Check out the first sample images from the OnePlus 7 Pro's 3x zoom camera

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Ahead of the OnePlus 7 Pro's launch on May 14th, Wired got the risk to bank check out the telephone's triple main camera array.

In addition to sharing images, the publication interviewed OnePlus imaging director Simon Liu, who shared insights into how the company designed the OnePlus vii Pro's camera.

The main takeaway is that the OnePlus vii Pro features a new 3x zoom lens.

OnePlus 7 Pro zoom lens sample

"On our previous phones, nosotros wanted to maintain a nice phone torso that wasn't besides thick, and to make sure the lens didn't stick also much," Liu told Wired. "In this case, the users' input on forums helped me go these features onto the phone. But we tried to find the residue over the entire phone experience."

As Wired notes, the OnePlus 7 Pro won't be the get-go time OnePlus has shipped a smartphone with optical zoom. In 2017, the company released the OnePlus 5, which information technology claimed featured a 2x optical zoom lens. In testing, fans found the OP5 actually featured a 1.6x zoom lens, not 2.0x as advertised. The camera made up the difference with cropping, which led to less than stellar results. With the OnePlus 5T, OnePlus dropped the OP5's zoom lens. Since and so, OnePlus phones oasis't included optical zoom.

OnePlus 7 Pro 'Night' mode sample

Contempo history however, Wired plant the new zoom lens on the OnePlus 7 Pro worked well.

"It's a great footling zoom that shows up the OnePlus 6T and other software-based solutions, similar the Google Pixel 3'southward smart OIS motor-based solution," writes the publication. However, information technology as well notes the zoom delivers images with less detail, less mid-tone contrasts and more racket than the P30 Pro's 5x zoom lens. In add-on, the website found the OP7 Pro's 3x zoom easier to employ than the P30 Pro's 5x optical zoom.

To his credit, Liu was honest near the improvements OnePlus fabricated to the OP7'due south camera.

"I think we have a shot at competing with the get-go tier phones," he told Wired. "I don't think we can crush them, merely the imaging globe is e'er subjective."

OnePlus 7 Pro HDR sample

Elsewhere, Liu says OnePlus focused on optimizing the OP7 Pro's imaging pipeline to deliver more natural images. Users volition come across that in the telephone's reworked HDR, low-light and portrait modes, which Wired found much improved over what was on offer with the OP6. "The bokeh consequence is closer to what you'd become from a professional person lens. Previously it was more bogus, to prove that there is an effect, only when you're using a digital camera, it's not actually that strong," says Liu.

Visit Wired to read the full study and see all the sample images the publication shared. In short, however, it looks like the OnePlus 7 Pro improves on the OP6T's camera in all the important areas. Whether that's enough to justify the telephone's new and more than expensive cost tag we'll accept to see.

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Source: Wired