The Find X7 Ultra takes moving imaging to new heights
At the Paris International Photo Art Exhibition in November last year, OPPO and Hasselblad announced the joint development of a new generation of super light and shadow imaging system in 2024, and the first model to be equipped with it fell on the Find X7 series. On January 8th, when the Find X7 Ultra was officially released, OPPO single-handedly took mobile imaging to the next level with the industry's first dual periscope multifocal lens and the Hasselblad Portrait mode sublimated by the new optical engine.
When the major mobile phone manufacturers are still obsessed with competing for CMOS size and frantically implementing the iron law of "crushing people to death at the bottom of the big level", OPPO is keenly aware of another solution beyond "fighting the bottom", that is, to achieve more focal length coverage through dual periscope lenses. From the perspective of mobile phone structure, due to the size limitation of the motherboard, it is difficult for the area above the back to coexist with the periscope lens and the outsole module. However, the Find X7 Ultra has successfully created a full main camera system that can be called the ultimate form of mobile imaging through its exquisite structural layout, which houses two ultra-light periscope telephoto lenses and a one-inch sensor at the same time.
In terms of parameters, this time Find X7 Ultra brings the first one-inch sensor under computational photographyLYT900, behind which there is the joint efforts of OPPO and Sony, with the advanced computing power of the super light and shadow image engine, so that the one-inch sensor completes the "ultimate evolution" from the ceiling of light sensitivity to the ceiling of computational photography. The Find X7 Ultra also features a rare dual periscope telephoto lens, including a 65mm portrait mid-range camera, and a 135mm close-up telephoto camera that has never been seen before in a phone, replicating the effects and tones of the Hasselblad XCD 2.8/135 lens.
In terms of shooting scenes, the Find X7 Ultra fully covers the golden creative focal length equivalent to 14mm-300m, and the dual periscope lens also achieves seamless coverage of 0.6x, 1x, 2x, 3x, and 6x, allowing users to capture images without loss at up to 6x optical zoom. In special scenarios such as watching the concert stage from a distance, users can also use the Find X7 Ultra's hybrid zoom or digital zoom to act as a "telescope".
The dual periscope lenses allow users to obtain the corresponding focal length pairing in more complex scenes. For example, when going to Harbin, a popular tourist resort in winter, and taking photos in the Ice and Snow World Scenic Area, people only need to stand at the origin and use the Find X7 Pro telephoto lens to stretch and capture the shape of the top of the ice sculpture in the distance, and see the beautiful scenery that ordinary people "can't see". In addition, the 135mm telephoto lens can capture close-ups of distant people, such as the glacier climbing chart above, which is as vivid and natural as a follow-up. On the common city streets, users don't need to cross the road to capture the fleeting soap bubbles flying on the opposite side, so that any wonderful moment in the distance can be "grasped in one hand".
In the past few years, the moving image industry has also gone into a cycle of "algorithmic theory", and as a result, optimizing the image through algorithms has backfired, with unrealistic colors and exaggerated sharpness. The Find X7 Ultra combines the leading computational photography technology with Hasselblad's color-focused portrait mode, leading moving images to say goodbye to the "algorithmic taste", which can be interpreted by the following official image.
This is a portrait shot with the Find X7 Ultra's 65mm telephoto lens, which shows the real texture of the face, the three-dimensional contour of the nose bridge, and the details of the hair, the plush on the coat, and the details of the dog's hair. Thanks to computational photography's optimization of the edge cutting of the object, the dog's hair and fur plush of the same color are "distinct", and the kneading between the two objects is just right. The entire shot shows the Find X7 Ultra's deep "internal skills" in portrait optimization, edge transitions, and light processing, resulting in an extremely realistic portrait reproduction.
In addition to still photography, dynamic video shooting is also a test of a mobile phone's image processing capabilities. Previously, Android phones basically only supported Dolby Vision shooting with the main camera, but this time the Find X7 Ultra supports full-range Dolby Vision HDR video recording for the first time, bringing users a more professional and gorgeous creative atmosphere. With the assistance of the telephoto lens, users can control the field "from far and near" in any scene, and achieve the coherence of "one shot to the end". In other words, Find X7 Ultra makes it more flexible and free to create, allowing users to easily record life clips into Vlogs, fulfilling the "director's dream" of every ordinary person.
The alliance between OPPO and Hasselblad has lasted for two years, and the cooperation between the two sides has entered the "deep water area". Thanks to the delicate calculations of OPPO's Super Light and Shadow Image Engine, the Find X7 Ultra perfectly reproduces the Hasselblad tone, bringing infinite possibilities to image creation. In the Find X7 Ultra, we also got a glimpse of the future development direction of mobile imaging, that is, the fusion and resonance of computational photography and image optics, so that ordinary users who are not proficient in photography can become "image masters"!