OnePlus Details Camera Features on 10 Pro, Shows Samples

OnePlus is aware of the right way to launch a telephone … slowly. The OnePlus 10 Professional launches on Jan. 11, however the firm has been dropping particulars about its new flagship all week: first some physique pictures, then some basic specs, and now data about its new Hasselblad-branded digicam system.

The OnePlus 10 Professional will shoot in 10-bit coloration by default, and its three rear cameras may also have the choice to shoot in 12-bit RAW.

The ultra-wide lens may have a 150-degree choice with a „fisheye mode“ that appears like a fisheye digicam, in addition to a 110-degree choice with distortion correction.

A brand new „film mode“ enables you to alter digicam settings on the fly whereas filming video, and video can now be captured in „log“ format for skilled video editors.

These options seem like they’re making an attempt to enchantment to prosumer {and professional} photographers. RAW and LOG codecs aren’t in your common shopper; they’re for individuals who take their pictures as simply a place to begin for later enhancing.

Within the US, OnePlus will run into the cultural downside that these skilled communities are just about owned by Apple. No nice {hardware} will be capable to change how macOS and iOS workflows are deeply baked into pro-photographer tradition. However OnePlus’s core markets aren’t the US; they’re in locations like India, the place Android dominates and Apple has a a lot weaker maintain throughout. These international locations have skilled photographers, too.

A part of OnePlus’s merger with Oppo is about improving OnePlus phones‘ camera capabilities, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau mentioned at a digital occasion in November. Oppo lately introduced a brand new, in-house picture processing chip, the MariSilicon X, however that is not showing within the OnePlus 10 Professional.

The OnePlus 10 Professional will launch in China at 1 a.m. ET on Jan. 11. OnePlus says a US launch will observe „later in 2022,“ which is a broader time-frame than we anticipated. Maybe OnePlus is being affected by the chipset scarcity.