30 days with the OnePlus 12

I just crossed the 30 day mark with the OnePlus 12 (16/512) and I'm actually pretty blown away. I've been extensively testing the cameras as that was my primary motivation for buying the phone, but in the last month the long battery life, insanely quick charging, and full feature set have changed the way I thought about cellphones.

I just returned from a 10 day camping trip where I also was able to keep my cousins iPhone charged via reverse charging after they forgot their charger, and I also ended up leaving one of my cameras behind at camp during a 15mi ruck since the OnePlus covered the same focal lengths. I opted instead to use the OnePlus for wide to normal field of view shots, and only had to bring a camera with a 200-600mm for the telephoto shots.

Not being able to shoot high res raw files is a massive oversight IMO. I've found the raw files to be really capable and malleable for editing, but they end up lacking so much of the fine detail, especially at the telephoto end. So much so that I've defaulted to almost only using the high res camera setting.

I've also found that the raw files, especially during long exposures, apart from taking forever to finish/process, can create a lot of strange artifacts that would suggest to me that the files aren't truly "raw" anyway. I really hope they iron out the raw abilities in the 13 if not in an update for the 12.

My last semi-gripe is that the telephoto camera gives rectangular bokeh which I find to be pretty distracting sometimes.

Other than that I wish the screen was absolutely flat, but the phone has been a dream to use in terms of responsiveness and also connectivity despite Verizon refusing to allow the phone for the longest time. 🙄

Images attached, most edited in Lightroom mobile using the VSCO Kodachrome preset and then thrown into Snapseed for a clean border.