OPPO FIND X6 PRO IS THE LAST CAMERAPHONE TO BE REVIEWED ON THESE PAGES
If i remember correctly i already promised [not to touch any cameraphones again]
.
But what convinced me to take another crack at it was the numerous reviews claiming “it’s the best cameraphone in the world” running Android 13.
As you may know, Android 14 brought many groundbreaking changes [at least from my point of view].
One of them is the restriction on installing applications targeted at Android 6.0.
Loads of cr#p services and telemetry dialers are included also. So it is no go for me.
▓ BENCHMARK METHODOLOGY & STRUCTURE
The methodology is pretty simple. All images were cropped and resized to a fixed width of 1000px.
NOKIA 808 VS OPPO X6 PRO
Oppo images: 12Mp JPG + 50Mp JPG + RAW DNG.
Testbed scenes:
- Indoors scene
- Street scene 1
- Street scene 2
- Closeup
ONLY OPPO SCENARIOS
- Daylight street
- Overcasted street
- Wide angle
- Bokeh
STOCK VS GCAM
Oppo stock camera [12Mp/50Mp] compared with Gcam application.
All Oppo related scenarios + gcam related files can be grabbed from PIXELPEEPER download area.
▓ DIRECT COMPARISON
Today’s rival is [Oppo Find X6 Pro]
with 1" sensor.
A tad larger than mighty [Nokia Pureview 808]
, which comes with 1/1.2" [almost 1"].
For your note: Find X6 Pro is not available internationally and targeted for China market only.
Glitchy modern browsers can easily alter image quality during page rendering or badly construe scaling factors,
so i suggest to download original images from my cloud storage and pixel peep them at 100% manually.
ANGLE OF VIEW AND FOCUS POINTS DIFFER A BIT DUE TO DIFFERENT FOCAL DISTANCES OF THE DEVICES AND LIMITED AMOUNT
OF TIME TO DO A TEST.
IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING AND IT WILL SURELY GIVE US SOME FOOD FOR UNDERSTANDING OVERALL DISPOSITION.
There is a cameo of [Ricoh GRIII]
[just to bring some fun into boring matching].
DNG files were converted using [Affinity Photo]
[Capture One 21 can’t handle Oppo files].
ON THE LEFT SIDE IS OPPO FIND X6 PRO
ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS NOKIA PUREVIEW 808
PULL ► GREEN HANDLE ◄ TO SLIDE THE COMPARISON
▓ INDOORS SCENE
▓ STREET SCENE #1
▓ STREET SCENE #2
▓ CLOSEUP [DETAIL BENCHMARK]
In this bench Nokia Pureview 808 easily matches Ricoh GRIII [an invited guest from a completely different category].
As for Oppo X6 … just see for yourself.
▓ PIXELPEEPER DOWNLOAD AREA
Section for pixel submersion enthusiasts who like to check out things by themselves.
█ BOTTOM LINE
OPPO FIND X6 PRO
Some finalizing words about the Oppo X6 Pro.
The wide-angle sensor is pretty poor in terms of resolution, which is odd given that it’s the best one in the mobile world.
When it comes to camera software, there is no clear winner here, sometimes Gcam is better, sometimes the default application.
But, yes there were cases where Gcam showed itself a tad better here and there. Of course we are talking about JPG rendering.
DNG files are pretty much the same. I didn’t notice any significant difference between DNG and DNG+ modes on the stock camera,
apart from the fact that DNG+ is slightly larger [modes are probably a marketing hype].
Small breakdown list for convenience.
PROS
- outputs the best dynamic range i’ve seen on any cameraphone [it is even better than Ricoh GRIII can provide]
- capable of really high dynamic range images even in overcasted weather
- light rays and leaks are captured beautifully
- exceptionally pleasant bokeh is also present
- very well controlled exposure
- well balanced JPG output
- x2…x2.8 zoom provides decent amount of quality, despite image comes from the sensor which is less than 1" inch
- extremely fast focusing
- neat GUI design of camera application with good ergonomics and operations handling
- real life resolution and detail is better compared to other modern phones, but …
CONS
- … but not good enough to substantially overweight Nokia 808 [sigh, again] [resolution wise X6 Pro is better than Sony Xperia Pro-I]
- inconsistent results in street photography, unexpected camera software behavior
- 50mp hi-res mode is a bit uncertain [sometimes it provides more detail than 12Mp mode, sometimes not, additional post-processing to remove compute artifacts is required]
- atrocious chassis handling due to device size, the center of gravity is significantly shifted by the camera module and even to a greater extent if compared to Nokia 808 [proper case can neutralise the issue by a big margin]
WRAPPING THINGS UP
[under well-lit conditions] [as always]
As for general conclusions. Newest Oppo’s X7 and X8 versions bring nothing new to the table in terms of image quality.
If Sony’s top managers are not stupid, they have a chance to release a perfected version of Xperia Pro-I,
based upon [IMX989 sensor]
for triple price tag in a year or two.
To make things happen they need to drop their fear of self-competition, squeeze out a bit more resolution and fix technological pubertal gaps here and there to manufacture a perfect cameraphone.
▒ OTHER 808 TESTS
► [SHARP AQUOS R7 vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
► [SONY XPERIA PRO-I vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
► [IPHUCK 15 PRO HYPER MAX vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
► [HUAWEI P50 PRO vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
► [SAMSUNG S22 ULTRA vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
► [IPHUCK 13 PRO HYPER MAX vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
► [XIAOMI MI 11 ULTRA vs NOKIA PUREVIEW 808]
IT’S A REALLY LAST BENCHMARKING TEST FEATURING NOKIA PUREVIEW 808!
