OPPO Find X8 Pro Imaging Experience: Returning to Roots, Creating a Comprehensive Upgrade to the Flagship Imaging

OPPO Find X8 Pro Imaging Experience: Returning to Roots, Creating a Comprehensive Upgrade to the Flagship ImagingThis year's flagship arrived remarkably early. Before we could even get comfortable with our current flagships, the new generation is already in our hands

OPPO Find X8 Pro Imaging Experience: Returning to Roots, Creating a Comprehensive Upgrade to the Flagship Imaging

This year's flagship arrived remarkably early. Before we could even get comfortable with our current flagships, the new generation is already in our hands. Yes, it's the recently launched OPPO Find X8 Pro. Unlike the positioning of the previous generation, the Find X8 series returns to the lineup of the X6 series, adopting a combination of a mid-sized cup + a large cup + an extra-large cup. But according to OPPO, the actual performance of the OPPO Find X8 Pro is not at all weaker than the extra-large cups of its competitors, once again achieving an experience upgrade. However, this is just official promotional language. Is the actual experience of the OPPO Find X8 Pro really this outstanding? Without further ado, let's experience it directly.

Familiar Appearance, Different Texture

The appearance of the OPPO Find X7 series left a deep impression on Lei. The splicing design of the plain leather and glass, combined with a chrome-like camera module, formed a unique design. Regardless of whether it's beautiful or not, at least it has a much higher recognition than its competitors. The OPPO Find X8 Pro seems to pay more attention to the integration and elegance of the back cover. The color of the model Lei got is called "Strolling in the Clouds". If you look closely, you can vaguely see marble-like patterns on the back, making the overall appearance look more like a complete piece of white marble. The camera Deco part is generally similar to the previous generation, as to whether it looks good or not, it's a matter of personal preference.

The feel of the back panel is also worth mentioning. The back panel of the OPPO Find X8 Pro adopts a more delicate AG frosted glass material, which feels skin-friendly to the touch, but it's not as slippery and easy to get dirty as ordinary glass. Lei personally quite likes this material, hoping that OPPO will continue this process in the future.

Turning to the front, the OPPO Find X8 Pro is equipped with a 6.78-inch 1.5K resolution high refresh rate screen, supporting 1.07 billion colors, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, a global peak brightness of up to 1600 nits, a 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate, and has passed the TV Rheinland Smart Eye Protection 4.0 certification. It's considered a fairly standard screen. Although for most consumers, there is not a big difference in fineness and display effect between 1.5K and 2K resolution, but for a flagship model that costs five or six thousand, 1.5K resolution is indeed not a "pleasant" configuration.

Other configurations are summarized briefly: the latest MediaTek Dimensity 9400 processor, an equivalent battery of 5910mAh, 80W wired fast charging, 50W wireless fast charging, IP68 dust and water resistance, etc., the overall still meets the high-end positioning of a flagship model. Unlike the OPPO Find X8, the OPPO Find X8 Pro is more like the previous generation Ultra: focusing most of its attention on imaging and performance, so it's completely understandable that it compromises slightly on some configurations.

Imaging Still Online, Green Factory Style Stands Out

Consistent with the OPPO Find X7 Ultra, the OPPO Find X8 Pro is also equipped with two high-quality periscope telephoto lenses. The main camera uses the LYT-808 sensor, with an area of 1/1.4 inches and an aperture of F/1.6. The two telephoto lenses are the familiar LYT-600 sensor and IMX858, supporting 3x optical zoom and 6x optical zoom. The focal length design is also consistent with the Find X7 Ultra. It seems that OPPO is very confident about the Find X8 Pro's imaging performance this time. In addition, these two lenses also provide two special focal lengths of 65mm and 135mm for the Find X8 Pro's portrait mode, which are particularly useful for shooting half-body and close-ups.

So how does it perform? Let's appreciate some sample pictures taken by the OPPO Find X8 Pro. As an imaging flagship that OPPO has high hopes for, the OPPO Find X8 Pro's performance in terms of image quality is impeccable. Its performance in terms of color is also as expected. Especially its ability to restore the light and shadow of ambient light is definitely at the flagship level of mobile phone imaging.

In scenes with strong sunlight and high contrast, the OPPO Find X8 Pro will not exhibit glare due to strong light. On the one hand, OPPO has done some coating treatment on the lens, and on the other hand, it has further optimized the algorithm to avoid ghosting and glare phenomena similar to those seen on iPhones.

After enabling the system's built-in Master Mode, the OPPO Find X8 Pro can further utilize the advantages of the sensor's light intake, allowing it to achieve outstanding texture, whether it's indoors, outdoors, or in low-light conditions. In addition, with the enhancement of light and shadow, the photos can look more three-dimensional, and the layering is also richer.

It's worth praising that OPPO's Master Mode has achieved a relatively perfect balance between complex parameter adjustment and easy-to-understand operation for novices. It allows for the quick adjustment of some important parameters without losing the built-in ultra-fast shooting speed. More importantly, the photos taken using Master Mode have conservative traces in terms of HDR algorithm and sharpening. Combined with RAW format, it's very suitable for users who like to retouch photos.

Portrait Mode: Film Style, Industry Standard

Let's briefly mention portrait mode. Perhaps influenced by various film cameras in recent years, the OPPO Find X8 Pro has added some film-like color filters, namely CC Fresh Film, NC Retro Film, and NH Transparent Film. If you're a former Fuji user, you've probably noticed that the naming of these three new filters is completely consistent with the simulated films on Fuji. What's even more interesting is that the understanding of color between the two is also the same. Perhaps this is one of OPPO's sources of inspiration. Of course, if you forget to set these filters beforehand, you can also adjust them during post-processing in the album.

Speaking of portrait performance, the OPPO Find X8 Pro's portrait performance is still top-notch. Whether it's the restoration of the model's skin tone, the handling of ambient light, or the blurring transition between the subject and background, it does a fantastic job, setting the industry standard.

Dual Telephoto Lens, OPPO Algorithm is Already Mature

Telephoto has always been a focal length that Lei is very interested in and often uses. Its existence not only provides more diverse composition ideas but also allows capturing scenes that are difficult to see with the naked eye. Therefore, Lei pays special attention to its telephoto performance when choosing Android phones.

The OPPO Find X7 Ultra was once Lei's favorite flagship, because its two high-quality periscope telephoto lenses provided a fantastic experience. So, what kind of performance can we expect from the OPPO Find X8 Pro, which also features two high-quality periscope telephoto lenses?

It's safe to say that OPPO's performance in mobile phone telephoto algorithm can only be described as "mature." In the past, when Lei used ultra-telephoto lenses to shoot some macro objects, it often encountered the inability to focus due to the focusing distance issue. Although not a major problem, it still affected the shooting experience to some extent.

The OPPO Find X8 Pro seems to have improved this problem through algorithms. Even when suddenly switching from the main camera to the 6x telephoto lens, it doesn't hesitate at all, focusing and shooting at an extremely fast speed.

As for its image quality and imaging performance, it's naturally impeccable. When shooting distant objects and landmark buildings, the spatial compression brought by telephoto is completely unmatched by other lenses.

However, the OPPO Find X8 Pro's two telephoto lenses are not perfect either. When facing scenes with complex light sources, it first tries to reduce the blurring and noise in the image as much as possible through algorithms, and then processes the entire image's light source separately.

But ideals are plump, reality is bony. Lei took four sets of shots in a row, and the results were completely consistent. The blurring in the two telephoto lenses was very serious, and the entire image looked dirty, with no desire to watch it. Hopefully, OPPO can address this scenario with relevant optimization in the future.

Snapping Clean and Crisp, Comparable to Professional Cameras

There's a feature that Lei particularly likes on the OPPO Find X7 Ultra: its industry-leading snapping speed. Although many phones boast about their fast snapping speeds during press conferences, after actually experiencing them, most still have a strong shutter lag. In other words, the picture recorded after pressing the shutter is often not the picture you want at that moment, it's not clean or crisp enough.

The OPPO Find X8 Pro further strengthens this advantage. OPPO calls it shadowless snapping. When the phone detects that the object being shot is in a state of high-speed motion, it will automatically adjust a series of parameters such as