Poco X7 Pro review

Dual camera on the back, one selfie

The Poco X7 Pro has two cameras on its back - a 50MP OIS primary with up to 2x in-sensor zoom, and an 8MP ultrawide shooter. There is also a 20MP selfie camera on the other end.

• Wide (main): 50 MP Sony IMX882, f/1.5, 26mm, 1/1.96", 0.8µm, OIS, PDAF; 4K@60fps, 1080p@60fps
• Ultrawide: 8 MP SmartSens SC820, f/2.2, 15mm, 1.12µm, fixed focus; 1080p@30fps.
• Front camera: 20 MP OmniVision OV20B, f/2.2, 21mm, 1/4.0", 0.7µm; 1080p@30fps

Daylight photo quality

The main camera captures good 12.5MP photos. The dynamic range is wide, the colors lively and true to life, and there is no visible noise.

The resolved detail is okay, though not around the best we've seen even among the midrange cameras. Sometimes the photos may look washed out, especially with the highlights in high-contrast scenes.

Main camera

The Poco X7 Pro main camera offers 2x in-sensor zoom, and unlike on the Poco X7, here it works great. The zoomed photos are likable with natural rendition, wide dynamic range, and mostly faithful color reproduction. The washed-out look is even more obvious here, though.

Main camera, 2x zoom

The portraits are solid, even if average in detail. The subject separation is proficient, the simulated bokeh is decent, and you get wide dynamic range and good contrast.

The zoomed portraits are just as nice, but the detail and the sharpness drop significantly due to the digital zoom.

Portraits: 26mm • 26 mm • 35mm • 35mm

The 8MP ultrawide photos are average in detail, but they offer good color and, in most cases - adequate dynamic range and contrast. The noise is low across all images.

Ultrawide camera

The 20MP selfies are upscaled from the default 5MP output. And it is too obvious as the detail is poor and the whole photo is soft. Worse, it also appears that the focus is behind where the subject would usually be, which makes for somewhat blurry mug shots.

Selfies

Low-light photo quality

Night Mode is available the cameras on the Poco X7 Pro, and it can also trigger automatically.

We liked the photos we took with the Auto mode. The ones coming from the main camera offer plenty of resolved detail, low noise, faithful color saturation and wide dynamic range.

Main camera

The 2x zoom here is a simple digital zoom done by crop and upscale.

Main camera, 2x zoom

The ultrawide camera captures acceptable photos at night for the hardware at hand. This means they are very soft, but clean of noise. There is a visible red tinge in most of our low-light samples.

Ultrawide camera

Video recording

The Poco X7 Pro supports 4K@60fps and up to 1080p@60fps video capturing on its primary camera. The ultrawide and selfie cameras max out at 1080p@30fps.

You can check out the playlist below, which includes multiple video samples from the Poco X7 Pro.

The 4K daylight videos from the main camera are solid - there is enough resolved detail, good sharpness and a natural-looking rendition. The noise is low, the colors are realistic, and there is wide dynamic range and good contrast. The 2x zoomed videos, as expected, are upscaled from the standard footage.

The daylight video from the ultrawide camera is okay - there is acceptable detail, true-to-life color rendition, and adequate dynamic range. The noise is low, if any.

The 4K low-light video from the main camera is great - it excels in detail, color saturation, noise reduction, and dynamic range.

There is always-on electronic stabilization available across all cameras, resolutions and frame rates. It is quite impressive and works incredibly well - even at 2x.