OnePlus 9 Pro vs. OnePlus 8 Pro Camera Test - Can You See the Hasselblad Difference? By Hands-On Tech

The new OnePlus 9 pro with the partnership with Hasselblad promises to take the camera a step-up from the OnePlus 8 pro well, I happen to have both, so I took them on a photo walk, and I'm going to show you side by side some of those shots. Next, this is twit. This episode of hands on tech is brought to you by Casper, it's time to break up with your old bed and move on to better sleep upgrade today by going to casper. com, twit1 and use code twit1 for 100 off, select mattresses, hello and welcome to hands on tech, I'm Jason Howells, so OnePlus has done it again. They've come out with their next line of premium flagship devices, the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 pro, and if you look really close at the nine and nine pro you'll see on the little camera bump, the word Hasselblad a famous, very well-known camera company, that OnePlus is really looking toward to improve their camera game. You may remember last year the OnePlus 8 pro, which I actually liked a lot um they're, always looking to improve their camera.

It's like the final frontier for OnePlus devices and the OnePlus 8 pro took their camera game to the next level. It wasn't quite there to compete with the top of the line premium flagships with the best cameras like pixels and Samsung Galaxy s and note devices, but it was getting better and so now, with the Hasselblad partnership. OnePlus hopes to take that even further, and I thought okay well, how much of a step-up is it from the 8 pro to the 9 pro? Is there a noticeable difference? Well, that's what I'm going to get into today, but first, let's take a look at what makes the OnePlus 9 pro so special in the camera department. The camera system really is a beauty to look at no question that bump the camera bump. Has a nice classic camera.

Look to it that I just love. It's very eye-catching to me now up at the very top is a 50 megapixel ultra-wide camera. It's a Sony. IMF 766 sensor has a focal length of 14 millimeters and an f 2.2 aperture below that a 48 megapixel Sony mix 789 sensors. This is the main camera, probably the lens you're going to use.

Most often when you just pull out the camera and shoot, has an f 1.8, aperture, also optical image, stabilization and a wide focal length of 23 millimeters below that a 2 megapixel monochrome camera and to the side of that. An 8, megapixel, 3x optical zoom lens with optical image. Stabilization swapping around on front is a single 16, megapixel selfie camera, okay, so those are the specs, but how do they perform well? So what I've done here is I've taken the same picture, I went on a photo, walk and took the same picture on the 8 pro, as well as the 9 pro using all the different lenses and kind of went through, and cherry-picked a few highlights. So, let's take a look at them side by side and see how they compare all right, starting with this bridge, the main shots that is the shots taken with the main lens of this bridge, show some subtle differences. Uh, particularly, if you look in the sky, you can see how the eight pro kind of washes out the sky compared to what you see with the 9 pro that adds a little more vividness a little more color to it.

Colors are on track with the 9 pro. They just look a touch richer and that actually makes a lot of sense, because part of the Hasselblad partnership is all about color correction color tuning, particularly detail-wise things, look pretty similar between the two, though all right, this flower shot is, is pretty interesting to me using the wide camera lens. I got up close to this purple and yellow flower for these shots. The 8 pro seems to give a little more detail inside the butt of the flower, though you can tell it's a bit brighter, and it is kind of peaking in certain places. That's not ideal.

The 9 pro brings down those peaks in the center, and we end up with more yellow it's a little more vivid and rich, but in the process it really kind of seems to lose some dimension to it feels like really neither camera got this shot, particularly right, there's a lot of color there. So maybe that's why all right, this gate or this fence uh we've got the zoomed shot here, and this is good for complexity and detail, comparing these shots against each other. Once again, the 8 pro kind of has like a washed out quality, a bit less detail in the scratches that you see within the paint on the gate compared to what you see in the 9 pro pulling out to the wide camera. I notice a bit more detail on the bricks behind the gating, some of that shadowy area, it's just kind of more visible, with the nine pro when compared to the eight pro a little more definition back there. All right here is a shot of a bird feeder hanging out and hiding in a tree.

This was taken with the wide camera lenses. The eight pro brightens, the grass that you see even more than it already is and again kind of washes out the color field. The nine pro by comparison brings back the richness of that green grass and helps the red pop out even more with a shot. I think what we're seeing time and time again is that Hasselblad color uh tuning in action all right time to bore you with a few selfies here I am first, let's take a look at the front camera in portrait mode now, the eight pro has some edge issues that uh. You know that issue where you're trying to separate me from the background, and particularly if you look at my jawline, you can kind of see it's a rough etching there, whereas the nine pro, on the other hand, did a fantastic job, finding the proper edge, no real, standout issues here it even got my hair right, which is a big challenge, is usually often what I see with these things.

Failing the 9 pro got it the 8 pro wasn't able to do it so perfectly now flipping the camera over to the rear camera. Also in portrait mode, the 8 pro has a nice natural look to it, though again some of my hair gets a little confusing to the system. It seems, but the background looks naturally blurred uh when compared to my face the 9 pro absolutely nails the edging around my face and my hair, which is really impressive, though, to my eyes, the background detail seems a little too blurry by comparison, though I probably wouldn't have noticed this at all. If I hadn't compared them side by side, both did a solid job here, all right now, taking a look at some graffiti around town Petaluma has some pretty awesome graffiti. If you know where to look starting with the zoom shots, the OnePlus 8 pro, as you can see, has a little of a haze to it that really takes away from the impact of the colors of this graffiti art.

The nine pro zoom gives a very detailed, colorful and rich shot by comparison. I love this shot now coming out to the wide shot of this art. I can see a general steadiness again in the 8 pro, not as detailed, not as defined the 9 pro looking sharp as ever. Definitely a win for the OnePlus 9 pro all right, a little more graffiti. This time this is actual Petaluma graffiti.

It's right there uh in the art. It seems to work better this time with the 8 pro than the 9 pro. This is using the main camera lens on the rear. In this case, the 9 pro seems to be the one washing out the colors kind of flattening the saturation, which was kind of surprising. To be honest, the 8 pro has a hint more red, which is a commonality.

I've noticed a trait of the 8 pro camera, a little leaning into reds at certain times, but in this shot it actually helps to bring out the rose, bring out the bricks. What can I say it works here all right. I took a detour into a parking garage and this parking garage, contrary to what it might look like right now, was actually pretty dark, and I took this with the main rear-facing camera. The 9 pro definitely has a touch more processing just to bring up the dark levels in the concrete to a brighter state uh. By comparison, I'm actually pretty happy with either image here both make this shot look like it was really well lit, and if you don't want your dark shots to look like suddenly there's a bright light on that might bum you out, but both of these shots look pretty great, considering the low light that was in there and speaking of low light.

I went out into my backyard at night and turned on some, not so bright accent lights along our house to provide just a hint of light and again this does not provide very much light in my backyard at all. It was pretty dark outside on both phones. I used the nights cape mode now between the shots of the bushes in my yard, and you know a few of these selfies that I took with both the front and the rear cameras. It is undeniable how redshifted the photos from the OnePlus 8 pro are you I mean you, you can't see that, especially when compared to the nine pro and, like I mentioned earlier, a big part of the Hasselblad partnership had to do with that color tuning. So I'd say it shows no question in all cases here, the OnePlus 9 pro blew the 8 pro out of the water with these nighttime shots no contest, and I was actually really happy with what I got out of the 9 pro when it comes too low light performance using that nights cape mode and finally, I've added a few shots that just came from my week and a half of living with the OnePlus 9 pro in daily use and in general I'd say.

My experience with the camera system was that it can absolutely take some really great pictures. However, I can't just simply trust that the images are going to turn out the way. I think they are the way that I can with a pixel camera as one example and even Samsung's cameras. I went back into my camera roll and expected some of these shots to be better than they ended up being you know a little of motion blur here, in some cases a stretching of heads when using the main lens, which is what you can see here with my wife and my daughter in front of a puzzle that they had just finished um. You see that stretching that was the main lens and definitely not desirable.

So the camera system is not bulletproof. It's not something. That's always going to give you exactly what you think you're going to have to do some setup first, so there's just a few of the photos that I pulled out from my photo walk and again, I think, by comparing the two systems together. I think you really do see the stark differences between what the Hasselblad camera and the color tuning in particular are doing. Uh with the OnePlus 9 pro camerae compared to the bumped up camera specs that we saw last year on the 8 pro.

Remember with the 8 pro everybody was saying man, this camera system is even better than it's ever been. I think we're a next step on that ladder with the 9 pro, but oh man we're just not quite there to say this is just like a pixel camera as far as dependability is concerned, uh, that's where I hope that OnePlus is getting and the fact that OnePlus has a three-year partnership with Hasselblad, for their camera system gives me hope that they will continue to refine. This partnership continue to refine the hardware, that's inside this camera and this phone system and really give us something increasingly more special next year or even with the 9t. When that happens, I'm really curious to see how that three-year partnership will play out. This episode of hands-on tech is brought to you by Casper.

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