DxOMark has just published a comprehensive overview of smartphone camera technologies and their impact on image quality measurements from 2012 to today.
In the article, the company looks at the evolution of both photo and video by comparing one of the first high-end devices they tested, the Nokia 808 PureView, to today’s flagship phones, such as the Google Pixel 2, the iPhone X, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. They also analyse how the introduction of imaging technologies, such as dual-cameras, multi-frame-stacking, and dual-pixel autofocus have impacted different aspects of smartphone camera image quality and performance, such as texture and noise, exposure, autofocus, zoom quality, and the appearance of bokeh.
The company states that DSLRs and mirrorless system cameras are still clearly ahead in some areas, but in terms of image processing, Canon, Nikon, Pentax, and the other players in the DSC market are behind what Apple, Samsung, Google, and Huawei can do. They have also commented that the performance gap between smartphones and DSLRs is narrowing.
