OnePlus eight Professional color filter digital camera to be disabled - a matter of privateness

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Replace (Might 19): OnePlus has confirmed that the digital camera will solely be disabled for the Chinese language customers and never for international customers.
In an unsurprising flip of occasions, OnePlus can be disabling the color filter digital camera on the 8 Pro through an OTA replace this week, addressing the privateness points that have been raised by the early customers.

The OnePlus eight Professional has a quad-camera setup, with three lenses at completely different focal lengths and a fourth color filter photochrom sensor. This was the primary time a sensor of this nature featured on a smartphone. It was meant to show strange scenes into “surreal landscapes”. In contrast to common cameras and the human eye, this sensor can see infrared mild to create pictures with a selected look. Nonetheless, early customers quickly discovered an alternate attribute of this digital camera.

In sure situations, the color filter digital camera can see by means of black plastics if they're skinny sufficient. It began off as a cool experiment the place customers may see the insides of some electronics, however was quickly discovered to be additionally capable of see by means of materials. We don’t want to clarify why this involved customers.

Addressing the problem, OnePlus took to Weibo to announce how this can be solved. It apologised to the customers and stated that privateness is of utmost significance. “With the intention to remove the impression on consumer privateness below attainable excessive circumstances and remove everybody ’s considerations, we determined to quickly disable the filter perform by means of software program upgrades.” This replace can be pushed to customers inside per week.
Nonetheless, OnePlus additionally said that customers have additionally loved photochrom pictures and don’t need to pull the plug on it. It would undertake new “technical options” and discover a approach to re-launch this function sooner or later.
 
It’s unclear as of now as to how OnePlus will have the ability to change how the color filter digital camera features, as it might be a {hardware} attribute which will not be fixable through software program. We'll await additional developments on the subject. It must be famous that the announcement has been made solely in China for Hydrogen OS customers. Specifics for the worldwide customers are but to be shared.
 

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