How to make the most of the OnePlus 10 Pro’s 150-degree camera

The 150-degree wide-angle camera mode on the OnePlus 10 Pro is a huge amount of fun and you should definitely try it out if you own the phone. The feature is a bit hidden, so until you know where it is, you might accidentally miss it. Moreover, there is one secret you should know to get the most out of it.

While the OnePlus 10 Pro’s camera is still a work in progress, the 150-degree camera mode makes up for it. Here’s what you need to know before you try it.

Where to find it

You already know how to switch to the standard 120-degree wide-angle camera on the OnePlus 10 Pro — just use the same normal viewfinder switch you’d use on any other phone. But to use the 150-degree wide-angle mode, you have to visit More option, then select the named feature 150, touch and hold the icon and finally drag it down to the main camera menu. In the future, you can quickly access it as you would with portrait or night mode.

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As you might expect from the name, it adds an even wider field of view to your photos than the standard wide-angle mode. This means it’s great for wide vistas and landscape photography, but if used carefully it can be just as fun and create just as impressive images, even in close-up and personal shots. You won’t want to use it all the time, but it’s a lot more versatile than you might think.

What makes it so enjoyable?

OnePlus has customized the 150-degree camera mode to capture bright, colorful and exciting photos. Most have a strong HDR effect, so you often don’t have to worry about shooting in the sun. That’s a good thing considering an ultra-wide camera a lot of skyso avoiding the sun can be difficult.

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Wide Angle Andy Boxall/Digital Trends

I love the punchy, saturated style of the photos he takes, and while the shots aren’t always completely realistic — electric blues, right-handed greens, and vibrant reds are common — they’re always exciting. When many of us take photos to share online, this is a feature we want, and here you don’t need to use a filter to get it.

A portrait, not a landscape

I’ve been taking photos with the 150-degree camera on the OnePlus 10 Pro for a few weeks now, and a few weeks before that on the Realme GT 2 Pro as well. The one thing I’ve learned during this time is that to really get the most out of it, you have to experiment with shooting in portrait rather than landscape orientation.

This will go against the instincts of some photographers, but will seem perfectly natural to others. It also doesn’t sound like it would be the best way to use a super-wide camera, but it really is. What it does is it makes the most of the extra field of view by really emphasizing scale.

Sounds weird, doesn’t it? It’s almost as if the 150-degree view is too wide, and in many situations it’s difficult to locate the ideal focal point in the landscape, making it difficult to capture a striking photo. In portrait orientation, you can maximize the amount of sky while still making sure your subject remains the focal point, instead of just adding more horizontal detail when in landscape orientation.

Unless you spend most of your time in the mountains and want to capture the scenery on a wide scale, portrait shots with the 150-degree camera help to add scale and drama to even the most ordinary scenes.

Are there any disadvantages?

The 150-degree camera is not suitable for close-up shots. It focuses at a distance, and if your subject is too close to the camera, it will be out of focus. It’s not for photos of people either, unless they’re in the distance, as it can stretch out limbs and bodies in bizarre ways. So unless you’re friends with Slender Man, keep people and pets out of the frame.

Another advantage of shooting in portrait orientation is that it minimizes the amount of fisheye effect that comes with an ultra-wide camera, where the sides of your photos curve and give the scene that weird, and not always desirable, fish-eye style. This leads to one part of the 150 degree camera that is not so good.

You will notice that there are two ways. The first is a 150-degree wide-angle mode that captures photos with the correct aspect ratio, while the second creates circular, true fisheye images. Not only is this viewpoint harder to use, but the resulting images have an ugly black border around them, which ruins the look when you share them. Give it a try, but I don’t think it’s as much fun as the normal 150 degree mode.

Made for fun

Yes, the 150 degree camera mode is a bit of a gimmick, but I don’t care because it is fun. With it, you can quickly and easily take creative photos that have a very striking look without having to learn anything extra, and if you think in portrait rather than landscape, it’s also more useful in more situations.

The OnePlus 10 Pro’s camera is already decent, and software updates make it even better, but the 150-degree camera mode is a hidden highlight that doesn’t need any tweaks to improve, and you should try it out as soon as you get the chance.

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