Key Takeaways
1. Chinese smartphone brands, like Oppo, showcase pre-release sample images to market their devices, often using skilled photographers to enhance camera features.
2. The Oppo Find X8 Ultra maintains a versatile 23 mm focal length and f/1.8 aperture, promoting its photography capabilities in “pro” mode.
3. Oppo humorously critiques Vivo’s new smartphone by questioning its “Ultra” label due to a smaller sensor size compared to its predecessor.
4. The dual periscope telephoto lenses on the Oppo Find X8 Ultra have improved light sensitivity, with claims of a 251% enhancement for the 6x telephoto lens.
5. The upcoming Oppo devices, including tablets and wearables, are set to launch on April 10, with new features like a replacement action button and included charger and USB cable.
Chinese smartphone brands are eager to showcase pre-release sample images from their devices for marketing reasons. It’s wise to approach these photos with some caution, as companies tend to hire skilled photographers to highlight the best aspects of their cameras. This is particularly clear in the images Oppo released on Weibo on March 28, 2025, which aim to highlight the capabilities of the 23 mm main camera and the significantly enhanced 3x telephoto lens.
Capturing the Moment
The two sample images below excellently illustrate what users can accomplish with a contemporary smartphone in “pro” mode, especially by playing around with shutter speed. The f/1.8 aperture and the 23 mm focal length equivalent have been carried over from the Oppo Find X7 Ultra, allowing for versatile photography.
A Friendly Rivalry
In the teaser poster below, Oppo playfully poked fun at its sibling brand Vivo by questioning how a smartphone can be labeled as “Ultra” without a 1-inch sensor. This comment refers to the soon-to-be-released Vivo X200 Ultra, which will feature a 1/1.28-inch sensor instead of the larger 1-inch sensor found in its predecessor, marking a downgrade similar to what occurred with the Vivo X200 Pro. Similar to Xiaomi’s approach with the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, Oppo has chosen to use the largest sensor format currently available for smartphones. However, the trade-off is that the other three sensors on the Find X8 Ultra are smaller than those on Vivo’s flagship model.
Enhanced Telephoto Features
While the primary camera hasn’t changed much, the dual periscope telephoto lenses have seen significant advancements. Most importantly, Oppo has notably increased their light sensitivity, partly by using larger apertures. Although we’ve only heard Oppo’s claims of a 251% improvement in light intake for the 6x telephoto lens, the company has now shown enhancements to the 3x telephoto camera through three genuinely impressive sample images.
The aperture sizes ranged from f/2.0 to f/2.1 in the shots, as indicated by the Hasselblad watermarks, which is still a notable improvement compared to the f/2.6 offered by the previous model. The 70 mm telephoto lens shines as a light-sensitive portrait camera (one of its main functions), and the photographer captured this exceptionally well in the final image.
Competing in Low Light
Recently, Oppo manager Zhou Bao shared a photo comparison on Weibo, highlighting the low-light capabilities of the new Oppo camera against four unnamed smartphones. As the company straightforwardly stated, the Find X8 Ultra clearly comes out on top in this comparison.
In addition to the cameras, a wealth of new details has surfaced about Oppo’s upcoming devices, including tablets and wearables, set to launch on April 10 in China. The teaser images below offer a comparison of displays and provide a closer look at the action button, which takes the place of the alert slider found on older Oppo and OnePlus devices.
We also got our first official glimpse of the packaging for the Find X8 lineup. It appears that a charger and a USB cable will be included in the box.
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