Camera

The OnePlus 2 features a 13-megapixel 1/2.6" OmniVision OV13860 CMOS sensor on the rear, featuring ane.3µm pixels that are larger than usual for a smartphone camera. It'south paired with an f/2.0 lens, optical image stabilization, a dual-LED flash, and laser-assisted autofocus. The camera captures 4160 x 3120 images in a native iv:three attribute ratio by default.

On the front end is a 5-megapixel one/4" OmniVision OV5648 CMOS sensor with i.4 µm pixels, paired with an f/ii.iv lens. This camera captures 2592 x 1944 photos in a native four:3 aspect ratio.

After using the OnePlus ii's camera for a couple of weeks, my main thoughts are that it's practiced without being outstanding. There is very stiff competition from the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the LG G4 in the smartphone camera space, and from what I've seen from the OnePlus 2, the camera isn't good enough to reach the same levels equally either of those devices. However it's even so a very capable camera, and should suit most people who aren't willing to spend the actress money for a Samsung or LG flagship.

The OnePlus 2 photographic camera is decent in outdoor conditions, although images are a little undersaturated compared to 'existent life' and also to competing cameras. The camera seems to struggle the about in cloudy weather, delivering shots that look somewhat done out, just on better days yous can get some great shots with adequate contrast and dynamic range.

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Fine particular from the 13-megapixel sensor is average, falling behind the G4 and Galaxy S6's cameras mostly due to mail service processing algorithms that try to aggressively filter and denoise the OnePlus 2'southward images. These algorithms, in combination with sensor deficiencies, lead to a loss of fine detail that'southward especially noticeable in wide shots.

The photographic camera performs well in indoor shots, producing photos that are well exposed and frequently (but not always) perfectly saturated. The larger pixels of the OV13860 gives the OnePlus 2's camera a physical advantage in darker environments over the Galaxy S6, although the S6 does very well in moderately-lit conditions, oft producing like images with slightly improve colors and slightly less grain. However in that location'due south no doubting the OnePlus 2's capabilities in these conditions, and I was by and large pleased with its results.

Where the OnePlus two produces better images than the G4 and S6 is at nighttime, where the larger pixels combined with OIS capture more light and thus produce photos with meliorate illumination. Absolutely these night time photos aren't as sharp as I would like, but this is definitely i of the better cameras I've seen for low-light photography.

The OnePlus ii's photographic camera app is acceptable, simply it's far from the best camera app I've seen. The interface is relatively clean, with a simple shutter button the left and some visible controls, and the camera is able to focus and capture photos speedily. However the video mode is bizarrely hidden away in a swipe-to-access carte du jour, which makes changing from photograph to video capture much slower than many other photographic camera interfaces that accept a tape push button right next to the main photograph shutter.

The camera app too doesn't come with a whole ton of functionality. You go an effective though somewhat slow HDR mode, ClearShot, a beauty style, panorama, slow motion video, and fourth dimension-lapse video, but no existent options to change the exposure or whatsoever other camera settings. I'd similar to see a manual mode here to take full reward of the hardware, especially at nighttime, similar to that constitute in competing smartphones.