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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paul4na - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - link
Think the Sony Xperia 1 II is a much more rounded device. Flat 4k screen, 1/1.7" camera sensor, stereo front-facing speakers, SD expansion, 3.5mm headphone jack, no notches or holes, nice build with niceone-handed use, clean software.KarlKastor - Wednesday, July 1, 2020 - link
For the OnePlus 8 which starts at $/€699, there’s actually very little competition out there at this price range"Don't know why you compare it with the S20. The competition are other non pro flagships.
Mi10, P40, ...
amosbatto - Wednesday, July 1, 2020 - link
Watching the trends in the mobile industry has convinced me to preorder the Purism Librem 5, because it fights all the things that the mobile industry does wrong. Why hasn't Anandtech covered Linux phones? Look at the features of the Librem 5: an SoC manufactured for 10 years, a removable battery, replaceable cellular modem, replaceable WiFi/BT, lifetime software updates, smartcard reader for OpenPGP card, free/open schematics, headphone jack, convergence as a PC.AbRASiON - Thursday, July 2, 2020 - link
"no 3.5mm jack"Stops reading.
snowsurferDS - Friday, July 3, 2020 - link
Someone needs to tell them Xiaomi is making SD865 phones at the $500 mark, and they have both a headphone jack and an SD card. I am still using a Galaxy S9 (Exynos, EU), but was dismayed to see my wife's new Xiaomi Note 8 Pro (Mediatek 90T) is much, much faster than my S9, which cost almost 1K€ back when I got it at release.yacoub35 - Thursday, July 9, 2020 - link
Can the 5G modem be turned off / disabled through Settings for those who wish to stick to 4G?Questor - Sunday, July 12, 2020 - link
Did I miss it somewhere or was the OS covered? More specifically, does the 1+ come with the minimalist OS it used to? I dislike all the bloat from other makers. Appreciated the lack of with 1+ products.Bencherian90 - Saturday, August 1, 2020 - link
Nice review. But you guys should add audio review also. Especially review of loud speaker of the phoneJustSayin - Sunday, August 2, 2020 - link
Which model of the 8pro was used for these tests? I did look for it but it doesn't say if it was the 8 or 12 gb version. Not sure if/how much that would alter results... but it would be nice to record that.JustSayin - Sunday, August 2, 2020 - link
I also noticed that in some other comparisons you used the 3dMark extreme slingshot test but not for this one. I have found my 8pro performs that test ~15% better than iPhones. It would be good to include a test where it performs better than iphones for the sake of fairness/completeness.