The OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro Review: Becoming The Flagship
by Andrei Frumusanu on June 29, 2020 10:00 AM ESTVideo Recording
Next up, some video sample comparisons between both phone’s different modules and capture modes.
OnePlus 8 Pro
OnePlus 8
Starting off with the colour renditions of the scene, both phones do ok but I feel that there’s something off with the tone curves as things either look a bit too oversaturated or some highlights are being flattened too much? It’s a weird look that more present on the main sensor of the 8 Pro than on its ultra-wide or on the regular 8. Both main camera sensors suffer from lens flaring in the sun, but the 8 Pro here is especially predominant compared to its other two camera modules.
Switching between the modules is fast when zooming in and out – naturally the regular OnePlus 8 doesn’t have a telephoto module so zooming in beyond 2x comes at a great loss of quality as it’s just digitally cropping the frame.
Electronic image stabilisation works great on both phones. Switching over to 60fps recording disables EIS and here we can see the OIS performance of both phones. The OnePlus 8 Pro has a significantly better stabilisation as the OnePlus 8 becomes quite a lot shakier.
OnePlus is still pretty nuts in regards to the video bitrate at 60fps as for a H.264 recording we’re jumping from 50Mbps at 4K30 to a whopping 160Mbps at 4K60, resulting in file sizes exceeding 1GB per minute. The quality is outstanding of course, but it far exceeds what you’d be able to upload and view on any video platform such as YouTube. I wish OnePlus would give the option to scale this down in its camera app as it’s a bit overkill for most use-cases.
OnePlus 8 Pro - 4K30
OnePlus 8 Pro - 4K30 HDR
Dynamic range can be an issue in bright scenarios, and the OnePlus 8 Pro offers HDR recording. This actually means it’s an HDR processed capture in an SDR recording. In the above frame captures between the two phones we see that this gives a significant boost to shadows and the effective dynamic range of the scene. Unfortunately, the phone is only able to record in this mode on its main camera module, and it’s not available on the regular OnePlus 8. I also noticed that the phone has big troubles focusing while in this mode.
Audio recording was recording on both phones, but there was wind noise present in both, but particularly prominent on the regular OnePlus 8.
Overall, I’d say video recording quality and experience on both phones is good, but the OnePlus 8 Pro is the clear winner, with the ultra-wide-angle recording experience in particular being the best.
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wr3zzz - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
Same here. The dual speakers setup used on OnePlus7/8 does not sound good, or correct, for video viewing.What happened to display audio that don't need speaker holes? Sony and LG had them a few years back and then never heard from again.
Kishoreshack - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
I really love the one plus displayIt feels even smoother & sharper than s20 line up
One plus has been constantly delivering better displays even than the display manufacturer Samsung itself
It's a shame Samsung who manufacturers display can't deliver the smoothest sharpest display
On the market
NOTELLN - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
It seems phones are more about bragging rights than how they actually perform now a days. $1000usd for a phone? No thank you.flyingpants265 - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
It's about profit, market share, and demand. They just started arbitrarily raising price, and decided it was better to sell slightly fewer phones, at a much higher price. It's called market capitalism. It's awful.Also, around here, the telcos are helping subsidize certain phones again, AND financing: every phone is available for $0 now. So we may only see higher prices.
Nexus 5 was $299 (I think? Don't remember really). OnePlus One was around the same price.. Redmi K20 whatever was $420
If you look at Realme X, it's $145 USD for a 1080p FULLSCREEN phone with SD765. So they can easily make budget phones and sell them at a slight profit... But they artificially limit sales of phones by region!! It barely even works in North American networks.
Quantumz0d - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
Exactly, the Android OS is already saturated and removing features like Filesystem advantage and shoving iOS crap into it. The worst part is as you said the insane price tag, this POS phone what does it do better than an S10+ for the same price retail currently, for non tinkerers it does nothing. It has a BL unlock but apart from that S10+ trumps this garbage clone CCP device in everyway.Kishoreshack - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
Their commitment to the display tech is a testament in itself how far they have comeThey are literally beating display manufacturer SAMSUNG in terms of Quality
Sharma_Ji - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
Lmao, 1+ fanboy.Just stop.
mobutu - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
More interested in the OnePlus Nord or whatever they'll end up calling it.mrochester - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
Why is the manual brightness on android phones so low?Andrei Frumusanu - Monday, June 29, 2020 - link
Probably to avoid having people needlessly blasting the brightness at full intensity all the time.