The Blind Smartphone Camera Test 2021!

Next time; have each of the phones take mul­ti­ple pho­tos in a vari­ety of set­tings and let peo­ple rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 with­out show­ing the phone names and jum­ble-up the sequence. I know more work! This will give much bet­ter and whole­some com­pet­i­tive chance to the gen­uine­ly good phone which might lack in one par­tic­u­lar (or few!) sce­nar­ios. You can do this with oth­er cre­ators to split up some of the work or even go for crowd-sourc­ing for helpers. I am sure you can find 10 of us out mil­lions of followers.

Bril­liant. Except every­one’s dis­play’s are dif­fer­ent and even though its a com­par­i­son, a dull image that’s sharp­er might look much worse on an aver­age dis­play in com­par­i­son to a bright pic­ture that’s medi­um sharp.

This will almost cer­tain­ly be lost in all the com­ments on a year old video, but how much if the like­abil­i­ty of a pho­to is due to the soft­ware edit­ing that each phone auto­mat­i­cal­ly applies when a pho­to is tak­en.
Like if you side loaded the google cam­era app to each phone and used the same app with each phone would it change the out­come. (it may not be opti­mized for each phones sen­sors) but it’d be inter­est­ing to see how much the soft­ware plays a role.

Where is the vivo x70 pro plus??

No 2022 blind pho­to test? 😕😔 (mes­sag­ing your team from 1‑year into the future!)

“Blind smart­phone cam­era test“
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2017 over­all win­ner: Pix­el XL

2018 Finale: Mate 20 Pro Vs Poco F1
Win­ner: Mate 20 Pro

2019 Finale: Note 10+ vs S10E
Win­ner: Note 10+

2020 Finale: Zen­fone 7 Pro Vs Mi 10 Ultra
Win­ner: Zen­fone 7 Pro

2021 Finale: Pix­el 5a Vs One Plus 9 pro
Win­ner: Pix­el 5a

One­Plus 11 is the win­ner for 2023

I had the Pro‑i(which I won) and the 5a

Need a blind test of all pix­el phones

For me„ dynam­ic range is huge! I almost always vote for the image with greater DR because its more close to how our eyes see things and none of the con­sumer full size cam­era sen­sors on mar­ket today can match the human eye for DR as of yet from a sin­gle expo­sure that is. Cell phone cam­eras are even worse in this area because the sen­sor and lens­es are so small so there may be some soft­ware mag­ic going on behind the scenes. I would be very curi­ous to know if the win­ners of these con­tests were in HDR mode! Or maybe they auto­mat­i­cal­ly shoot in HDR mode while oth­ers default to off. If so„ this is not a fair com­par­i­son. Or maybe they are all in HDR mode and then it comes down to which cam­era soft­ware algos does the bet­ter job blend­ing the exposures.