Oppo Find X10 cameras could be the ultimate Pixel and Galaxy antidote
Oppo’s next generation of flagships will launch globally next week – and it’s pitching cameras as the key battleground.
Ahead of the Find X10 series reveal in Mallorca on 21 October, Oppo has issued a press release deep-dive into the hardware and software processing you can expect. And let’s just say, it’s not going along with rivals such as Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy.
Besides the Pro Max being the first phone to pack a triple 200Mp camera system – co-developed by Hasselblad, no less – the Oppo Find X10 series will have at its heart the LUMO True Image Engine. This is apparently designed to capture “more true-to-life detail, colour and tones”.
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In doing so, Oppo seems to be taking exception to the way that mobile photography has evolved on rival phones such as the Pixel 11 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
It doesn’t name-check those rivals, of course, but the implication is clear. The company claims that the ideal of capturing “what we actually saw and how a moment felt” in mobile photography has been “undercut by the very features meant to make our photos better.”
Those being: “Oversaturated colors, over-brightened faces, aggressive HDR or excessive sharpening”, which “can all gradually warp an image away from the scene it was meant to preserve for us”. In other words, what Galaxy and Pixel devices have focused on for years, even if the Pixel 11 series’ ‘Camera Looks’ feature allows you to fine-tune it to your liking.
All that means nothing if the photos miss the mark. Luckily, our early impressions of the Find X10 Pro Max photography are extremely impressive.
Oppo strikes a different tone
Oppo’s LUMO True Image Engine apparently counters this trend by providing more true-to-life detail, colours, and tones.
On the detail front, for example, the LUMO Hyper Pixel Engine will enable the capture of 26Mp images right across the focal lengths, from ultra-wide to 9.9x zoom.
Hasselblad Hi-Res Mode, meanwhile, lets you capture 50Mp shots at five focal lengths, where lighting permits. It should also cut down on the heavy sharpening that characterises a lot of mobile photography.
SAMPLE IMAGE SHOWING ‘MORE LINEAR, SOFTER LOOK’
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Elsewhere, 24-channel multispectral sensing with DAG and DCG-HDR enables up to 15 EV of dynamic range. In an advance on the Hasselblad Master Mode it introduced in the Oppo Find X7 series, meanwhile, the Oppo Find X10 series will use that mode’s global tone curve to give auto shots “a more linear, softer look” – so a less aggressive difference between highlights and shadows.
We’ll see how all this plays out in the final product, but given that the Oppo Find X9 Ultra is our reigning camera phone champion, we’re hoping for great things.
