In a “surprise” moment for Huawei’s public relations department, a photo appeared as part of a promotional video for Huawei’s mobile photography contest, held on Weibo. The video was meant to showcase beautiful photos taken on Huawei photos, but Weibo user Jamie-hua, who won second place in a similar 2018 iPhone contest, was paying nearby and actually managed to recognize and track one of the you take in the video.
The image in question is available in 500px and was made by photographer Su Tie. And, like the 500px page and clearly published EXIF list, it was taken using a Nikon D850 instead of a Huawei smartphone. Jamie-hua also listed some other suspicious shots, though he couldn’t prove where they came from.
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Huawei has officially apologized since then, saying the photos were mismarked and explaining everything with oversight from the publisher. The company also edited the video of the promotional contest to not include the problematic shots.
We definitely understand that errors can occur, especially when it comes to user submitted content, but this is not the first for Huawei. Sure, the details and details have always been slightly different, but the Chinese giant has a habit of passing, accidentally or not, DSLR shots as taken from their phones. There was a similar case throughout the time the Huawei P9 was promoted. Most recently, the Huawei Nova 3 was involved in an oddly similar promotional confusion related to DSLR. And of course there is the now infamous P30 zoom fiasco. Of course, in those previous cases none of the shots were explicitly said to be produced over the phone, but the implication was pretty clear.
Suspicious photos
Seeing how this has happened over and over in the past, one might think that additional company internal precautions and procedures would be necessary. And if we consider the theory of hidden motives, we can’t really say that we are less confused, since Huawei phones generally have excellent photographic skills that they can already hold on to.
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