The Oppo Find X9 Pro at NJPW Sakura Genesis

Out of Camera #15

This will be an unusually focused edition of Out of Camera, mostly because I took every single photo from the exact same position. But with Oppo having started to tease the upcoming Find X9 Ultra, I realised I hadn’t published a full photo set from the Find X9 Pro, despite it clearly being an excellent phone.

So, this past weekend I went to New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Sakura Genesis show at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, which is better known as the national venue for sumo in Tokyo. I don’t follow pro wrestling very closely but I am somewhat into NJPW; this was the first show I’d been to in a little over a year.

Anyway, great show. I thought the best match was the tag title contest between the Knockout Brothers (Oskar and Yuto-Ice) and TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. and Ryohei Oiwa).

As for the camera setup, I brought the Find X9 Pro as well as its dedicated 10x Hasselblad teleconverter kit.

Here’s the hardware you get with the Find X9 Pro:

• 23mm-equivalent lens with a 50-megapixel 1/1.28” sensor and f/1.5 aperture

• 70mm-equivalent telephoto lens with a 200-megapixel 1/1.56” sensor and f/2.1 aperture

• 3.28x teleconverter that attaches onto the 70mm lens for a 230mm-equivalent field of view

• 15mm-equivalent ultrawide with a 50-megapixel 1/2.76” sensor and f/2 aperture

But I relied almost entirely on the teleconverter, for a few reasons. First off, these were our seats:

Secondly, in order to use it you have to attach a case and then a mounting plate that covers all the other camera lenses. You also have to use the teleconverter in a dedicated mode within the camera app, because it inverts the image from the 70mm lens.

And thirdly, well, what else is an unwieldy telephoto lens attachment for if not taking close-up photos of professional wrestlers.

No edits, as ever.