- For the love of selfies!
DXOMark's Selfie Report got this one all wrong.
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First, what is DXO?
Established in 2008, DXOMark is an independent benchmark
that scientifically assesses image quality
of smartphones, lenses, and cameras.
That's directly from their website.
And I love smartphones,
so this score should mean a lot to me.
But it doesn't.
I'm not scientific.
So, I just don't care.
Maybe you do.
That's cool.
But when DXO took so long to publish the results
from the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL,
I felt like something weird was going on.
Are they being paid to perform testing
on other devices first?
Why did it take so long after the release
for the Pixel 3 to get any results published?
This was a hot topic on several tweets that I saw.
There was even some fake Photoshop images floating around
that had the Pixel 3 DXO scores on them.
But they just weren't out.
They were fake.
The whole thing was very strange.
But we're gonna move past that
and get down to the actual images.
How do they look and compare with each other?
When taking a selfie, we take them for many reasons.
Mostly to share with other people or to capture a moment.
The thing I'm mostly concerned about is how it looks.
How does it look when I text it to someone?
How does it look when I post it to Instagram?
How much attention is this photo getting me?
This is the social world.
This is where we live and how things operate.
So, being able to come correct with your A game
is very important.
Sometimes to help us bring that A game,
we depend on the cameras we're using.
So we're gonna go ahead and go through different photos
taken on four different smartphone cameras.
The iPhone XS Max, Apple's biggest and baddest smartphone
on the market at the moment.
The OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition.
I know this isn't a high-end flagship.
But I wanted you to have a good comparison
on a really solid mid-range.
The Pixel 3 XL which is already known
for having amazing photos.
Last but not least, the Samsung Galaxy Note9.
During this comparison,
I took selfies from several different lighting conditions.
I also took some portrait
also known as some Bokeh shots as well.
That means blurred background
in case you haven't had a phone with that feature yet.
We're gonna go ahead and take a quick look
at a slideshow of several different photos
and which phone they came from and the lighting conditions.
And I'm gonna let you decide which one is the best.
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Pretty interesting, right?
If I didn't tell you what photo
came from what smartphone camera,
would you have been able to guess?
It's getting harder and harder
to compare these front-facing cameras.
But the selfie shots are still miles away from each other
as you can see.
DXO gave the Pixel 3 and the Note9 a tied score of 92.
Did DXO get this wrong?
Let me know what you think in the description.
Let's talk about it, but let's be respectful.
Samsung fans, I know you're very passionate
about protecting your Sammy,
but the XS Max and the Pixel 3 gave the Note9
a run for it's money.
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