The OnePlus 10 Professional will get a greater RAW mode and a wider ultrawide digicam

OnePlus is sharing just a few extra particulars concerning the upcoming OnePlus 10 Pro, this time with a give attention to digicam specs. If you happen to have been hoping for many {hardware} upgrades from this second-gen partnership with Hasselblad, it seems such as you’ll should maintain ready — except for a brand new ultrawide, these updates are primarily software-based.

To recap some primary digicam specs that we learned earlier this week, the OnePlus 10 will provide a triple rear digicam — possible the identical 48-megapixel predominant, 50-megapixel ultrawide, and 8-megapixel telephoto configuration as final yr. There’s a 32-megapixel front-facing digicam, which is a major decision bump from the 9 and 9 Professional’s 16-megapixel selfie digicam.

A notable replace is the addition of a capturing mode referred to as RAW Plus which, like Apple’s ProRAW format, combines the advantages of computational images and RAW picture seize. The OnePlus 9 and 9 Professional provided a standard RAW mode, so this can be a good enchancment for many who wish to tinker with data-rich RAW recordsdata whereas retaining the superior picture processing that smartphone cameras are so good at.

All three rear cameras can be utilized within the up to date Hasselblad Professional Mode to regulate publicity settings and shoot 12-bit RAW recordsdata. We actually preferred the intuitive Professional Mode on the OnePlus 9 and 9 Professional, so we’re keen to take a look at the most recent model. There’s a brand new handbook video recording mode, too, referred to as Film Mode. It affords management over ISO and shutter velocity in addition to entry to a LOG capturing format that higher lends itself to post-capture colour grading.

The 9 and 9 Professional cameras featured colour tuning by Hasselblad, and OnePlus continues to lean into that facet of the partnership. On this iteration, it combines its personal (additionally Oppo’s personal) “Billion Shade Resolution” and Hasselblad’s colour science to deliver 10-bit colour to every of the cellphone’s three rear cameras. That ought to make for smoother colour gradations in photos — supplied that you just’re taking a look at them on a display screen able to displaying all of these colours.

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On the {hardware} aspect, there’s a brand new ultrawide digicam sensor with an excessive 150-degree discipline of view — someplace within the ballpark of 5mm in 35mm phrases. If you wish to actually go for a dramatic shot, this lens can be utilized together with a brand new fisheye mode. For a barely narrower view, the ultrawide affords a 110-degree mode, which is nearer to the 14mm equal provided by the 9 and 9 Professional, and makes use of AI distortion correction.

There’s another {hardware} change to notice: it seems like OnePlus dropped the monochrome digicam. This was a low-resolution chip that was included in earlier fashions to help when capturing black-and-white photos. That was the declare, anyway. We struggled to find it making any difference in monochrome photos and my colleague Jon Porter has bemoaned its existence for years, describing it at turns as “baffling” and “pointless.” The renders of the ten Professional that we’ve seen up to now present three useful-looking cameras together with a flash and nothing that appears like a bit of monochrome sensor in sight. If that’s the case: farewell, monochrome digicam, we hardly knew what ye did.

Outdoors of digicam updates, what we’ve learned about the OnePlus 10 Pro so far is no surprise in any respect. It can include a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, a 120Hz display screen, and 50W wi-fi charging — in keeping with earlier OnePlus flagships and checking all of the “2022 Android flagship” bins. It’s as a result of launch on January eleventh in China with availability in different areas later this yr.