There is a buzz around about OnePlus 5 camera from the day before it launched because it going to be featured a dual back camera. Oneplus 5 is the successor of the most popular smartphone OnePlus 3 & 3T. The OnePlus 3 & 3T were the best and complete smartphone and successfully able to give a premium brand value to OnePlus.
Due to high-end hardware and performance at a reasonable price, it let the most of the technology analyst to compare it with the iPhone. And now when the Oneplus 5 finally launched along with a dual camera and almost same design like iPhone 7 Plus it again in buzz and people started to compare it with iPhone again.
If you see its dual lens camera design you exactly get a feel of iPhone 7 Plus and even it functions in a similar way. So, today we are not going talk about the OnePlus 5 hardware performance but instead of that, we are going to test the Oneplus 5 camera that claimed by the company to give DSLR like effects in your phone photography.
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Oneplus 5 camera specification – Rear and Front
OnePlus 5 front camera specs and features
The rear camera of OnePlus 5 has two lenses, one is regular 16-megapixel wide-angle along the f/1.7 aperture. The Oneplus 5 camera sensor is Sony IMX398 lens. While the other Oneplus 5 lens is of 20-megapixel with less aperture size i.e f/2.6 and Sony IMX 350 sensor. Basically, the second lens of Oneplus 5 is a telephoto lens for 2X zoom. Besides the dual lens, it also has used the dual LED flash for night photography.
Rear Camera Wide-angle
- Sensor: Sony IMX 398
- Megapixels: 16
- Pixel Size: 1.12 µm
- EIS: Yes
- Autofocus: DCAF
- Aperture: f/1.7
- Portrait, Pro Mode, Panorama, HDR, HQ,
- Dynamic Denoise, Clear Image, RAW Image
Rear Camera Telephoto
- Sensor: Sony IMX 350
- Megapixels: 20
- Pixel Size: 1.0 µm
- Autofocus: PDAF
- Aperture: f/2.6
OnePlus 5 front camera specs and features
The front Oneplus 5 camera megapixels are 16Mp and f/2.0 aperture size. The Oneplus 5 front camera sensor is Sony IMX 371 along Pixel size of 1.0 µm.
- Sensor: Sony IMX 371
- Megapixels: 16
- Pixel Size: 1.0 µm
- EIS: Yes
- Autofocus: Fixed Focus
- Aperture: f/2.0
- HDR, Screen Flash, Smile Capture, Face Beauty
Oneplus 5 Camera App
The camera app of the Oneplus 5 is simple and straight forward just like OnePlus 3 & 3T. The app has 5 modes Normal Photo mode, Video Mode, Time-Lapse, Portrait mode, slow motion, Panorama, and Pro mode.
The Professional Mode of the OnePlus 5 let you control the camera setting according to your picture requirements and creativity. It allows you to controls exposure, white balance, object focus, ISO and white balance. It also shows light intensity graph on the screen. In the middle of the display, you will find a green line that makes sure that you are keeping the photos staring. This would be very useful when you capturing some architecture monuments.
If you want to give a copyright on your Oneplys 5 captured photos then it has an option called “Shot on OnePlus Watermark” along with your name.
The OnePlus 5 can capture the videos using following resolutions and mode.
One plus 5 Rear Video
- 4K resolution video at 30fps
- 1080P resolution video at 60fps
- 1080P resolution video at 30fps
- 720P resolution video at 30fps
- Slow Motion: 720p videos at 120fps
- Time-Lapse
One plus 5 Front Video
- 1080P resolution video at 30fps
- 720P resolution video at 30fps
- Time-Lapse
Oneplus 5 Camera Images Sample
Day Light Images
Shot: 1/400 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 200
Mode: Pro
Shot: 1/100 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 200
Mode: Pro
Shot: 1/100 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 200
Mode: Normal
Shot: 1/400 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 160
Mode: Pro
Shot: 1/320 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 200
Mode: Auto
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 800
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 500
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 125
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 640
One plus 5 Camera Night Light Images Samples
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 2000
Mode: Portrait
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 1000
Shot: 1/25 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 2000
Shot: 1/15 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 3200
Shot: 1/10 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 2000
Low Light Image without flash
Shot: 1/15 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 4000
Low light image with flash
Shot: 1/100 sec. f/1.7 4.103 mm
ISO: 400
OnePlus 5 Selfie camera Test Image samples
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/2 3.519 mm
ISO: 160
Selfie while moving the camera but still the OnePlus 5 camera able to capture the focused face perfectly.
Shot: 1/50 sec. f/2 3.519 mm
ISO: 125
Oneplus 5 camera details and camera quality verdict
We have captured the variety of shots on Oneplus 5 with amazing picture quality as you can see in the images samples given above. The autofocus of the camera has made 40% faster than the previous 3T. The electronic image stabilization does a very good job but some times it lacks consistency. The new portrait mode of Oneplus 5 comes handy and provide extreme bokeh effect but some times the digital blurriness is over exaggerated which looks a little bit unnatural.
The colors produced by the camera are not over saturated and appear realistic, punchy with vibrant hues and eye catching. In the low light, the Oneplus 5 performs very well and can beat some of its closest rivals.
If you talking about camera image details level and auto focus than the Oneplus 5 can’t beat the Samsung Galaxy S8. But still, our test shots were not suffered much even in the low and night light they came out with good detailing and low grains.
The Oneplus 5 handled the high contrast situation well too, you can expect good detailing in your images even against a bright sky without too much over saturation to those brighter areas.
Macro shots handle by the camera well along solid detailing levels and Oneplus 5 lens didn’t struggle much to focus the object from close.
Overall the camera is awesome and worth for the money you are spending on this phone if you are photography enthusiast or traveler then with Oneplus 5 you don’t need to take out DSLR from your bag.
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