The truth about the Oneplus 9 Pro's cameras...With Shannon Britto By The Tech Savant

All right guys, so today we're going to be taking a look in depth. Look at the OnePlus 9 pros camera system, and today we have with me the one and only number two from number two photography all right, he'll be helping me. Do this um review so shout out to him, I'll leave the link for all your socials down in the description. So let's get right into it all right guys, so we're here today at lupine park in Trinidad and there you go. My name is shannon butcher photography, I'm here to do some photography and some videography samples with the OnePlus 9 pro. Obviously, it's being used to record this intro but check it out.

Okay, guys, so we're doing a quick, um photography and a videography overview of the OnePlus 9 pro, and we are at this beautiful location which is uh located in Trinidad and Tobago in a place named lupine l-o-p-I-n-o-t, loping. It's pronounced and um we're here at this historical site and just testing all the capabilities of the OnePlus 9 pros uh camera. So here we go from this first image. This is an ultra-wide photo of the entire entrance to the historical, complex, lupines, historical, complex and, as you can see, it's well controlled with the detail in the shadow and in the highlights, but most importantly, um how the sky, through the foliage of the trees, is still well controlled. You can almost make out a slight blue color cast of the sky through the um foliage of the trees, and then the whitest thing in the image or the brightest thing in the image is the foreground, which is right in front of us and then the house in the background everything is well controlled.

This is an evening exposure and from here for photo enthusiasts, you can um. You can basically start your editing process, or you could just leave this, as is so. We move on to the normal lens and, as you can see, there's a color shift. Almost like a hue shift. It goes a little green um.

This is the slight magenta we had before um but more detail. You can clearly make out more detail in this image versus the ultra-wide and as the main sensor, you know. That's a given moving on this is a zoom photo um, and this is pretty impressive for zoom photo because there are a lot of details, especially on the roof of the building and if money foliage right in front of us on the tree, a lot of details and the exposure is well controlled, almost um HDR, because it can make all the detail in the shadows you can make all the detailing highlights. Everything is under one nice, even exposure moving on. So this is an ultrawide photo of the path, really stone path really into the bridge and, as you can see, a lot of detail and the ultra-wide is wide enough where it encapsulates so much more of the frame.

It's not the widest ultrawide I've used, but it gets the job done. Moving on this is uh the main photo sensor, and once again we can see that uh that color shift uh any corner here in the pupil is Satan technologies, Karen yeah, so um more detail. You can see a refinement in the details of the foliage in front of us and detection the trees, and everything just adds that a little more detail to the image moving on this is a zoom photo of the bridge, the wooden bridge and, as you can see, for zoom photo. There is good enough detail. This is the front entrance of the bridge.

Is a cool color cast to this ultra-wide photo, but once again, um white balance is very the sky. The ambience everything is always changing. Color shifts with the sun when the sun goes behind the clouds and so white balance is a tricky thing to kneel spot on for each uh sensor, whether it be ultra-wide, wide or zoom, but um very good detail. This next photo is of the main sensor, um similar right balance to the ultra-wide here, so it hit that spot on and more detail and for the zoom photo um, especially into the shadows. Underneath of the bridge.

You can see a little of smearing. You can see a little of paper fringing from the highlights. I'm trying to balance that exposure out all in all decent level of detail for a zoom photo. This is just a close-up of the house itself, the zoom lens, and you can see once there's great light or even in this situation, where it's good enough light. You have a lot of detail coming through with the zoom photo.

This is an ultra-wide of some flowers later, and this is a macro photo of the um flower. So this is showcasing the macro capabilities of the one person includes macro camera and from experience taking these photos, you really have to have a steady hand, especially when the lighting is kind of mediocre and somewhat overcast, as it was that day to get the maximum amount of detail in the filter, but with good light. It takes excellent, excellent macro photos and this is using the main sensor, and you could clearly see the background blur when shooting close-up images because of the sensor's size right. So this is a zoom photo um, and we have a good bit of detail loss in this image because of the overcast nature of the area in which we took the photo um. So from this, you can clearly see that when the light is just subpar, don't expect brilliant detail in your zoom photos and if you have to go that route um, you can even just bring a tripod with you and set up the camera and just uh, you know, put it in manual mode and get a better shot that way.

This is a portrait shot of this flower and beautiful rendition in the outer focus of the both elements. In the background, this is a standard shot of a Padang band and Padang is synonymous throughout the Caribbean region and, as you can see, the highlights in the sky and the purple fringing it's clipped there are lots of clip highlights on top of engine in the sky, but this Padang band is somewhat under shade a shaded area, so it tries his best to balance the image out and there's good enough detail, and definitely this is a shot. You can keep right, so this is a portrait shot of this musician in the middle here of the Padang band, and what I love about this shot is not only the clean cut-outs around the characters, but the way it's um, the way the OnePlus 9 pro renders the background autofocus, especially with those balls in the background for the highlights, looks very um, looks very, very pleasing to the eye- and this is same with this next musician and beautiful- cut out of the um portrait mode on the camera- very, very, very nice cutout, especially with this foliage of trees. Only on the right. This is more than a usable shot and same with this, I just love the highlight rendition of the both ball in the background right.

So this um this was a low light shot and I had to stick the camera through um these pieces of wood to get a shot into this area on the roof of one of the buildings at the location, and this is using the normal um camera, which will give you the best detail in low light, and the detail is actually pretty good for this situation. This shot is using the zoom camera and, as you can see, the detail is not as good as the main sensor and a lot of smearing of detail, but still pretty usable. You can definitely tell what's what's going on with enough detail to spare. This is uh ultra-right photo of this frame in which the tree and the part three leading down to the house and um the sky. Everything is in the image.

What I've realized is that for the best shooter life exposure, it's better, you expose the sky and let the HDR element kick in and balance out. This exposure somewhat for you, rather than exposing for the tree and then letting the HDR element, kick in to balance the sky so exposed to the sky and at the HDR pull the highlights and the details and the um shadows from the elements in the sheen um, rather than exposing for the shade and letting the elements. Let any HDR deal with the sky by using the sky first method, you are able to preserve enough detail in the sky, so you can see the color and um. You know you have a lot of highlight detail to edit, rather than preserving all the detail in the shadows and leaving the sky, letting it blow out. So this um, this video is a 1080p video.

Now the frame I'm editing this. So this video in is a four key frame for the sake of the photos, so the detail in 1080p video doesn't match up to the 4k, so the video looks a little better, a little uh lower quality, and this is the main sensor and, as you can see, from the ultra-right to the main sensor, clearly the detail in the main sensor holds up and is able to fit a 1080p video within a 4k frame quite well versus the slightly blurry video we were seeing before of the ultra-wide sensor, and this is a fabric, zoom good detail for video, definitely and rack, focus to the plant beautiful background blue at Firebase. Actually, it's true from 3.5x. This is a stabilization, video um. We started here with the main sensor, so you can test the stabilization.

I was trying my best to work as smooth as I can to have the best results for the video, a close-up of the flowers here, good detail in both the zoom and the irregular cameras for video. This is the ultra-wide, slightly less detail, but change of color and, as you can see, the main camera and the zoom camera similar white balance there. This is an ultra-wide shot of bridge mean sensor, and you could see a kind of flicker here and with the zoom sensor, you see nipple perfume gene coming through the trees, and it's trying its best to control the noise that you'll get from femininity shade. This is a zoom video of the same walk that we did with the main sensor towards the historical house itself. The sensation is best to stabilize, but you can see some sensors smearing when, when the sensor tries to stabilize itself but flies here at the zoom range of the camera, good enough detail- and this is the ultrawide walking to the house, as you can see- between the ultra-wide and the regular white camera, ultrawide- definitely lacks detail, especially compared to the um to the main sensor and, of course, a video uh ultra-right, video of the bridge.

This is the regular wide camera, and this is the zoom sensor and for a zoom camera in video mode. This is good, really, really good detail, and this is the low light situation where I stuck the phone through the roof and in video mode. You can clearly see noise reduction working pretty hard to keep the noise ratio or the noise threshold under control. This is the ultra-wide sensor. It does a pretty good job here and the wired.

Clearly, you can see the artifact in the sensor not being able to stabilize itself- and this is a last video frame of the back of the cocoa house on the estate on the plantation, and this is a stabilization test as well moving side to side, as you can see, not much detail in this shot and here as well, but the zoom shot, as you can see good, it's a very good detail for video, and this is the regular sensor and that's it so all in all, I think, um the zoom camera on the OnePlus 9 pro for photo. It's pretty, pretty good a lot of details. The main sensor is excellent for details in any lighting scenario, whether it be bright light to dim light where the zoom sensor struggles is in dimly lit video. It definitely has a lot of smearing and the sensor doesn't stabilize. The sensor doesn't stabilize itself properly enough for handheld low light video so for that definitely depend on the mean sensor of the camera for the ultra in video um, it's kind of lacking of in detail um, maybe in great light the ultra rare definitely gets you really nice video footage, but in overcast and immediate situations the ultrawide is, it looks like a 720p video um and once again this is a 4k frame.

So you see in the lack of detail. This is the other sensors, but for photos, lovely images and really, really good detail for ultrawide. So I think all in all, um, notwithstanding all the other features that the OnePlus 94 has is definitely a capable camera, especially in 2021 and having used um s21 ultra mode 20, ultra Xiaomi mi 11 ultra. I think that this sits right up there with all of those guys and the trade-offs that it gives. You in low light for the ultra-wide and zoom camera, especially for video, is more than uh made up for with the level of detail for photos.

So I don't think this is the best camera for low light video. Definitely you need to have a decently lit area for that, but for the photos, it's really, really good. It comes um like third place in my books, com compared to the Xiaomi mi 11 ultra and the Samsung s21 ultra, which has excellent detail in all aspects of their camera and the mood. So that's it guys thanks again for watching and have a good one.

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