The Ultimate Phone For Photographers?

credits: Oppo

Oppo is bringing the new Find X9 Ultra to the global market and, according to the company, it is ‘the ultimate phone for mobile photographers’, with Hasselblad co-engineering the system. The phone uses a quad-camera setup, including a 50MP periscope telephoto with 10x optical zoom, two 200MP sensors, and a 50MP ultra-wide (14mm). The periscope module is one of the more interesting parts, using a five-prism system to bend the light path and keep the module relatively compact while still reaching that longer focal length. It also includes sensor-shift stabilisation, which should help keep shots sharper at higher zoom levels.

The main camera is built around a 1/1.12-inch Sony Lytia 901 sensor with an f/1.5 aperture, which is slightly smaller than the previous 1-inch sensor, but Oppo is relying on the wider aperture to make up for that in terms of light. The second 200MP sensor is used for a 3x telephoto (around 70mm equivalent), and it can focus as close as 15cm. Hasselblad’s role shows up mostly in colour tuning and shooting modes, including a mode that outputs 50MP RAW and JPEG files at focal lengths like 14, 23, 70, and 230mm, with a couple of cropped options in between.

There is also an optional teleconverter attachment that pushes the 3x camera to around 300mm equivalent, and with sensor cropping, up to roughly 690mm. It is not true optical reach, but it shows how Oppo is trying to stretch the system using those high-resolution sensors. In terms of video, the phone supports 4K120 and 8K30, along with a log profile (O-Log2) that works with the ACES colour system. On the inside, the phone runs on a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, with a 6.82-inch AMOLED display (144Hz, up to 3,600 nits) and a 7,050 mAh battery. It is set to launch in Europe in May 2026 starting at €1,699, with a U.S. release to follow later.