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The camera phone comes of age

Thursday, January 03, 2013

Mobile News

Chasseur d'Images, the first European magazine dedicated to photography, has chosen to rely on DxOMark Mobile technology for its new section devoted to smartphone image quality measurement. In its December issue, the magazine goes behind the scenes at DxO Labs to explain how DxOMark tests camera phone image quality by following a procedure as rigorous as that applied to conventional digital cameras and lenses.

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News  |  January 03
The camera phone comes of age

The time has finally come to start testing them just like real cameras!

A telephone that shoots photos using a 41 Mpix sensor, another that produces hand-held panoramas, camera phones that film special moments in Full HD and make sharing photos and videos as easy as sending a text message... No doubt about it, the camera phone has come of age! In its labs, DxOMark tests the image quality of mobile phones according to a testing protocol as rigorous as that used for cameras and lenses, and confirms that certain mobile phones have already surpassed some of the compact cameras we were admiring only months earlier. Without denying the merits of using real cameras, the time has come to take a closer look at these devices… with a photographer’s eye!

Just a few steps from the TF1 tower, in the muted atmosphere of a room painted entirely black, a technician goes about his business amidst stands, lightboxes, color charts, numerous measuring tools, and funny pictures composed of both matte and shiny colored objects. Tomorrow he will cross Paris, following a strict itinerary from Pompidou Centre to the Eiffel Tower before heading back to the lab to take a series of portraits, also very carefully controlled. We are with the publisher of DxOMark, and we have just arrived smack-dab in the middle of testing the camera of a new mobile phone that will soon appear in store windows, and whose initial assessments are already very promising.

DxOMark’s decision to test camera phones is based on a simple observation: more than a billion mobile phones have been sold throughout the world, of which 640 million are smartphones. Just in France alone, 4.5 times more camera phones have sold than digital compacts and 27 times more than DSLRs! Camera phone image quality has become one of the principal choice criteria for buyers. Until now, however, it has never been rigorously evaluated. With its enormous experience of 2,500 camera-lens combinations already tested and more than 200,000 available measurements, French company DxO Labs has launched itself into this vast undertaking of objectively measuring and making comparisons of the image quality between devices that, up until now, were never expected to be players in the field of digital photography.