Oppo Find X5 Pro review

Pitched firmly as a premium smartphone, can the Oppo Find X5 Pro’s association with Hasselblad tempt pro photographers?

Oppo Find X5 Pro review
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Digital Camera World Verdict

The Oppo Find X5 Pro offers a genuinely useful photographic tool, with enough features to keep most enthusiast photographers happy. It’s a great smartphone, but it isn’t cheap and it has some tough competition.

Pros

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    Two 50 megapixel rear cameras

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    Super speedy charging

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    Quality 120Hz 6.7in OLED screen

Cons

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    High price

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    No zoom telephoto

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While there is an argument that there is still a future for compact digital cameras, in is undeniable that mobile phone cameras have surpassed them in popularity and, in many ways, photographic potential. In order to assess this potential it is important to review the similarities between each camera type. 

Both types of device are designed with portability and ease of use in mind, rather than absolute image quality. Compacts and smartphones feature much smaller sensors than DSLRs and common mirrorless cameras and as such are limited in their maximum pixel count and ISO sensitivity. This makes large image reproductions and low-light shooting less practical than when using a full frame camera, APS-C or even a Micro Four Thirds model

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Peter Fenech

As the Editor for  Digital Photographer magazine, Peter is a specialist in camera tutorials and creative projects to help you get the most out of your camera, lens, tripod, filters, gimbal, lighting and other imaging equipment.

After cutting his teeth working in retail for camera specialists like Jessops, he has spent 11 years as a photography journalist and freelance writer – and he is a Getty Images-registered photographer, to boot.

No matter what you want to shoot, Peter can help you sharpen your skills and elevate your ability, whether it’s taking portraits, capturing landscapes, shooting architecture, creating macro and still life, photographing action… he can help you learn and improve.

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