Tuesday, February 06, 2018

DxOMark on Disruption in Smartphone Cameras

DxOMark publishes an article "Disruptive technologies in mobile imaging: Taking smartphone cameras to the next level" reviewing smartphone camera technologies and their impact on image quality measurements from 2012 to today. One can clearly see a saturation in improvements over the last couple of years:

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  1. Question on slide 2, "photo noise and texture" - How come the Google Pixel 2 is so much better in texture over noise compared to Samsung which actually has the faster lens by same optical format sensor. Very impressive results for the Pixel 2, or a typo in the chart?

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  2. Note the horizontal scale in the first graph. It overstates apparent saturation.

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  3. How convenient that saturation occurs at the 100 mark. Seeing as nobody knows how they arrive at this score is quite hard to access its relevance.

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    1. I don't think 100 is the limit. In cameras, some of them score higher than that:

      https://www.dxomark.com/category/camera-reviews/

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