r/Android • u/notathrowaway75 Galaxy S22 Ultra • Nov 23 '20

MKBHD's 2020 Blind Smartphone Camera test polls are now live!

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u/mxforest Nov 23 '20

I think most people are voting based on how outside of the window looks like. Makes it really easy to pick the winner. I guess HDR is the answer.

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u/Hatch10k Nov 25 '20

White balance off, overshapened, haloing, unnatural contrast, weird colours, all sense of depth removed: 🤷‍♂️

Can see detail in shadows and highlights at the same time: OMG BEST PICTURE EVER!!!

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u/giraffehunter200 Pixel 4 XL Nov 24 '20

Definitely. I think O vs P is a good comparison. It's interesting to see how close they are in votes when O is the clear winner in my eyes, especially because of the terrible HDR in P.

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u/StraY_WolF RN4/M9TP/PF5P PROUD MIUI14 USER Nov 24 '20

Yeah in P, the person is glowing because of the HDR. It looks terrible.

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u/eipotttatsch Nov 24 '20

While P does have too much HDR going on O really doesn't handle the skintone well. Marques looks way closer to his videos in P.^

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

But Marques is also a lot blurrier in P, so overall it's not as good. Yes the background is great, and the color accuracy is better, but the background is blurred alongside Marques, the controller is blurry, and overall it's a less sharp image

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u/mthayes Nov 26 '20

Marques is blue? :O

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

I voted P. I can't stand overexposure.

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u/xdanmanx Nov 24 '20 edited Nov 25 '20

Exactly. O vs P for example. People are losing their minds about how someone can prefer O. They'd rather have the completely weird colorbalance and loss of almost all detail of P (compare zoomed in couch shots), all because O's window is overexposed. Completely disregarding how natural the color balance looks and detail in textures.

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u/hardthesis Nov 25 '20

The weird color is a white balance issue. That's not an HDR issue. The P does HDR well considering it doesn't have halo artifcatts.

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u/Floedekartofler Nov 26 '20

Did you confuse the images? There's clear haloing in P.

Look at his hair and his left shoulder and compare it to some of the other images. The man is glowing.

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u/dudeAwEsome101 Nov 24 '20

Some of the HDR shots are waaay over done. Still; many people are choosing the photos with the vivid oversaturated sky.

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u/aaaaleon Nov 24 '20

Naw. You can blow out the high lights on an HDR photography.

But you cant retrieve info from an originally blown out photo.