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Sami here, today we are going to compare the camera performance of the OnePlus 9 Pro, Huawei
Mate 40 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
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For daylight photos, all three phones seem to have the same performance.
All come with good white balance.
For the iPhone it has slightly boosted the exposure with the clearest text on the shop
sign.
But if we zoom in on the dark room part, we can see there are more details on Huawei.
Under this scenario we can see three different photo styles.
The iPhone has the most true-to-life color, while the images from both the OnePlus and
Huawei cameras seem to have boosted the brightness on the cup more or less.
While OnePlus overall looks crispier and brighter.
Huawei feels a bit more saturated.
Now move to the portrait mode.
I got to say OnePlus has the best beauty algorithm, yeah, this is popular among Asian young people,
especially girls, though I’m really not sure if you like it.
Huawei feels more saturated and sharper.
Meanwhile the iPhone has the most true-to-life color, but looks less pleasing.
Same for this round-up.
OnePlus delivers the best beauty and color, the whole picture looks pleasing.
We can see indeed Hasselblad’s color tuning performs well on the OnePlus.
Now move to the ultra-wide-angle photos, Huawei has the narrowest FOV. iPhone has the largest.
If we crop in at the lower left corner, OnePlus and Huawei have more details than iPhone on
the dark part.
If you check the whole photo, iPhone and OnePlus have more accurate white balance, both have
a good control on the distortion.
While checking out this group of photos, we can see Huawei went for a reddish and the
iPhone went for a greenish white balance, while OnePlus is leaning more neutral.
Zoom in on the sign, Huawei has clearer text.
While for telephoto photos, each has different times of zoom which I marked under the pictures.
What we found from this set of images is OnePlus has the worst telephoto lens, it feels soft
and noisy.
And that’s maybe the biggest disadvantage of OnePlus’s camera.
Hopefully OnePlus will have a better telephoto lens in the future.
Now night photos.
OnePlus has the most accurate color but the details on the dark part is less rich than
Huawei and iPhone.
Same issue for this group of photos.
OnePlus has less details on the dark part and less dynamic range.
Under the same scenario if we enable the night mode, we can see OnePlus has improved a lot,
more details can be seen and not so noisy, and has a good control on the highlights too.
Now we turn on the ultra-wide mode, OnePlus and Huawei have almost the same performance.
While iPhone feels a bit soft.
We can also see OnePlus has a wider FOV, in the same position Huawei can’t register
the left building.
I would say OnePlus’s ultra-wide lens has a consistent good performance for night photos
Overall, OnePlus’s camera performance is between Huawei and iPhone.
For night photos there is something still needs to be optimized.
But the overall color reproduction is a bonus.
Ultra-wide lens performance is the best among the three.
While telephoto lens is the worst.
It’s safe to say OnePlus 9 Pro’s camera performance has improved a lot compared to
its predecessors and definitely ranks in the first-tier phone category now.
Now about video performance.
We handheld both phones while taking these video clips.
Overall iPhone has a better and smooth stabilization, while for OnePlus we sometimes see jello-effect.
But to my surprise OnePlus has a really good performance on night videos, it has good dynamic
range, good true-to-life color.
I would say it tops in Android phones.
Alright, that’s the photo comparison of the OnePlus 9 Pro.
What do you think about it?
Or do you think this kind of photo comparison is helpful or just meaningless?
Anyway, you might just use your phone camera to scan QR codes in your daily life.
Let me know in the comment section while I’m planning to do more in the future.
I’m Sami, stay subscribed and I will see you in the next one.