Oppo sharpens its focus with Find X9 and India-first LUMO Lab

MUMBAI: Move over megapixels Oppo’s about to make every click a cinematic masterpiece. With the Find X9 Series launching in India on 18 November, the smartphone maker is training its lens squarely on the future of photography and this time, it’s not just about sharper images, but smarter storytelling.

The upcoming Oppo Find X9 Series is a heady mix of engineering and artistry: a 200MP Hasselblad telephoto camera, a true colour camera, and an all-new real-time Triple exposure HDR system promise to make light, texture, and tone dance in perfect sync. It’s Oppo’s boldest attempt yet to blur the line between a camera and a phone.

But the company isn’t just refining pixels, it’s localising perception. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Oppo India has announced LUMO Lab, an exclusive Indian collaboration that pairs the brand’s imaging scientists with celebrated photographers Joseph Radhik, Ashik Aseem, and Zaid Salman. The goal? To capture India the way it truly looks vivid, emotional, and unfiltered.

“LUMO Lab embodies Oppo’s commitment to human-centric imaging,” said Oppo global imaging director Simon Liu. “We aim to understand India’s unique visual challenges and create technology that acts as a creative partner empowering photographers, creators, and everyday users to express themselves freely.”

At the heart of the Find X9 Pro lies the world’s first 200MP Hasselblad Telephoto Camera, built on a 1/1.56-inch sensor larger than the main cameras on most flagships. The lens delivers 13.2x lossless zoom and stretches to 120x hybrid zoom, ensuring your concert shots and faraway sunsets stay sharp enough to frame. With a f/2.1 aperture and a 10cm tele-macro focus, the camera turns even tiny subjects into towering portraits of detail.

Oppo’s Active Optical Alignment tech precisely calibrates every lens-to-sensor pair, boosting resolution by 15 per cent, the fine line between good and goosebump-worthy shots. Meanwhile, a new 28nm sensor architecture reduces power use by 25 per cent, keeping the phone cool during marathon recording sessions.

Forget ghosting and blown-out skies. The Find X9’s Real-Time Triple Exposure HDR captures three exposures bright, medium, and dark simultaneously, ensuring perfectly balanced photos with zero motion blur. It’s powered by a custom Sony LYT-828 sensor, making it the ideal companion for sunsets, backlit portraits, and concert lighting.

The Find X9 variant packs a slightly smaller LYT-808 sensor with f/1.6 aperture, but it captures 57 per cent more light than typical smartphone cameras, promising clarity even in dim conditions.

Most phones guess colours. The Find X9 Series measures them. Its True Colour Camera houses an 8-channel spectral sensor that analyses over 2 million spectral pixels across 48 zones of each frame. Whether it’s the amber of a Chennai dusk or the cool blue of Ladakh’s lakes, the result is lifelike hues and skin tones that stay true under any light.

In another world-first, the Find X9 Series captures full 50MP photos by default on all three rear cameras. That’s 4x the detail of standard 12MP images enough resolution to crop, print, and still retain stunning clarity. Smart Adaptive Clarity drops the resolution to 25MP or 12MP in low-light scenarios, balancing detail with efficiency.

Designed for the professionals and the passionate
Each lens in the Find X9 lineup has been engineered for excellence:

●  50MP ultra-wide camera with 120° field of view and autofocus for macro shots

●  50MP periscope telephoto on the Find X9 with 6x lossless zoom and 10cm tele-macro focus

●  Hasselblad Portrait Mode and XPAN Mode for film-like tones and cinematic 65:24 frames

Professional videographers can shoot 4K Dolby Vision HDR on every lens, at 120fps, or record in LOG with ACES-certified colour profiles for precise post-production work. OPPO’s new vapor-chamber cooling system ensures stable performance even during long 4K shoots.

Driving all this hardware brilliance is the LUMO Image Engine Oppo’s new AI-powered processing suite. With 50 per cent less CPU use, 60 per cent less memory, and 50 per cent less power draw, LUMO handles denoising, colour reconstruction, tone balancing, and even motion prediction simultaneously.

It enables innovations like Lightning Snap, shooting 10 frames per second with near-zero blur, and 4K Motion Photos, which record a short 4K video clip alongside every still preserving the mood around the moment.

What makes the Find X9’s debut truly special is its grounding in Indian visual culture. Through LUMO Lab, Oppo is working to ensure its imaging understands the nuances of Indian skin tones, festivals, textiles, and light. It’s smartphone photography meeting sociology and that’s a frame worth capturing.

From the shimmer of a Diwali lamp to the grit of a Mumbai street, OPPO’s Find X9 Series isn’t just about pixels per inch, it’s about people per picture. And with LUMO Lab, it’s ensuring India’s stories are seen exactly as they’re meant to be: alive, textured, and real.