Magic 7 Pro (telemacro 3x/6x)

OnePlus 12 (telemacro, 6x)

19.04; TL;DR to the contents above:

Short review of OnePlus OV64B:
- it sometimes screws up focus on midrange subjects (very rare, but when it does, it's painful)
- Luma is correct, unlike iQOO in most cases
- dehasing and ISO gain is excellent + expomeasure isn't lacklusting
- sometimes kicks in 2Q binning (visible by squiggles)
- minimal oversharpening, rather slightly aggressive denoising


Few notes:
- Honor starts to show it's work under the hood, after few updates it no longer aggressively lacks to iQOO
- iQOO sometimes kicks in too much portrait face/text detailing (Vivo issue in general)
- software portraits are BEST HANDS DOWN on Honor, Harcourt + actual cloud processing is an excellent idea, and highly suggested to other OEMs to implement.
- iQOO skintones are dull and muted in "Natural mode". Absolutely dull and more closer to greyscale on histogram

What things could be improved?
OnePlus:
- Forced ISZ on lesser range on tele
- 50/50 of both sharpening and denoising

iQOO/Vivo in general:
- Some sort of dehazing would be welcome
- Stop focusing on just faces and spline textures to be improved via AI, rather use whole scene
- Frame stacking for anything in ISZ range would be pleasantly welcomed, instead of relying on heavy sharpening

Honor:
- To stop relying on solely hardware binning, and introduce frame stacking for higher dynamic scenes
- To stop aggressively oversharpening images to the point, where photo starts to look like an oil painting
- To stop overcompensating for expomeasure fuck-ups with excess HDR

Overall, I'd say:
In common cases:
Honor/OnePlus (Whichever processing you'd prefer) > iQOO

Close-range portraits:
OnePlus > Honor > iQOO

Low-lights:
OnePlus > iQOO > Honor

Daytime macro:
Honor > iQOO > OnePlus

WB accuracy:
OnePlus > iQOO > Honor

Additional remarks:
iQOO was using "Natural" mode
Honor was in "Bright/Vivid" mode
OnePlus wasn't using any of the Hasselblad modes

@neps_pubsec

Honorable mention of shame:

Sony Xperia PRO-I

Updated the summary after careful, and considerate post-excitement haze review of images. The crops on which the judgement was made will be uploaded below.