Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with a triple 200-megapixel camera, which you’re likely to see as either a masterful feat of engineering or a load of hyped-up marketing nonsense. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

We’ve seen 200-megapixel cameras in phones before, starting with 2022’s Moto X30 Pro . This year’s Vivo X300 Ultra was the first phone to feature two of them — with 200-megapixel main and telephoto cameras — and is still my favorite camera phone on the market. With the Find X10 Pro Max, Oppo is trying to do one better: It’s the first to use a 200-megapixel ultrawide camera too. Only the selfie camera runs at a more modest 50 megapixels.

The Find X10 Pro Max’s cameras are excellent, lagging only a little behind the company’s top-tier Find X9 Ultra from earlier this year (in Oppo’s product lineup, as with rivals Xiaomi and Vivo, Pro Max phones still sit just below its top Ultra models).…