this is the One plus 7 pro, and it's been one of the best phones I have ever
held and my wife has a Galaxy S 10 so I have a little experience with that one
at least as well yeah I mean first of all before before
we continue look at this welcome I mean every reviewer talks
about it but in person it's it's beautiful I love it and it it just
doesn't feel real ok enough with that that's aesthetics so
I've ivory shot this video countless times now trying to get my thoughts and
feelings down about the camera on the 1 plus 7 Pro and I've recorded it so many
times because they have all turned into a bit of a right and a bit too long and
I want to try to condense that down as much as possible and I may have to break
up some of the subjects for future videos now why am I talking about the
camera specifically well first of all the phone itself is incredibly fast
incredibly smooth and one of the best user experiences I have ever seen in a
phone it's simple its quick it's nappy its responsive and for 95% of your uses
I can't say that there might be a better phone out there right now because 9 95
percent of your time is spent scrolling and going through apps and with a 90
Hertz refresh rate and just super fast RAM and storage it just handles all of
it like a dream like I haven't even run into any bugs like ever with it it's
just so good now I don't need to get into those because every reviewer has
talked about it I just wanted to get my feelings on that first right away so the
remainder 5% of camera usage has been what has deterred some people from
buying this phone because some reviewers said that the camera was subpar and a
lot of people say that they're not get it because it has a bad camp and I
want to say right away that the camera in this phone is actually really good
it's not bad it had a problem in the very beginning for being mildly
inconsistent due to a software issue that oneplus has since fixed and there
was an oxygen OS update that cleared up a lot of the camera issues and now it
functions much more consistently now some of the other issues were people
said that the videos were a little oversaturated at times and that in some
shadow sometimes with photos the image would get a little bit crunchy the UI
for the camera app itself is a little bit more simplistic and they took some
things out of the way that other camera apps kind of bring to the forefront and
let you know about such as HDR mode that can be tucked away sometimes and you
have to look for it first to make sure that it's on or off depending on the
situation if HDR mode is on then if you're holding the camera very still and
taking a picture of something that is moving still or not moving I should say
then it will do a good job but if something is moving then it will distort
the picture and give you some of that crunchiness so making sure that you
notice those things will be a big help so I decided to go on and I originally
filmed the whole review on the phone and had various clips but I was outside and
I don't know that's when I was doing the rant so I just came inside so I can show
you the phone and get the whole thing done and I'll show someone else clip I
tested it in various ways by taking pictures and by taking video and
different types of lighting and in different modes now when shooting
automatic it seems to the AI did a pretty good job of detecting what was
there and shot accordingly and did a good job I actually didn't really run
into any problems there are a few different modes there is the 48
megapixel where it's super sampled down to about a 12 megapixel image giving you
a little bit more detail now for most instances if you want the best
quality image shoot in RAW this does have the ability to shoot in RAW and it
will gather more information that you can then play with the lighting in
programs like snap sake you could use Lightroom on here but Snapseed I think
offers a little bit more for a free program you can get Lightroom for free
but I think they offer I think they restrict it a little bit if
you don't have the paid for memberships but Snapseed can edit images and raw and
then you can play it with the highlights and the shadows a lot better and
Snapseed and if you're trying to you know do a money shot and do something
like really good for Instagram that's the best way to do it I've all show some
examples here and the the clarity that you can see in the image is astounding
now you can do that in automatic mode or you can take things up a little bit and
use manual mode now a lot of things in manual do translate perfectly if you
already have a photography background I am a professional photographer so I can
actually use those I don't really talk about photography too much even though
that's how I make my money yeah so I mean if you want consistency always use
manual settings if you're relying on the AI of a phone that's all well and good
but if it gets confused by something then yeah
so but for most cases it does fine on its own now I tested night mode and
night mode was surprisingly good now I did three different things in night mode
to power to test night shots I tried it first at night mode which it takes about
one or two seconds to take the shot now I'm guessing it it takes a couple shots
the way that an HDR image would work usually there's like three shots where
they would do it and a high exposure a low exposure and then medium ground
exposure or slopping ISOs now with a night mode I believe that they they play
around with different ISO levels and then they
have in noise-reduction software that helps reduce any noise that may have
resulted from it because it didn't take the exposure for long panel and the end
result was actually pretty good I wanted to make sure it wasn't just a glorified
version of HDR so I took the Cheyenne HDR and it wasn't that good
you know it was a little better than just shooting straight but yeah it was
it good so last result I did at Tekken but I did
a 10 second exposure at a hundred ISO now that's that's really low that's
lower than some cameras go the camera I'm shooting on right now can only go
down to 200 so hundred is really good he does that so at 10 seconds it took a
beautiful image now I didn't shoot it in raw remember that's important and it
really had no noise to speak of then in Snapseed i upped the up the shadows a
little bit and played with the curves and voila great image and it's one of
the best images I've seen as far as phones that I've taken no I I do believe
that the pixel 3 is still a better camera but it's not a better experience
with everything else so if you're willing to play around with the camera a
little bit better than that you're gonna get the results that you want and now
you do have to get used to the user interface because it is a little bit
different than most camera user interfaces so if you want some tutorials
on how to use this a little bit better let me know in the comments and then
maybe I can teach you some things about how to edit and Snapseed and how to take
better pictures on your phone because most of this stuff applies to every
camera but as far as it goes as far as the automatic pictures which i think is
what the whole whining was about anyway that's been fixed you don't have to
worry about that it does a good job now as far as portrait photography goes when
you know where that isolates the foreground subject from the background
he did a really good job I think it does quite well make sure that you're holding
the camera very still and at the right distance because then it
will have as much trouble isolating that image I tried doing it with moving
objects before that a little bit too much of a distance and it doesn't come
out very good so make sure you're doing it right but as far as how well it cuts
subjects out I think it does a bang-up job moving on from that video now as far
as oversaturating I think that there may be some truth to that what
it handles exposure very well now I moved the camera around and took some
video in the woods and depending on whether I was in direct sunlight or not
I always did a good job of adjusting it very quickly to compensate for making
sure that I was still well exposed was the image at times a little
oversaturated maybe but I think that was a byproduct of trying to keep the colors
right now as far as complaints for over saturation now if you're using this
footage for anything whether it be Instagram YouTube or whatever or just
upload straight video without editing it a little bit first now of course you're
gonna play with the colors a little bit afterward just desaturate it a little
bit or change the the color tones to whatever you want I mean that's such a
little thing to fix it's not a big deal and the same with images I uh I would
pretty much always play with the colors unless it somehow looks perfect now
sometimes of the lighting here I don't change anything because sometimes the
way the lighting reacts in this room is really good so I don't have to change it
but for the most part I always play with the color scopes so as long as the
detail as long as the subject is well exposed and there's good detail and
everything is in focus you can always play with the colors not a big deal so I
don't even think it's worthy of complaining about sure the Google pixel
3 may have better colors straight out of the camera that is probably true keeping
you from buying a better phone experience where 95% of the time you're
going to be swiping through apps I just don't think that's true now I feel like
the examples that I've added to this video may speak for themselves well and
now I probably will dive into the subject a little bit further but as far
as video goes and for vlogging and taking great pictures I think it will do
fine I even experimented a little bit with external apps where you use a
camera through the different apps and I might talk about that a little bit more
but in essence it changed the user experience a little bit and gave you a
little bit more control in some ways but I don't think it produced really much
different results in the end now your mileage may vary on that but I made
touched on that subject a little bit but I wanted to cover that just in case so
what was the video that originally was going to be a fix the camera has turned
into hey this camera doesn't really need fixing you just need to learn how to use
it and if you're interested in learning more about this camera please let me
know in the comments below and be specific about what you want to
know and I'll try to make a video about that in the future for now that's that's
it I'm done talking I'm out of breath I'm done trying to make this video I
just want to end it so that's my thoughts on it now by the phone it's a
good phone the best okay bye