

That being said, we hardly expect the 8 Pro to take on the photographic might of handsets like the OnePlus 9 Pro which cost more than double the price it’s still a respectable effort. While the dedicated Night mode does a decent job of bringing out more objects and making them visible in darker conditions, there’s a noticeable loss of finer details, especially in areas such as grass, where things blur together. When the sun sets, things get a little worse for wear. As a result, we’d reserve the 108MP shots for specific scenes that are suitable, and that actually need to be shared or used at a larger scale. We much preferred the standard smaller resolution shots with HDR enabled, which retain better balance between light and dark areas across the board. Taking a 108MP shot of our garden while focusing on capturing details in the plants, for example, ends up blowing out the sky a fair bit. While there’s detail aplenty, it’s worth noting that the 8 Pro can struggle with balancing light and dark areas in 108MP mode as there’s no HDR option available. Most of us don’t print at large scales, if at all, and our photos tend to live on our smartphones and on social media, none of which take advantage of such high resolutions. Sure, it’s a niche use case, but then again, so is the very act of snapping a 108MP shot. In well-lit conditions these 108MP shots offer plenty of detail - more than enough to comfortably use them as, say, a desktop wallpaper for a 4K monitor. Made possible by Samsung’s 1/1.52in sensor, the 8 Pro is capable of snapping 12,000 x 9,000 shots to create snaps that are around 35MB each (compared to around 6MB for regular shots). The 108MP affair is clearly the one grabbing the headlines, especially as this is now likely to be the cheapest phone in the world to offer this resolution. The Realme 8 Pro has a multi-camera setup consisting of a 108MP camera, an 8MP ultra-wide camera, a 2MP black and white portrait camera, and a 2MP macro camera.
