Oppo Find – Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra leans into a rare 10x telephoto paired with a 50MP sensor and stabilization, aiming to stay sharp at long range—while also inviting less-friendly computational artifacts. Vivo’s X300 Ultra counters with a crisper ultrawide featuring OIS an
Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra starts with a camera spec that feels built for stubborn shooting conditions: a 200-megapixel primary sensor with a 1/1.28-inch size and a low f/1.5 aperture possibility, designed to pull in light and hold up when lighting turns unfriendly.
Then it turns the volume up again—because the really eye-catching part is the telephoto. Oppo includes a 3x telephoto camera with a 200MP sensor. topping out at 70mm equivalent zoom for portraits and general-purpose shots. But the “ultra” is the showstopper: an ultra-telephoto system capable of 10x zoom at 50MP.
10x zoom isn’t new in smartphone land; it’s rare. It has shown up before, including briefly on Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra. What makes Oppo’s approach stand out in practice is that the 10x option is paired with a high-resolution sensor rather than being treated like a novelty. Oppo also leans on the ability to digitally crop closer for even more reach—though the pitch is that you won’t need to do it nearly as often.
For steadiness. the Find X9 Ultra adds sensor-shift stabilization intended to improve clarity and reduce blur. and it aims to do more than just zoom. The company’s 10x optical zoom is positioned alongside the possibility of 20x lossless zoom. before any attachment of Oppo’s teleconvertor lens. There’s also a 50MP ultra-wide camera and a 3.2MP multispectral sensor designed to strengthen white balance and color accuracy.
But the story isn’t all praise. In the middle of that penta setup, Oppo’s 3x telephoto brings computational photography boosting that can go too far. The result, in real shots, is that human subjects can end up with ghostly outlines. Overly aggressive digital sharpening can also make images look unnatural.
Oppo’s answer is a mode you can choose inside the camera app—Master Mode—created through a collaboration with Hasselblad. The point of it is to strip away the computational AI tricks and augmentations on telephoto shots. That means. as shown by the experience described. you avoid “AI nip-tuck” behaviors that can go sideways. and you also avoid outcomes like nightmarish low-res faces or scrambled alien lettering. The tradeoff is that the AI-boosted basic photo mode can sometimes deliver better low-light performance. and the reviewer says they occasionally missed it.
Vivo’s X300 Ultra lands on a different balance: it brings the same 1/1.12-inch 200MP main camera sensor. but with a narrow 35mm focal length that’s framed as more “cinematic.” Its aperture can go as low as f/1.85. which still competes on low-light capability—though it doesn’t match Oppo’s f/1.5 possibility.
Where Vivo pushes hardest is the ultrawide. The X300 Ultra’s ultrawide camera is described as performing “head and shoulders” above Oppo’s. and the difference comes down to details that matter when you zoom out: Vivo adds optical image stabilization (OIS). which is rare at this focal length. Combined with a 50MP sensor. the outcome is images that look crisper and more detailed than rival ultra-wide cameras that typically rely on lower-resolution sensors.
Oppo’s ultrawide isn’t dismissed, but the comparison lands clearly in Vivo’s favor. Vivo also benefits from Zeiss’ anti-reflective lens treatment, which the report ties to “a lot less lens flaring on light sources” on the Vivo phone.
On Oppo’s side of the ultrawide, the Find X9 Ultra uses a 50MP sensor with a lower f/2.0 lens, but its sensor size is smaller—reported as 1/1.95-inch for Oppo versus the X300 Ultra’s 1/1.28-inch. The Find X9 Ultra also lacks built-in OIS.
The telephoto duel continues next. Vivo’s telephoto camera (again using a 200MP sensor) maxes out at 3.7x zoom without a teleconverter. It’s not meant to compete with Oppo’s 10x ceiling. If you crop further anyway, the report says you lose a lot of detail and artifacts increase. But Vivo includes a way forward—something the report teases as a coverage plan for people who want to punch in further.
Put side by side. the tension between these two phones becomes less about who has the longest number and more about what happens when you actually use that range. Oppo chases reach with a rare 10x telephoto built around a 50MP sensor. then offers a Hasselblad-backed Master Mode to keep computational behavior from getting too creative on telephoto shots. Vivo chooses a steadier ultrawide upgrade with OIS and focuses its telephoto around 3.7x. where pushing beyond that comes with more visible tradeoffs.
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10x on a phone is kinda wild but I bet the pics look smudgy up close.
So basically Oppo has 200MP everything now and it’ll still blur my dog running in the backyard lol. Computational artifacts sounds like marketing for “software makes it weird.”
Wait when they say 10x is paired with a 50MP sensor, does that mean it’s actually 50MP at 10x or like cropped from 200MP? I’m confused because my iPhone “10x” photo never looks like the ads.
I don’t even care about ultrawide vs telephoto, I just want the phone to not overcorrect everything. Like if their white balance multispectral thing “improves” color then why do every camera app still look like a filter? Also 70mm equivalent… so it’s basically a portrait lens right? Can’t wait for the first video where they zoom in and it turns into AI soup.