Hey guys it’s Sagar from Tecworkz, and Ifinally have the camera comparison between the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus 7T. Almost half the comments on OnePlus 8’scamera review were requests for this video. Even I was curious to compare these camerasand see if the ones on the OnePlus 8 are really an upgrade over the ones on the 7T. And if cameras are you only concern, shouldyou really spend the extra money on OnePlus 8, or should you stick to the 7T and savesome money.
All these questions will be answered in thisvideo, as we will be taking a look at more than 70 image and video samples from boththese phones. Before we get into the specifics of the camerason these phones, if you are new to the channel, please make sure to hit the subscribe buttonand the bell icon next to it. That way, you won’t miss out on any of theexiting videos that are coming out in the next few days. Both the phones get a triple camera setupon their back, but the design of the camera module is very different on both. I like how the circular camera module lookson the 7T, but OnePlus decided to go back to the shape that they used on the OnePlus7 Pro. Primary camera on both these phones get thesame Optically Stabilised 48 megapixel Sony IMX586 sensor. On the 7T, it is coupled with a F/1.6 apertureand a 7 element lens, which gives it a 26mm focal length. While on the OnePlus 8, it gets F/1.75 apertureand a 6 element lens, again giving it a 26mm focal length.
Aperture size and lens optics take a stepback as we go from the OnePlus 7T to the OnePlus 8. I am not sure what OnePlus is trying to pullhere, because even after charging more money for the OnePlus 8, the lens optics on itsprimary camera seems to be inferior than one on the OnePlus 7T. Next, both get a 16 megapixel sensor withF/2.2 aperture and an ultra wide lens. On the OnePlus 7T, this ultra wide lens isused for taking macro shots, while the OnePlus 8 gets a separate 2 megapixel macro sensorwith F/2.4 aperture. OnePlus 7T gets another 12 megapixel sensorwith F/2.2 aperture and a 51mm lens, which gives it a 2x optical zoom. You don’t get this lens on the OnePlus 8,so it has to rely on 2x digital zoom. Both phones can shoot 4K videos at 30 or 60fps,1080p videos at 30, 60 and 240fps, and 720p videos at 480fps with the primary camera. With the wide camera on both, you can shoot4K and 1080p videos at 30fps. Telephoto camera on the 7T can shoot 4K and1080p videos in 30 and 60fps. At the front both these phones again get thesame 16 megapixel Sony IMX471 sensor.
One on the 7T gets a slightly wider fieldof view and a F/2.0 aperture, while the one on the OnePlus 8 gets a much narrower F/2.45aperture. If we just look at the camera specs, OnePlus8 doesn’t even look like an upgrade over the 7T, but maybe the Image Signal Processoron the Snapdragon 865 will helps the 8 deliver better results. Now the interface of the camera app has changeda bit on the OnePlus 8. If I start talking about all the changes,this video will get much longer than it already is. So if you want a detailed look at the interfaceof the camera app on both these phones, I suggest you take a look at their dedicatedcamera reviews. I will leave cards to them on the top rightof the screen, and also leave links to them in the description section. I feel that I should mention that there isa huge shutter lag on both these phones.
There is quite a bit of time between whenyou hit the shutter button and when the image is actually captured. This lag has been present on OnePlus phonesfor quite some time now, but I don’t see too many people taking about it. I just hope OnePlus works on fixing this. Both these phones are running on the latestversion of Oxygen OS which was available for each of them, at the time of uploading thisvideo. After all of that, let us now finally getto the image and video samples from both these phones. Let us start with some of the daytime images. You can tell straight away that images fromthe OnePlus 7T are a bit warmer, while ones from the OnePlus 8 have cooler colour tones. D
opreferences, you might preferone over the other. Normally I like a bit warmer colours, butin this case images from the OnePlus 8 are showing more natural and true to life colours. Both these phones have the same primary sensor,but as we zoom in, we see images from the OnePlus 8 showing more details. This is true with all the images, and thatis the image signal processor on the Snapdragon 865 at work. It is incredible to see how the same sensorwhen put on 2 different phones can give us such different results. Another change is the way both of them capturecolours. 7T captures a bit more contrast. As I said before OnePlus 8 captures coloursthat are more true to life. Its images are not overly saturated, and theylook even better when compared to the ones from the OnePlus 7T. Now the 7T doesn’t captures bad images,it is just that the ones from the OnePlus 8 look better in comparison.
Although OnePlus 8 gets the new UltraShotHDR feature, I found the dynamic range to be better in the images from the 7T. You can see that 7T brought back more detailsfrom the shadows, while preserving most of the details in the highlights. There is also much more noise in the imagefrom the OnePlus 8, which you can see as we zoom in on this part. Coming to the close up shots. Unlike previous OnePlus smartphones, bothof these are very quick at accurately setting the focus, making the subject in these closeup shots appear sharp. And since the 48 megapixel sensor is large,we see a very nice optical blur to the background. Again close up shots from the OnePlus 7T havemore saturation and contrast, which depending on your colour preference you may or may notlike. But other than that, close up shots look equallygood from both. I prefer the ones from the OnePlus 8, becauseof the way its colours look. Both phones can take macro shots, but the7T uses the wide lens for it while the OnePlus 8 gets a separate camera for this purpose
. Normally I am pretty happy with the 2 megapixelmacro cameras on most budget smartphones, but the one on the OnePlus 8 is not good atall. First of all its minimum focus distance isnot very close at all, and secondly, it barely captures any details. On the other hand, macros from the OnePlus7T loo pretty good. This is how close you can get to the subjecton the OnePus 7T, and this is how close you can get on the OnePlus 8. But there is a workaround for this. Instead of taking these shots with the 2 megapixelmacro camera, you can zoom in 2-3times with the primary camera, and get much better results. 7T can take good macro shots, but you canuse this trick on it as well, to get slightly more detailed macro shots. Look at how amazing these digitally zoomedin shots from the main camera look, as opposed to the shots from the macro camera.
Since the main camera has a larger sensorand a much wider aperture, background also gets a very nice blur, making these shotsstand out even more. We have seen this image before from the primarycamera on both these phones, and this is how much more of the scene the wide lens on bothlets us get in the shot. It is great if you have to capture more ofthe scene and you don’t have any more place to move back. Wide lens comes in handy when we want to showthe scale of things. As we switch from the normal to wide lens,we see a clear shift in colour temperature on both the phones. 7T also brings back the weird green tint thatwe saw on some of the older OnePlus smartphones. Hopefully OnePlus is working on matching thecolour temperature of the normal and wide lens on both these phones. Now the 7T gets a 3rd 2x telephoto lens, whilethe OnePlus 8 has to rely not he digital zoom for taking shots like these.
If we zoom in even a bit, it is apparent thatimage from the 7T is sharper and has more details. These wide images are not as detailed as theones from the primary camera on both the phones. But if we zoom in and compare these wide images,ones from the OnePlus 8 are more detailed compared to the ones from the 7T. All the images that we saw from he primarycamera on both these phones were 12 megapixel ones. But if you want, both go them let you take48 megapixel images as well. These images do capture a lot of details,but you will have to zoom way in on them to notice any difference between these and the12 megapixel ones. They also take a lot of storage space, andthe dynamic range also takes a hit while shooting in this resolution. So my suggestion would be to stick with thedefault 12 megapixel mode for most of your shots. Now coming to the portrait mode. This is my favourite mode to shoot in on smartphones. As I always say, it is the easiest way togive your images a professional look. On both the phones, you get to choose betweentaking portrait shots in 2x or normal wide mode. On the 7T it used the telephoto lens whenyou choose the 2x mode, but on the OnePlus 8, it just zooms in on the images from theprimary camera. Now coming to the actual portrait shots, onesfrom the OnePlus 8 are so much better, with sharper subjects and better dynamic range.
Faces are extremely soft in the portraitsfrom the OnePlus 7T, and this issue has been there since the beginning, but OnePlus hasn’tmanaged to fix it yet. OnePlus 8 is a bit too aggressive with theHDR mode while taking portraits and some of the images might look a bit over processed. But overall, thanks to the sharper subject,I would prefer to take these shots with the OnePlus 8 anyway. Edge detection is pretty much similar fromboth, and it can use a bit of refinement vis software updates. Edge detection on both gets a bit better whiletaking portraits of objects, but again the subjects that you want to be in focus aresharper and more detailed in the portraits from the OnePlus 8. So if you like taking portrait shots, OnePlus8 should be your obvious choice between these 2. Let us now move on to images shot in indoor,artificial and lower lighting situations
. Most of the smartphones are often good attaking images when there is ample of light around, but as the light goes down, so doestheir ability to take good images. OnePlus has made sure to include OIS on theprimary sensors of both these phones, to help them take better images in lower light withlonger shutter speed. 7T also has wider aperture than the OnePlus8, so its sensor gather more light in the same amount of time, and we can see that inthese lower light images. In low light, OnePlus 7T captures more lightand slightly better colours than the OnePlus 8, and it also handles the exposure from thelights a bit better. NightScape mode does help both take even betterimages as the light gets even lower. OnePlus 8 manages to take pretty good lookingimages here, and when I look at its images alone, I feel they look good. But when we bring the NightSight images fromthe 7T next to it, I prefer the ones from the 7T. They have better looking colours and havean overall richer feel to them. It might be because of the slightly wideraperture,
or maybe OnePlus is still figuring out the best low light settings for the OnePlus8. But when it comes to low light, I would pickup the 7T to take my images. Coming to the selfie cameras, both have theexact same 16 megapixel sensor, but the Aperture not he OnePlus 8 is much narrower comparedto the 7T. This is not the sharpest 16 megapixel selfiecamera, and I think Oneplus needs to start putting some real efforts to improve its performance. One from the 7T seems to have a slightly widerfield of view. These selfie cameras get the job done, butnone of them are really very good. Portrait selfies appear to be a bit sharperfrom both, but that is just because rest of the background is blurred out. Edge detection is good from both for theseportrait selfies, but I prefer the slightly warmer colours form the 7T. If you take a lot of selfies, I don’t thinkyou are going to be completely satisfied with the front facing cameras on either of thesephones. Here is a video from the front facing cameraof the Oneplus 8 and the Oneplus 7T. You can see how both of them are handlingoverall colour of the scene and exposure. I wanted to show you guys how they handlethe stabilisation, but as you can see it is raining outside, and none of these phonesare waterproof. Or at-least, they don’t have an officialIP rating. These phones can take 4K videos in up 60fps,These videos are a bit oversaturated, but other than that, they look really good. And thanks to EIS, they are extremely stable. So if you want to use either of these phonesfor vlogging, y
Csasmooth footage with the main rear camera. They can shoot 240fps slow motion videos at1080p resolution, and if you want to shoot 480fps slow motion videos, then the resolutiondrops down to 720p. OnePlus 7T is getting 960fps at 720p modein an upcoming update. And if 7T could do it, I am sure OnePlus willrelease this for the OnePlus 8 as well in a few months. So there you have it. After checking out all these image and videosamples, it is clear that the Snapdragon 865 processor on the OnePlus 8 helps it take betterimages with the same primary sensor. Its daylight images are more detailed, andit shows better contrast levels and natural looking colours for the most part. It also takes much better portrait shots,and what it lacks in the macro mode, could be made up with the trick that I mentioned. OnePlus 7T is still better at taking selfiesand also in all of the lower lighting situations, with with and without the NightSight mode. And as much as like a dedicated telephotolens on the OnePlus 7T, overall if I had to choose one of these, I would have to go withthe OnePlus 8 as my choice for taking images and videos. Although it mostly gets the same sensors asthe 7T, It has got a better ISP which helps it deliver better results, and OnePlus canmake it even better with software updates down the line.
If we are being honest, the difference inthe images is not night and day, and most average users won’t notice it, if they arenot comparing these images side by side. So you will have to be the judge if the differencebetween these images is worth the extra money for you or not. If I was making this choice, I would get the8, mainly because I like the colours in its images better and I mostly take portraitswith my smartphone, which as we saw are much better from this phone than the 7T. And when I choose the 8, I’m not only gettingslightly improved camera performance, but also a newer processor and GPU combo, newdesign, and a considerably larger battery, and I think all these combined are worth theextra money for me. Which one would you choose and why? Defiantly let me know in the comments. And if you are planning on getting any ofthese phones, I will really appreciate if you get them from the affiliate links in thedescription section. That is it for this video guys. Please git the like button if you enjoyedthis video, and subscribe to the channel for more quality tech videos lie this. You can also check out some of the other videosfrom this channel. This has been Sagar, and I will catch youguys in the next video. take care.
All these questions will be answered in thisvideo, as we will be taking a look at more than 70 image and video samples from boththese phones. Before we get into the specifics of the camerason these phones, if you are new to the channel, please make sure to hit the subscribe buttonand the bell icon next to it. That way, you won’t miss out on any of theexiting videos that are coming out in the next few days. Both the phones get a triple camera setupon their back, but the design of the camera module is very different on both. I like how the circular camera module lookson the 7T, but OnePlus decided to go back to the shape that they used on the OnePlus7 Pro. Primary camera on both these phones get thesame Optically Stabilised 48 megapixel Sony IMX586 sensor. On the 7T, it is coupled with a F/1.6 apertureand a 7 element lens, which gives it a 26mm focal length. While on the OnePlus 8, it gets F/1.75 apertureand a 6 element lens, again giving it a 26mm focal length.
Aperture size and lens optics take a stepback as we go from the OnePlus 7T to the OnePlus 8. I am not sure what OnePlus is trying to pullhere, because even after charging more money for the OnePlus 8, the lens optics on itsprimary camera seems to be inferior than one on the OnePlus 7T. Next, both get a 16 megapixel sensor withF/2.2 aperture and an ultra wide lens. On the OnePlus 7T, this ultra wide lens isused for taking macro shots, while the OnePlus 8 gets a separate 2 megapixel macro sensorwith F/2.4 aperture. OnePlus 7T gets another 12 megapixel sensorwith F/2.2 aperture and a 51mm lens, which gives it a 2x optical zoom. You don’t get this lens on the OnePlus 8,so it has to rely on 2x digital zoom. Both phones can shoot 4K videos at 30 or 60fps,1080p videos at 30, 60 and 240fps, and 720p videos at 480fps with the primary camera. With the wide camera on both, you can shoot4K and 1080p videos at 30fps. Telephoto camera on the 7T can shoot 4K and1080p videos in 30 and 60fps. At the front both these phones again get thesame 16 megapixel Sony IMX471 sensor.
One on the 7T gets a slightly wider fieldof view and a F/2.0 aperture, while the one on the OnePlus 8 gets a much narrower F/2.45aperture. If we just look at the camera specs, OnePlus8 doesn’t even look like an upgrade over the 7T, but maybe the Image Signal Processoron the Snapdragon 865 will helps the 8 deliver better results. Now the interface of the camera app has changeda bit on the OnePlus 8. If I start talking about all the changes,this video will get much longer than it already is. So if you want a detailed look at the interfaceof the camera app on both these phones, I suggest you take a look at their dedicatedcamera reviews. I will leave cards to them on the top rightof the screen, and also leave links to them in the description section. I feel that I should mention that there isa huge shutter lag on both these phones.
There is quite a bit of time between whenyou hit the shutter button and when the image is actually captured. This lag has been present on OnePlus phonesfor quite some time now, but I don’t see too many people taking about it. I just hope OnePlus works on fixing this. Both these phones are running on the latestversion of Oxygen OS which was available for each of them, at the time of uploading thisvideo. After all of that, let us now finally getto the image and video samples from both these phones. Let us start with some of the daytime images. You can tell straight away that images fromthe OnePlus 7T are a bit warmer, while ones from the OnePlus 8 have cooler colour tones. D
opreferences, you might preferone over the other. Normally I like a bit warmer colours, butin this case images from the OnePlus 8 are showing more natural and true to life colours. Both these phones have the same primary sensor,but as we zoom in, we see images from the OnePlus 8 showing more details. This is true with all the images, and thatis the image signal processor on the Snapdragon 865 at work. It is incredible to see how the same sensorwhen put on 2 different phones can give us such different results. Another change is the way both of them capturecolours. 7T captures a bit more contrast. As I said before OnePlus 8 captures coloursthat are more true to life. Its images are not overly saturated, and theylook even better when compared to the ones from the OnePlus 7T. Now the 7T doesn’t captures bad images,it is just that the ones from the OnePlus 8 look better in comparison.
Although OnePlus 8 gets the new UltraShotHDR feature, I found the dynamic range to be better in the images from the 7T. You can see that 7T brought back more detailsfrom the shadows, while preserving most of the details in the highlights. There is also much more noise in the imagefrom the OnePlus 8, which you can see as we zoom in on this part. Coming to the close up shots. Unlike previous OnePlus smartphones, bothof these are very quick at accurately setting the focus, making the subject in these closeup shots appear sharp. And since the 48 megapixel sensor is large,we see a very nice optical blur to the background. Again close up shots from the OnePlus 7T havemore saturation and contrast, which depending on your colour preference you may or may notlike. But other than that, close up shots look equallygood from both. I prefer the ones from the OnePlus 8, becauseof the way its colours look. Both phones can take macro shots, but the7T uses the wide lens for it while the OnePlus 8 gets a separate camera for this purpose
. Normally I am pretty happy with the 2 megapixelmacro cameras on most budget smartphones, but the one on the OnePlus 8 is not good atall. First of all its minimum focus distance isnot very close at all, and secondly, it barely captures any details. On the other hand, macros from the OnePlus7T loo pretty good. This is how close you can get to the subjecton the OnePus 7T, and this is how close you can get on the OnePlus 8. But there is a workaround for this. Instead of taking these shots with the 2 megapixelmacro camera, you can zoom in 2-3times with the primary camera, and get much better results. 7T can take good macro shots, but you canuse this trick on it as well, to get slightly more detailed macro shots. Look at how amazing these digitally zoomedin shots from the main camera look, as opposed to the shots from the macro camera.
Since the main camera has a larger sensorand a much wider aperture, background also gets a very nice blur, making these shotsstand out even more. We have seen this image before from the primarycamera on both these phones, and this is how much more of the scene the wide lens on bothlets us get in the shot. It is great if you have to capture more ofthe scene and you don’t have any more place to move back. Wide lens comes in handy when we want to showthe scale of things. As we switch from the normal to wide lens,we see a clear shift in colour temperature on both the phones. 7T also brings back the weird green tint thatwe saw on some of the older OnePlus smartphones. Hopefully OnePlus is working on matching thecolour temperature of the normal and wide lens on both these phones. Now the 7T gets a 3rd 2x telephoto lens, whilethe OnePlus 8 has to rely not he digital zoom for taking shots like these.
If we zoom in even a bit, it is apparent thatimage from the 7T is sharper and has more details. These wide images are not as detailed as theones from the primary camera on both the phones. But if we zoom in and compare these wide images,ones from the OnePlus 8 are more detailed compared to the ones from the 7T. All the images that we saw from he primarycamera on both these phones were 12 megapixel ones. But if you want, both go them let you take48 megapixel images as well. These images do capture a lot of details,but you will have to zoom way in on them to notice any difference between these and the12 megapixel ones. They also take a lot of storage space, andthe dynamic range also takes a hit while shooting in this resolution. So my suggestion would be to stick with thedefault 12 megapixel mode for most of your shots. Now coming to the portrait mode. This is my favourite mode to shoot in on smartphones. As I always say, it is the easiest way togive your images a professional look. On both the phones, you get to choose betweentaking portrait shots in 2x or normal wide mode. On the 7T it used the telephoto lens whenyou choose the 2x mode, but on the OnePlus 8, it just zooms in on the images from theprimary camera. Now coming to the actual portrait shots, onesfrom the OnePlus 8 are so much better, with sharper subjects and better dynamic range.
Faces are extremely soft in the portraitsfrom the OnePlus 7T, and this issue has been there since the beginning, but OnePlus hasn’tmanaged to fix it yet. OnePlus 8 is a bit too aggressive with theHDR mode while taking portraits and some of the images might look a bit over processed. But overall, thanks to the sharper subject,I would prefer to take these shots with the OnePlus 8 anyway. Edge detection is pretty much similar fromboth, and it can use a bit of refinement vis software updates. Edge detection on both gets a bit better whiletaking portraits of objects, but again the subjects that you want to be in focus aresharper and more detailed in the portraits from the OnePlus 8. So if you like taking portrait shots, OnePlus8 should be your obvious choice between these 2. Let us now move on to images shot in indoor,artificial and lower lighting situations
. Most of the smartphones are often good attaking images when there is ample of light around, but as the light goes down, so doestheir ability to take good images. OnePlus has made sure to include OIS on theprimary sensors of both these phones, to help them take better images in lower light withlonger shutter speed. 7T also has wider aperture than the OnePlus8, so its sensor gather more light in the same amount of time, and we can see that inthese lower light images. In low light, OnePlus 7T captures more lightand slightly better colours than the OnePlus 8, and it also handles the exposure from thelights a bit better. NightScape mode does help both take even betterimages as the light gets even lower. OnePlus 8 manages to take pretty good lookingimages here, and when I look at its images alone, I feel they look good. But when we bring the NightSight images fromthe 7T next to it, I prefer the ones from the 7T. They have better looking colours and havean overall richer feel to them. It might be because of the slightly wideraperture,
or maybe OnePlus is still figuring out the best low light settings for the OnePlus8. But when it comes to low light, I would pickup the 7T to take my images. Coming to the selfie cameras, both have theexact same 16 megapixel sensor, but the Aperture not he OnePlus 8 is much narrower comparedto the 7T. This is not the sharpest 16 megapixel selfiecamera, and I think Oneplus needs to start putting some real efforts to improve its performance. One from the 7T seems to have a slightly widerfield of view. These selfie cameras get the job done, butnone of them are really very good. Portrait selfies appear to be a bit sharperfrom both, but that is just because rest of the background is blurred out. Edge detection is good from both for theseportrait selfies, but I prefer the slightly warmer colours form the 7T. If you take a lot of selfies, I don’t thinkyou are going to be completely satisfied with the front facing cameras on either of thesephones. Here is a video from the front facing cameraof the Oneplus 8 and the Oneplus 7T. You can see how both of them are handlingoverall colour of the scene and exposure. I wanted to show you guys how they handlethe stabilisation, but as you can see it is raining outside, and none of these phonesare waterproof. Or at-least, they don’t have an officialIP rating. These phones can take 4K videos in up 60fps,These videos are a bit oversaturated, but other than that, they look really good. And thanks to EIS, they are extremely stable. So if you want to use either of these phonesfor vlogging, y
Csasmooth footage with the main rear camera. They can shoot 240fps slow motion videos at1080p resolution, and if you want to shoot 480fps slow motion videos, then the resolutiondrops down to 720p. OnePlus 7T is getting 960fps at 720p modein an upcoming update. And if 7T could do it, I am sure OnePlus willrelease this for the OnePlus 8 as well in a few months. So there you have it. After checking out all these image and videosamples, it is clear that the Snapdragon 865 processor on the OnePlus 8 helps it take betterimages with the same primary sensor. Its daylight images are more detailed, andit shows better contrast levels and natural looking colours for the most part. It also takes much better portrait shots,and what it lacks in the macro mode, could be made up with the trick that I mentioned. OnePlus 7T is still better at taking selfiesand also in all of the lower lighting situations, with with and without the NightSight mode. And as much as like a dedicated telephotolens on the OnePlus 7T, overall if I had to choose one of these, I would have to go withthe OnePlus 8 as my choice for taking images and videos. Although it mostly gets the same sensors asthe 7T, It has got a better ISP which helps it deliver better results, and OnePlus canmake it even better with software updates down the line.
If we are being honest, the difference inthe images is not night and day, and most average users won’t notice it, if they arenot comparing these images side by side. So you will have to be the judge if the differencebetween these images is worth the extra money for you or not. If I was making this choice, I would get the8, mainly because I like the colours in its images better and I mostly take portraitswith my smartphone, which as we saw are much better from this phone than the 7T. And when I choose the 8, I’m not only gettingslightly improved camera performance, but also a newer processor and GPU combo, newdesign, and a considerably larger battery, and I think all these combined are worth theextra money for me. Which one would you choose and why? Defiantly let me know in the comments. And if you are planning on getting any ofthese phones, I will really appreciate if you get them from the affiliate links in thedescription section. That is it for this video guys. Please git the like button if you enjoyedthis video, and subscribe to the channel for more quality tech videos lie this. You can also check out some of the other videosfrom this channel. This has been Sagar, and I will catch youguys in the next video. take care.
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