OnePlus 16 camera review, Digi Mart USA News: OnePlus has long built capable camera phones, but its parent company has ended the partnership with camera maker Hasselblad and now markets its phones mainly as high-end performance and gaming devices. A recent review of the OnePlus 15 found that image quality suffered as a result.
The newly arrived OnePlus 16 is aiming to strengthen the camera offering again. It features a 200-megapixel main camera with an f/1.6 aperture, supported by a 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 50-megapixel telephoto camera with optical image stabilization that enables up to 120x zoom, although anything above 3x is hybrid zoom.
The selfie camera also has 50 megapixels.
In the reviewer’s testing, the main camera captured detailed photos and was described as hardly inferior to more expensive handsets. Some enlarged images, however, showed odd blurring, and in very low light subjects remained recognizable but other camera systems performed better.
Selfies looked well lit with fine detail, though bright areas could sometimes be blown out.
Zoom results were natural up to about 10x, but beyond that AI processing became heavy-handed, affecting image brightness. The reviewer said such images are just about usable on a smartphone but disappointing on a larger display.
Overall, the reviewer concluded the OnePlus 16 cannot quite keep up with today’s top phones, yet delivers very respectable image quality for everyday use at a significantly lower price.
In Western countries the OnePlus 16 is currently available only as an import, for example from TradingShenzhen, starting at US$877. The original report is a publisher review that was not independently verified.
