Huawei Caught Passing Off DSLR Photos As Being Taken With Smartphones

Huawei was recently caught passing off photos taken with a DSLR as ones shot with one of its phones. PhoneDog reports: Earlier this month, Huawei kicked off a contest for its Next Image community, and a video on Weibo included several high-quality photos and at the end said they were “taken with Huawei smartphones.” As South China Morning Post notes, though, Weibo user Jamie-hua found that some of those photos were actually taken with a $3,500 Nikon D850 DSLR camera. The photos were found on 500px, an online photography site, and were taken by photographer Su Tie. Huawei has since apologized and said that the photos were incorrectly marked due to “an oversight by the editor.” The company has also updated its original promo video for the contest to remove the claim that the images were taken with Huawei phones. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened to Huawei. In 2018, an ad appeared to show that a selfie was taken with the Huawei Nova 3, but it was actually snapped with a DSLR.