CheckMag | Oppo Find X9 Pro with Hasselblad kit: Camera test and photo comparison with Vivo X200 Ultra
It has landed. Oppo unveiled its latest Hasselblad camera flagship at a launch event in Barcelona on October 28, 2025. We had the chance to try out the first Dimensity 9500-powered flagship in Europe, including part of the camera kit with a teleconverter. Disclaimer: Notebookcheck received the test device as a loan, and Oppo covered travel and accommodation in Barcelona, but had no editorial influence on this article. More details about the Oppo Find X9 Pro’s European launch and the more affordable Find X9 can be found here. We also covered the Chinese launch a few weeks ago and discussed the key technical specifications.
This is not a full Notebookcheck review, which will follow later. During the short time I spent with the new Oppo flagship in Vienna and later in Barcelona, I mainly focused on the rear cameras and a comparison with the Vivo X200 Ultra. While the Vivo flagship is not a direct competitor to the Oppo Find X9 Pro for several reasons, it serves as a solid reference among Chinese camera flagships.
Two aspects of the Oppo Find X9 Pro camera are particularly interesting. In perfect conditions, it can automatically take photos with more than 12 megapixels in the standard mode using all three cameras. In practice, I captured photos at 12MP, around 25MP and roughly 50MP. However, this automatic setting can be disabled entirely in the menu. Those who want to ensure a guaranteed 50 or 200MP shot can switch to the dedicated Hasselblad Hi-Def mode, as is still common on many camera flagships today. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra can also capture 50 or 200MP photos, but not by default in the regular photo mode. According to Oppo, the optimized Lumo pipeline on the Find X9 Pro still maintains very high performance despite this automatization.
Optional 3.28x Hasselblad telephoto lens
Oppo also offers an optional external Hasselblad telephoto lens for the Oppo Find X9 Pro, which turns the built-in 70mm telephoto with a 1/1.56-inch 200-megapixel sensor into an optical 230mm telephoto, equivalent to a 10x zoom. According to Oppo, the 13-element Hasselblad lens with anti-glare coating delivers very high optical quality. It attaches to a black aramid case with a locking lens mount, while an L-shaped bracket allows the external lens to be mounted on a tripod. A magnetic handgrip with a shutter button is also available, but it was not included in our test package. However, I tested the lens together with the protective case and lens mount in detail and made some very interesting observations, which I’ll discuss below.
12, 25 or 50 megapixels: Automatic selection
Back to the 8K Ultra HD photos. According to Oppo, an automatic system decides which resolution each photo is taken at. The result depends mainly on ambient brightness and the phone’s temperature. It’s unclear whether other factors play a role, but during testing I noticed that even in daylight or when shooting through a window, the phone often refused to capture 50MP images. As an intermediate option, it frequently produces 25 to 30MP photos, and in low light it defaults to 12MP, as usual. The process is unfortunately not very transparent. In most cases, you don’t know what resolution you’ll get before pressing the shutter, which I find less than ideal.
What do 50 megapixels actually offer in practice?
Of course, I wanted to find out if the 4x higher resolution offers a visible advantage in real-world use. After all, the photo on the top left takes up more than three times as much internal storage as the 12MP image next to it. However, the crop comparison leaves us somewhat puzzled. Anyone expecting a clearly noticeable quality improvement from the 50MP photos will likely be disappointed. There are slight advantages visible in the crop comparison below, but the difference is not dramatic, at least not in this set of photos.
Second try with the 23mm main camera
In a second attempt with the 23mm main camera and plenty of daylight, the Oppo Find X9 Pro once again refused to capture a 50MP photo using the automatic mode in the regular camera app. Instead, we can only compare a 25/30MP shot with a 12/14MP photo here. The 14/30MP values, by the way, come from the photo gallery.
The difference in the crop isn’t huge here either. The text appears fairly blurry in both shots, though it’s slightly more readable in the 30MP picture. Both photos were taken handheld. Using a tripod might produce better results, but that’s probably not a practical option for most users.
Photo comparison with the Vivo X200 Ultra
The Vivo X200 Ultra is not an ideal comparison due to its different focal lengths. But due to its triple camera setup, 1/1.28-inch main sensor (LYT-818 in the Vivo vs. the newer LYT-828 in the Oppo) and 200 MP telephoto camera (1/1.4-inch ISOCELL HP9 in the Vivo vs. 1/1.56-inch ISOCELL HP5 in the Oppo), it’s still somewhat comparable. As for the ultra-wide camera, the Vivo Ultra should clearly have an advantage thanks to its 1/1.28-inch LYT-818 compared to the smaller 1/2.75-inch ISOCELL JN5 in the Oppo. I kept the watermark enabled on all photos from the Oppo Find X9 Pro, but not on those from the Vivo X200 Ultra, which is my daily driver. Both phones ran the latest software during testing and have been put in their default photo modes with default settings and styles: "Original" on the Oppo and "Vivid" on the Vivo. I intentionally didn’t use the Pro or Master modes, even though those would likely allow both camera flagships to perform even better.
Main camera comparison
In the first pair of photos above, the 23mm main camera in 12MP mode goes up against a sensor crop from the Vivo ultra-wide at 28mm. You can immediately see the Find X9 Pro at the bottom left has a slight magenta tint, so Vivo’s white balance is noticeably more accurate. Unfortunately, this magenta issue happened several more times with the Find X9 Pro. The text on the advertisement poster looks sharper in the Find X9 crop, but that’s no surprise since this comparison pits a 23mm photo with full sensor resolution against a 12MP crop from the 14mm ultra-wide camera of the Vivo X200 Ultra.
Backlight
In the example below, pictures were taken against the sun, with the Vivo X200 Ultra using its 35mm main camera. On the Find X9 Pro, you can see both the original 23mm version and the 35mm crop from the camera for comparison. The Vivo image shows noticeably stronger contrast and shows more detail in the sign on the lower left. The Oppo shows mild to more pronounced lens flares, while the Vivo has fewer. However, I prefer how the sunlit leaves look in the photos taken with the Oppo flagship phone. The new LYT-828 sensor is advertised with greater dynamic range compared to the LYT-818. And indeed, the darker areas in the image are better illuminated than with the LYT-818 in the Vivo. As a result, the overall image appears slightly flatter, at least in SDR.
Ultra-wide comparison
I created another crop comparison with the two pictures below. In the image of Vienna’s oldest church, the ultra-wide lens of the Oppo Find X9 Pro holds up very well against the Vivo in 50MP quality. The Zeiss camera flagship still appears slightly sharper, but in daylight, the smaller sensor of the Find X9 Pro performs impressively. The scene under the bridge shows a similar pattern. The Vivo photo looks a bit sharper, maybe even slightly over-sharpened, despite the Oppo image being 25MP. In the staircase shot, Oppo delivers a slightly warmer image, while the Vivo X200 Ultra shows a bit more noise in the zoomed-in view, which is surprising given its larger sensor.
Telephoto comparison
In the street scene comparison with the Ringturm in the background, a 50MP photo from the 70mm telephoto lens of the Oppo Find X9 Pro goes up against a 12MP shot from the 85mm telephoto lens of the Vivo X200 Ultra. The expected sharpness advantage in the crop comparison is less noticeable than anticipated, although it’s still visible. The text on the one-way sign looks more natural on the left (Oppo) than on the right (Vivo). Overall, the Vivo picture again appears to have slightly higher contrast.
The two people in the second comparison look more like caricatures than real persons, but that’s a common issue with smartphones and becomes even more pronounced with AI processing at higher zoom levels. The wall in the background shows another difference, as the Vivo flagship reveals more texture details, while the Oppo blurs most of that, likely due to stronger noise reduction. It’s also interesting how different the colors of the backpack appear in the zoomed-in view. Unfortunately, I no longer remember which version is more accurate.
Night shots
At night or other low-light situations, the larger sensor behind the 14mm ultra-wide lens of the Vivo flagship finally has a clear advantage and captures more detail in dim settings. I also find the dynamic range noticeably better in Vivo’s photo.
With the 70mm and 85mm telephoto, the difference in sensor size is less noticeable, possibly because Oppo can make up some ground here with an f/2.1 aperture compared to the f/2.3 lens of the Vivo X200 Ultra. The Find X9 Ultra performs quite well in this respect, although there are slightly more lens flares in some cases. Vivo also emphasizes colors a bit more, but this can be adjusted to personal preference via the different color profiles that are available on both flagships.
With the main cameras, the Hasselblad camera flagship again offers both the native 23mm focal length and a 35mm crop for a better comparison with the 35mm camera of the Zeiss camera flagship. What’s unusual about this comparison is that the Vivo shows a magenta tint this time around. The sky above the bridge appears slightly too red here, while the Oppo Find X9 Pro delivers the more accurate picture.
Telemacro comparison
Last but not least, I took two macro shots with the telephoto lens. As for the indoor shot of a piano, the distance to the subject was about the same in both cases. But with the lamp, the Zeiss camera could only focus on the light from a much greater distance, which is why the (dusty) glass sphere is still visible here.
200-megapixel shots
Since the Oppo Find X9 Pro stands out from most smartphone cameras with its 8K Ultra HD auto mode and shows no noticeable delay when taking 50MP photos, I was pretty disappointed that the special Hasselblad Hi-Res mode, which allows 200MP shots with the telephoto lens, is extremely slow. I documented the process in the video below. The photo is actually built up in several segments one after another. According to ISOCELL HP5 specifications, the Samsung sensor should be capable of capturing 7.5 full-resolution pictures per second, so the issue clearly lies elsewhere.
Even on the Vivo X200 Ultra, taking a 200MP photo isn’t quite as fast as shooting at 12MP, but the process takes less than a second. On the Oppo Find X9 Pro, it takes well over 5 seconds. Without a tripod, that’s no longer practical. We took the comparison photos below semi-stabilized, resting the phone on a bridge railing. Both turned out disappointingly blurry, as the Find X9 Pro is much more blurry than the X200 Ultra.
Considering that the image sizes here are 50MB and 80MB respectively, the quality is disappointing in both cases. At the moment, you really need to use a tripod, it just doesn’t make much sense otherwise. The Oppo Find X9 Pro photo also shows purple color fringing (chromatic aberration), which is absent on the Vivo X200 Ultra, meaning the Vivo flagship has the better telephoto lens.
Problematic camera kit
When I took the first comparison shots with and without the teleconverter, I noticed that most of the 10x comparison photos without the external lens showed a strong magenta tint or clear white balance errors. Here are a few examples from the early stages of the test.
I noticed this effect whenever I removed the lens and switched in the camera app from the "Hasselblad teleconverter mode" to the regular photo mode. The main and ultra-wide cameras are covered by the lens mount, but the 70mm telephoto lens remains uncovered and can still be used. However, this causes those unpleasant effects, which I also captured in the video below. You can see how the camera suddenly overlays the color of the railing along the Danube Canal with an obvious meganta tint.
The lens mount has a design flaw
Hours later, I probably found the cause of the problem. In my opinion, the lens mount is poorly designed. Unlike the counterpart for the Vivo X300 Pro (see below), it covers all sensors and cameras except the telephoto lens. You have to remove the lens mount when shooting with the main or ultra-wide camera, and also when using the telephoto lens without the teleconverter, since covering the "True Color" sensor likely causes these strange effects.
Magenta tint: Test with and without lens mount
I tested my theory in the video below. With the lens mount attached, I can reproduce the magenta tint. Without the lens mount, the issue does not occur.
This effect unfortunately doesn’t just appear in the camera app. The photos also look completely unnatural if you don’t remove the lens mount after taking off the external lens, as the example below shows. For me, this makes the external lens even more cumbersome than it already is. You have to remove the lens itself but also the lens mount each time, a part that can get lost quite easily. I find it hard to understand why this mount doesn’t have cutouts for the other cameras so it can stay attached permanently.
What does the external lens improve? Comparison with Vivo X200 Ultra
Aside from this issue, the main question is what the external lens actually offers. The short answer: a lot. 10x zoom and especially 20x zoom become truly usable on the Oppo Find X9 and Find X9 Pro only with this accessory. As the comparison images below illustrate, 10x zoom without the external lens on the Oppo Find X9 Pro no longer looks very natural. The Vivo X200 Ultra still performs fairly well at 10x zoom without an external lens, but it also struggles at 20x. This clearly shows the advantage of optical zoom over digital zoom that relies on AI and often makes things worse.
In our crop comparison using the Vienna Urania as an example, the differences become even clearer. Nothing can replace true optical zoom. However, the larger telephoto sensor of the Vivo X200 Ultra and maybe its slightly better zoom algorithms can compensate the lack of optical zoom better than the Oppo Find X9 Pro.
40x zoom becomes somewhat usable with Hasselblad kit
In principle, the camera app allows up to 120x zoom, which of course doesn’t produce decent images. At 40x zoom, we tested how big the difference is with and without the external lens. A crop comparison isn’t even necessary here, since the difference is huge. These photos were also taken handheld without stabilization, and using a tripod would certainly yield better results.
Less light with the teleconverter
In our test, we noticed that the teleconverter causes a noticeable loss of light that can’t really be avoided. Oppo doesn’t provide data on this, but the loss is likely around 2 to 3 stops, effectively reducing the aperture to about f/6.9, judging by how the camera’s auto mode adjusts either the ISO or shutter speed, like in the example below. It’s probably not advisable to use the teleconverter in low light, since you can expect increased noise or blurred images. Interestingly, the 40x image above with the teleconverter still turned out noticeably brighter, though at the cost of shutter speed.
4K120 video comparison with Vivo X200 Ultra
Video wasn’t the main focus of this camera test, but I included a short panning comparison at the beach in Barcelona. Both were shot in 4K120 and without Dolby Vision or 10-bit Log. The Oppo Find X9 Pro supports both, while the Vivo X200 Ultra does not. The latter unfortunately produces very choppy 4K120 footage, something I’ve noticed several times before. On the other hand, the new Oppo flagship delivers a very smooth pan. Both videos were filmed without a gimbal.
Occasional magenta issue even without lens mount?
At times, the Oppo Find X9 Pro has white balance issues even without the lens mount attached. The problematic photo below was taken from the 16th floor of the W Hotel by the beach in Barcelona at sunrise, without the lens mount. The magenta tint disappeared after a slight pan. We can’t say why this issue sometimes appears even when the multispectral sensor isn’t covered. Reflections from the window might have caused problems in this case. Oppo definitely needs to make improvements here.
Verdict and more pictures taken with the Oppo Find X9 Pro
These couple of days with the Oppo Find X9 Pro and my regular companion, the Vivo X200 Ultra, have been fun. Unfortunately, I couldn’t test all special camera features, such as the improved Hasselblad XPan mode, which offers a CinemaScope-style view of the surroundings. Selfies and portrait shots are also missing, but both have been analyzed by other reviewers.
The three cameras of the Oppo Find X9 Pro deliver very good images in many situations and sometimes even match the ultra phones from competing brands. Compared to the Vivo X200 Ultra, compromises mainly show up with the ultra-wide camera at night and in zoom shots at 10x or higher. The 200MP mode is almost unusable at the time of writing. It remains to be seen whether software updates will fix the occasional white balance issues, both with and without the camera kit. 4K120 videos are recorded with impressive smoothness.
The new Hi-Def auto mode for photos sounds promising in theory but has almost no visible benefits thus far. The algorithm often feels like a black box, and you can’t always predict the result. Whether it’s worth buying the not exactly cheap external lens is another question entirely. You can’t just attach or remove it and start taking pictures. Since there’s no connection to the phone, you need to manually select the teleconverter mode and switch back after detaching it.
The setup also becomes a bit shaky at higher magnifications, so a tripod is recommendable. In general, the Hasselblad lens produces very good zoom shots, at least up to about 20x. So if you like looking far into the distance, the teleconverter can definitely be useful. Personally, I also find the dedicated camera button on the side very practical, just like on the Vivo X200 Ultra. Thanks to my colleague Hannes Brecher for his additional expertise! Finally, here are some impressions from the beach in Barcelona, with and without the teleconverter.
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All pictures: Alexander Fagot, Notebookcheck
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