The Best Smartphone Camera 2022!
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It's time to find out once with SCIENCE: What's the best smartphone camera? vote.mkbhd.com Thanks to Discord for sponsoring today’s video!
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The video presents a comprehensive, scientifically framed exploration of which smartphone camera was the best in 2022. Marques Brownlee explains that this time the test is a blind smartphone camera comparison using 16 phones, spanning flagship to mid-range devices, and three photo categories: standard daylight, low light, and portrait mode. To avoid bias from human pairings, the team implemented an Elo-style ranking system and a dedicated voting site that viewers could use to compare images side by side, with all EXIF data stripped to keep the tests fair. The process involved producing the same photos with each device, presenting them in randomized matchups, and aggregating votes to derive a statistically significant winner, a method designed to reveal true camera capabilities beyond marketing hype. Early in the video, Marques explains the voting infrastructure and how it leverages a power ranking system to build a final, data-driven result rather than a simple bracket. The reveal shows Pixel devices performing exceptionally well, with the Pixel 6A crowned as the overall winner in this people’s choice test, followed closely by the Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 7 in various categories, while other brands show strengths in specific areas like standard photography or portrait cutouts. The discussion then delves into nuanced insights from the data, such as how being strong in one category does not guarantee excellence in others, and how exposure and cutout quality influence viewer preferences, culminating in broader takeaways about what makes a camera look good in real-world scenarios and why brighter is not always better. Marques closes by noting the ongoing voting window, the data’s potential impact on camera development, and a nod to the community that helped build the test on Discord, inviting viewers to keep voting until a set deadline.
Topics · technology · science · gadgets · photography · review · consumer electronics
Questions answered
- What method did MKBHD use to determine the best smartphone camera in 2022?
- They conducted a blind test with 16 smartphones across three photo categories, using a randomized matchup voting system and an Elo-style ranking to derive a statistically significant winner.
- Which phone won the overall test according to the data, and which won in portrait mode?
- The Pixel 6A won the overall test, while the Pixel 7 Pro dominated portrait mode.
- Why was the voting site built and how was data handled?
- The site was built to collect large-scale, unbiased votes across many matchups, then the images were encoded and processed to produce a power ranking without exposing which phone took which photo until after the results were tallied.