According to images shared by YouTuber Dave2D, OnePlus will soon be launching a flagship high-tech smartphone that features the Hasselblad brand on the camera set. Although many rumors like this turn out to be false, this one looks really legit.
The OnePlus does not have the best reputation for smartphone camera quality and the last time Hasselblad entered cell phone cameras was with the $ 250 Hasselblad True Zoom, a great modular accessory for the Motorola phone series that accepted ” Moto Mods “. This camera was incredibly disappointing from an image quality standpoint.
One Plus and Hasselblad may be in for redemption, so as a very credible report indicates that OnePlus 9 Pro is going to feature a Hasselblad camera system.
In photos shared with Dave2D by an anonymous informant, this new phone has a camera design and projection similar to the leaked images from the OnePlus 9, but adds another camera and a laser (which will likely be used to focus). It is speculated that instead of the name “Hasselblad”, the basic OnePlus 9 will see the label “Ultrashot”.
Speaking of the camera set itself, the leaked images appear to show two large sensors and two much smaller cameras in the system, and the images shared with Dave2D appear to indicate that the phone can achieve a lossless 3.3x zoom, which would be an improvement on the OnePlus 8 lossless 3x zoom. Dave2D also notes that there is a Tilt-Shift photography mode shown next to Portrait, Nightscape and Pro modes.
As many readers undoubtedly know, smartphone photography has grown steadily for years, basically as the reverse of the collapse of the autonomous camera market. Zeiss and Leica have long participated in the branded game of camera phones, the last one is Vivo’s partnership with Zeiss (Vivo is a sister company of OnePlus), so seeing Hasselblad again dipping his toe in the pool doesn’t it’s a surprise . Hopefully, this latest move will actually result in exceptional image quality, which is rare in the camera company’s brand partnership game and even more rare for Hasselblad’s brand partnership.
Hasselblad has been very selective about its on-camera brand, outside of its medium-format bread and butter, since its fiasco with renowned Sony luxury cameras. The launch of cameras that do not meet the high expectations of the Hasselblad brand is more harmful than useful today, with the company under much more scrutiny than its competitors thanks to the dignified memes Stellar and Lunar.
(via Engadget)