Recently, Huawei organized a photography contest on its official Weibo page in the Chinese market, along with posting a video composed of several beautiful photos that Huawei claimed were all taken with Huawei smartphones.
However, a tech fan investigated and discovered that one of the photos promoted by Huawei as being taken with a Huawei smartphone was actually captured with a high-end DSLR camera, specifically the Nikon D850, which is a full-frame camera priced at up to $3000.
This photo was discovered by a Weibo user named Jamie-hua. He mentioned that while watching Huawei’s video, he suddenly recognized a photo he believed he had seen somewhere before. After some research, he found out that this photo was sold on the 500px website, a community platform for sharing photos where users can purchase licenses for photos they like. The EXIF data from the original photo on 500px indicates it was taken with the full-frame Nikon D850 DSLR along with a 14mm F/1.8 lens, which you can check out at this link.
Immediately after being caught using a DSLR photo, Huawei promptly clarified and apologized for this incident, stating that their editor had “mismarked” the photo in the video as being “taken with a Huawei smartphone,” while thanking the Weibo user for pointing out the mistake.
This is not the first time Huawei has been caught using camera photos to promote Huawei smartphone cameras. Previously, in 2018 when the Nova 3 was launched, Huawei released a promotional video for the camera of this smartphone with super AI shooting capabilities, but behind-the-scenes photos from the video revealed it was all just a “deceptive act” from Huawei.
The advertisement for the Nova’s selfie camera looks beautiful…
Or last year, Huawei also used a stock photo of a volcano sold on Getty Images to promote the zoom camera of the P30 Pro.
