Photographer Reacts: MKBHD Blind Smartphone Camera Test!
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0:00 Intro
0:44 Giveaway 👀
0:56 Reaction start
1:44 The Phones
2:52 Daylight photo
4:35 Daylight photo winners
6:16 My daylight results
7:15 Daylight loser
7:57 Skin tones
8:58 Low Light
12:07 My lowlight results
12:27 Portrait mode
15:37 My portrait mode results
17:13 Overall winners
Two videos in two days! Some kind of record for the channel? 🤪
PIXEL ARE WITHOUT ANY DOUBT THE BEST WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING STILL PHOTOS
Yep they have a rlly good image processing
A compact camera like Ricoh griii or Sony ev-z1 will crush all smartphone cameras into oblivion.
@@404ErrorGodNotFound-jh9rt isn't that obvious? But with skill issue, good photographers can take just as amazing shots with good camera phones too. Its all about perspective and use case.
Vivo x100 pro has no rival when it comes to stills. But of course nobody talks about it just because its not an international launch.
Only Pixel users out of all my family and friends all iPhone users and guess what? Every time they ask me to send them the photos I took.
As a long iPhone user, I'm getting more and more interested in trying a Pixel. Love your videos. I like hearing a photographer's point of view on mobile phone photography.
My wife has an iPhone and I have a Pixel. Whenever she wants to take a good photo she borrows my phone
Same here but I hate android so I just stay with my iPhone
Long time iPhone user here, I’ve used the pixel 8 pro for a good week and absolutely loved every moment of it. I ended up returning it because it didn’t work well into my Apple ecosystem. But to be fair, I didn’t take the time to find alternatives that would work cross platform. I’m going to buy it (actually I’m buying it now) but it’s really good. I would argue that the pixel 8 series is the perfect iPhone replacement if u want to try android
@@chisomagbara6780well said, not only the P8P takes great photos, the software/UI as well; a phone with stock UI offers smooth experience. And yes, you’re right with the part that the Google Phones are the android equivalent of iPhones.
me too I was gonna make the switch to fold but no pen support made me hold off. I was trying to replace both my iPhone and iPad
I shouldn’t be surprised. My partner’s pixel 7 (just the pixel 7, probably shares the same features of the pixel 7a which came out the following year along with the 8’s) takes amazing photos, so much so that he is designated as the family photographer of events😅.
7a has better camera than 7, says me with a pixel 7. Different sensor, but no doubt the results are still great with pixel 7.
@@karanjoshi2662 - I avoided the 7a is the battery life and charging speed, other than that, the cameras and photo processing it very nice
@@karanjoshi2662 Better is of course subjective. It does perform very well, and can often look better than the 7. But the 7 does have a larger sensor and is technically better hardware, and in low light you do get a little more detail in nearly all situations from the 7 - and in specific situations the larger sensor allows low light photos to look a little better overall.
But the 7a still trades blows, and can outperform the 7 in some low light situations. Just not normally in pure detail.
Always fun to watch your long form videos while working out or something. Satisfies my creative itch and my active itch. :) Thank you for always reading the comments and actually taking feedback and implementing them (I've given a few before and you've actually made changes. Thank you 💜)
I’m really surprised by the S23 Ultra coming so far behind the other flagships. I thought a year of software tweaks to the camera would have helped them a lot.
Can't fixed a flawed take on cameras. They were golden with the S21 Ultra and had some of the more natural looking sharpening back during the Note8-ish days with slightly boosted saturation. Huawei was the one with the super boosted saturation and sharpness. The tables have turned now and Samsung is just horribly mediocre now. Pixels take the best photos overall, Apple is the most well rounded and for me, the Find X6 Pro/Oneplus Open are the best (They got the most votes from me).
Samsung's white balance has been pretty crap lately imo. A hit or miss if you may
I have one and i think they have made it worse over time.. It was not over exposure as much when it was new.
Night-mode is always way to bright.
It wasn't so far behind everywhere tho
I have an S23+ and an old iPhone XS and most of the times I use and prefer the XS camera. New iPhones ruined this old natural results iPhones used to have and that's why I left my 13PM. I'm happier with the S23+ just because Samsung allowed to complety switch off the HDR, the food enhancing and the skin smoothening. But the photos are still overly sharpened and the white balance is ALWAYS off, always bluish or with a green cast.
MKBHD really does put in a lot of effort for every video they shoot and the obvious thing is, it is evident in their videos.. anyways.. that's a good reaction video from you.. I found your channel only today while I was searching for the MKBHD blind camera test video.. I'll subscribe to your channel as well.. good work, keep going..
I'm surprised that you were surprised at how "poorly" the Xperia did when you should know it's a pocket DSLR. This is the same shot a DSLR would likely get. Sony prides itself on NOT doing computational photography, which is why they should not have included the Sony.
Literally the only thing that this test shows is who has the best computational photography algorithm. That's it. Nothing more.
Yes, average smartphone buyers expect good computational photography on phones because they want a point and shoot shot that looks like it was taken by a pro.
Sony doesn't play that game. Sony's goal was: how can we get this phone as close to a DSLR as possible so that the pro photographer always has one in his pocket. Not to take a shot on auto, but to choose the lighting, frame the shot, manually adjust exposure, shutter speed etc.
It also doubles as a 4k display for Sony pro cameras, for photo and video.
This is NOT a consumer device. It's not make for them so it's not fair to compare it like this.
@@GH0STST4RSCR34MThe sony auto mode is completely fine and I've been getting very comparable images to modern phones on my xz premium (obviously only in sufficient light scenarios, that's where there has been the least improvements in that part)
Knowing where to tap for exposure is a very simple thing that apparently hasn't been considered in this test
@@GH0STST4RSCR34M The irony is that he says this in his review as well, that the Xperia is more a truly Pro when it comes to the camera as it gives so many pro option in the app which other phones don't o having that in this mix was actually a bummer.
It is a consumer device. The Pro lineup is for pros. Normal Xperias are for normal people, except different people than most. Its a phone for tech enthusiasts and people who want something different. I am no pro and i understand photography just broadly but i got the Xperia 5 III when it released because i simply think that it offers me the package of features that make most sense. For the price Sony isn't chasing just some dumb trends and is making a practical phone. With practical aspect ratio screen, no punchole and most importantly a phone which still has a SD card slot and a headphone jack. When it comes to cameras in phones, i like to take pics with them and i also like when my pictures look like how the subject actually looked in reality. And thing is that iPhone or Samsung phones either use some sort of HDR or artificial shaprening or they just overblow the colours and their pics give me uncanny valley vibes. Sony is simply taking pictures of what it sees with no cheating and that is exactly what i want. Yeah it struggles to take a good pic in bad light on basic mode but tbh, in 90% of situations the pictures are great in on basic mode, i don't need to be a pro. I barely ever even touch the pro modes. It is just about what consumers want from their phones. And tbh that overexposed pic from that test is weird. I feel like my Xperia wouldn't do that in in auto mode. Seems like a mistake for sure. Even dumb cameras had a software to help with taking pictures with strong light behind it for years to make sure this doesn't happen.
And what is even more impressive about the Pixel 7a is that Google just slap a brand new 64MPx sensor and won when compared to the tried and optimized Samsung GN1 sensor found in the Pixel 6,7 & 8 for 3 years running.
I believe 8 has a GN2
@@Dude-qn8ub it is highly unlikely as the GN2 sports 1/1.12-inch while the Pixel 8 main camera still sports 1/1.31 inch which is the GN1 specs but probably modified specially for Pixel 8.
@@kennethsubhas3296 you're right. I checked it after commenting. There were some leaks before the launch that they'll use GN2 for the 8 series.
Love the content and long time subscriber. Keep up the great work. !!🇬🇧
13:53 I agree as when people want a potrate mode they want that DLSR manual focus effect not really just a keyed out subject.
Totally agree with the idea to put a DSLR in the competition ( in auto mode, obviously)
That would be a good idea indeed, although it has to be said that most photos taken with a DSLR that we see online or in a magazine has been edited. 🤷
Of course, I do professional cameras vs smartphones quite regularly on the channel :)
8:59 Yeah coming from the Pixel 3 stanadrad to the S22 ultra I noticed the ultra has about a 80% keep rate for me and sometimes I need to bust out the pro mode to get it done... But the Puxel 3 had nearly 100% over it's life span only mess up once on an impossible shot... Though I do love having all the lens in the world so I'm happy even if Red is overly bright and orange in most shots.... Oh and the Spen is a life saving when you run out of hands!
Always amazed that you don't have more subscribers. Love your videos.
Thanks Matt :)
Tbh, people might prefer photos on their iphone screens but whenever I upload it on social media, my secondary Pixel 6a gets a lot more appreciation irrespective of HDR and non-HDR situations.
Ok, so the Pixel 7a giveaway is still open? One more reason hoping to win! Great reaction video, Tom!
3:50 True while it can be nice to have even shading I do it for my pixel art... the default setting on a smart pphone in my opion should be as close to the human eye as possible. As most users just want to capture a memory and not a photo to put on the socials to get followers.
Samsung user here. I haven't used the S23 Ultra but for most of the other Samsung phones, they take brilliant shots in good light, but if there's any sort of challenging lighting situation, the muddiness and the over sharpening processing irritates the hell out of me. I mean if an object isn't bright, that's fine, at least let it be clean and free of noise. I've tried Gcam - which can be glitchy, but the quality is almost always better. I'm too vested with the SPen, Samsung Pay and watch ecosystem but I so desperately want an alternative! Feel free to advise! 😀
Thoroughly recommend the Pixel line tbh!
Always interesting to see phones defy expectation!
19:45 and a film camera and even dare say a painting... Just one of the odd ball for each catgory to keep people guessing... Which a sunset one would be nice as that is what I normally stop to take a photo of.
i just subscribed you through this video, amazing commentary man; great
Welcome man 😁
iPhone camera always produces a reddish tint to the skin tones especially in low light, a strict no-no for me!!
I love the pixel because it makes an ordinary person to take amazing photos, that matches best photos even from a dlsr camera
Hey Tom, the challenge is that they must shoot within a controlled environment to produce similar framing and lighting with all smartphones: I can’t see how it is doable to add a landscape segment… I for one am most interested in a smartphone’s ability to freeze the action and produce a sharp photo with subjects like kids and pets… 😅 Keep up the excellent work on your channel. 👍🏻
Hmm, why does it need to be though? Totally get keeping most of the photos this style of setting, but plenty of people shoot photos outside and it could easily be done on a day with stable lighting. Great to have you on the channel man 😁
Just for the record: Marques made a mistake. He said iPhone 15 Pro is the last one in daylight photos but regarding to his video and subtitles the basic iPhone 15 got the lowest ELO rating in the first category.
Thank you for the video! :)
I also noticed that mismatch between the chart and what he actually said
Ah damn! I didn’t spot this. Thanks for the comment 🙏
He ain't the brightest of a spec reader from what I've noticed off and on... @@sphumelelesijadu
Doesn't make much of a difference though as the 15 Pro came 15th if this were to be corrected. 15 and 20 for both iPhones 🤷♂
Just for the record. Marques did a very minimal mistake. He did said dead last is iphone 15 pro instead of the iphone 15. But not to worry both iphones PRO or Not are in the last 5 position in overall.
Thanks Tom - very interesting
I literally got at least one pixel in every category I had, it's amazing how everyone have different taste
Great commentary my dude
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Just switched over to iPhone 15 Pro Max. This is my first iPhone since 2012 and I have to say I am quite impressed with the camera system.
7:55 The #20 is actually the iPhone 15, not the iPhone 15 "Pro". look at what it said on the left photo. Marquez just made a mistake pointing out the Pro even showing the Pro with his hand, even though it's the iPhone 15 vanilla.
Ooooh good spot. I didn’t realise
Surprise that the pixel 7a wins it overall 😮
Next year should also add video quality as well. One subject photo series don’t define an overall best camera. Yes it’s time consuming but a bit miss leading as to best smartphone camera.
Agreed tbh!
Surprised with pixel camera performance..
Really good..Exposure,dynamic range,the color tone,contrast..No doubt..Pixel nail it in photography segment..With that price it offered it is really good bang nothing u can complaint 🎉🎉🎉
I know these fotos were taken with the auto mode camera to limit the variables of the test, but I wonder who would come out on top if someone took the Best foto possible with each camera (pro mode on samsung and sony experia for inatance) and then see which one (at its Best shot) would be in the top 3 🤔🤔
This is a very interesting video!
I'd really like to see him compare ultra-wide photos as well. I use those a lot for work, so it'll be interesting to see those results. Also, I don't get the obsession people have with portrait mode.
Fell in love with the Google Pixel 7a after watching the video
Pixel 7a pushing above it's price range, i wanted to suggest a video comparison but then I remembered that it won't really be practical 😂. What do you think?
The Xperia is great in manual modes , but auto and basic were pretty bad , newest software update has improved them
I enjoyed watching this...
I agree with your conclusion. Whilst it is a good test, it can be vastly improved with a lot more variety in photo subjects. In fact, some could say they slightly rigged the test, because all three shots have a dark skin tone subject with orange being the main accent color (clothes or surroundings)
That's not what "rigging" a test is. Unless you are suggesting that dark skin tones and orange colours are something phones should be good at?
@@wyterabitt2149 It's more subtle. Brighter colors like orange tend to look better in more vivid higher contrast photos. Some phone manufacturers also automatically apply skin lightening, which will make all skin tones paler (this is preferred in Asian markets). This works poorly for accurate skin tone production, esp if you are whiter or darker
@@miscwork-qb7pd Makes it an even better test, hiding these things by making a test that wouldn't show them would be rigging the test.
Including the orange shows that a camera isn't just pumping up contrast on colours alone to look good as this would look weird if it was a normal photo with orange included. And having a skin tone difficult to reproduce accurately for all cameras shows how it deals with them, and helps highlight any bad cameras that lighten skin.
@@wyterabitt2149 What you like isn't necessarily what others like. Why do you think skin lightening is used? The Asian market loves it. Feel free to call them wrong if you like.
Having more variety of skin tones and colors in your photo comparisons will give you better understanding in the types of environments certain phones work better in. Having only one accent color and skin tone biases the test towards a certain type of photo reproduction
As an Xperia 1 V owner this test wasn't so surprising, their auto mode is a hit or miss. I hope Sony takes this as a wake up call to improve their software in the future (Although I doubt they will). Great video though!
it not a phone for the average user who just want to shoot auto all the time and expect that to be the best quality photos the phone can offer. The whole point of buying an xperia phone is for their manual mode (the dslr experience) so no wonder their auto mode is half baked
I must have had an issue with my pixel 7, when I first got it it was great, but then photos really started to degrade, portrait photos were blurry, and selfies put like a pasty smoothed skin tone on me which didn't look real at all
Sony is sort of a DSLR. It has an auto setting. But you really shouldn't use it 😅
All hail to the PIXEL phones🙌
So the google pixels made top 3... idek if im surprised by that or expected it, but the pixels are beast of phones(the best imo)
Interested to see some Huawei phones... P60 could be interesting
Great video my friend! How do we enter for the pixel 7a?
The earnings video and the P8P review have details 🙏🙌🏼
Pixel 7a camera is so perfect ❤
Does it used CRD model of ANOVA?
this guy deserve 100k subs so subscribe !
fun fact google has a whole department dedicated to fix dark skin tone for their phones
Bro 6:41 sounded like your editor duplicated the audio😅
10:35 with the S2X Ultras, you get great pictures even better than the Pro Maxs, if you tune the settings. HDR is a bad feature to use for any video whatever.
I love the Oppo Find X6 Pro but you can only buy it in China. There's no global version released.
Hope they release the X7 Ultra globally. Video will suck, but you can't beat a collab with Hasselblad.
To be fair, the Xperia is known to be a comparatively poor (although for most normal people still ok in nearly all situations) as a point and shoot. It's almost pointless putting it into the competition, other than the random chance it somehow does really well and confuses everyone.
It's entire thing is about it having little processing when you want it to not, and extensive manual control with a "professional" experience. Which is probably why people want you to review it.
Also it's interesting that the 7a does so well, when the sensor it uses had never been used by Google before this phone. Or since. They have great software, but the results can't be down to them having so long to optimise the software for the hardware it's using.
I love pixel
He should pass the winner as the next year contendant
Funny how the 7a got more votes than the 8pro
I know haha
bro had a whole ultrawide monitor and a set of good speaker. Yet he's watching on his 6.7inch smartphone 💀
oh, wait 6.1
I like Pixel but when you're using it to other regions. There's a limitation, like on it's 5G connection.
Do you even know what you are talking about? When talking about the Find X6 Pro and night mode shot it actually is one of the majority of phones that gives you control over such shots. As you can disable night mode or jump to pro mode and let Hasselblad colours take over. So its exactly that example where you have the control over such shots. Did you try the Find X6 Pro even?
Xiaomi, Honor, Huawei, Vivo, Sony and others also allow this.
Amazing video love your take on this. For Me Pixel 7a was the winner in Blind Test. Waiting anxiously to get hand on it. Hopefully i will win the 7a as waiting from 2 weeks checking every day community for update on the winner 😊🫶🏻🤞🏻
11:16 there is in most gcam ports
Anyone ever told you, you look like a younger or slimmer version of Mark Rober?
Haha haven’t heard this one before
Im so surprised to see the sony xperia at dead last bro, i heard they dont use ai in there photos tho...so idk
Remember this isn't a pure photo test. It's am auto mode, point and shoot test. And the Xperia isn't really about point and shoot. It's competent and that's the best you can say about it, last place with point and shoot is where everyone would expect it to be.
The Xperia is primarily about being a professional photography experience, with all manual controls and no AI messing around with it.
@@wyterabitt2149 oh ok I understand
Where's your blind smartphone camera test? I don't see in discription.
Huh?
@@ItsTomRich You said that you made the comparisons tho. No? 🤔
@@mrliberox I think I mentioned other camera comparisons. I do lots of videos on smartphone cameras but I haven’t ran a blind test like MKBHD’s
@@ItsTomRichOn 6:23 "My daylight, lowlight, and portrait results", like, I want to check out for myself the photos of everyone's smartphone blind test.
Blind tests are the only ones, that can be told to be somehow reliable.
It's the same thing with Whisky (Scotch vs Japanese) and many other products. When people know, what they're testing right now, this destroys immediately the whole result. The marketing simply did a perfect job and makes them automatically prefer, what they personally prefer.
How is the s23 better than s23 ultra?
It uses the same camera sensor as the s22.. So they have optimised it more.
Google pixel lovers❤
Consistency is the strength of Google Pixel.
But honestly the disparity in vote counts this year is not much. Whic you can't go wrong with any of the phones here
green button
"Give us manual control" best joke coming from a iphone user😂😂😂
I got an iPhone in every category
Pixel 7a best photos than any other camera
14:12 I personally can't stand the warm white balance of the iphones photo here, tbh.
The only thing this test tests is how well the phone exposes black people on a photo. And with no surprise, the pixels were on front because all they did this year was better black skin exposure on the imaging processor and new Ai functions on Google photos for pixel.
I love pandas
iPhone low light problem that has existed since iPhone 12...
if you ever try taking low light photo of Asians in low light conditions. Their skin turns out ORANGE!
Always beware before you share photos in low light that has an asian in the group!
I was very disappointed iPhone 15 Pro Max has NOT fixed this issue. I mean, if I stared at it long enough, the orange skin tone has reduced somewhat for the IP15, but when put side by side to S23u, P8P, P7P, it absolutely stands out!
It's not acceptable on a flagship iPhone.
Pixel needs to have more profiles or color settings. The detault makes the photos too flat and unnatural sometimes. At least S23u has dialed down the over-saturated / over-processed look. Waiting for the s24u to arrive soon!
Doing all this serves a purpose; these photos still resemble oil paintings with edge sharpening and noise reduction. Thanks to ProRAW, we can at least invest time in undoing whatever smartphone companies claimed to have progressed so far.
MAN SHOULD I SELL MY PIXEL 7 PRO AND GET THE PIXEL 7A ?? LOL
🤣🤣🤣 no for some reason it just does mad well in these comparisons. The 7 is still great!
i have the 7 pro though and still take some amazing photos i keep follow u bro
Lol, nahh. Head to head the 8pro beat the 7a in 2 categories
@@abcdefgh-wx8dr Beat it enough to cover 3x the price though?
Regular iPhone 15 was the worst in daytime and 15 Pro was slightly higher,
Tom's point at the end of the video is important here. What about landscape and other types of photo's? I don't personally take photos of mkhd but every singe photo in his blind test has him in it! Probably tells us something about mkhd.
My main problem with the test is that the only subject has a very dark skin tone, which in my country (Poland) maybe a dozen people have.
It would be great if an additional person with a light skin tone could be introduced next year.
True, still there is a lot to judge based on while ignoring skin tone.
@@Wisdom.Phoenix agreed. I think that the scenarios that showed that terrible hdr cutout effect in low light mode were especially insightful.
The Pixel still would've won
"Apple fanboy Reacts: MKBHD Blind Smartphone Camera Test!"
What I was saying the whole time how much I love the pixel 🤣
@@ItsTomRich yes, pixel won the first, second and third place, why would you say that they are bad? But the whole video you tried to justify the iPhone.
At least the last place in regular photo was the regular 15 and not the 15 pro
Stop calling people isheep 😂
you should try and do a more scientific version, and throw in a few real cameras
mkbhd sponsored by apple and google lol
Every person/photographer who is going to find out the best photo in pro in normal photo in portraits you can all continue this till 100 years from now cauae neither of them will never be perfect... My opinion they came really along side vs dslr's but neither of them will be perfect... Those are smartphones and not pro cameras..
Real mfs use a Samsung flagship with GCam to get the best of both worlds.
the 7a has a new sensor in the 7a so your breakdown is void
it's not about light exposure man! Pixel phones are just more detailed with more accurate and natural colours.
😂I mean the phone's name is literally *PIXEL*
You'd kinda expect that it's great at handling... PIXELS🤷🏻♂️.
Dudes eat of someone's lunch
These brands are making phones for common people
Not for professionals
So the test was fare
Iphone is only champ at apple fanboy channel
My S22 Ultra always gives me better pictures than iPhone's flagships.
Personally I think Iphone needs to step up in the still photo department. Its been horrible for a while and google is not sharing treats here. Video is good but photos its horrible 90% of the time. You spoke about true tone for darker skins etc why is apple not adopting such? should we say Iphone is for lighter skins alone? Stop defending this nonsense from Iphone and let them step up there game. Am a proud honor of both smartphones but no way am taking a still photo from an Iphone. Its just plain horrible
Nahhhh sony 😶🌫️
Note they didn't pick iPhone 15 Pro Max becoz they respect it and they didn't want to embarrass it. So Stupid.