera, too, particularly towards the edges, but otherwise, this is a solid enough camera. The colour profile, especially, does a good job at staying true to the colouring produced by the main sensor.

Video adds a 30fps option to the 8K recording, alongside the 24fps setting, but is otherwise exactly the same as on the 13T Pro. Detail on 8K and 4K are decent, and the latter goes up to 60fps, but neither works with the electronic stabilisation so if you want the steadiest footage, you’ll have to stick to 1080p.