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After a not-so-long wait, Xiaomi 13 Ultra phone was finally released, priced from 5999 yuan. So far, the flagship video war in the first half of this year ushered in the last member, but also the most powerful and representative member.

Starting from the top version of Xiaomi 10, Xiaomi's "Ultra" every year is one of the phones I most look forward to. These generations of flagship images have fully proved Xiaomi's "peak" in the field of mobile imaging. In particular, Xiaomi 12s Ultra, which was blessed by Leica last year, began to emphasize the sense of "light and shadow" in the image and walked out of the second route in a large number of "computational photography". It left a deep impression on the author.

What about the experience of Xiaomi 13 Ultra? What is the upgrade of the performance of image power? Next, CTOnews.com will quickly start the experience around this new machine. If you are interested, you might as well learn more about it.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra configuration information such as the previous, the image experience is still starting from the image.

This time, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra is equipped with Leica Quad camera, and supports the second generation Leica color science, adding street shooting mode, Leica custom image quality, and the camera module can be transferred to the 67mm filter through the transfer ring.

All four cameras are 5000 megapixels, all are large aperture, and all support capture, night scene shooting, 8K video shooting, and so on. The specific sensors are:

IMX989+IMX858+IMX858+IMX858

Among them, the main photo of IMX989 adopts "Leica one-inch variable aperture" and provides two kinds of variable aperture sizes: f / 1.9and f / 4.0.

Sony IMX858 sensor size is 1 stroke 2.51 inches, Sony introduced full-pixel phase difference to obtain AF information of the full-pixel focusing system. IMX858 uses 2 exp-DOL and a tailor-made Fine12bitAD function to achieve a high-motion photography experience that is close to naked eye recognition, and sub-photography can also achieve smooth photography of 4K HDR. In addition, IMX858 is also the first sub-camera sensor to support the new generation of Sony multi-photo collaboration system.

It can be said that IMX858 fully serves IMX989.

Compared with the previous generation of Xiaomi 12s Ultra, Xiaomi 13 Ultra has replaced the "ancestral" IMX586, ushered in a brand-new IMX858, and added a 3.2x medium-long focal length (75mm focal length) between the 1x main shot and the 5X periscope.

The author always believes that the combination of four shots (ultra-wide angle + main camera + portrait + ultra-telephoto) is the most perfect image experience, and for a long time, only the Blue Factory next door has adhered to this route. In the previous evaluation of Xiaomi 12s Ultra, the author also mentioned that if an additional portrait lens can be added, the full-focus shooting experience will directly "take off".

This time, the addition of Xiaomi 13 Ultra to this 3.2x medium telephoto lens is a great bonus to the experience, because in our daily shooting, the 75mm focal length covered by 3.2x medium telephoto is often the most frequently used focal section.

With this 3.2x lens, shooting under 5X, there is no need to trim the main shot, and the independent lens with medium-long focus brings higher imaging quality.

As a result, Xiaomi 13 Ultra's four cameras achieve a total of six focal lengths, covering the zoom range from 12mm to 240mm, and all the sub-cameras have the same imaging ability, bringing a stable and consistent experience to the entire image system.

In the shooting style, Xiaomi 13 Ultra also provides two shooting styles: Leica vivid and Leica classic.

Leica is vivid, the picture is brighter, and the colors are relatively bright and bright, while Leica classics pursue a relatively three-dimensional tone, with obvious dark angles, high contrast, slightly cold tones, and very humane.

Leica vivid, Leica classic of course, no matter which shooting style, Xiaomi 13 Ultra to this kind of "light and shadow" is very good, the photo has a strong "narrative", is no longer the strong digital taste brought by computational photography, more bluntly, the photo looks "very feeling". This kind of "light and shadow" art seems to be very metaphysical, but this "virtue" can really make people feel.

More importantly, if you don't like this imaging style very much, Xiaomi 13 Ultra even offers a "Leica Custom Image quality" option. In professional shooting, you can choose to flexibly adjust the contrast and dynamic range of the picture, the white balance between warm and cold and green, as well as the strength of noise reduction and sharpening algorithms, and save the style.

When it comes to Leica, you can't help but think of the key word "street shot", so Xiaomi 13 Ultra also brings "street shot" mode, with the goal of "fast".

In the off state, double-click the volume button to enter the street shooting, within 0.8s to complete the camera start, and automatically take the first photo.

At the same time, there is also a focus setting option on the right, which can lock the focus distance and lock the aperture to fhand 4 for maximum depth of field, and so on.

Sample sheet:

Leica Classic, 120mm 5X latent telephoto

Leica Classic, 75mm 3.2x telephoto

Leica Classic, 240mm 10X zoom

Leica vivid, 75mm 3.2x telephoto

Leica Classic, 75mm 3.2x telephoto

Leica vivid, 46mm 2X main photo

Leica Classic, 120mm 5X latent telephoto

Leica lively, 120mm 5X looking at telephoto

Leica vivid, 46mm 2X main photo

Leica Classic, 12mm Super wide Angle

Leica is vivid, with 23mm as the main photo.

Leica Classic, 75mm 3.2x telephoto

Leica vivid, 75mm 3.2x telephoto briefly talk about the experience of shooting.

First of all, a small slot point, that is, this time Xiaomi 13 Ultra put the ultra-wide angle in the upper right corner, resulting in the horizontal screen shooting, turn on the ultra-wide angle, the finger will always enter the camera picture, so that you have to raise your orchid finger to shoot.

And then it's all about advantages.

First of all, this 1-inch master photo carried by Xiaomi 13 Ultra brings a series of excellent noise control capabilities in dark scenes, large dynamic range, larger light intake and lossless 2 × zoom, which is so strong that there is little to say.

The main photo is also equipped with a physical aperture structure, so that the main aperture value can be switched between fmax 1.9 and fmax 4.0, automatically switching aperture values for different illuminance, focus distance, and even the number and angle of faces in the picture.

Second, the 3.2x telephoto and 5X periscope carried by Xiaomi 13 Ultra. The same IMX858 sensor makes the image quality, clarity and color performance of the two lenses almost the same, and the performance of the two telephoto is almost as good as that of the main photographer.

An excellent telephoto performance will make you forget the existence of the subject. During this period of experience, almost all the samples in the album were taken by these two telephoto shots. After all, telephoto has a natural composition advantage. Not only excellent performance, but also extremely stable, the film rate is extremely high, almost pick up the phone to shoot casually, can take a satisfactory picture.

Third, the performance of Xiaomi 13 Ultra's four lenses is astonishingly consistent, and there is almost no problem that the picture quality has declined due to different focal lengths.

In the so-called "shadow tone", Xiaomi 13 Ultra puts more emphasis on "light and shadow", and the sample will show a more obvious sense of three-dimensional, space and presence, especially in the "Leica Classic" mode, which will reject the "flat" digital flavor brought by all algorithms.

More sample sheets:

So Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a top flagship phone that is completely loyal to the image.

This loyalty to the image is also reflected in accessories and design.

The Xiaomi 13 Ultra brings a special photography kit, including a protective case with technology nanoskin, as well as a wireless camera handle for a more comfortable holding experience and a unique experience of physical shutter buttons.

The protective shell can also be connected with a 67mm filter adapter ring and an external lens filter to make the shooting experience more similar to a professional camera.

The suit also comes with a lens cap and a mobile phone lanyard.

When you go out with a Xiaomi 13 Ultra video suit, for a moment you will think that you are carrying a camera.

The 67mm adapter ring is definitely not a gimmick. Xiaomi 13 Ultra image kit provides two UV mirrors. For example, after we shoot with a CPL polarizer, this lens can eliminate the reflection on the glass and water, and the effect is quite obvious.

Boy, this experience is directly in line with the camera.

Bare metal shooting, shooting with CPL polarizer: you can see that the reflection of the right water surface can obviously eliminate the local magnification contrast:

Design Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a pure "image-driven design" mobile phone, as long as you get the real phone, you can really feel this.

For example, the back continues the super-large circular image module design, with four cameras arranged in turn, with the Leica logo in the middle.

The middle frame adopts a flat design, but the metal frame extends to both sides of the rear shell, which connects with the plain skin and has a high degree of recognition.

At the same time, the entire image module area of Xiaomi 13 Ultra has added a ramp line transition, and the whole machine presents a "thick-thin" stepped aesthetic feeling from top to bottom.

The plain skin part is made of "second-generation technology nano-skin" material, which has a slight sense of damping, delicate touch, and is very skin-friendly, while the whole machine also supports IP68 dustproof and waterproof.

In fact, from the design point of view, the design language of Xiaomi 13 Ultra is still a little more complicated, and the middle frame extending to the rear shell will produce a certain sense of fragmentation.

However, there are buts here.

If you think of it as a camera that can make phone calls, then the design of all this will become reasonable.

Especially when you are shooting on a mobile phone with a horizontal screen, the design of the upper and lower metal frame + plain skin can easily remind you of the Leica M camera, which has not changed much for more than half a century.

For example, with a straight edge in the middle frame, you can even place the millet 13 Ultra horizontally on the desktop, and when you shoot on the horizontal screen, the index finger will be automatically placed on the flat straight edge in the middle frame.

It can be said that Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a mobile phone with image-driven design, and all its designs are completely for images.

In fact, "powerful at a glance" designs a lot of phones, such as the OPPO Find X6 series next door, but there are not many phones that are as straightforward and aggressive as Xiaomi 13 Ultra.

This design naturally reminds you of classic products such as the Lumia1020, which is enough to go down in the history of smartphones, and the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra's BWH is 163.18x74.64 x9.06mm in size and weighs 227g, which is, after all, the top video flagship, worthy of the name.

As for whether the difference in thickness between the top and the bottom will lead to the phenomenon of "top-heavy", according to the author's experience, it is not particularly obvious, but the image module is really too large, when holding with one hand, the index finger "has no place to put". Can only be placed on the lens, it is inevitable to stick fingerprint traces, so it is necessary to scrub the lens every time.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra also has a great screen, the annual flagship carries the first home-made 2K LTPO screen, jointly developed by TCL Huaxing and Xiaomi, using the latest generation of C7 luminous materials.

In terms of specifications, it includes a 6.73-inch 2K screen with 3200x1440 high resolution, HDR screen peak brightness up to 2600nits, TCL Huaxing's latest EL package structure, 15% optimization of view experience, support for smooth switching of 1~120Hz frequency conversion, and so on.

In addition, it also supports low brightness 1920Hz PWM dimming, high brightness DC dimming, new professional primary color mode (based on CIE2015 color space calibration) and so on.

After CTOnews.com measurement, Xiaomi 13 Ultra screen in professional mode, has only 0.32 △ E, quite professional color accurate performance.

It can be said that this is a top domestic 2K screen, using the domestic flagship screen on the super flagship, which itself is a kind of progress.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra also has rich screen color management functions built into the system, so you can choose the display mode you like in the on-screen color style. in advanced mode, you can also adjust the color gamut support, RGB color space, HSV color space and other display options, which brings a custom experience for color professional users.

Third, in terms of performance experience performance, Xiaomi 13 Ultra is equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, which adds a new Cortex-A715 super performance core. When the performance is most needed, the four cores of the converged architecture A715 and A710 become the mainstay, bringing strong lasting performance. Based on the new TSMC 4nm process, the transistor density is increased by 20%. The performance is improved while the power consumption is reduced, and the energy consumption ratio is the best in three years.

Other configurations include LPDDR5X memory, UFS 4.0 flash memory, ring cold pump cooling, as well as 5000 mAh large battery, 90W wired second charge, 50W Pro wireless second charge, 10W wireless reverse charge.

In charging, there are Xiaomi P2 intelligent fast charging chip, Xiaomi surfing G1 battery management chip.

It is very important to emphasize that this time, Xiaomi 13 Ultra has adopted USB 3.2 interface for the first time. The interface transmission rate is as high as 5Gbps and supports 4K DisplayPort output. After all, it is the image flagship, and it is always inevitable for mobile phones to transmit a large number of photos and videos to PC, so this support for USB 3.2 is "reasonable and unexpected".

Next, let's take a look at the running score of Xiaomi 13 Ultra.

Note: the mobile phone performance mode is turned on for all running points.

As shown in the following picture, the overall score of Xiaomi 13 Ultra Rabbit reached 129 million points, with a good performance on the ceiling.

Not only that, in the GeekBench5 running score, Xiaomi 13 Ultra single core is 1482 points, multi-core reached 5199 points, its multi-core running score also won the highest level of CTOnews.com running points, even higher than some performance-oriented e-sports mobile phones.

Thus it can be seen that the performance training of Xiaomi 13 Ultra is really outstanding.

The performance tuning of different models is different. In the flash performance test, the write speed of Xiaomi 13 Ultra has reached 3381MB/s, the read speed has also reached 2889MB/s, and the run score has reached 126000, which is up to the level of the new generation UFS.

In the 3D Mark,Wild Life Stress Test project with more emphasis on the theoretical performance of GPU, Xiaomi 13 Ultra achieved a stability of 78.1%, and the best cycle score was 13168, thus it can be seen that Xiaomi 13 Ultra can be released with high performance.

After testing the running score, let's take a look at the game performance of Xiaomi 13 Ultra.

It is still the same old rule, it is still the highest picture quality "original god", the test environment is about 24 °C indoor, the game test scene is field running map + fighting monster, and the battle scene accounts for about 50% of the total game time. Turn on the performance mode of the mobile phone.

The original image quality setting is shown in the following figure. The average frame rate of Xiaomi 13 Ultra has reached 59.87fps. In the previous running chart test, the frame rate basically stabilized into a straight line without fluctuation.

Start playing strange in about 15 minutes, and start brushing inflamed trees between 20 and 30 minutes. The frame rate fluctuates slightly, but the overall performance is still satisfactory.

In the full 40-minute high-intensity original spirit test, Xiaomi 13 Ultra did not appear any frequency reduction, frame locking phenomenon.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra 40 minutes "original god" average frame rate 59.87fps, the above picture about 30 minutes obviously dropped the frame is the game character killed interface switch caused this result, the proper Android camp ceiling level, in the course of the game, basically invisible to the naked eye.

Let's take a look at the power consumption performance. In the original God game, Xiaomi 13 Ultra is only 5.18W, which is even lower than Xiaomi 12s Ultra's 5.517W.

Another surprise of Xiaomi 13 Ultra original power consumption of 5.18W is the "ultra-low" temperature control performance. This time Xiaomi piled up a lot of materials on heat dissipation, coupled with its excellent Snapdragon 8 Gen2 and relatively "low power consumption" level, it was measured that the maximum temperature of Xiaomi 13 Ultra "original God" game was not more than 40 °C. this performance even surprised the author a little bit, after all, it was able to run "original God" in such a stable frame. And to ensure such a "low" temperature, there are not many such phones.

After the above tests, it is enough to show that Xiaomi 13 Ultra is not only good at taking pictures, but also its performance advantages can not be underestimated.

4. To sum up, it is no exaggeration to say that even if the author has experienced a lot of high-end flagship machines featuring images for a long time, it is still difficult to restrain the irrepressible excitement and excitement after getting Xiaomi 13 Ultra. As the title says, Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a top flagship completely loyal to images. With Xiaomi 13 Ultra in hand, there is always an impulse to "shoot" anytime and anywhere.

It can be said that Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a video phone that is difficult to avoid, whether it is a photography rookie or a professional master.

Finally, we must talk about the pricing of Xiaomi 13 Ultra, of which the 12+256GB is priced at 5999 yuan, while the 16+512GB version is priced at 6499 yuan, which is even cheaper than the previous generation of 12+512GB. On the road to the success of the high end, we do not forget to make friends with you by adding and lowering prices.

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