hi both the oneplus and hasselblad say that they've tuned the oneplus 9 and 9 pro shutter
to sound exactly like a real oscillate camera i'm here to show you if that's accurate or not
let's do it here's the oneplus phone and now for the hasselblad
this one sounds a little meatier
now you guys know that's all you need to see right you don't need to see any
photo stills or anything that's about all you need
oh hello there today is going to be a really exciting one because we are going to be putting
head to head two hasselblad cameras in two very different devices you see ever since oneplus
announced their partnership with hasselblad i was always curious how does it stack up against an
actual hasselblad camera and i didn't really see anyone else make that video so i reached out to
the awesome people over at lensrentals.com and they hooked me up with a hasselblad x1d
mark 250c almost as long of names as blackmagic now yes this is one of those videos where right
off the bat you're thinking okay how does a you know handful hundred whatever phone compared to
a actual nearly ten thousand dollar kit medium format camera stack up and compare how's that
remotely fair well it's not but when companies like oneplus constantly create these advertising
and marketing campaigns and how they've worked very closely with hasselblad to work on the
color science to work on the resolution and the post-processing and all these things the only way
to truly test is to set up a photo shoot and compare the two so right before we jump into
it again i just want to give a quick shout out to lens rentals for hooking me up with the hasselblad
making this video possible so if you guys want to learn more about their extensive library
of different camera gear and video gear to rent from usually check them out in the link in the
description down below now let's get on with the video so i talked about this in my first oneplus 9
pro review where i was talking about how hasselblad cameras aren't really
the running gun sort of thing and so we're going to be testing kind of a studio setup also going
to be photographing what i think is some of the hardest products to photograph and that is
glass and bottles now i picked these one because they're not very easy to photograph so it's a fun
challenge for myself i haven't done it in many years but also because i know that it will give
us kind of a good two-step workflow so to speak to see how these cameras actually line up because
uh you have one which is taking the shot lighting it how will it do in a high contrast
kind of scenario but then photographs like this 100 you need to take into photoshop and
do some post work on it to clean up all the little fingerprints a little dust um maybe straighten up
any lines going on and so we'll be able to see how well you can edit a raw photo off the oneplus 9
as well as of course editing off the hasselblad so we're just going to kind of make a little set
here and see what sort of photos we can get so definitely the first rule of studio photography
or filmmaking is to kill all the house lights so uh you can see this lights on we got some ceiling
lights got this one that i was just using to fill to create this and i'm just using a handheld
uh and the reason you want to do this is because when you start photographing especially reflective
materials like glass you will see this little ceiling light as a dot on the uh glass it'll
create all sorts of reflections and you basically want to make your job in post as easy as possible
uh yeah so we got all the lights killed and uh so now we're gonna start
staging and then we'll set up lighting for the products
all right so i'm no professional stager here but i do have a setup that i generally
uh am liking here it has been nice just to pull up the phone and kind of take a couple snapshots here
of course this isn't lit properly this is literally purely for composition but now that
we have the composition set up uh i'm going to start creating the lighting alrighty so it is like
12 hours later apparently it's literally 2 am right now so i simplified things a bit you can
see the setup change the background to kind of this uh from replica surfaces we have a negative
fill on that side and then our main source of lighting is a nan light fs 300 behind there
uh shooting through a soft box which has two layers of diffusion and then through this big
uh like four foot by six foot and this would take a lot more lights flagging and bouncing in order
to get one shot that was lit perfectly so instead i'm gonna go with a little bit easier route
for shooting and that's gonna be just doing a three composite shot so i have the main
shot and then i'm going to hold a little light to expose the label since it's a bit dark because the
light is off to the side and then i'm also going to hold the same small light above the glass
to get that and then i'll composite all three so i'm going to shoot with the hasselblad first
and then we're going to grab the oneplus 9 and do the same exact thing take it to the computer
see how it looks uh hasselblad has an awesome app is it on android that'd be super freaking awkward
if it wasn't right nope not on the play store all right well that's a little bit awkward the
camera with the hot spot camera doesn't have the hasselblad remote app but anyway there's a really
good ios app uh directly made from hasselblad that allows you to live preview change on the settings
and remotely control the shutter on this i haven't had still photography strobes in forever
so in order to get this dark moody look i'm at f28 100 iso and 15th of a second for my shutter
and so i was getting kind of blurry so i'm going to expose from here so
our first shot boom and then like i said i'm going to hold this light looks good
the third one for the glass i like how it's hitting the fabric as well
all right so now we're done with the hasselblad time for the oneplus 9.
all right so we got the phone on here now we just need to
frame up so first of all iso we're gonna match it with a hundred one fifteenth of a second
shutter and i think this is around an f2 lens anyway so aperture is probably roughly the same
all right and i'm going to do the same thing we're going to do a kind of base exposure i'm
going to expose for the label and then expose for the bottle and see how this comes together
uh and of course we are shooting in the raw format on the phone i'm going to touch this shutter very
lightly because i don't have a remote because i could put a timer let's do that three second timer
all right now expose for the label
and expose for the glass all right so we have our shots now time to get uh the images off the
cameras onto the computer and see if there's any closeness to them alrighty so i've got all the
photos uh imported into the computer got photoshop open here we have the three layers from the
oneplus 9 and then we have the hospital odd photos here and i'm sure a lot of
you are already seeing a clear difference even though they both have relatively wide apertures
the sensor size and the optics on the haas vlog obviously i'm like i hope i don't need to say
anything else but let's see how close we can make the two blend all right let's start on the um flip
a coin oneplus let's start here so what i'm going to do by the way i'm not a photoshop professional
i get the job done and that's what's needed here yeah i say for being taken on a phone
and i'm on a 32 inch 4k screen i'm not really seeing any artifact like i mean the resolution is
pretty solid by the way i am so dumb by not moving this closer i thought i was pretty close
and then comparing it to the hospital not so much yeah i think i'm just gonna all right so we got
that comp in there and also that makes the label look pretty good as well
alright so now we have those three things compton uh so we have our base layer we have our label
and we got this uh what i'm going to do is actually do a quick merge of the three and
then go in for cleanup again this is not how i would do client work it would take a lot more time
and i wouldn't be doing murders like this because if you have to go back you're kind of screwed
but we're going for quick and efficient editing right now
alrighty with only spending about five to ten minutes on this
uh here we go yeah this is what we're working with for um the plus nine honestly it's not bad
but let's head over to the haas blood oh my god that looks so good all right and for our base
all righty i'm going to go ahead and export these out so we can take a look at them side by side
already so we can see these two side by side now and i don't think it's too much of a competition
on which one is which of course on the left is the hasselblad on the right is the oneplus and
keep in mind that i did that weird crop thing to save me some time on fixing the background
so that's why the oneplus looks like extra tall and skinny but yeah i think it held up very well
i will say that i didn't mess with any of the colors because i wanted to check if oneplus was
kind of right and that hasselblad worked really hard on the whole color thing and the
hasselblad one definitely looks more a little bit warmer a little cleaner and on the right
we're getting quite a bit of green that background has quite some green in it as well as the
black cloth also is is a little tinted green here so of course i could go in adjust the tint um
after the fact to match it a bit closer but right out of the camera you know there is some
color differences here especially at f28 here we can really see the background start to blur out
really nice depth of field how uh the label is tack sharp with the bottle but this has
a slight out of focus you can tell the rim on that's closest to the camera is more out of focus
than this rim whereas here because it's such a small sensors such small optics so much of it
is in focus and this is where you have those like portrait modes but i wouldn't use that for like a
product shot in my personal opinion at least set up like this uh the background i would probably
move a lot further away um or try to shoot on a wall or something that's a natural background
overall i think it did okay the oneplus was my like only camera and you spent like a couple good
solid hours getting proper lighting set up editing going through compositing way better than i can
you can make a compelling uh product shot again keep in mind where the image is going if i shrink
these down the differences becomes even less apparent yes you can still see the depth of
field slightly man you could really match these up pretty good again the color accuracy the tones i
really like in the oneplus so for a phone it looks great let me know what you guys think down in the
comments below this was a lot of fun uh testing again i wasn't going for like oh can the oneplus
nine actually beat ten thousand dollar camera i don't think anyone thought that was gonna happen
the goal was to see how close uh is the phone compared to the actual hasselblad camera so
again huge thanks to lens rentals for lending me the hasselblad x1d if you guys want to check them
out get all your lighting camera lenses uh and accessories for your next shoots
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or something down there as well thanks so much for watching guys i'll see you in the next one