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Those crops make the one look terrible.
The thing I find weird is that they didn't mention a single thing about the portrait photo and that is without a doubt where the biggest difference is (in favour of the "one" by a huge chunk imo)........ :/
Plus it is to be expected that the photos on the iphone 5 or any other current phone will look much better in comparison when they up scale the photos of the htc one to 8MP, they are just degrading the quality by a huge chunk as shown. Should up scale the iphone 5 photos by the same amount and then see how it looks....
EDIT:
In fact they didn't even show the "original" images, just up and down scaled :/
Plus just noticed that they said "generous sharpening" (whilst also up scaling to 8MP), what the hell?!?!? That just makes things worse.......should have left the image untouched and only compared the original image without any adjustments and then compare the photos when zoomed in/cropped, test is completely stupid/biased, not like gsmarena to do such a poor article like this.
Hopefully will get some much better/proper tests with the final software/unit soon.
Why didn't they just set the iPhone to take 4mp instead?
Shame on them!
As I said before that is a very unfair/bias article/test, don't base anything on their opinion:
Why didn't they just set the iPhone to take 4mp instead?
Shame on them!
GSMArena said:Update 1, Feb 24: We decided a bit of clarification is due here as we are seeing lots of objection against upsizing in the comments. It would be wrong to assume that in order to properly compare the photos, we should downsize the iPhone photos to 4MP. This way we wouldn't notice the advantage of the higher resolution camera, would we? You have got to understand that upsizing is not to the HTC One disadvantage - it simply makes the stuff on the picture equally large as the ones on the 8MP photos from the iPhone. It doesn't smear any of the available fine detail, it just enlarges it. Think of it as zooming in - just to make comparisons easier. Also ask yourselves this - the native print size for an 8MP photo is 115x86cm. What would happen if you print a 4MP photo on that paper size? That's right, it would get upsized to fit the larger paper. Hence the presence of upsizing in every comparison between cameras of different resolution. End of Update 1.
You can't!?!? OMG! I knew they were bad, but not that bad!
They've made a response to those criticisms:
Update 2, Feb 24: Even though the original source of the photos claimed they've focused on the model's face we find that hard to believe as we know it from first-hand that when you manually focus on a subject's face with the iPhone 5 camera, it would expose the photo for that particular region. In this case, the iPhone 5 severely overexposed the face making us doubtful that the author of the images correctly focused on the face. Even if this was the case and it was the face that's in focus, then we see no reason why the dress and the hair shouldn't be in perfect focus too, as they lie in generally the same vertical plane as the face. You can clearly see that even though the iPhone 5 significantly overexposed the shot (which we tried to counter in post-processing by toning down the exposure a bit), it still resolved much more detail in the hair, the gem stone and the texture of the dress than the HTC One.
Again, we got lots of comments saying that we've missed mentioning that the iPhone pretty much blew away the face of the model by overexposing the shot. We'd like to clarify that we consider the differences in the exposure to be operator-error and since we weren't there to confirm or deny that, we just have to work with what we have. We explicitly mentioned that we are only judging resolved detail and noise levels here - not exposure metering, color rendition or any other camera parameter. Indeed, it's not possible to sample resolved detail out of an overexposed area of a photo, so we skipped the face and went to pick a sample from the dress instead.End of Update 2
Well, even on some Android phones you can't pick a specific resolution. Aside from tests such as this I don't see why you would anyway.
Went to the local shopping centre and to the Phones4U. Unfortunately no HTC One on display to mess around with. So I popped over to the Three store and had another play with the Z instead. The screen wasn't as bad as people make it out to be.
[TW]Fox;23824593 said:I travel frequently and one of the biggest advantages of Virgin is that seemingly wherever I am, it is rare for me to have no signal. This was not the case for Vodafone who I previously used nor O2.
I've yet to try out a Z as there aren't any in the shop here but I fear I'll walk out with one if I do. I really like the design and if the screen seems okay I think I'd be tempted. The camera/video seems decent.
I want to see The Verge review first though. Also, no buying anything until we see the GS4.
Wait till you get the xperia Z in a room that doesn't have lots of bright lights shining on top of the display thus reflections too
I love the modern design of the xperia Z, although I don't like the way it is just a slab as it doesn't feel comfortable in the hand especially for the size imo.
Yeah the colours aren't bad when viewed head on (much better than previous sony handsets) but when next to a great LCD screen i.e. the one X and iphone 5, I found them to be a bit "washed out". The screen is certainly very bright!
They could get away with a rectangle slab if it had a 4.3" or smaller screen, but not with a 5" screen