10 Types of Perfect Users for the Exceptional vivo X60 Series, Co-engineered with ZEISS

Here are 10 things that the vivo X60 Series can do better than other smartphones across the world, and, in many instances, offering performance that rival pro cameras.

The spectacular, stunning, premium looking vivo X60 Series features flagship level details, specifications and performance. The series begins with the X60 to the left, with the X60 Pro (front and back facing) at the center, and the top-of-the-line vivo X60 Pro+ to the right.

The brand new vivo X60 Series has pathbreaking engineering, cutting-edge technologies and some stunning design features. But before we get started, let us take a step back to December 2020. vivo and ZEISS entered into a strategic global partnership to jointly develop superior imaging optics and technologies for smartphones. The vivo X60 Series is the very first set of smartphones to emerge from this partnership. It takes imaging to a whole new level, previously unseen in any smartphone. But that’s not all… There’s a lot of magic in the vivo X60 Series, with sensors, optics and stabilisation, and with software and AI under the hood. 

Whether you are a professional, enthusiast or amateur photographer or filmmaker, or a creative individual, it would certainly be nice to have a device that you can easily carry with you everywhere, that allows you to instantly capture images and video that can often look as good as professional camera levels.

But the fact is that most informed buyers are looking for very specific features that are most used or critically important. The vivo X60 Series is exceptionally suited for a very large number of discerning prospective buyers. But if you want something that is absolutely perfect, tailor-made, as it were, and happen to fall into any of these categories of users, you can be rest assured that you cannot go wrong with the vivo X60 Series.

The vivo X60 Series is co-engineered with ZEISS. Here is a detailed view of the four cameras of the vivo X60 Pro+. Unlike other phones, including flagship phones, the X60 Pro+ offers two main camera systems (50MP f/1.57 ultra sensing sensor, and 48MP gimbal stabilised ultra-wide sensor), a 32MP portrait lens, and the 8MP OIS enabled periscope with 5x optical zoom. The T* denotes the ZEISS coating for all lens elements, and at the bottom is marked ZEISS Vario-Tessar’ (denoting the famous lens design for the various lenses) ‘1.6-3.4’ (the f number range across lenses) ‘/ 14-124’ (equivalent optical focal length range of all the cameras), and ‘ASPH’ (for the use of aspherical lens elements in the optical design).

For Commercial Pro Photographers

When possibilities abound, the vivo X60 Series is ready to capture it. Most commercial photographers will not think of using a smartphone for an assignment, but the vivo X60 Series phones are exceptionally equipped to become a go-to device for quick snapshots, behind-the-scenes videos, or even for getting the main shot.

The X60 Series integrates the long-standing philosophy of user-oriented innovation that is at the heart of vivo’s phone and interface design, and world-renowned expertise in high-end optics and mobile imaging of ZEISS, to develop class-leading software and hardware capabilities. The combined best-in-class optical lenses, sensors, image processing algorithms and diverse multi-model features allow users to enjoy camera technologies that were previously characteristic of professional cameras. The vivo X60 Series raises the bar to a new level, challenging dedicated or high-end cameras.

For instance, the flagship of the vivo X60 Series is the X60 Pro+, with top of the line specifications. It features four rear cameras in a dual main camera configuration (50MP ultra sensing GN1 sensor, f/1.57, with 100MP UltraHD mode+ 48MP main customised, gimbal mounted Sony IMX 598 114°ultra-wide camera + 32MP 50mm equivalent Pro Portrait lens + 8MP OIS enabled periscope lens with optical zoom up to 5x and Hyper Zoom up to 60x). So, whatever the situation, the X60 Pro+ can capture it, day or night.

Photograph by Ravi Choudhary. The Ghazipur flower market in New Delhi is Asia’s largest wholesale flower market. Amir (the subject in this photo) helps his mother from 4:00am to 8:00am everyday, and finds the time to frolick with his friends who are also children of flower vendors. With the vivo X60 Pro+ in his hand, Ravi documented the essence of this beautiful trade, while also showing us how we are all connected through these flowers. This photograph was captured by the 50MP GN1 sensor of the phone, in relatively low levels of light.

For Those Who Love Night Photography 

Lovers of night photography know that there are many moods and shades to the night, and that capturing a scene with details, colour, and low levels of noise, are some of the greatest challenges for any camera. The X60 Series phones are capable of shooting in extremely low levels of light, with barely any illumination, or even with no illumination at all. The level of detail enabled by the X60 Series is unlike any other smartphone, and can surpass many dedicated cameras too. 

The vivo X60 Series is enabled with the Extreme Night Vision 2.0 feature. It is derived from an extremely smart use of stabilisation (in case of the X60 Series, this is Gimbal Stabilisation, another pathbreaking feature), excellent optical design with large apertures (for instance, f/1.47 on the X60 Pro), improved flare and glare control (ZEISS T* Coating), improved sensors (IMX 598 on the X60 Pro and GN1 on the X60 Pro+), AI noise removal algorithms at high ISO, and AI based HDR algorithms for better colours. Working together, these features enable the largest number of low light and extreme low light shooting options among smartphones yet. 

A variety of situational modes and filters are present to make use of low light and very low light—Ultra Wide Night Mode, three sets of Stylish Night Filters, Panorama Night mode, and HDR Super Night Portrait mode. In situations with extremely low or no light at all, Extreme Night Vision 2.0 kicks in automatically, ready to show a rich level of detail that is invisible to the human eye. 

For Those Who Enjoy Portraiture

Portraits make up a huge part of our lives. For instance, at family get-togethers, or birthday parties, or during festivals, the kind of photography that becomes most important is portraiture. Even at a casual gathering with friends, portraits are made. Imagine gifting an exceptionally well-made portrait to a friend or loved one. It will be cherished for a lifetime! With the vivo X60 Series, vivo and ZEISS have transformed portraiture into a fine art form. 

Three very significant features are at play with portraiture. The flagship of the series, the vivo X60 Pro+, has a 32MP Pro Portrait camera that provides an equivalent angle of view of 50mm, and which has the capabilities of capturing portraits at 1x, 2x and 5x, for a very classic portraiture feel. While the 32MP Pro Portrait lens might be unique in the X60 Pro+, the X60 Pro and X60 also features the 50mm Pro portrait lens, but with a 13MP sensor. 

With its imaging system co-engineered by vivo and Zeiss, the vivo X60 Series reduces distortions, aberrations, unwanted artefacts, and reflections to a minimum. Buildings and monuments remain straight and faces remain beautiful and undistorted with the X60 Series. Finally, unique to ZEISS lenses is the ZEISS Biotar Portrait Style adapted to the vivo X60 Series, adding a certain visual appeal prominently visible in the separation and blurring of the backgrounds on the vivo X60 Series. This brilliant feature allows users to create professional-looking portraits, with excellent center sharpness and unique, ‘swirly’ harmonious bokeh with any dappled background, which appear to rotate around the subject. This is the renowned ZEISS Biotar Portrait Style with so-called “3D pop” in action.

The Portrait mode of the vivo X60 Series comes with a pathbreaking, exceptional feature developed in collaboration with ZEISS. This is the ZEISS Biotar Portrait Style. It emulates the look of the background bokeh from the legendary ZEISS Biotar lenses. It shows as realistic, smooth, flattering bokeh that appears to swirl in a dreamlike manner around the subject.

For Those Who Enjoy Portraiture

Portraits make up a huge part of our lives. For instance, at family get-togethers, or birthday parties, or during festivals, the kind of photography that becomes most important is portraiture. Even at a casual gathering with friends, portraits are made. Imagine gifting an exceptionally well-made portrait to a friend or loved one. It will be cherished for a lifetime! With the vivo X60 Series, vivo and ZEISS have transformed portraiture into a fine art form. 

Three very significant features are at play with portraiture. The flagship of the series, the vivo X60 Pro+, has a 32MP Pro Portrait camera that provides an equivalent angle of view of 50mm, and which has the capabilities of capturing portraits at 1x, 2x and 5x, for a very classic portraiture feel. While the 32MP Pro Portrait lens might be unique in the X60 Pro+, the X60 Pro and X60 also features the 50mm Pro portrait lens, but with a 13MP sensor. 

With its imaging system co-engineered by vivo and Zeiss, the vivo X60 Series reduces distortions, aberrations, unwanted artefacts, and reflections to a minimum. Buildings and monuments remain straight and faces remain beautiful and undistorted with the X60 Series. Finally, unique to ZEISS lenses is the ZEISS Biotar Portrait Style adapted to the vivo X60 Series, adding a certain visual appeal prominently visible in the separation and blurring of the backgrounds on the vivo X60 Series. This brilliant feature allows users to create professional-looking portraits, with excellent center sharpness and unique, ‘swirly’ harmonious bokeh with any dappled background, which appear to rotate around the subject. This is the renowned ZEISS Biotar Portrait Style with so-called “3D pop” in action.

“The most important aspect of a camera is its ability to focus and capture a defining, decisive moment in a split second. These moments pass by us all the time and many cameras fail to deliver. The technologies enabled in the vivo X60 Series provides it with abilities to do just this. And it does this with flair, ease and speed. Exceptional and perfect for advanced street and travel photographers!”

–Ravi Choudhary, Photojournalist and Street Photographer

For Street and Travel Photographers

For serious and practiced street photographers, the photographer and camera not only complement each other, but are also heavily dependent on one another. The camera needs to keep up, and the photographer needs the camera to deliver. Basically, a good street or travel photography companion must be prepared for everything, and most importantly, be able to do it quickly.

This is the basic tenet upon which the vivo X60 Series has been built. Agility and ability are two underlying principles. For instance, the massive processing capability of the X60 Series, with its very latest Snapdragon processors. Or the ability of the X60 Series to focus instantly, including super-fast focus on the shape, human form, or even eye AF, seen in the very latest cameras. Or the 48MP Gimbal Stabilised ultra-wide angle camera for large scenes. Or the 50MP GN1 sensor, that is a light gathering monster, perfect for very low light images, aided by Extreme Night Vision 2.0. And of course, optical engineering by ZEISS.

Apart from controlling distortion, ZEISS has enabled ZEISS T* Coating for Enhanced Light Transmission and anti-reflection properties. The T* Coating effectively avoids stray light, ghosting and other aberrations or artifacts, to hugely improve overall image quality, sharpness and clarity. This is a huge benefit to all genres of photography, but especially to street and travel photographers who shoot in all kinds of lighting conditions. . The T* coating qualities are available with the X60 Pro +.

Photograph by Ravi Choudhary. Sunil is one of the several hundred workers who come daily to the Ghazipur flower market to make a living. Every day, he brings along flowers weighing nearly 40kg, which he then sells to buyers. Since the flower market opens very early, the available light was quite low and far from ideal. Despite this, the vivo X60 Pro+ did a fantastic job. The HDR Portrait feature of the phone rendered crisp images with excellent contrast and colours without overly saturating the scene.

For Nature and Wildlife Lovers

A very large number of genres converge to form nature and wildlife photography. As an example, all kinds of lenses are used, from ultra-wide to extreme telephoto. From macro to landscapes. The phones in the vivo X60 Series are extremely capable in this regard. Yet, two aspects become sacrosanct for those who shoot nature and wildlife—flexibility to cover a large variety of possibilities, and the ability to capture photos in great detail. Both of these are beautifully enabled in the X60 Series. 

The phones of the X60 Series are capable of Pixel Shift Ultra HD Imaging. Seen only in very few flagship mirrorless cameras and DSLRs, this in- built feature shifts the sensor while making 8 lightning quick exposures, thereby superimposing full pixel level colour information into every single pixel of the captured image. Automatically enabled, this essentially quadruples effective resolution, thus hugely improving sharpness and enhancing zoom clarity. It also has the added benefit of getting perfectly accurate colours, thus improving tonality and removing moiré.

A second particularly useful feature, available with the X60 Pro+, is the 60x Hyper Zoom. This is a hybrid zoom that combines optical zoom up to 5x using the stabilised peroscopic zoom lens, with additional digital zoom. It allows you to photograph distant objects, landscapes and scenes, often not visible to the naked eye.

Photograph by Jayanth Sharma. Tigers, the largest of the cat species, are extremely powerful creatures, and exude an unusual grace and dignity. And when they don’t wish to be found, they are impossible to spot. It is rare to see one in the open. What is even more fantastic is to have a tiger strike a pose, and look straight into your vivo X60 Pro+. This photograph, from Ranthambore National Park, was made in DNG RAW format, using the 50MP ultra sensing GN1 sensor, to preserve every bit of detail. The distortion free, T* coated ZEISS Optics and automatically enabled Pixel Shift Ultra HD Imaging technology helped significantly.

For Action and Adventure Seekers

If you love the thrill of adventure sports and action, either as a participant or as a spectator, the X60 Series is extremely capable, perhaps more so than most dedicated cameras and certainly more than any other phone. 

The vivo X60 Pro+ and X60 Pro is enabled with the next gen Gimbal Stabilisation 2.0. Both devices utilise the very latest 5-axis video stabilisation technology while the X60 Pro+ is even equipped with a second Ultra-Wide Gimbal Camera. Wide lenses generally provide much better results with stabilisation. With the X60 Pro+, users can use this to their benefit to obtain perfectly clear shots of objects in dynamic motion, with far greater accuracy than ever before.

For still photographers, this allows a huge level of creative freedom, in being able to make long exposures without any camera shake, or in this case, smartphone shake. Background blurs with the foreground subject steady, light streaks with fireworks, or portraits in shade or low light. All of these are now easily possible with the vivo X60 Pro and X60 Pro+. 

An extremely useful application of Gimbal Stabilisation 2.0, high shutterspeed, motion and object AF, and AI, is the Pro Sports mode. Available across various cameras and across the X60 Series, the Pro Sports mode enables the capture of high speed action, freezing the moment without distortions or problems of ‘rolling shutter’ that conventional cameras suffer from. In the Pro Sports Mode of the X60 Pro+, 1x is enabled through the 50MP ultra sensing GN1 sensor, 2x through 32MP Pro Portrait lens and 5x through the OIS enabled periscopic lens. As a photographer, you are now only limited by your imagination.

Photograph by Jayanth Sharma. For tigers, who are at the top of the food chain in these beautiful forests of Ranthambore, in Rajasthan, humans are inconsequential, and not natural prey. Yet, in an open jeep, the tingling down the spine on having a tiger close-by is natural. In this situation, fumbling around for a camera and setting it up is easily a missed shot. This is why the vivo X60 Pro+ is the perfect phone for an expedition into the wild. In this photograph, the 50MP ultra sensing GN1 sensor was used for a high-resolution photo.

For Parents, and for Those Who Love Kids

Children are the singular reason for most people to buy a separate camera. Toddlers and young children rarely keep still or pose for pictures. In fact, photographing young kids is a genre in itself, in professional photography. Professional photographers who specialise in children know the tricks of the trade and use high-end gear. With the X60 Series, all of this is distilled into the Kids Snapshot Mode. With the vivo X60 Series, you really don’t have to buy a separate camera and still end up with blurry pictures. The phone can now become your go-to device for photographing babies and kids.

The Kids Snapshot Mode works by using AI and lightning quick auto focus to detect children in the frame. Once this happens, the Pro Sports Mode algorithms are enabled, while still maintaining focus on the child. An exclusive beautification set of algorithms are instantaneously performed. Using the portrait lens, the additional separation of the child from the background results in exceptionally beautiful photos of active children. 

With the vivo X60 Series, you don’t have to buy a separate camera that will still not function as you would expect. The phone now can become your go-to device for photographing babies and kids, with the Kids Snapshot Mode. Besides, there are many advantages in making photographs of children over the phone, the biggest of which is that you can immediately share the photos with your loved ones. 

“Wildlife photography and conservation is my passion and I am almost always in wilderness. The things I look out for in my gear is instant responsiveness, ease of use, and sturdiness. After using the vivo X60 Pro+ regularly over the past month, I can tell you that it has the best-in-class capability, speed and optical performance for nature and wildlife photography.

—Jayanth Sharma, Wildlife Photographer & CEO/Co-founder of Toehold

For Videographers and Video Bloggers

Video is now an inseparable feature of any smartphone or camera. But the distinction between the X60 Series and any other device is in how well and how quickly one is able to create spectacular, professional-looking videos, even in adverse lighting and movement conditions, without effort.

What does this mean in real life? The vivo X60 Series phones are able to instantly capture photos and videos in lighting conditions that would make a professional think twice. In other words, the vivo X60 Series enables videography immediately, with no additional accessories, all hand-held.

For videographers, Gimbal Stabilisation 2.0 eliminates external stabilisers completely. Walk, run, shoot another bike while you are riding pillion on a moving bike… The vivo X60 Pro+ and X60 Pro can shoot beautifully steady, stabilised footage that looks like it has been done with an external professional level stabiliser. 

Additionally, the X60 series offers a video mode with a cinematic wide-screen view of 2.35:1, 3D Sound Recording (available with the X60 Pro and X60 Pro+) with directional sound zooming as well. The vivo X60 Pro+ includes the benefit of modes like Super Night Video, and HDR10+ Video Recording in a larger colour gamut and dynamic range, for that professional, instantly graded look.

Photograph by Jayanth Sharma. The Indian jungles, like those of Ranthambore, are fantastic for landscapes. Here, at one of the many watering holes, the landscape was breathtaking and painterly that we had to stop and admire it. The vivo X60 Pro+ is the perfect phone for an expedition into the wild because of the myriad of imaging options it provides. In this particular case, the scene had a large range of contrasts caused by lit areas and deep shadows, difficult for a camera to capture in a single frame. The HDR Panorama mode increased the dynamic range, thus retaining colours with plenty of detail.

For Those Who Need Uncompromising Speed

There are some users who just don’t want to be limited by the overall speed of a phone—the speed of operation, of how fast apps open, or multitasking, or even gaming. The vivo X60 Series is meant for them. 

Built ground-up with an approach of not compromising in the very least, in these aspects, the X60 Series can take whatever you throw at it. The X60 Pro+ is the flagship, with top-of-the-line specifications. It is driven by the very latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G shipset, 12GB LPDDR5 RAM, and 256GB of high speed internal memory and the use of an additional 3GB of Virtual RAM. The X60 Pro and the X60 both use the flagship level Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset. All phones in the entire series are 5G enabled. 

The AMOLED displays have refresh rates of 120Hz and a touch response rate of 240Hz. This essentially means that the phones are not just fast in processing, but fast with refresh rates of video and graphics, and extremely responsive to touch functionality. Generally, gamers are the one category of people who need extreme speed. The X60 Series will be perfectly suited to them, and certainly for multitaskers as well. 

Sophisticated design is always quiet and understated, choosing to act rather than be loud. It responds brilliantly fast, with no jitter or murmur, regardless of how many simultaneous tasks are being managed. On the outside, the vivo X60 Series feels premium to the touch. For instance, the design, lines, curved edges, and the feel and look of silk with AG Glass. Or, for instance, in the case of the vivo X60 Pro+, a beautiful, luxurious Vegan Leather back.

For Those Who Enjoy Beautiful Design

Finally, there are those who enjoy the finer aspects of life. The best technology may not be refined enough unless a device “feels” refined to the eye. The vivo X60 Series goes one step further. Not just beautiful to the eye, but to the touch, feel, use, and the other senses.

The X60 Series integrates the long-standing philosophy of user-oriented innovation that is at the heart of vivo’s phone, and cutting-edge interface design for a seamless experience. Visually, even turning the phone on or waking it from sleep is a visual treat, with subtle graphics, colors and animations that are not subtle and not overdone. In fact, if required, there are over 300 ways to customise X60 Series phones, just up to this point alone. 

There is a lot of attention to detail in the X60 Series, both internally and externally. Complementing its premium appeal is its beautiful design, slim profile, use of AG Glass with a satin finish for a feel and look of silk, and curved displays. The back panel material in the vivo X60 Pro+ is of particular note… Vegan Leather.

Luxury is not just skin deep with the vivo X60 Series. For your viewing and listening pleasure, the phones have been awarded with HDR10+ colour gamut, SGS Eye Care Display, and Hi-Res Audio certifications. Users can look forward to an immersive experience and long hours of daily viewing while being perfectly safe for the eyes.

And of course, Let’s not forget… 

When you put things together, what you have in the vivo X60 Series are smartphones that are indispensable, especially for someone with a creative mind. Extremely valuable, particularly to professional or advanced photographers and videographers, the phones are truly good for just about everyone—bloggers and vloggers, and individuals who want an uncompromising device.

After going through this list, one would be tempted to buy the vivo X60 Series phones from the very nearest retailer. It is certainly a head-turner. The biggest feature though is that all of these aspects of the phone are packaged in a beautiful-looking, extremely smart, unobtrusive device, that is always connected, and one that you can absolutely take anywhere with you.