I'm not going to argue with you regarding color balance. It does appear Apple is over compensating a bit. But with contrast and sharpness, there's no way Samsung's camera is accurately representing what the human eye sees. Just as theorist9 says, the snowfield photo shows why Apple is the winner: in the Samsung photo, you can't see the shoe prints or the 100s of natural divots/shapes in the snow, all of which your eye would clearly see from the location the photographer is standing. If you look at the electrical lines, the Samsung photo doesn't even show the third line running almost due North from the pole. Your eye would have easily seen it. I assume these issues stem from less light hitting the sensor, but I'm not really sure. But even if the sky is grayer than Apple would lead you to believe, the world has more objects and outlines in it than Samsung would lead you to believe -- and you can't fix that in post.Could tell A had artificially boosted the saturation and contrast, so figured that was Apple, turned out I was right. Apple do like to process their photos to produce "nice looking" pictures rather than accurate pictures.
I guess they kind of do now if you're happy to shoot in RAW...I’d like my photos to default to an honest colour profile and I’ll edit them from that if I want to. I wish they’d allow a toggle for this in Settings.
Can we talk about the 100's and 100's of people, including me, complaining about the iphone 12 pro max being unable to focus on closeup shots??? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252063233
Pretty much picked all A and was a bit surprised.. I just think Samsung for whatever reason just can't get their Camera software working perfectly.. Google and Apple cameras are always better.. Just goes to show, now days it has as much to do about software as it does hardware.
Each test is different so impossible to compare.You're making this broad assumption based on an apple fan's "blind test"
It's interesting that other people who have done camera tests come to very different conclusions.
Yeah it’s an issue. Only super close up though
Which is why these "tests" don't mean anything. It's just an opportunity some use to try to promote one brand over another.Each test is different so impossible to compare.
some YouTube reviews I thought S21 Ultra was better other examples iPhone it will depend on the shot more often than not.
This is also true and I'm sure it swings in both directions.Which is why these "tests" don't mean anything. It's just an opportunity some use to try to promote one brand over another.
Sites like this one can't be trusted to give you accurate and unbiased information.
I'm sure they took their time taking the iPhone photos to make them look at Best as possible.
I caught someone once switching the photos around by looking at the metadata.
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might want to clean the lenses...
I think that B looked muddy and underexposed. Bringing them in to Photoshop and looking at the histogram confirmed this. It was especially evident in the snow. The entire time I was preferring A and preparing myself to have to admit the iPhone was beat.
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iPhone is on the right. The image on left is underexposed and lacking detail and contrast. In other words it’s flat and muddy.