DxO’s mobile photography benchmark now tests dual cameras and depth effects
September 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
DxO’s mobile photography test has become the go-to benchmark for comparing smartphone cameras. But the test, created in 2012, wasn’t designed to measure a lot of features that are now common in phones, so DxO is updating it to start considering a bunch of new factors, like second lenses and depth effects.
The updated DxOMark Mobile test has three big new focuses: zoom, bokeh, and low-light performance. The first two are meant to take into account additional lenses and focus effects, like on the iPhone 7 Plus. A phone with an additional telephoto camera will necessarily perform better on a zoom test than a phone that’s relying on digital zoom. And while the bokeh test will look for how well the camera is able to pleasantly blur the…
