I spent a solid 20 minutes staring at your face to the point where I still see you with my eyes closed. Probably gonna see you in my dreams, thanks Marques!
1 year ago | 651
This was SO MUCH MORE DIFFICULT than I thought it would be. Cannot wait to see the results. I often found myself changing my preferences (brighter seemed initially better but later on, the clarity and overall natural color photos seemed to be the one of choice). Really can't wait to see which camera was what.
1 year ago | 42
Brighter doesn't mean better the darker one looks more realistic especially on mkbhds skin color... It just looks healthy
1 year ago | 2,500
For the most part I went for the darker photos because cameras have an annoying way of washing out dark skin. And there's only one camera that seemed to ever get it right for the past few years and that's the pixel so I'm curious to see how the results come out since I picked K.
1 year ago (edited) | 17
Just did it! It was so fun, as a photographer, it really is interesting to see the different styles every camera had
1 year ago (edited) | 245
I didn't realise how much your skin tone would be affected by so many different shots. Makes me wonder which shot was genuinely the most accurate to reality
1 year ago | 5
One of these years, you need to add in a control using your high end equipment just to see if it wins. Edit: to clarify, I meant compare the winner to the control. It could be a way to test year over year performance of phone cameras and be a fun experiment to see if people can tell a phone camera pic vs a fully dedicated setup
1 year ago (edited) | 464
This was a good experience overall. The difference in skin tones, outdoor/indoor/pop of color really put this into a good perspective. Well thought out! B was consistently #1 in my testing. G was a close second.
1 year ago (edited) | 25
This was an interesting experience. I had to fight my bias towards photos that were well framed, and I tended to favor brighter, higher contrast photos unless they were too washed out or made Marques’s skin tone too red. And there’s a part of me that wonders if I was subconsciously biased towards photos that made his skin tone look lighter... I didn’t change any of my choices to fight that potential bias, but I’ve been thinking about that since I took the test.
1 year ago (edited) | 336
L, F and H were consistently the best for me. I feel like the skin color was most important for my decisions, some looked really unnatural. Curious what the results would be for other subjects
1 year ago | 13
For me K was the top in all sections, followed by G. 3rd place was different in each one. Gotta say this was fun! I think I like this test more than previous years tests
1 year ago | 12
This voting session was more of an eye opener for many, we start to question what is a good pic in totality.. in the photography philosophy we go deep down and truly understand what an individual really prefers
1 year ago | 127
Voting on those photos really challenged my thinking as a photographer- When is yellow light too much? Do I suddenly prefer a blue glare to background sharpness? Does lighter equal blurry or does darker? In the end I found out I prefer to let natural lighting through as much as possible even if it is being challenged by artificial halogen lighting. And that dark skin does not look too bad made even darker, I just assume that not seeing a beard properly is not wanted, but when I remember that men shave their beards I suddenly stop worrying about not seeing hairs! Also, yellow hues give an overall jaundiced appearance, I reckon, harmful blue light hues are suddenly less annoying when compared with yellows. And dark, sharp contrast often adds an unwanted brittle look to a photo, it doesn't add depth at all. I loved that test!! Thank you.
1 year ago | 1
This was a very interesting comparison. I actually changed the methodology I evaluated the photos with somewhere in the middle. While first I was thinking more in terms of, which one is the best looking, but also which one has more info and is more "editable" in post, then I changed to just the best looking one to me, that I would straight up like on Instagram, if I saw it. It's pretty hard to actually evaluate, which photo has the best skin colour, not having seen a person once in real life, so while I would like to pay more attention to that, it would be hard to judge, so I left the lighting to the personal preference, something fighting between light and overexposed, or too contrasty.
1 year ago | 162
This is the best implementation of Blind Camera Contest ever! Keep doing it bro!
1 year ago | 8
It would be great if you compared how the cameras take pictures of moving objects. I've had completely useless cameras despite being highly rated because my little kids don't stay still and all of The pics are blurry.
1 year ago | 31
This was fun, I like the new system a lot. for me K was the only one that scored in the top 3 in all of the categories. Very curious to see which phone that is.
1 year ago (edited) | 10
The low light one was definitely the hardest, there were some I didn't want to pick either lol. The portrait mode was surprising to me because the first two test the same phone won for me and it wasn't close, and then that same phone didn't crack top to for portrait mode.
1 year ago | 41
I personally definitely prefer the left one as far as colors and it just overall feels more natural but the right one has much better framing and I like the perspective more.
1 year ago | 2
Marques Brownlee
WELCOME to the Blind Smartphone Camera Test (Scientific Edition) vote.MKBHD.com/
The social media polls were fun, but this one will be WAY more scientific 🤓 You'll be shown side-by-side photos from 16 cameras, and the site we've built creates a power ranking (ELO score) in the background. You pick winners until a statistically significant champion emerges
The phone names will be revealed in a video soon!
Let the games begin!
vote.MKBHD.com/
1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 24,183