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CTOnews.com, January 7 (Xinhua)-- Marques Brownlee (also known as MKBHD), a well-known digital channel for oil pipeline, shared the 2022 Smartphone Awards list last month. Although Apple's iPhone 14 Pro won the title of "Best camera system" (Best Camera System), MKBHD also made it clear that Apple's latest flagship has some flaws in taking pictures.

Marques Brownlee shared a special video today explaining in detail why Apple's iPhone camera capability is getting worse and blaming post-processing for the problem.

MKBHD also shared the results of its camera blind test ahead of the 2022 smartphone Awards. In this category, Google's Pixel 6A ranks first, while Pixel 7 Pro ranks second. This makes YouTuber and many people want to know what's going on with photos taken with iPhone.

CTOnews.com learned that he explained in the video:

In order to take a good picture, it is important to have a good sensor that can capture as much light and detail as possible. However, because the camera sensors in smartphones are very small compared to DSLR, handset manufacturers are introducing new techniques every year to improve these images through post-processing.

Almost all modern smartphones use a combination of hardware and software to adjust the captured images in an attempt to make them look better and make up for the lack of large sensors. This includes reducing the noise level, adjusting the white balance, and increasing the brightness to show more detail in the dark scene.

But in recent years, Apple and other companies have begun to take a different approach. On iPhone, smart HDR can combine multiple photos under different settings into one. This allows the phone to choose the best aspect of each aspect, thus taking a better picture. But when you do a lot of post-processing, these images may not look real. This is what is happening with the iPhone camera.

As MKBHD points out, most phones handle well in favorable situations, such as a clear sky or a subject in front of a clear background. But when you have different colors and textures in the same scene, post-processing must be smart enough to understand the best settings for all these elements.

IPhone 14 Pro always tries to play down shadows, especially on faces, to make photos look very unnatural. Compared with other smartphones, iPhone also exaggerates the clarity of the photos. MKBHD even complained that his skin color looked different on the iPhone camera.

Even if the iPhone has excellent camera hardware, it has been undermined by all the smart features Apple has introduced in recent years, such as the smart HDR. Every year, the company adds more steps to camera post-processing. But they don't make the photos better, they make them more unnatural.

In his review of the iPhone 14 Pro camera by Sebastiaan de With, the developer of the popular camera app Halide, he also pointed out a number of shortcomings in Apple's smart HDR. For example, whenever there is a very bright background, iPhone will also try to increase the brightness of the people in the photo to make them look very white. "to be honest, I've never seen it take a better picture," he said. the results were shocking.

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