This article could easily be titled “best smartphone cameras of 2022” and still be accurate, but in an astonishing job of collecting data, renowned tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee has put it all. collected millions of votes for 16 phones from hundreds of thousands of people. by users to create what could be the ultimate test of smartphone photography.
While in previous years, Brownlee used to use frame-by-frame comparisons to compare phones against each other until the two eventually overtake it, he notes that this approach can potentially pitting the two flagship phones against each other. another in the first round and knock out a phone with very good photography. In 2022, Brownlee enlisted the help of Discord and talented programmers to create a blind test that fairly compared 16 different smartphones from different manufacturers in the game. Win the title of smartphone with the best camera.
Brownlee tested the phone in three categories: standard photos, low-light photos, and portrait mode photos. Since the standard shot is (supposedly) more useful than the other modes, that mode is also a bit heavier to produce more accurate results from his poll of viewers.
Some models from previous years carry on: brighter exposures tend to rank higher, although as Brownlee noted, something is too bright and that has caused some phones to lag. ranking in the rankings.
What’s also surprising is how many categories one of the cheapest phones comes in at or near the top: $299 Google Pixel 6A topped the standard photo category. Personally, I’m confused by this as I had only owned that phone for a month before giving up on its massive (for me) camera. It is possible that at the web resolution at which these tests were performed, the phone works fine, but when it comes to pixel peeking (sorry for the pun), the iPhone 14 Pro I replaced it with is winner .
But which phones appear on all of them? Check out the video above to find out.
What do you think about the results of the test? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
