Huawei once again caught using DSLR images to promote its smartphone. The company recently promoted a photography contest on Weibo with a video featuring impressive pictures “taken with Huawei smartphones.” However, not all of them taken with Huawei smartphones, some of the images were actually shot on a DSLR camera. One of those images was actually captured using a Nikon D850 DSLR (valued $3,000), reports Abacus news.

The photo (below) was discovered by Weibo user, who won 2nd place in the 2018 iPhone Photography Awards with a photo taken with an iPhone 6, Jamie-hua, aka Huapeng Zhao.

After watching the video, Zhao found that he had seen a picture before. He found the picture on the online photography community platform 500px, attributed to photographer Su Tie. The photo was captured using the Nikon D850 camera.

Well, the Chinese company apologized for the mistake on Weibo. Huawei said that the photos were “wrongly marked” due to “an oversight by the editor.”

Huawei also thanked Huapeng Zhao for pointing out the discrepancy. The company also said the images were intended to encourage people to share their works on Huawei’s online gallery. Huawei has now updated the original video to remove the line that says the photos came from Huawei phones.

This isn’t the first time, Huawei has repeatedly been accused of using DSLR photos to promote its smartphone cameras. In 2019, Huawei used a DSLR photo to promote the P30 flagship phone. In addition, Huawei admitted and used a photo captured by a Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR camera to promote its P9 phone in 2016.

When you have the best smartphone camera in the industry and you still need fake images to prove that? DxOMark?