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the Oppo Find X9 Pro It has a host of upgrades, including a new 200MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, which has many great zoom features to help you take a great photo no matter how far away you are from your subject.
For example, it provides excellent 6x shots Cropping in sensors For 50 megapixel photos. Oppo says it can offer “lossless zoom” of up to 13.2x using computational photography – that’s close to the maximum digital zoom Phones A few years ago. And if that’s not enough for you, the Find X9 Pro also supports an external Hasselblad telephoto lens attachment, which magnifies distant subjects even further.
Of these three, the detachable telephoto lens is the most brutal. When the Hasselblad lens is attached, it protrudes several inches from the back of the phone. It’s a bit like a small telescope.
Oppo is not the first to make such an accessory; Both Vivo and Xiaomi have done this before. However, Oppo’s point of view is different from the rest. While others offer a camera grip with a shutter button, Oppo’s Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit relies on the phone’s quick control button or the on-screen shutter button to take photos.
I’ve been using it a lot lately and here’s what it can do. I should note that the Find X9 Pro is not available in the US.
Using the Hasselblad Teleconverter kit is a bit of a hassle
You certainly won’t be able to fit the Find X9 Pro with the Hasselblad telephoto lens attached in your jeans pocket.
The Hasselblad Teleconverter kit comes with three pieces: an additional camera module accessory, the telephoto lens itself, and a bracket that can be attached to a tripod for stability.
To use it, you also need to get the official Magnetic Photographer Case, which is specially designed to support the slide-in accessory. You can then add the lens with a twist, which snaps securely into place above the 200MP telephoto camera.
The external lens attachment is heavy, making the phone unbalanced and unwieldy. I got used to it, but it took a day to figure out how to hold the phone and lens combination more effectively. However, I greatly miss the lack of a camera grip to provide a secure grip on the phone when the lens is mounted. If I moved my hand to hold it more comfortably or tapped the screen for long zoom shots, my framing would change dramatically. If I were to change one thing about this teleconverter kit, I would add a camera grip to make this setup more comfortable to use.
You can use a tripod to stabilize the lens, which helps stabilize shots in the viewfinder; However, this is counterproductive to the idea of using a phone to take photos in the first place. I don’t want to carry a tripod – at that point, I might use a dedicated camera and telephoto lens. After all, the primary purpose of having a portable telephoto lens is to reduce size.
However, I love using it
Nothing to see here: just a man and his phone with a silly-looking telephoto lens on the back.
The first time you add a Hasselblad lens and open the Camera app, you might be surprised to see the viewfinder upside down. To combat this, you need to switch to the Hasselblad Teleconverter dedicated mode within more Menu.
Besides flipping the viewfinder the right way, it gives you 10x, 20x and 40x zoom options. You can always use the slider to adjust the magnification between 10x and 200x. I used it for a day in Barcelona and loved the natural depth it added to human subjects. I was also surprised by some mild results.
Here are some of my favorite photos I took on the OPPO Find X9 Pro using the Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit:
10x magnification on a moving subject
I saw someone skateboarding after setting up the camera, and I kept tapping the shutter button hoping to get an action shot. I like the way this came out because there is no motion blur on the person or their skateboard. These types of shots require a fast shutter speed to freeze the moment, and the Oppo Find X9 Pro was able to do this at up to 10x zoom using an external lens. Colors are accurate, contrast is nice, and there’s good bokeh despite the presence of a moving subject.
Zoom in 20x and click on the yacht to shift focus from the person.
When setting up this shot, I clicked on the yacht to move the focus point from the person sitting on the beach. At 20x zoom, I captured a nice-looking shot, but if you look closely, detail is missing from the faces of the people on the yacht. That’s because the camera moved a little while I was adjusting focus and trying to take the picture. Overall, I still prefer the Hasselblad lens and Op kit for accurately capturing the colors of a sunset.
40x close-up shot taken on Find X9 Pro with Hasselblad Teleconverter Lens.
At 40x zoom, the Hasselblad teleconverter lens captures softer images and details look amazing. But processing it still maintains the mood and texture of the frame which is just as important as getting fine detail. It gets the colors right and there is decent bokeh. It can also track faces to identify the subject, even at 50x zoom, and as in the shot above, you get decent clarity.
It offers a DSLR-like shallow depth of field at 10x zoom when capturing a still subject.
If you have a still subject, the Hasselblad’s external lens adds a shallow, DSLR-like depth of field. She was even able to capture strands of a woman’s hair in a windy environment. I love this photo because no portrait mode was used and the bokeh is the natural bokeh of the lens just like you would get from a DSLR or mirrorless camera. It provides a similarly shallow 20x depth of field for still subjects.
Tap to focus at 10x magnification at night to automatically adjust exposure.
For this photo, I tapped on the wall to focus, which also automatically adjusted the exposure and white balance. Many similar shots from other phones suffer from over-processing, but not this one. I’m impressed with how it manages to hold the light, without the highlights blowing out into white. Subjects were properly exposed without having to click on them to focus and expose. She also got the mood right in the process.
Night shot with 10x zoom. I clicked on the subject to focus.
However, using the lens in low-light settings, as mentioned above, adds a lot of noise reduction and tends to give images a soft, blurry watery appearance. The shot above was also taken at 10x and there is light on the subject’s face, but the overall look is soft with less detail. However, it gives the image a unique look, which I don’t hate.
Capture your truly walking subject with the help of push-to-lock focus at 10x zoom.
This is also a click-and-shoot photo lock, as I (the subject) was moving and the system was able to track my face to focus better. I like the look of contrast in the photo. In anything less than direct sunlight, the Hasselblad lens softens the subject, but images still look great.
I love having the ability to expand my phone’s zoom capabilities for both photos and videos. However, the Hasselblad Lens Converter range remains more of a novelty than something you use every day, mostly thanks to its price. While it’s amazing how close you can get to distant subjects without losing much image quality, at €499 (about $575), it’s one of the most expensive phone accessories you can buy.
At this price, I expect it to work better with my phone. For example, I’d like the camera software to be able to detect that I’ve attached an external lens, so that it opens in Hasselblad Teleconverter mode by default — instead of giving me the black viewfinder.
The Hasselblad Teleconverter kit is one of the most expensive phone accessories on the market. But if you can afford it, the lens adds a beautiful natural effect to images while preserving the natural colors of the scene. It also produces excellent night shots. It may not be the best value but I can’t put it down.
