Up close, the OnePlus 3 managed to impress with a lot of fine detail as well. The typical shoot once, capture the moment type of photos that uses are most likely to take and again, we were impressed with the consistency with which the device produced satisfactory results. Since the weather is so nice out, we couldn't miss our chance to take the OnePlus out on a field tip and get some real-world samples from it. This way you are always clear exactly what the camera app is doing. We also appreciate the on-screen notification whenever Auto HDR kicks in. The processing itself is also very mature, definitely not too excessive. It is a very solid camera experience and that's about as good as we hoped.Īuto HDR worked great during our testing and managed to kick in just in time. It has managed to make proper use of the Sony IMX298 sensor just as well as the Xiaomi Mi5 or the Huawei Mate 8. We can't really ask more of the OnePlus 3. The color balance is decently accurate, with a slight warm tint from time to time. They offer plenty of detail while keeping the noise levels reasoanble. Quality on the OnePlus 3 stills is definitely up to par with 2016 flagship standards. We particularly like the fact that a convenient auto setting is still left in all the sliders. It offers granular control over ISO, contrast, shutter speed and focus and it works really well. Besides the usual Photo and Video, there is also Panorama for stills, Time-lapse and Slow motion for video, all of which we are going to post samples of in a bit. There are also quite a few modes for you to experiment with. There is even a RAW support, so the camera is undoubtedly full-featured. And as for more advanced things like geotagging, save location and shutter sound - they are hidden away in the settings menu. The quick setting button next to the shutter release holds a few extra things, like aspect or video resolution control, the self timer and the grid. Other than that you have the most important toggles close at hand - flash, HDR and Oxygen OS's HD mode in stills and only the LED control under video. However, those do seem to be the only absent puzzle pieces. On the surface, it even looks to be missing some features and there are a couple of things we would have liked to see, like still resolution control and perhaps some filters.
The default OxygenOS app is based on the stock Android solution and is about as straight-forward and streamlined as it gets. As for the selfie snapper, it is nothing too fancy, but still offers a respectable 8MP resolution with an f/2.0 aperture.įirst, lets look at the camera experience itself. It is also OIS-enabled and has a single LED flash at its disposal. The 16MP camera has an 1.12µm pixel size and and aperture of f/2.0. The very same sensor is also found in the Oppo R9 and R9 Plus, the ZTE Nubia Z11 family as well as the Vivo Xplay 5 and the XPlay 5 Elite that we recently reviewed as well. It utilizes the Sony IMX298 sensor, which might not be the company's cutting edge offer, but is still good enough to power some other excellent flagship camera experiences, like the one on the Xiaomi Mi5 and the Huawei Mate 8. Sure, the OnePlus 3 might not be quite up to par with the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S7, but it is a solid snapper that performs consistently and reliably under all conditions and seldom requires more than a single try to capture the desired shot. The camera was naturally our first guess, but once we got to test it out it became obvious that almost no corners were cut in this respect either. And with an affordable price tag of EUR 399, one has to wonder where the experience will come short.
So, we have already established that the OnePlus 3 offers a series of well thought-out decisions concerning both design and hardware all ultimately culminating in a stylish and powerful device.