Oppo announced its flagship Find X3 Pro smartphone earlier this week, drawing attention to its two 50-megapixel 10-bit cameras and a billion-color screen. That’s great, but the 3-megapixel “microlens” camera might be the real star of the series.
While not boasting much in the way of resolution, the types of images that the Find X3 microlens can capture are really unusual, not only from the perspective of smartphones, but also all cameras. While the idea of a 60x zoom microscope camera sounds extremely gimmicky, it may be a gimmick you will really enjoy.
Digital trends and PetaPixel mobile specialist Andy Boxall tested the Oppo Find X3 this week and published some of the images he took using the microlens. While he fears that many “camera snobs” will immediately poke their noses up at the low-resolution microscope of a camera, he’s pretty excited about what he could capture.
I’ll probably be laughed at by some cam snobs for this … but the @OPPOMobileUK # OPPOFindX3ProThe gimmicky microlens 60x zoom “microscope” camera takes cool, fun photos.
L to R: dust, map, moss and a phone screen.
I have a full story about it later.#AwakenColour pic.twitter.com/rP6cbF3fmC– Andy Boxall (@AndyBoxall) 11 March 2021
While apparently not the highest resolution and they seem to tend to show significant noise in nothing less than perfect lighting, the perspective you can get with a 60x microscope zoom is striking. From left to right above, Boxall shows how the camera sees dust, a map, moss and a phone screen.
Boxall was not the only one who was impressed with this feature. YouTuber Michael Fisher praised the microlens camera as the ability to push phone cameras into a new realm.
“It is incredibly fun to experience everyday objects through a 60x ‘pocket microscope’, ‘he writes on Twitter. “I like having a new sensor that allows me to experience the world around me.”
The photos above are not only beautiful, but are also very difficult to identify because of the unique perspective – gimmick or not, it’s amazing.
PetaPixel’s full review of the Oppo Find X3 coming later this month.
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