Oppo Reno6 Pro 5G (Snapdragon) review

4K across the board

The Reno6 Pro 5G (Snapdragon) records video at up to 4K60 with its main camera while the telephoto and the ultrawide are capped at 4K30 - not a bad achievement on its own. There's always-on electronic stabilization across the board, and you get the usual choice of h.264 and h.265 codecs.

4K30 videos from the main camera (50Mbps bit rate) are very good. Detail is abundant, and sharpening is a notch below excessive - not really natural, but acceptable. Colors are likable as in photos - white balance is accurate, and the saturation level is just right. We'd take a bit more dynamic range, particularly in the highlights, but it's alright as is too. 4K60 is hardly any different at all, despite being encoded with the same bit rate - so those 50Mbits are a bit squandered on 4K30.

The telephoto is similarly capable of daylight video recording. Its 4K30 clips have pleasing colors and a good dynamic range. The detail is excellent, and the noise in the sky may go unnoticed if you don't go looking for it.

The ultrawide's color saturation is a bit much, and there's a warmth to its greens that's off the mark. There's decent detail as ultrawides go, but flagship ultrawides have done better in our experience. Again, dynamic range can be wider, too.

Stabilization on the main camera is okay, but not the best. It can't quite iron out walking shake, and while it does remove some of it, it leaves us wanting. There's no weird jelloing, and pans are smooth, no issues there.

It's a similar story on the ultrawide - the wider focal length, which normally helps, doesn't make much of a difference. Again, decent but unremarkable showing from the Reno.

The Ultra Steady mode doesn't quite remove walking shake either. Couple that with the abrupt panning action and the limitation to 1080p60, and we'd straight up skip that.

Low-light footage out of the main camera is visibly noisy without poking your nose into the screen, but it's pretty detailed too. Dynamic range is adequate, colors maintain a good level of saturation. We've seen worse.

Zoomed in 4K in low light is perhaps too noisy even for our lax standards in this regard. Again, detail is pretty decent still. Dynamic range and color reproduction are okay given the circumstances.

The ultrawide's clips in these conditions are probably in the unusable category. They're too soft and noisy.

Here's a glimpse of how the Oppo Reno6 Pro 5G (Snapdragon) compares to rivals in our Video compare tool. Head over there for the complete picture.

Oppo Reno6 Pro 5G (SD) against the Xiaomi 11T Pro and the Motorola Edge 20 Pro in our Video compare tool