{"id":224675806,"date":"2023-11-11T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T11:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/?p=224675806"},"modified":"2023-11-11T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T00:12:53","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b7%d9%82%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%ac%d8%a9-%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7-phonearena-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b7%d9%82%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%ac%d8%a9-%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7-phonearena-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u0627\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0637\u0642\u064a \u0644\u062f\u0631\u062c\u0629 \u0643\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0631\u0627 PhoneArena: \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0627\u064a\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0646\u0633\u062a\u062e\u062f\u0645\u0647\u0627"},"content":{"rendered":"

After we unveiled the PhoneArena Camera Score benchmark this week, I figured it\u2019s worth it to say a bit more about the philosophy behind the Camera Score.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In other words: what are we measuring against? What are these phone cameras trying to reach? What is our standard for the greatest camera out there? In simpler terms, what does a higher result mean in PA Camera Score parlance?<\/p>\n

We struggled with this question for a long time as we were working on different components of the rating. And from looking around in the camera benchmarking space, which is a rather uninhabited space, that was like the question to answer. Why? Because evaluating a camera, let alone a smartphone camera, is an inherently subjective affair.<\/p>\n

So, what do you measure against? Based on what principles do you label one camera better than another?<\/p>\n

One of the logical ways to go, which was also our intention for a while, is to have \u201creality\u201d as the benchmark. In other words, this concept would have you take brutally-realistic photos of the test environment, as close to how our eyes see it, and then measure the shots taken by the phone cameras we test against that realistic reference.<\/p>\n

This all makes sense, but there\u2019s one big problem with this concept: it goes against what users demand out of their phone cameras. And what they demand is a camera that produces the most impressive-looking photos with the least effort possible.<\/p>\n

Aside from the several purists out there, the vast majority of us want photos that make us look great, that make the environment we\u2019re in look great, and that are ready for sharing right away. As we got convinced ourselves, nobody wants a dark, gloomy, blueish photo, only because it was taken in overcast weather. If that happens to be the case, we\u2019d like things in our photo to turn out a little more\u2026 balanced, a little warmer and likable. Otherwise, what are we to do with that gloomy photo?<\/p>\n

We absolutely think that phone manufacturers are overdoing it with the processing nowadays.<\/p>\n

But, at the same time, we realize we cannot live in the land of make believe, and we can\u2019t walk against human nature and insist that phone cameras should take photos that are as realistic as possible, because if we\u2019re completely honest \u2013 we don\u2019t want photos that are as realistic as possible.<\/p>\n

What we want are photos that just look great! And what does great mean? Well, I think that\u2019s what phone manufacturers are trying to figure out. Year after year, they tweak, rework, shake up, improve, upgrade, all in the pursuit of a formula that customers would take preference to.<\/p>\n

So, we decided to take the road less traveled so far, which is the middle road. It\u2019s the middle road because we don\u2019t think we\u2019ll ever go back to pursuing realism in phone photography, but we also dislike the overprocessed look many popular phones offer these days. This is why we based our benchmark target on a concept we refer to as \u201cReality Plus\u201d, which simply means that we want things to be grounded in reality and not look like they belong to some other planet, but at the same time we acknowledge the fact that we do want photos that simply look great and are ready for both viewing and sharing.<\/p>\n

The PhoneArena Camera Score measures multiple objective aspects, like a camera\u2019s ability to capture true detail, or the reliability of its preview, or the level of undesired oversharpening.<\/p>\n

However, when it comes to how we evaluate the visual \u201cstyle\u201d of the photos coming out of our favorite little snappers, which has always been and continues to be a terribly subjective matter, we\u2019ve decided to base our ratings on a \u201cReality Plus\u201d concept \u2013 a level of brightness, and an approach to color reproduction that are grounded in reality, but tastefully tune up a photo\u2019s visual likability.<\/p>\n

We hope this philosophy makes sense to you. Let us hear your thoughts about what modern phone photography should look like in the comments!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After we unveiled the PhoneArena Camera Score benchmark this week, I figured it\u2019s worth it to say a bit more about the philosophy behind the Camera Score. In other words: what are we measuring against? What are these phone cameras trying to reach? What is our standard for the greatest camera out there? In simpler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":224675807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":255,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224675806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-tips-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224675806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224675806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224675806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224675807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224675806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224675806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224675806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}