It's been a while since a smartphone camera surprised me. However, after a quick test with the Oppo Find X8, we may have a new smartphone camera zoom champion.
It’s been a few years since I was surprised by a smartphone camera’s zoom performance. With Samsung offering 100x zoom on its Galaxy S Ultra lineup, little has shocked me with smartphone cameras — until now.
Related What makes the Find X8 and X8 Pro cameras special? There’s one area that sets the Oppo Find X8 series apart from the competition, and that’s the parity in using a 50-megapixel camera for all three sensors . Although there are differences in aperture and sensor size, parity in the megapixel count ensures no noticeable downgrade in quality when changing lenses. As it turns out, it also gives it a lot of detail to work with in zoom photos.
Incredible performance at 30x and 60x zoom Every company wants you to believe that its hybrid zoom option is just as good as optical zoom, and while that usually leaves us wanting, the Oppo Find X8 actually is just as good in that respect. In fact, it might even be better than its Pro counterpart. How does Oppo match the competition? With the Find X8 series set to go on sale globally after Oppo’s return to Europe this year, the real question is whether these devices can compete with the best of the competition.
The Find X7 Ultra, on the other hand, is a fantastic phone that was only released in China last year. It also features four 50MP cameras, which are nearly identical to the Find X8 Pro, aside from the main sensor’s 1-inch size. There are slight differences in the smaller optical zoom range — the Find X8 Ultra has an awkward 2.8x zoom — but it has the same 50MP secondary telephoto with 6x optical zoom as the Find X8 Pro.
First, let’s look at the two devices that won my camera test in New York City. The iPhone 16 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro are excellent all-around cameras, and the 5x zoom range offers a variety of lengths to shoot from. However, the iPhone 16 Pro is limited to just 25x, and the Pixel 9 Pro only goes up to 30x zoom despite all of Google’s software smarts.
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