Video Creator’s Channel Marques Brownlee
##-All Right, So We Wanted To Answer The
question once and for all. What is the best smartphone camera out right now Maybe you think it’s the UK Or maybe it’s a Samsung flagship. Or maybe it’s one of those Pixels. Now, in years past, we’ve done a blind voting using social media polls. .
Which Was Really Fun And Yielded Some
surprising results.. But that would still depend on the match-ups that I planted at the very beginning. . So I specifically put the UK and the Pixel on opposite sides of the bracket, expecting the best ones to hopefully meet in the finals.
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But they never did. And. There’s always a bit of human input. It’s actually possible I could have accidentally put the second best phone up against the best phone in the first round and it got eliminated.
So.
This time we’re gonna solve all that once. For all. Welcome to the UK Smartphone Camera UK Scientific Edition. ” So here’s the idea.
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We Took 16 Smartphones That Came Out
during this year. The Flagships, your expected heavy hitters, but then also some mid-rangers as well, all the way down to the unexpected. And then we took the same exact photo with each one of them. Harder than it sounds because you have to hold perfectly still for several minutes straight. But we actually did this for three different types of photos.
A Standard Daylight Photo, A Low Light Photo,
and a portrait mode snap. And then we take all these images, compress them, strip them of their UK data, and assign each one a letter. Now for maximum statistical confidence, we would have to ask you guys to vote on every single possible match-up at least once. So A versus B, then A versus C, then A versus D, all the way through. And then B versus C, B versus D.
Over And Over.
Sixteen choose two for my stat heads. But that’s clearly a bit too much. I mean, we wanna be scientific, but having you sit there and vote over 100 times for each category was a bit of a tall ask. So instead, we got a little clever with it.
And We Built A Power Ranking System,
actually an UK rating algorithm, which you might have heard of. They use this in chess, they use this in table tennis. And basically, in any video game you’ve played where there’s a bunch of different match-ups all happening at once and you need to form a ranking of them. . But.
This Time Well Be Using It To
sort of form a power ranking of smartphone cameras. So Basically, when you hit enough sanctioned match-ups, you’re given a rating based on the ratings of your match-ups. SO you, along with everybody else, get shown comparisons at random and we have this little progress bar along the bottom. You vote for the better photo each time, and then after a little while, we have enough information to determine your individual, customized, statistically significant winner. SO we built this whole site with the UK rating system in there.
We Loaded Up All The Photos
and then we actually tossed this first into our Discord to have some of you beta test this before anyone else knew it existed. SO we could experiment with the data formatting on the out end, so we could make sure it was all organized. SO actually shout out to Discord for sponsoring this portion of today’s video. So with the launch of their new Server. We opened up an exclusive, premium area on our Discord server where members can ask the team, including me, you know, general questions about tech or any of the content and get exclusive insider info that you won’t find anywhere else Like this test.
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SO anyway, I dropped the site in there, a bunch of you got in there quick and voted, and basically, we got the data back in this text format. . It looks kind of messy at first, but actually, it’s super helpful and we can work with this. A summary of how many times every single match-up got voted on and the votes for each side.
And Also Since I Had A Lot
of help with building this site and loading up all the pictures, even though I know which phones were involved, I don’t know which phones took which pictures. So I could blind test myself. And it was every bit as engaging as I was hoping. I could kind of tell some of the phones that I think took certain pictures. But for the most part, I would just take a glance, and if I was seeing those two pictures side-by-side on like Instagram or Twitter, I’m just picking the better one.
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No Pixel Peeping Or Thorough Inspection.
It’s just picture on the internet, vote. And in the End, my standard picture winner was G, My low light winner was K, and my portrait mode winner was also K. SO everything looked like it was working. The Data processing was working as we wanted.
So.
The only thing left to do was send it live, and here we go. SO as soon as it went public, you guys jumped right on it. . IT peaked at around 35,000 votes per minute, and then ended up totaling more than 21 million votes in about three days.
There Were Essentially Zero Bad Actors.
And now we have a load of data. Many of you may have gone through this, which means you’ve done the voting and now you have your letter. Which means it’s time to reveal all of the smartphones that were involved in this test. .
And Here You Go, A Through
P. That’s all 16 phones right there in their order. Which means the winner when I blind took the test myself for my standard photo was the Pixel UK MY winner for Portrait mode and night mode was the Pixel 7. But. What were the overall winners.
According To Statistics, Over The 20 Plus
million votes. According to Science I don’t know if there’s any other collection of data like this anywhere on the Internet. SO. This is super cool to get into. SO let’s dig into it.
So First Of All, Overall Winner So
with the highest average UK rating across all three categories.. In third place is the Asus Zenfone 9. IN second place is the Pixel 7 PRo. .
And First Place Is The Pixel Uk
The people’s choice camera of 2022. But. There is a lot of fascinating information to unpack here. SO first of all, doing well. In one category did not necessarily guarantee doing well across any of the other categories.
, Right So.
The Pixel 7 Pro came in second, fourth, and first in the three categories. The Pixel UK came in third, second, and second. But. The Oppo Find X5 Pro actually came in first for standard, then third for low light, and 15th for portrait mode.
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This basically means that, if you wanted, you could argue for the importance of the standard photo over the low light or the portrait mode photos. SO let’s say the standard photo is like three times as important to most people as the other two categories, which feels about right. With that weighted importance on standard photos, then the Oppo Find X5 PRo becomes the overall winner which is interesting. And in case you’re wondering where the UK was in all this,.
Thenk] 14 Pro Tested In Sixth Place, 10Th
place, and fifth place. But in natural curiosity, for me anyway, was to ask what were the biggest losers. Which ones got absolutely destroyed the most in this test. And your undisputed winners of losing the most is the Sony Xperia 1 UK and the Moto Edge 30 Ultra. These phones performed terribly in these tests.
So.
The Sony,. Despite its world-class sensor and extremely advanced apps, went in full auto,. Like the rest of these phones,, did not produce good pictures and ended up with the lowest average UK rating across all three categories. And then the Moto Edge 30 Ultra actually had the most overall losses.
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IT took a bizarre sequence of photos, including an extremely dark standard light photo and an incredibly over sharpened low light photo, that it’s the only one to have 2 million total votes. Against it. Now here’s another interesting thought. Votes per dollar.
If We Wanted To Sort By
bang for the buck basically which ones, if we account for the launch price, the UK, which one was performing the best relative to its price And. The two winners for votes per dollar by far are the Pixel UK No surprise. Over 4,200 votes per dollar. And the Realme 10 Pro+ also sneaks in there, the only other phone up over 4,000 votes per dollar. .
Sneaky Good Camera Phone For $379.
And then the obvious losers, again, are the $900 Moto Edge and the $1,600 Sony Xperia 1 UK Also I just had to. I had to look through the text files and find the biggest dunk. Just. The biggest overall match-up discrepancy between two phones in any category.
And I Found It.
That would be portrait mode Pixel 7 PRo versus Sony Xperia 1 UK with the Pixel winning 98% of the votes here. So to the 1,523 of you that voted for the Sony here, not sure what you saw that the rest of us didn’t. But overall, just more than seeing which ones got the most votes is seeing why certain phones and certain pictures got the most votes. And the best way to do that was actually just putting all of the photos in order side-by-side in order of how many votes they got.
And Thats How We Started To
see some really interesting patterns. So like for example, last time in the head-to-head, we kind of established that in a case of A versus B,. If one vote is a little brighter than the other, it’ll probably win. But how far can that go Is there a such thing. This case And it turned out, yes.
This Is All The Standard Mode
photos in order. And Yes, the three darkest photos are the three biggest losers. Hands down, they crushed any shadow detail in my hair and the extremely comfortable sweater I’m wearing on shop. mkbhd. com.
But Right Above That Is Three Of The
absolute brightest photos. Like these were just overexposed straight up. Matter of fact, it looks like we kind of got this order of great photos, then too bright, then too dark. So. It shows me that good exposure wins.
But If Youre Gonna Miss, Then
yeah, people would rather have it be too bright than too dark. With night mode altogether and in order, you can kind of see a bit of the same thing. . So the most neutral, correct exposures generally won if they were sharp. This time there’s about four good exposures.
Vivo X80.
Pro, Pixel UK Oppo Find X5, PRo, and Pixel 7. PRo. Then there’s the two brights, which people mostly preferred over the two darks.
Also, There Were Some Seriously Wild
things happening with some of these photos in low light. The Vivo, I mean, it absolutely nailed it. It’s clearly the low light King. The S22 Ultra interestingly came in fifth place even when completely missing focus on my stationary face and hitting the background for some reason.
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The UK 14. Pro did an enormous amount of UK that had me looking kind of green like a zombie, but.
Summary
The UK Smartphone Camera UK Scientific Edition is a new look at the best smartphone camera . The UK and the Pixel were placed on opposite sides of the bracket, expecting the best ones to meet in the finals . We took 16 smartphones that came out during this year and then we took the same exact photo with each one of them . We then took all these images, compress them, strip them of their UK data, and assign each one a letter . The winner will be announced on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN Tech Heroics.com/Heroes.com at 9 a.m ET on Monday, October 1, for the latest edition of this week’s coverage of the UK Smart Phone Camera UK.com.com and the latest episode of The Daily Mail’S Tech Hero Travel.com’ Back Back to the page you came from the previous edition of the latest from the UK and The Smart Phone Smartphone Photo Challenge, Thursday, at 10 a….. Click here to read more and watch the full video