This HQ mode has changed a bit over the years, evolving (or should we say devolving) from
Clear Image mode on the original OnePlus One.
Credit: Cherlynn LowThe OnePlus X has trouble picking a spot to focus on, especially when more than one object is on the same plane in the scene, unless you activate
Clear Image mode.
The app icon makes it look like a standard Google camera app, but it's slightly reworked by OnePlus, with an HDR mode and
a Clear Image mode.
Tapping the latter brings up toggles for Beauty, HDR or
Clear image modes, and only shows Beauty when the front camera is activated.
Tapping the three - dot button next to the shutter lets you choose among Beauty, HDR and
Clear Image modes, and you can activate only one of these modes per shot.
HDR and
Clear Image modes are both supposed to help in these tougher lighting situations, but unfortunately that isn't the case here.
Not exact matches
It projects a
clear image at 480 x 320 resolution, making the night vision
mode extra reliable.
However, you do have to have the camera as close to the crib as possible when it's in night vision
mode; the farther you take it away, the less
clear the
image gets.
The monitor transmits crystal
clear color
images and
clear black and white
images when it is in the night vision
mode.
Parents also like the
clear images the camera produces in color and in black and white when the camera is in night vision
mode.
It gives a crystal -
clear image of your (hopefully sleeping) baby, or you can use it in audio - only
mode to help the battery power stretch longer.
To that end, inside, I found an integrated trailer brake controller, Tow / Haul
mode with downhill speed control, a rear - view 7 - inch colour monitor that displays a
clear image for hooking up trailers (either bumper or in - bed).
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The texts and
images are crystal
clear on the FHD
mode and it isn't much to be bothered about.
Features including Hybrid autofocus and SteadyShot are both on board, along with five times
Clear Image Zoom, but you won't find the new autofocus burst
mode, the smile shutter incorporated within the predictive capture feature or the super slow - motion video feature.
Likewise Huawei offers a 1x / 2x zoom button in these two
modes, however it's not an enhanced zoom like the optical zoom on some other dual - camera phones offers, just a quick way to switch between 1x and 2x digital zoom
modes, meaning the picture won't be any
clearer than if you had just cropped the full resolution
image.
Instead, Honor has built out its own
image processing software, which includes a new low - light
mode using pixel binning to capture
clearer pics in night shots.
You've also got HDR and Beauty shooting
modes, along with OnePlus's
Clear Image setting, which stitches ten individual photos together into a higher - resolution shot.
When it comes to shooting stills, you don't have a ton of tools at your disposal — just tapping to focus, tapping and holding to lock focus and then adjust brightness, 20 frame burst
mode (just hold the shutter down), and then three toggles to turn on
Clear Image, HDR or Beauty
modes.
The OnePlus X's
Clear Image and HDR
modes are pretty poor as well, and unfortunately really only work to make your
images worse — something needs fixing there.