Oppo Find X2 Pro hands-on review

Camera architecture

If the display sounds remarkable, wait until you read more about the cameras. It's a tri-cam configuration, which seems like any other on the surface - it's the usual set of a main cam, an ultra-wide and a telephoto module. Yet, what we have here is unlike any other caera setup we've seen before.

The main cam uses a 48MP Quad Bayer sensor, but unlike mainstream 48MP units that you can now find in midrangers a quarter of the Find's price, this one has a larger sensor size. Mind you, it's almost as large as the 108MP imagers in the Galaxy S20 Ultra and the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - a type 1/1.42" sensor compared to the 1/1.33" 108MP ones. What gives? This Sony-made IMX689 has bigger individual pixels, measuring 1.12µm, with 0.8µm being the norm. So in default pixel binning mode, you get an effective pixel size of 2.24µm.

It's also got something Oppo calls omni-directional phase-detect autofocus, which sounds a lot like the dual pixel autofocus of days prior - every pixel is supposedly joined by a phase detection agent. It should deliver fast and precise focus on subjects bigger or small, in both good light and low light.

This main camera has a stabilized lens with an f/1.7 aperture. Oppo told us that the focal length of the lens is equivalent to 25.46mm on a full frame camera - we'll go with 25mm.

Camera app

The telephoto is stabilized too, which is a good thing since it's quite long - it's listed as 5x in the camera viewfinder and the equivalent focal length is 129mm. Oppo's marketing department also has the bold '10x hybrid zoom' and '60x digital zoom' levels to work with, but at least such meaningless claims aren't printed on the phone itself like on a certain Galaxy phone.

The telephoto shooter has a 13MP sensor and while we did just bash the Galaxy S20 Ultra a little, the Samsung does have a much bigger sensor for its zoom camera than what the Oppo can offer - 1/2.0" on the Galaxy, 1/3.44" on the Find X2 Pro. Naturally, we'll try them side by side.

On the wide end, however, the Find X2 Pro does outdo the Galaxy. Oppo's used a properly big 1/2.0" 48MP Quad Bayer sensor in its ultra wide angle cam which is a win already, but there's more - this camera has autofocus, unlike the fixed-focus ultra wide on the S20 Ultra. It can focus down to 3cm offering some impressive close-up shooting capabilities.

Oppo's fitted laser autofocus on the Find X2 Pro, which we can imagine is only here to help the ultra wide angle camera focus on nearby subjects. Laser will do little for distant subjects you'd be capturing with the telephoto, while the main cam has the omni-directional thing, so that leaves the ultra wide.

There's a dual-LED dual-tone flash on the Find X2 Pro, but with Ultra Night Mode 3.0 on all three cameras, we're speculating the LEDs will be put to use for flashlight purposes more often than for illuminating photo subjects.

Oppo Find X2 Pro camera samples

The software we have running on the Find X2 Pro isn't final so we won't be judging the samples we're getting too harshly. We've been told that a review-ready release is on the way as we speak so we'll be sure to head out shooting more as soon as the OTA hits.

Let's start off with a sequence to illustrate the phone's zoom range, starting from the ultra wide angle and ending in the digitally zoomed 60x.

Camera samples: Ultra wide • 1x • 2x • 5x • 10x • 60x

These next few samples are coming from the main camera, in the default 12MP mode.

Camera samples, main camera (1x)

Next up, the same scenes shot with the tele camera at its native 5x zoom level.

Camera samples, tele camera (5x)

We love ultra wide angle cams as much as the next guy, so here's a few samples from that one as well.

Camera samples, ultra wide angle cam

A neat trick of this particular ultra wide that few competitors can match is its ability to focus (at all, but also) very close, so you can do some very detailed close-ups.

Camera samples, ultra wide angle cam, close ups

Here's a couple of quick selfies too. First one is in regular Photo mode, while the second one is in Portrait. Apparently HDR isn't available in Portrait mode, so your highlight might end up blown. Interestingly enough, the photos come out in the full 32MP resolution with no control available to switch to a binned 8MP mode.

Selfie samples: Photo mode • Portrait mode