OnePlus 10R 150W hands-on review

Camera

The OnePlus 10R has a triple camera system on the back and a single camera on the front. The back camera system consists of a 50MP Sony IMX766 quad-Bayer wide, 8MP Sony IMX355 ultra-wide, and 2MP GalaxyCore GC02M1 macro. On the front is a 16MP Samsung S5K3P9SP quad-Bayer.

The camera application is the same one used on most Oppo and Realme phones. There is obviously no Hasselblad branding here, and many of the features have been stripped out, but the basics are still there.

Image quality

The images from the main camera have decent resolution and detail. Unfortunately, the white balance was consistently off on our review unit, producing overly warm images. The dynamic range was also quite weak, as the camera has a tendency to underexpose shadows.

Main camera

Compared to the OnePlus 10 Pro and even the previous generation OnePlus 9RT, the OnePlus 10R images look significantly worse. Both the other phones consistently outdo the 10R in color rendition and dynamic range. Moreover, the lens quality on the 10R also seems quite poor, as there was noticeable purple fringing in many of our shots.

OnePlus 10R • OnePlus 10 Pro • OnePlus 9RT

The ultra-wide camera strangely has better white balance in most situations. However, the image quality is significantly worse, with colors occasionally looking washed out and the detail being very low due to the low-resolution sensor and lack of autofocus.

Ultra-wide camera

Finally, we hit rock bottom with the 2MP macro camera. The quality is unsurprisingly awful, with flat, desaturated colors, heavy distortion, and no detail to speak of. It's also difficult to shoot with this camera since it has a fixed shooting distance and no autofocus, so you have to physically move within the sweet spot for the lens, which never looks quite sharp on the viewfinder, so there's no way to tell if you are going to end up with a sort of bad image or a properly bad one.

Macro camera

To the surprise of absolutely no one, things do indeed get even worse in low light. The main wide camera images are usable as long as there is some light, but the images are quite soft. Unfortunately, enabling night mode overcooks the image in typical OnePlus fashion, and now you have a brighter but deeply unnatural-looking image.

Main camera

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do to save the images from the ultra-wide camera. They look bad when the night mode is off and still bad when it's on.

Ultra-wide camera

Moving on to video, the OnePlus 10R can record 720p, 1080p, and 4K video in 30fps or 60fps with the main camera. However, you do not get image stabilization at 4K, which means the footage is nearly unusable as it looks like you are falling down stairs even if you are just walking down the street.

The 1080p video is much better in that regard but ultimately lacks the detail of the 4K footage.

The ultra-wide camera can only record in 1080p at 30fps. It does support EIS, so the footage is stable but too soft and lacking dynamic range.

Overall, the camera on the OnePlus 10R is disappointing. While the previous OnePlus 9RT wasn't especially great in this department, it still is better overall. And we didn't even mention the front camera, which is also quite poor on the OnePlus 10R.