Oppo Find X5 Pro and National Geographic; is that a match? After all, National Geographic stands for top-notch photography. So then you quickly think of photographers lugging a cartload of photographic equipment with them to shoot the best pictures in exotic locations....
In most cases, they do. Because it simply produces the most beautiful photos. And let's face it, no smartphone can beat that. Not even the Oppo Find X5 Pro. But hey, we are not all National Geographic photographers. So that leaves opting for a smartphone with a good camera the next-best thing. And how good such a smartphone camera can be has been proven by Kiliii Yuyan, who happens to be a National Geographic photographer.
Winter
Kiliii Yuyan took his Oppo Find X5 Pro to Iceland as that country was just beginning its dark winter. Dusk by day, pitch black at night. And for months at a time. A perfect opportunity to test the Pro's strong point, night photography, in practice.
The accompanying photos and video show the result. Note the dynamics, the details the camera manages to capture in virtually no light, the colours it still manages to capture under those difficult conditions.
And then you can say, 'Yes, nice, but that Kiliii Yuyan is a professional photographer. He lets the camera do exactly what he has in mind via the manual settings and then you get pictures like this.' True, he probably could have done that. But he didn't!
Pre-programmed
The photos you see here were all taken using pre-programmed functions (and so anyone can do it, provided you have some sense of photography). Such as HDR, which takes multiple photos with various exposures in 1 x, then automatically combines them into the best picture. The Long Exposure Mode, for dynamic night shots. Or Xpan, a mode that lets you shoot extra-wide images, in the same proportions as with the XPAN cameras from Hasselblad - the high-end camera manufacturer Oppo works with.
This and several other functions are pre-programmed and work so well that even a professional photographer likes to sail blindly on it.
Also nice: when you get very close to your subject, the camera automatically switches to macro mode for extreme close-ups. You will no longer find the microscope mode of its predecessor on the Find X5 Pro, but we think this solution is more convenient and will be used much more often in practice.
Ceramics
By the way, to drive the cameras and image processing, Oppo has designed a new chip, MariSillicon X, which should result in less noise, better colour reproduction and faster photo processing. Also special: the gorgeous ceramic (and thus scratch-resistant) casing of this water- and dust-proof device. All in all, a covetable smartphone well worth considering. Costs €1299 The complete specs read HERE!
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