This is one of the best photography phones of all time
Pairing Oppo’s Find X9 Pro handset with Hasselblad’s Teleconverter Kit offers a giant leap for mobile images as the combination shoots for the moon. It’s pricey, though.
The Hasselblad telephoto lens that mounts onto Oppo’s new Find X9 Pro phone has defied our expectations. We thought it would be yet another boondoggle – the latest in a long line of failed attempts to improve the cameras in mobile phones by strapping ridiculous lenses onto their backs.
Remember Sony’s QX10 and QX100 from 2013? They were cameras that clipped to the back of your phone and communicated to an app via (and here’s their fatal flaw) laggy Wi-Fi. Or 2016’s Hasselblad True Zoom from 2016, a camera that attached to Lenovo’s Moto Z phone using the (at the time) promising Moto Mod modular phone system?
John DavidsonColumnistJohn Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com
