OPPO Find 7 to come with a 50MP camera - wild rumor or new pixel count leader?

Is the OPPO Find 7 going to come with a 50MP camera? According to a post on Weibo, yes, the OPPO Find 7 will have a 50MP camera, and apparently OPPO themselves have posted the sample photo to prove it.

The OPPO Find 7 is scheduled for official announcement on March 19th, so we are right on track for leaks and teasers. OPPO has already teased a 5.5-inch 2600×1440 display, and leaks have told us of 3GB of RAM with the Snapdragon 800 processor, not a bad phone at all. The same leaks believed that the Find 7 would come with a 13MP camera, but now we have to wonder if OPPO has seriously stepped up the specs to outdo any of the competition. If you are still wondering what a 50MP photo looks like, take a look and click to load the image fullscreen.

Is a 50MP camera worth it on a smartphone?
There has been a little specs war going on between manufacturers lately, and it seems they all consider the MP count on their cameras to be the standard to be judged. To that end, there is only one thing we can do, let us compare the OPPO Find 7 to the Samsung Galaxy S5 with its 16MP camera. For reference, let’s include a shot from a 6 year old, $300 Olympus point and shoot camera, taken at just 5MP.

These photos all look great when viewed in full, but instead of focusing on the MP count, I now urge you to consider quality. Many factors effect the quality of an image – lenses, the actual sensors in use and in large part, the settings used to take a picture. The Galaxy S5 uses Samsung’s new ISOCELL technology and we should expect to see other techniques soon, like the dual sensors on the new HTCOne and the 3D depth sensors used for Google’s project Tango.

We are really looking forward to this phone, OPPO has pleasantly surprised us in the past and we expect the Find 7 to be no different. But, let me leave you with sections of all three photos blown up to 200% zoom. 

Based on this one unofficial photo, what do you think, is OPPO’s supposed new 50MP camera worth the hype?