It's an easily ignored feature, but the OnePlus 12's Master Mode is way more than just another Pro camera mode — and using it has changed my photos forever.
This story is part of Andy Boxall's OuttaFocus series, covering smartphone cameras and photography. I don’t usually mess around with Pro modes in smartphone camera apps much. I’m not a “pro,” so they rarely seem relevant, and the combination of an effective auto mode and a great editing platform usually means I end up with a photo I’m pleased with anyway.
Related It sounds rather grandiose, especially when I certainly don’t consider the photos I take to be “art,” but this description fits in really well with what Master Mode makes possible. It helped give my photos a very specific look and show the particular atmosphere I had in my mind when I took the image. The difference between it and editing an existing photo to achieve the same effect is that Master Mode does it all in real time. It’s a very different experience.
What is Master Mode? Master Mode wasn’t available on the OnePlus 12 at launch. It arrived in a software update at the beginning of March, which was just before I extensively used the phone for the first time. I almost ignored Master Mode as it sounded like every other Pro mode; you can manually alter the shutter speed, ISO, and white balance, and use manual focus with focus peaking. But then I saw it had both a Pro and an Auto mode, plus Hasselblad color tuning, and I became intrigued.
Some may consider it sacrilege that I don’t shoot in color, considering Hasselblad’s tuning, but this misses what makes Master Mode so good — it lets you take photos exactly the way you want thanks to its extensive level of customization while not having to get too technical in the process if you don’t want to.
Previous Next 1 of 8 I shot mostly during the daytime and liked how Master Mode made me look at my surroundings differently as I searched for that ideal photo opportunity to exploit its ability. I shot objects and situations in ways I wouldn’t usually consider, just to see what worked. Aside from cropping the images later on, I didn’t do any other editing. The photos were all created in the camera, at the time I took the photo.
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