Oppo Find X10 Pro Max Is First Phone With Triple 200-Megapixel Cameras, Review Finds

The rear setup pairs a 200-megapixel main camera with 200-megapixel telephoto and ultrawide cameras; the selfie camera is 50 megapixels. Oppo is the first to use a 200-megapixel ultrawide after earlier 200-megapixel phones including 2022’s Moto X30 Pro and the Vivo X300 Ultra, which was the first with two 200-megapixel cameras, a main and a telephoto. In Oppo’s lineup, as with Xiaomi and Vivo, Pro Max phones sit below the top Ultra models.

The megapixel count is not the main reason for the result. Like other recent phone cameras, the Find X10 Pro Max uses pixel-binning, combining neighboring pixels to capture detail while improving light collection. Oppo has reduced the amount of binning: the phone defaults to 26-megapixel photos across all three rear lenses, from 0.5x to 9.9x zoom, rather than the 12 or 12.5 megapixels common on Android phones. The review compares that with Apple’s top iPhones, which default to 24-megapixel shots from 48-megapixel sensors.

The default 26-megapixel images are more detailed than those from other Android rivals and better suited to printing or cropping, The Verge said. Files are larger: 26-megapixel photos are typically 8MB to 12MB, while 12.6-megapixel shots are closer to 4MB to 6MB. The trade-off is less light capture, but the phone automatically drops to 12.6 megapixels in darker scenes to prioritize light. A high-resolution mode allows 50-megapixel or full 200-megapixel shooting; files at the maximum resolution are 45MB to 60MB and measure 16,384 by 12,288 pixels. The review found little drop in low-light performance or dynamic range in that mode, though some difference is inevitable in the darkest conditions.

Hardware still separates the Find X10 Pro Max from Oppo’s Ultra. Its main camera uses a 1/1.3-inch-type sensor with an f/1.5 aperture, and its 3x telephoto uses a smaller 1/1.56-inch sensor with an f/2.1 aperture. Both equivalents on the older Find X9 Ultra use larger sensors that capture more light before pixel-binning. The ultrawide is the clear upgrade: it has higher resolution and a larger 1/1.56-inch sensor than the Ultra’s ultrawide. The review said the rear cameras feel like a complete package because resolution is consistent across the lenses and sensor size and aperture shift only slightly, though colors still vary a little.

The main camera also has a feature Oppo calls DeepPix dynamic range, similar to LOFIC technology used on Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra and the recent Vivo X500 Pro Max. It expands dynamic range by capturing more highlight information and enables a 17-stop range on the main camera, keeping light sources bright in nighttime scenes without blowing them out entirely. The Verge said only a handful of phones can match that, and none that can be bought in the US. Hasselblad tuning is applied to the photos.

Editor's Summary

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with three 200-megapixel rear cameras, and early reviews place it among the year’s leading camera phones while noting it remains slightly behind Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra. Its emphasis on larger sensors, adaptive pixel-binning and a 17-stop main-camera dynamic range shows where phone-camera competition is shifting beyond raw resolution.