launch, the OnePlus 9 Pro failed to live up to the hype that OnePlus had created around it. In our testing, we found the camera to not just be similar but also worse in some ways to the OnePlus 8 Pro, and we just couldn't see the promised improvement in color performance that the collaboration with Hasselblad was supposed to bring.
Far forward seven months, and a lot has changed. OnePlus has been issuing regular updates to the OnePlus 9 Pro camera, and it's now in a much better place than it was at launch.one, the oversharpening that we had pointed out in our review has been dialed back. The OnePlus 9 Pro had heavy sharpening applied at launch to make up for the fact that the images were now softer due to the increased field of view of the new lens despite having the same 12-megapixel effective resolution of the OnePlus 8 Pro. This has now been fixed in newer firmware, and the sharpening looks much more natural now with significantly redOnePlus has also reduced the noise that we had noted in our review. At launch, the OnePlus 9 Pro tended to have quite a bit of noise in the shadows. With newer updates, this is not a concern anymore, and the images are quite clean.
Moving to the all-important color performance, OnePlus has definitely made some subtle but noticeable improvements across the board. The white balancing performance is now very good, resulting in very consistent and reliable results in most lighting conditions, especially outdoors during the day.Comparing the OnePlus 9 Pro now with the OnePlus 8 Pro, the OnePlus 9 Pro now consistently outperforms its predecessor in most areas. The OnePlus 8 Pro is still quite good, but the OnePlus 9 Pro generally has better color accuracy, especially in terms of white balance.
OnePlus 9 Pro vs OnePlus 8 Pro - f/1.9, ISO 125, 1/9543s - OnePlus 9 Pro long-term review OnePlus 8 Pro does still have slightly better detail, however, as its lens is not as wide as on the OnePlus 9 Pro and can thus capture more fine detail with the available sensor resolution. The OnePlus 8 Pro also usually renders flowers more accurately, as the OnePlus 9 Pro tends to consistently oversaturate flowers.overall image quality of the main camera on the OnePlus 9 Pro is now quite good, although there's definitely room for improvement. OnePlus still has a tendency to crush shadow detail. This is not even a hardware limitation, as the RAW files have adequate detail in the shadows. It's just an artistic decision from OnePlus that has plagued its phones for a while.OnePlus also needs to better tune its HDR processing as it has a tendency to flatten highlights, removing any natural gradient and reducing them to one or two shades. It also tends to overexpose midtones and make them brighter than they should be. Once again referencing the RAW files, we can see a much more gradual natural dynamic range, gradation, and contrast captured by the sensor, but the processed JPEG file looks flat and unnatural.
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