OPPO Reno6 Pro 5G is a phone that has as a clear selling point the camera, with the emphasis on the features that make it special and I am referring here especially to Bokeh Flare. However, we start with the hardware, more precisely with the 32 MP selfie camera, which is cut out of the screen. At the back is a rectangular camera, which includes a 50-megapixel Sony IMX766 sensor with optical stabilization, F / 1.8 aperture, and omnidirectional PDAF.
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It's the same sensor on the OPPO Find X3 Pro, so a special pedigree is guaranteed. It is accompanied by a 13 MP telephoto camera with 2X optical zoom, PDAF, and F / 2.4 aperture. but also a 16 MP ultrawide camera with F / 2.2 aperture and 123 degree angle, but also a 2 MP Macro camera. We also get dual LED flash and color temperature sensor, so the camera is very well equipped. Reno6 PRo shoots in 4K at 30 or 60 FPS and in the camera interface we find modes like Night, Pro, but also the already famous Bokeh Flare Portrait. It applies to the selfie camera, but also to the main one, both in photo and video.
What does this mode do? It blurs the background of a classic Bokeh, but also amplifies the light sources in the background, for a more dramatic, more expressive capture. AI Highlight Video also appears, which offers adjustments adapted to the situation: too light or too dark, compensating where needed. It will also automatically detect if you need to shoot Portrait , with the human subject in the foreground and blurred background.
There is also a Focus Tracking feature, which improves autofocus on video capture. You can also take 108 megapixel photos with Ultra High Resolution mode.
We also arrived at the gallery and started with the photos taken during the day. The photos are clear and full of detail, and the room is starving . Beware of exposure, on very sunny days though. The ultrawide camera does a great job of capturing a wide, distortion-free frame with a well-rendered sky. I like the green of the vegetation and I also appreciate the texture of that colorful bridge over the Bega.
The zoom on the boxes at the Begai dam is pleasant that results in a fixed 2X, while from 3X there is noise. We also have photos with the sun in front of us, with a few reflections, but nothing that could damage the frames. The first success plans are the ones with the main camera, the Macro one doesn't turn my back on me, having noise, but the focus is the right one, very close to that spool from the playground.
What comes next is even more so: a succession of pictures with peeled wooden toys with a texture as widely rendered as a flagship would be jealous. Green, blue, yellow ... it looks perfect. If I had to change anything at the gallery during the day, I would give the exposure one degree lower. I like the outlines of the clouds and especially the blue shades of the toys at the playground.
Also note the yellow leaves in that "photography course" frame, with the rule of trinity respected and a perfect blurring of the frame, which emphasizes the leaves in the foreground. A purple flower appears in the plane, but with a blurred pistil, perhaps because it was too close to the room. Or it was too small and thin, and it's easier for the camera to delineate a larger main topic.
There are also courts when AI comes into action, when the sun disappears and we have a very intense green of the vegetation, of the Samsung Galaxy S20, older Galaxy A's and the iPhones of a few years ago. Great bonus points for the texture and detail of the cranberry bushes and the red umbrella frame in the dumpster.
If we have photographed subjects, and the dynamic range is very wide, then the AI will compensate and highlight the girls by illuminating them, but also the bodies, giving extra importance to human subjects. In conclusion featuring flagship for the main camera and midrange for the rest, maybe with above average ultrawide.
The photos from Bucharest with Bokeh Flare are successful, perfectly cutting people from the background and creating a gentle but adjustable blur of the background. We also have photos on a roof in the center of the Capital, which looks like a hip-hop album cover, with me in the background and blurred concrete in the back, but also a Bokeh Flare capture with a faded light garland and at the same time amplified for drama , while my face is clearly rendered and separated from the background.
The pores are clearly visible and the eyes are expressive, so we look good on selfies as well. They are well focused, detailed and well colored. The results are perfect for Instagram.
As for the night capture, I'd say it's just here that the phone goes off. It has an excellent Night Mode in bringing to light even the darkest scenes, but without exaggerating with the lighting of the frame, but keeping everything well balanced. Bokeh Flare is still a star, and with one person in the foreground, the backlights amplify, which will be the golden hand when the Christmas street lights or the Christmas tree ornaments are lit.
This technique is used in videos, commercials, movies, to create an idyllic, romantic landscape behind people. The camera handles very well in classic night photography, with no extra options and captures a generous amount of light, the colors are correct and no light source is exaggerated and no strange halo is created (apart from some of the bulbs hanging between trees, to which a vertical strip of light is drawn). The ultrawide camera still has some hesitations and produces less than satisfactory, sometimes softer and noisier results.
The photos of the carousel and the astronaut seem to me to be landmarks that allow this phone to duel with flagships as well. And nocturnal catches with plants are to be kept in a "best of". The captures with human subject came out excellent, the young lady in the frame being perfectly rendered and the background being satisfactorily blurred. What would you choose? The photo with Flare is clearly more expressive.
The details of the photo captures with human faces are impressive, in terms of pores and skin texture. They are good for Instagram and when you have enough light the delimitation of the subject in Bokeh is 10 out of 10, without a wrong hair.
As for filming, the one with Bokeh is clearly the star. When you activate Bokeh Flare mode you will create a series of twinkling lights behind you, in a blurred background, while you become the central character of the filming and every emotion on your face is amplified. I tried this in the studio, indoors, but also day and night, outdoors.
Otherwise, the stabilization is not bad at all according to our tests based on footage and we have a video on the shores of Begai as a demonstration. I like the way the vegetation looks and I mean the color, the colors are correctly calibrated and the exposure is also correct. I see a lot of detail when shooting 4K, no area with noise. I also panning at will and tested the focus (speed and accuracy), alternating between evil and leaves or flowers.
I also took an ad hoc interview with a lady who organized the "Story Bridge", a project to beautify the public space near Bega. The Crochet Stories and Bridges group beautified the gloomy and rusty bridge that we always film at the stabilization tests with paintings and crochet art. The result has a lot of soul, and the interview has a pretty good quality for a vlog or even a report.
The zoom was impressed even beyond 2X, something I didn't expect. The microphone did a good job of capturing the environment, not affected at all by water, wind, other noises. I caught the lady's voice perfectly, but also discussions between fishermen.
We have a lot of Bokeh Flare video captures on the carousel, and the flare effects of the backlights apply even when our muse moves. We also have a video with our colleague Kristian, who in the frame and in the second when he does the sunlit shots become an exotic background with flares. We also have a video portrait with the undersigned, on a roof in Bucharest, with a very urban vibe, of hip-hop video.
Standard night shooting caught a lot of light, a nice shade of red, and stabilization remained on the chart. The light sources are not overly amplified and the amount of noise is low. Only some white light logos are slightly amplified. He can beat the flagships at night filming and is unique in the market with this Bokeh Flare (in fact he and Reno6 5G are the only ones with these pluses).