Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Pixel Fold vs. OnePlus Open Camera Comparison”.
This is the Google pixel fold, it cost $ 1,800 and folds from a phone into a mini tablet, and this is the $ 1,700 OnePlus open, which does the exact same thing now. Both of these phones represent The Cutting Edge in terms of phone technology, hence those Cutting Edge prices. But then there are the cameras. Now neither foldable has the absolute best camera system because there’s no room for them, but Google and OnePlus found ways to overcome that. So how do the cameras compare let’s find out? Foldables like the pixel fold and OnePlus open, have a space problem in order to fold in half and not be cumbersome when they’re closed.
The phones are made extremely thin, but that means there’s even less room for camera. Sensors and lenses so while you’re, paying $ 17 or $ 1,800 you’re getting a camera, that’s closer in quality, to something on a $ 700 phone or well. At least that’s been the case until 2023. The pixel fold has a camera bar on the back. That sticks out – and this gives the camera Hardware more depth and that helps improve the image quality and that bar houses, a main wide-angle camera, an ultrawide and a five times, telephoto camera. And when I pitted it against the Galaxy Z fold, I preferred Google’s photos at every turn.
Now OnePlus takes the concept of Google’s camera bar and goes to the extreme. The circular camera bump on the OnePlus open feels like someone cut a hockey puck in half and glued it to the back of the phone. It sticks out a lot, but it gives more room for image, sensors and lenses and like the pixel, the open has a main camera, an ultra wide and a telephoto, but it opts for a three times: optical zoom, which will be the same camera used in the Upcoming OnePlus 12 that has already launched in China now for this video, I’m just going to compare photos taken with the rear cameras, but make sure to read my full written camera comparison between the two phones on CNET. The link is in the description.
So, let’s take a look at some of my favorite photos that I took with each phone, starting with the Google pixel fold and ending with images from the OnePlus open. As you can see, both phones are capable of some decent photos, but let’s do a few direct comparisons and start with a cup of coffee or well, in this case, a cappuccino from four barrel Coffee in San Francisco. Both photos look good. If I had to nickp pick the pixel fold, snap has better exposure and did a better job at protecting the highlights and the contrast makes the details in the foam pop.
The oneplus’s photo is exposed brighter, but still has good detail. The image isn’t as oversharpened as the pixels photo notice, the difference between the cappuccino, foam and the wood table that it’s sitting on now, despite having the same f1.7 aperture, the pixel folds main camera, keeps more of the background in Focus. Here are a couple more photos, uh of a recent happy hour, outing with my fellow seets. Now neither of these photos was taken with night mode and well, neither is great, but the pixels photo is superior. The exposure is good and people’s skin tones look better. Both of the photos used a long shutter speed to let in more light, but because of that, both photos have some motion blur from people shifting or moving the one Plus’s photo is darker, but the highlights like the chandeliers and the background aren’t blown out to White.
Now, let’s shift from happy hour to a cat sitting, happily under medium lighting, I use the telephoto camera on each phone to snap these photos of Pebbles the cat and, as you can see, he was thrilled. The pixels image was taken with a five times: optical zoom, whereas the OnePlus photo was taken at six times. Digital Zoom, so not exactly a fair comparison, but the OnePlus image looks better to me.
It nailed the white balance and captured the detail and Pebbles for better by comparison. The pixels photo looks well flat. Now here are a couple more photos taken with a telephoto camera on each now. This comparison is less about the image quality I mean both are good, but the fold has better dynamic range and more about focal length. The five times optical zoom on the pixel is a great telephoto length, but so is the three times optical zoom, on the OnePlus open. But here’s why this is a fair comparison. What’S nice is the OnePlus on this telephoto camera? Has a 64 megapixel sensor compare that to the 10 megapixel one on the pixel.
So if I take a photo at six times, magnification, I’m still using 32 megapixels, even though I’m cropped in all of this to say, I think the OnePlus opens telephoto is a more versatile camera because of it, and that said, the pixel’s main camera has a 48 Megapixel resolution and I can take a three times – digital Zoom with it to mirror the OnePlus open and I still get a decent 12 megapixel photo. Now, let’s take a look at some night mode images from each phone. I took these of a colorful laser. That was aimed over San Francisco during last month’s Apec conference. Now the OnePlus photo is okay, but it still looks pretty dark and details are soft. The pixels photo is brighter, has a wider, dynamic range and sharper details.
Now these photos were taken with the main camera, but here are some night mode photos from the ultrawide camera on both phones – and here are two more night mode images taken with each phone’s telephoto at 5x for the pixel and 6X for the one Plus for night Mode, the pixel fold wins in my book now before I give you my final thoughts, I want to give a shout out to one of my favorite features on either phone the xan mode on the OnePlus open. It’S named after the famous analog camera called the Hasselblad xan that could take photos with 35mm film that were 70 mm wide, so basically a wide photo. That’S twice the width of a regular photo. The one plus can take an xan photo combining a couple images into one and it’s ridiculous and there’s not a great way to show these off.
But I adore this feature and while the field of view takes some getting used to I’ve, taken a lot of bad xan photos, I truly have gotten some cinematic photos like this one with the OnePlus open. Oh and one more thing I don’t like on the OnePlus, is that the camera shutter button is red. I mean why it makes me: have this little mini freak out like I’m, getting ready to record a video instead of take a photo, not good, not good, but at the end of the day, the Google pixel fold and OnePlus open push the bounds of foldable phone Photography, I still give the pixel a slight Edge because of Google’s computational Magic and I feel like the results fit better with my aesthetic, but I want to hear from you which phone do you think took better photos. Let me know in the comments.
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