The OnePlus 11 is a robust Android telephone that may achieve this a lot with a slick new design and nice extras like hyper-fast charging. A great telephone is sweet, however today it additionally has to take good footage. The OnePlus 11’s triple digital camera array has taken some photographs which have seemed nice. You can learn extra within the full evaluate for the OnePlus 11, however I needed to see the way it stacks up towards its fundamental rival, the Google Pixel 7 Pro. The Pixel 7 Pro earned a coveted CNET Editors’ Choice award final 12 months due to its nice specs and its very good digital camera, so I knew it was going to be a enjoyable shootout to see which one takes the very best pictures.I charged each handsets up and headed off round stunning Edinburgh, Scotland, to see what’s what. OnePlus 11, fundamental digital camera.
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Pixel 7 Pro, fundamental digital camera.
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The OnePlus 11’s shot above is definitely extra vibrant than the picture from the Pixel 7 Pro, but it surely seems oversaturated, with fairly a teal tone to the sky. As a outcome, the OnePlus picture seems much less pure. It’s one thing I discovered typically with the OnePlus 11 digital camera in testing it for my evaluate. OnePlus 11, ultra-wide lens.
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Pixel 7 Pro, ultra-wide lens.
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Switching to the ultra-wide lens, the OnePlus 11 has once more produced a extra vibrant shot (see above). It’s not that it is a unhealthy picture — in order for you vibrant, punchy photographs of your folks having enjoyable, it will swimsuit you effectively. But it is value protecting in thoughts if you happen to want extra natural-looking photographs just like the one from the Pixel.OnePlus 11, fundamental digital camera.
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Pixel 7 Pro, fundamental digital camera.
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Both telephones captured vibrant and well-exposed scenes within the pictures above. But the HDR on the OnePlus 11 is simply too aggressive in lifting the shadows, leading to fairly a “processed” look. It’s once more produced a blue sky that leans extra into teal tones, whereas the Pixel 7 Pro’s shot seems extra true-to-life total. OnePlus 11, ultra-wide lens.
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Pixel 7 Pro, ultra-wide lens.
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Take a glance above the place it is precisely the identical story after we swap to the ultra-wide lens; overly lifted shadows and toned down highlights leading to fairly an HDR look to the picture, to my eye.OnePlus 11, fundamental digital camera.
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Pixel 7 Pro, fundamental digital camera.
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I do not really feel the OnePlus 11 has completed nice within the picture above both, however largely because of the coloration steadiness which has resulted in fairly a teal-colored sky and a yellow-green tinge to the buildings on the left. OnePlus 11, 2x zoom.
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One of the issues I discovered most disappointing in my OnePlus 11 evaluate is that it lacks a correct telephoto zoom lens, as a substitute having only a 2x zoom for portrait photographs. I like a zoom lens on a telephone because it permits you to discover fascinating compositions in your environment that is likely to be misplaced to your folks and their wide-angle-only telephone cameras. In the picture above, the OnePlus 11’s 2x lens solely goes up to now in getting a closer-up view of the buildings towards the river. Pixel 7 Pro, 5x optical zoom.
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With its 5x optical zoom, the Pixel 7 Pro can get a a lot nearer view. Check out the Pixel’s picture above. I at all times take pleasure in taking pictures with the Pixel’s zoom lens as I really feel I can get much more artistic with the zoom than I can with only a wide-angle lens. Where the OnePlus 11 excels although is in its night time mode pictures.OnePlus 11, night time mode.
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Pixel 7 Pro, night time mode.
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The OnePlus 11 has achieved a brighter picture above, which is very noticeable on the primary constructing within the heart of the body. I feel the colours look higher too, and there is typically extra element to be seen all through the picture. OnePlus 11, night time mode.
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Pixel 7 Pro, night time mode.
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And it is the identical within the pictures above. The OnePlus 11 captured a a lot brighter shot, with clouds within the night time sky being notably noticeable. OnePlus 11, night time mode.
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Pixel 7 Pro, night time mode.
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Both photographs above undergo from vital flares when taking pictures towards vibrant gentle sources, however most telephones are likely to have this downside. It’s probably not any worse on both telephone, so it is simply one thing you will want to bear in mind when taking pictures at night time. Which is the higher digital camera telephone?Throughout my testing, I’ve discovered that the OnePlus 11 fairly constantly delivers photographs which can be extremely saturated and present heavy-handed HDR processing that lifts shadows and tones down highlights to a generally unrealistic extent. By distinction, the Pixel 7 Pro’s photographs are extra true to life, with correct colours and extra satisfying shadow areas that have not been ‘fastened’ (learn: lightened) by the digital camera software program. However, it is essential to needless to say that is largely subjective. As a photographer, imaging expertise are a high precedence for me in a telephone. I need a digital camera that takes extra sensible pictures, with extra “neutral” distinction and publicity, in order that I’ve a greater picture to doubtlessly apply my very own edits or results to afterward. As a outcome, I want the photographs from the Pixel 7 Pro. But if images is perhaps much less of a priority and also you as a substitute need vibrant, punchy photographs straight out of the digital camera you could immediately share with household and associates, then maybe you will benefit from the vivid look of the OnePlus 11’s footage. It’s definitely obtained the sting in relation to night time mode too. What’s not subjective although is the shortage of a much bigger zoom on the OnePlus 11. That 2x lens is ok for portraits, but it surely’s nothing in contrast with the very good 5x zoom on the Pixel 7 Pro, which might be my favourite digital camera lens discovered on any of at this time’s high telephones. The Pixel 7 Pro looks like I’m placing a full digital camera bag of apparatus in my pocket; an outstanding ultra-wide, an excellent normal zoom and a very good telephoto. With it, I do know I can seize fascinating compositions in nearly any setting I discover myself in and it is why the OnePlus 11 would not really feel like a completely succesful images telephone.
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