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The Blind Smartphone Camera Test: An Objective Answer

Every year, we run our blind smartphone camera test, scientific style. We've always thought we knew what made the absolute best smartphone cameras, but do we actually know? Like what if we wanted an objective answer straight from real-world data?

One thing is certain - every time I review a phone, there are comments in the section saying things like "You can't possibly compare these phones objectively." But we're here to challenge that notion. We believe that with careful analysis of real-world data, we can get a clear picture of which smartphones have the best cameras.

In this year's test, we ran our blind smartphone camera test once again. We evaluated numerous phones and compared their cameras in a scientific and systematic way. And what did we find out? Stay tuned to see if our findings align with your expectations!

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(upbeat music)(logo whirring)- All right, y'all havewaited patiently for this.Once again, this year,we've run our blindsmartphone camera test,scientific style.We always think we knowwhat the absolute bestsmartphone cameras are,but do we actually know?Like what if we wanted an objective answerstraight from real-world data?Literally every time I review a phone,there's some people in thecomments section saying,\"Oh, iPhone photos arethe only good ones,\"or, \"I only like Pixel photos,\"or, \"Samsung is the only onewho does good portrait mode.\"But what if we put that to the test?What if we took a bunchof the best smartphonecameras on the planetand took them out into the real worldand took the exact same photowith each and every one of them,and then strip them of all their labels,and then had you, the public,vote on which one'sphotos you like the best?That should reveal the bestactual smartphone camera.So that's exactly what we did.This year, we took these 20 smartphones,updated all of their software,charged 'em all up,got their batteries to 100%.Then we went out and tookthe same three photoswith each one.One daytime photo,one low-light photo,and one portrait-mode photo.Yes, it is surprisinglyhard to stay perfectly stillfor 20 identical photosto be taken in a row,but I did it for you.Then we had to go in andimport all the photosfrom every single smartphone camera,harder than you think,strip them of all their EXIF data,and then upload them toa site that we've builtthat lets us put them side by sidefor you guys to vote on head-to-headmillions and millionsand millions of times,which you did.That should give usa statistically significant winner,and loser, we'll get to that.And the results this yearwere kind of interesting, a little bit.I almost didn't make this video,but I can tell people have been waiting,the competitive tension is high,and the actual resultsmight be a littlesurprising to some of you.So let's get into it.So the data our site spits outall comes in these text fileswith matchup ratingsfor every singlecombination of smartphones.We actually had them codedby letters of the alphabet you can see,A through T.But that little number,that one right here is the most important.That is the Elo rating.You know, the systemthat ranks chess players,or tennis players, basicallyanything head-to-head.With enough matchup information,we can sort of sort throughall of these lettersbased on who they beatand who they lose to,and create a power rankings,and that will give us our winners.So the question youprobably all wanna know,who were the winners?And so we'll go category by categorybecause, like I said, therewere three different scenarios,daytime, low light and portrait mode,so let's go one by one.So daytime, for theregular daylight photos,we kinda had it set upwith just me sitting infront of this window here,but there's a lot to this photo.The strongest light isfrom inside the room,but then the window lightis actually a good test of dynamic range.And then there's also a variety of colors,there's my skin tone,there's the orange chairnext to the blue pillow,a few other things.This is on purpose,there's no individual variablethat can dominate this test.So every single phone,we try to frame the exact same way,from the exact same spot,holding one of 'em up as a referenceso we can get as close as possible.And everything is fully auto,we just open the camera app,make sure the lens is cleanand just hit the shutter button.We don't even tap to focus,just point and shoot.It takes about six minutesto go through all 20 phones.Like I said, it's kinda hard to sit stillfor six minutes straight, but we did it.So for this regulardaylight photo situation,the winner with the highestElo rating is the Pixel 7A.That's pretty impressive.So this is the photo thatyou guys, for the most part,voted as the winner inmost of its matchups.Pretty neutral photo, to be honest,not too bright, not too dark,pretty excellent dynamic range.And it's also not a flukebecause the second-highest Elo ratingcame from the Pixel Fold.So the Fold took a very similar photo.And then finishing up on the podiumwas the OnePlus Open,one of those high-end folding phones.So I will say, my personal favorite photoand the one that actually won for mewhen I blind tested myselfwas this one.This is the fourth-highest Elo rating,this is the OnePlus 11.It's definitely a littleon the contrastier side,but a little more confidentwith nailing the exposureand having dynamic range.Nevertheless, it'sdefinitely interesting here.A lot of people pointedout that the sun behind melooked a little different in each photo.It might've been setting,so the background was a little different,which is a little bit true,but it wasn't late enough in the dayfor that to actually affect the photo.I think the fact that the 7Ais the only one withthis little lens flareis actually just a coincidence.And then fun fact, in dead lastwith the absolute bottom-lowest Elo ratingfor this daytime photois the iPhone 15 Pro.Not a terrible photo.I mean, you can't reallyget a horrible photoin normal-looking lightingfor most of these smartphones,but when you put it up against the others,it's mostly just the darkest one.And so when you put it up side-by-sideagainst these much brighter photos,people just picked the brighter onealmost every single time.Funnily enough, though,you can absolutely overexposefor this competition,as the second-lowest Elo ratingbelongs to the Galaxy S23 Ultrafor producing this weirdlyoverexposed masterpiece.So here are all the photos side-by-sidewith their Elo ratings.Feel free to pause itif you'd like to makesome more observations,but let's move on to the nighttime photos.So low light, low light isa much more challenging shotfor a smartphone camera,especially with a tinysensor and tiny opticstrying to take in asmuch light as possible.But computational photographyhas come a long way,and even in this pretty dark rooftopwhere the only light sourcewas like 40 feet away from me,these cameras stillmanaged to do a good job.And if you're ready for the plot twist,the highest overall Elo ratingfor the low-light photocomes from, dead lastfrom the daylight photo,it is again the iPhone 15 Pro,with another totally reasonable photo.Now, following it veryclosely in second placewas the Pixel 8 Pro.And actually the Pixel 7A coming in third.And to be honest, I fullyagree with all of these.It's starting to get ridiculoushow much some of theother smartphone camerasstarted to pump up the light,like literally the secondyou get outside the top four,you get straight into bad HDR territory.Like this is the fifth-placephoto from S23 Ultra,which is definitely too bright.And also, you can see thislittle HDR halo-y effectstarting to show up around my head.And then if you scroll all the way downto the Oppo Find X6 Pro,just, my God, what happened?Like these cameras are going nuts.It looks like in this onethey literally painted sloppily over meand just dragged up the exposure.Matter of fact.(pencil scratching)Yep, see?That's exactly what it looks like.The Zenfone did this, too,along with a few others.And I honestly think the OnePlus Opennot only made me brighter,but then it also identified the skyand made the sky darker,which just then starts to look ridiculous.I mean, real life lookednothing like this.So here are all the nighttime photos,and their Elo ratings.Pause it if you need it.And now we can move to thelast-but-not-least category,portrait mode.So portrait mode kind of turnsout to be the hardest test,like this to runbecause they all kinda do portrait modea little bit differently.If you just open the camera appand switch to portrait mode,some of 'em do 2X,some of 'em are 3X,some of 'em say 1X,but they're actually like 1.5X,it's kinda weird.So we tried to just keepit simple for this testand just open the camera app,switch to portrait mode,and then move our feet forward or backwardto try to match the focal lengthwith all of these shots.It kinda worked,and they all kinda alsohave different bokeh levels,some of 'em are adjustable,some of 'em aren't.But like I said, we're justgoing with the default,the point and shoot thatmost people will getwhen they do it.And the portrait-mode,point-and-shoot winnerwith the highest Elo ratingis the Pixel 8 Pro.This was followed prettyclosely by Samsung Z Fold 5,which I actually thinkhad a better cutout.And then the third-highest Elo herewas the iPhone 15 Pro,which I think had themost natural-looking blur.But basically all ofthese podium finishershave relatively subtle portrait modes,nothing too dramatic,and then pretty gooddetail and overall balancein just the rest of the photo.I say this because the losers herein this particular categorywere nothing like this.(laughing) They were some ofthe wonkiest, weirdest photosin the entire competition.And the loser with theabsolute lowest Elo ratingfor this category,and actually in any category,was the Sony Xperia 1 Vwith this photo,with that, that's the photo?Like, okay, this one looks like a mistake.We all actually thought itwas a mistake as we shot it,like, \"This can'tpossibly be right, right?\"We clean the lens, we take it again,it does it again.And then it did it again and again.So I mean, I guess, for whatever reason,this $1,200 Android flagship phonein its auto portrait modejust could not handle this lighting,it had some weird issues.Anyway, here's all ofthe portrait-mode photosand their Elo ratings.You're welcome.I'd like to give out some awards.Now that we have all of our matchup dataand all of our voting andall of our Elo ratingsfrom across every single personfor what you guys voted forfor more than 20 million total votes,there's some prettyinteresting stuff here.So we have our winners and losersin each of the threecategories, which is cool,but if you average it all together,we have the highestoverall average Elo rating.We'll call this one the People's Champ.And with the highest average of 1,660,that's pretty competitive.It was the Pixel 7A.So this one won the daytime photo,as you probably remember,but then it also came in thirdplace in the nighttime photoand fourth place of all 20in the portrait-mode photo.So that's pretty strong.But here's the kicker,the second-highest average Elo ratingwas the Pixel 8 Pro,and the third-highest average Elo rating,again, this is your votes,is the Pixel Fold.So Pixel, Pixel, Pixel,it's a perfect Pixel podium.So here you can see the whole listfrom top to bottom.The three Pixels at the top,surprisingly in reverse price order.(laughing) And then bringingup the rear for total Elois the Sony Xperia 1 Vand the Xiaomi 13 Ultra.Then I also had to bring backthe Bang for the Buck Award,which I did this last year also,it's basically justmost votes from you guysdivided by MSRP at launch.So most votes per dollar, basically.And so your winner, again,is going to be the Pixel 7A.This was a phone that launchedright around 500 bucks.It did incredible on the tests.But in second place in votes per dollaris the Nothing Phone 2.So a pretty good-performing phone,and it actually launchedlike upper mid-range price.So this is a good phonebang for the buck-wise.And then in 3A, 3B,right next to each otherunderneath these two,you have the OnePlus11 and the Zenfone 10.And then impressively, actually the Sonyis not dead last in this category,it is expensive and itdid perform horribly,but not worse bang for the buck-wisethan a super-expensive folding phone,the Z Flip5 overall averagedid worse for the dollar,the more you know.So what did we learn with all this?Well, I'll leave you with this.First of all, the Pixels killed it,they had the one-two-three finish,they're great bang for the buck.It was weird that they'reinverse price order, but fine.But also there's a lot moreto a smartphone camera,of course, than just asitting-down, staged photoof a person.We learned a little bit abouthow it shoots my skin tones.There's a whole bunch of otherthings you might care about,from auto-focus speed, to the UI,to the actual file format,how editable it is,to videos, like there'sa bunch more to it.But at the end of the day,I think we were still pretty not shockedby the slightly brighter photosbeating the slightly less bright photos.And maybe we'll run itback again next yearand learn something new.Either way, thanks for watching this one.Catch you guys next time.Peace.(upbeat music)\n"