Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro camera faces serious problems and looks like a hardware issue

[Udar Nasiv]

That diagonal line is just a cable that reflects some light.

[Ahg]

Two problems there.
One is the protective lens  cover reflecting on the window glass. Just remove the window to get rid of it. House windows can be a little smeary anyway and definitely not lens quality.
The second is the wire outside reflecting light exactly the same colour as the tree. Get rid of the wire. Good headline grabber though.

[User65]

It is called the fking lens flare.How did you run this tech related page without knowledge of phone's lens flare.

[Codrut Nistor]

It is called the fking lens flare.How did you run this tech related page without knowledge of phone's lens flare.

Seriously??? I thought it's just flare at first, but look at that diagonal line in the night shots. It's more than just lens flare.

That diagonal line is just a cable that reflects some light.

There was no cable, unfortunately.

Hahahaha to stupid phone issue or the user has no idea to use a camera on phone hahahaha is this a joke

Guess what? I have a bit of an idea...

Funnily enough the moon is out tonight in Southwest England, so I took my Mi10Tpro out and took a few photos. There is lens flare, but not too bad.
However interestingly enough I also took my Huawei Mate 20x with me as well and took shots on this and the Lens glare is the same, no better no worse, the only thing with the Mate 20X is that it has a moon mode that artificially darkens the sky and supposedly enhances the moon to remove the flare, but various people think that Hauwei just overlay an image of the moon through software and what you actually take isn't the real thing.

Thank you very much for your insight into this!

I have both the 9T Pro and the 10T Pro both with the latest GCam port and do not have this issue.

I am thinking about grabbing a GCam port and play with it as well. Will probably get back to the topic in a week or so, hopefully with good results.

I have the Mi 10T Pro and I've never noticed such a thing. I just went out in dark and shot some photos of street light in a distance and there are no artifacts.
A friend of mine who takes a LOT of photos and edits them every day with his 10T Pro also never noticed such a thing.

I think you simply have a faulty unit.
Why not ask for a replacement unit from Xiaomi before making pompous claims like the title of this article? You can't assume it's a widespread hardware issue just based on your own phone.

If it's a hardware issue, such problems often come in batches, not just one or two units. As you can see, with less than 20 comments here, there's at least one user who has the same problem as me.

[Hiro]

I have a Mi Note 10 Pro, and have noticed this when I was taking pictures of the stars at night... Plus a massive white streak across the sky from the moon (lense was clean)... Nothing a little photoshop can't fix to remove the reflections however. I think this is just the way the lenses are made, there isn't much to be done for it.

[Codrut Nistor]

Yeah, you need to adjust your angle when shooting stuff to make it easier to remove. Sadly, it doesn't work that easy when shooting in a city or filming a show at night. I will have to check this with GCam as well. OpenCamera was also very good to use with my Mi A1, didn't manage to take enough shots at night with it yet.

[Mi J]

I'm having the same issue as you, you're not alone. Shame that the camera didn't turn out as great as we expected from all the heavy advertisement.

[Codrut Nistor]

Well, no problems in daylight. I grabbed Gcam earlier today, version 8.1 seems to be all right but 1X zoom is different from that of the Camera app by Xiaomi and video shooting does not work at all...

[Daniel Ackermann]

My Xiaomi Mi T10 pro has the same issue. Discovered it while taking night shots on New Year's Eve yesterday.

[splus]

Well, no problems in daylight. I grabbed Gcam earlier today, version 8.1 seems to be all right but 1X zoom is different from that of the Camera app by Xiaomi and video shooting does not work at all...

Funny, I was just watching the "Justice League" movie, and there was one scene with the sun close to sunset, camera slowly moving, and there was a strong bright spot moving around as well, exactly like the one in your example.
That was shot with a top of the line, high end film camera...
So, what else to say about this topic, talking about lens flare, which is very normal and common, even for a super high end cameras?
(And, mind you, I still can't replicate this with my Mi 10T Pro - I don't get any dots or any other artifacts against a bright light, in dark or light scenes.)

[Codrut Nistor]

Google Camera seems to process incoming light slightly differently. I shot some stills earlier today and all cameras seem to produce some strange results when facing direct light. With a bit of attention. some nice flare effects can be obtained, but the problem is when you have to avoid them in most scenarios...

[Hart932]

If you're shooting the moon or any bright object, play with the angle of a linear polarized filter by holding it against the phone lens. Thats what filters are for even if you're shooting with a SLR to reduce glass/water reflections in the photo..