It's a common refrain from those who don't like how DxOMark rates their favorite camera/camera brand. Not only does DxoMark disclose their methodology, their results have been independently reproduced by individuals who have done their own sensor measurements. Lenses are a different story - DxO's methodology for its lens testing is a big black box.
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iPhone 7 Camera Test Touts Excellent Exposure, Lower Noise, and Richer Colors
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It's a common refrain from those who don't like how DxOMark rates their favorite camera/camera brand. Not only does DxoMark disclose their methodology, their results have been independently reproduced by individuals who have done their own sensor measurements. Lenses are a different story - DxO's methodology for its lens testing is a big black box.
" topping the iPhone 6s by two points but trailing the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and five other devices.
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Looks like I can definitely skip this one. For the price of an iPhone it's camera should lead all but highly specialized smartphones. Maybe the 8 will at least improve significantly over my 6 Plus's camera.
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Looks like I can definitely skip this one. For the price of an iPhone it's camera should lead all but highly specialized smartphones. Maybe the 8 will at least improve significantly over my 6 Plus's camera.
In any indoor shots, the 56mm camera will require much higher ISO due to f/2.8. (Roughly 2.3x for the same shutter speed) Hence the reduced quality. I still think it's worth having the option.
Good point, although I was mostly just comparing iPhone to iPhone.
Also, there's no replacement for displacement, except forced induction.
DxO Labs has published an in-depth iPhone 7 camera review, calling it "a very solid evolution over the iPhone 6s" after extensive testing. The single-lens smartphone achieved an overall DxOMark Mobile Score of 86, topping the iPhone 6s by two points...
Might want to recheck that. According to the DxO Labs ranking, the 7 is 2 points higher than the 6S Plus and 4 points higher than the 6S.
. The photo on the right, for example, rendered using the DCI-P3 color space, has richer reds displayed compared to the photo on the left rendered using the traditional sRGB color space.
The irony is that as I look at the image above in a web browser on my iPhone 6s I am aware that my browser only supports the sRGB color space, the whole image comparison above is an sRGB image and my screen isn't DCI-P3. Yet I see that the image on the right is more colourful simply because of software processing applied to the image. Apply processing to the left side too and there isn't going to be a noticeable difference.
In other words, we should be judging true RAW images side by side.
I was wondering the same thing. Did others forget about the 4.7 iPhone model camera? It has been all about the dual camera and Bokeh feature since day one. I have the 4.7 iPhone and there is a difference from the 6s. Much improved.
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DCI-P3 and sRGB are colorspaces. They are ways of mapping between numerical data and color data. DCI-P3 is a better colorspace for photography and much better for HDR photos, but nowhere does Apple say how much of the DCI-P3 space the camera covers. It could be the exact same data in a different file format.
DXOMark does a very technical quantitative analysis. It's not people looking at a row of pictures and saying "yep, the color is better here".
I don't know if I would go so far as to say DXO discloses everything because the final score is still not a straight average. Some metrics are clearly weighted more than others but which ones? And what if you value other properties of a sensor than the ones they picked? Resolution and low ISO dynamic range are a couple of the things that seem to affect the score more, yet they place less emphasis on high ISO performance and dynamic range despite IMO that being the more important aspect.
Looks like the iPhone doesn't t take good color pics, all the background is white.
What you're seeing is the effect of exposure. Wide color gamut means it can capture colors outside the sRGB color gamut. In other words, if this guy had something that was like a neon green, or a saturated red, it will be able to capture that.
That picture has mostly grays and a few reds and yellows.
Looks like the iPhone doesn't t take good color pics, all the background is white.
This is what I've found. Not impressed at all with the iPhone 7 and 7+ camera in anything less than perfectly lit and staged scenes.
I've got a 19 year old Sony digital camera that could handle the pictured situation better than the iPhone 7...
Heck if the pictures weren't labeled I'd have guessed that the picture on the left was something like a Motorola RAZR (the old flip phone) and the one on the right was something from the $300-400 class in Nikon or Canon.
The 7 Plus low light video test is INSANE!
I actually beg to differ. I think low light has been marginally better the last few years but the step this year is the best so far - think it's a solid step up from the 6S and that regular-7 is getting OIS this gen is great (haven't tested it yet, but should be great)
No, the images can't be combined for enhanced IQ because to do so both lens sensor modules would need to be identical. Instead Apple used two different lens sensor modules for depth mapping and optical zoom.
Apparently they found that digitally zooming the result of two combined 28mm images from 1/3" sensors produces a worse image than that from a single 56mm lens on a 1/3.6" sensor. Or maybe it was just cheaper to add a 56mm 1/3.6" module than to add another 28mm 1/3" module? It will be interesting to see what the 7 Plus DxO review finds.
For comparison, the Galaxy S7 has a 1/2.5" camera sensor, making it's sensor area is 43% larger than the iPhone's 1/3" sensor. That's a big, easily noticable difference - about the same as that between a 1" sensor and an APS-C sensor. Such a shame that Apple aren't serious about image quality.
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Anyone who doesn't fluff Apple full time. It's not enough to own and use Apple products, we must prostrate ourselves to Apple's ultimate superiority and bask in the wisdom of Apple executives.
DxO Labs has published an in-depth iPhone 7 camera review, calling it "a very solid evolution over the iPhone 6s" after extensive testing. The single-lens smartphone achieved an overall DxOMark Mobile Score of 86, topping the iPhone 6s by two points but trailing the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and five other devices.
iPhone 7 has a wider DCI-P3 color gamut that allows for more vibrant colors compared to the traditional sRGB standard. The photo on the right, for example, rendered using the DCI-P3 color space, has richer reds displayed compared to the photo on the left rendered using the traditional sRGB color space.
Who's the broad?
It has a great camera. It's even better when you shoot in RAW and edit in Adobe Lightroom. I did that with my iPhone 7 recently, and the dynamic range you can get is incredible for a phone. I had to scale it down first, because even though it was well under the upload cap, the forums keep telling me the file is too big. But here is a scaled version which shows the dynamic range and color capabilities for editing in RAW:
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Including *last years galaxy model* AND all the current flagship releases from Samsung, Sony, Motorola, and HTC. All of them. I thought my 7+ camera was pretty good, I definitely noticed more detail than my 6+. I gotta say I'm hoping for a stellar review with the dual lenses, but I'm concerned because of the sensor size.
They use mostly an arbitrary metric cutoff to arrive at their summary "use case" metrics. They describe it here:
https://www.dxomark.com/About/Sensor-scores/Use-Case-Scores
And I on the other hand are very impressed with it.
But what the heck do I know, I'm just a full time pro who makes solid six figures shooting photos...
You know what really shocked me in that comparison is the MASSIVE jump from the 3G to the 3GS. I was given a 3G by my father who hated the service of AT&T in his area at the time and so I was like sweet, and passed on the 3GS, as I didn't think it was much of a change. Now in retrospect and seeing that difference in camera, I'm blown away and feel stupid. I should have used my upgrade and sold the 3G, HAHAHA.