The iPhone 8 Plus is the best smartphone camera DxOMark has ever tested

Mmmm... Lumia 950 win again...
http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/22478_Camera_head_to_head_Lumia_950_.php

I bought the iPhone 8+ last Friday when they came out. I only bought one because my iPhone 5 finally died. I don't understand why so many people get so uptight and argue that one phone is better than the other. I use mine for my job and having a camera with me for a quick photo of something is a plus. If I want professional results, I will use a SLR or DSLR for that. I say buy something that makes you happy and don't get so worked up with test scores and "mine is better than yours" crap. Life's too short, smile and be happy.

This test is fake, last Samsumg was S6 Edge ? S7 Edge is better to Iphone 7, and S8 Plus better than Iphone 8. Dont try to make Apple marketing here!

Just recently released iPhone 8 is $300.00 off at Verizon ... They got to else it will gather dust in the shelves ...

I don't know where all this is going. I don't know where I'll be 100 years from now. But I betcha my iPhone will smell better than me.

Meanwhile they haven't tested a Samsung since S6... just saying. I'm sure iPhone is great, I'd just like to know how it measures up against S7 and S8.

Great Article it its really informative and innovative keep us posted with new updates. its was really valuable. thanks a lot.

Never been really impressed with iPhone photos (I have a 6S Plus). They look good at the surface but usually look pretty bad if you try to crop. Always lots of noise or smudgy details. They work wonders with that tiny sensor but I just can't get excited about them. Samsung, Microsoft, and others have made/make superior cameras for years. I can't imagine the iPhone 8 or X really catching up.

Finally, a worthy rival to the Nikon D850! JK :)

In all seriousness, mobile device innovation drives further innovation
in other image capture devices. We should be happy for that.
I didn't think mobile devices would get so good this quick.

Wont be upgrading from my 6s, £800 is going to buy me a nice new lens !

I realize we've always paid for the phones one way or another, but now my provider doesn't offer any kind of incentive to upgrade phones. I called yesterday and they said it would be $29 a month for two years go upgrade from the 6s+ to the 8+. That is on top of the monthly fee we pay for cell service. We used to just get a new phone every two years (I guess they put the cost of the phone in the service plan or gave a discount somehow).

Anyway, I normally shoot with a Canon 6D anyway, but take a lot of snapshots with my 6s plus. I'm going to stay with what I have until it no longer works (and I have a second 6s as a backup that was given to me. Works great).

I just don't see the value of spending $800 to go from a 6s to the 8.

Funny the new iPhone scored first place JUST after they've come up with a new testing scheme which involves bokeh and zoom. Almost ironic it's so perfectly timed for its release.

May he be shamed who thinks badly of it :)

Xperia XZ Premium is only 83 ??? Even the sensor maker doesn't make the top three list. Very strange.

Revolution was done when Steve Jobs started it all. The next big thing has yet to come beyond what we already know. It is a phone. You could buy a cheaper phone and buy a way better camera, or you could buy this maybe. I'm not, but hey somebody has to be 1st for now. Will Samsung or Google answer? Stay tuned.

I checked out the devices at the local Apple Store. Guess what I found?
It's a phone.
Expensive.
Evolutionary vs revolutionary (marketing tries to tell us that revolution will take place in Oktober)
But guess what, again?
That will be a phone, too.
Again.
#relevance?

Is this new "computational photography" thing a fancy word for "water-colour pictures"?
I mean... on a screen, Instagram size, the pictures look really great for a smartphone. But if you see 100%, it's a watercolour mess!!

There's still a lot of things a small sensor CAN'T do, doesn't matter how good the processing, algorithms and whatnot are.

Galaxy s8 camera are too wideangle for my taste anyway, unuseable for headshots.

""DXOmark measures image quality scientifically in numbers ...
Image Quality by ordinary people is measured subjectively ..."""

... perhaps you know who Ansel Adams was, right ? What he did with a very poor camera sensor and his zone technique was scientific ... in REAL LIFE ... not using any charts at all ... according to your statement, he belongs to the "ordinary people" group ... wrong !!

DxOMark is fake and not objective. No Samsung S8, S8+ or Note8. No LG, etc.
By the way, if you realy want quality photo's you will shoot them with a real camera like a Nikon, FujiFilm, Sony or Olympus.

Personally, I do not really care what DXO says about anything. At the end of the day, it is how I feel with this or that camera or phone camera that by the way, I've never used and I will never use regardless how good it is.
But there is one thing that I would like to add that is related to what I said : the galaxy s8 plus ( that I recently bought to replace my iPhone 6s ), has been tested very poorly in the net by several known places in relation to how bad the iris, face or finger print scanners are .. and I can simply say that they are wrong because mine phone unlocks super quick using the iris scanner.
I am just simply impress because after reading too many negatives statements about this particular function, I was just curious to try it and now, after I personally tried mine, I can say it is awesome. Things are not what they seem to be ! Try it out and if you like it, then keep it and be happy, and if I want to photograph something, I will use either my D750 or D500. Period.

Nice pocket snapper but I'd still rather carry my Canon G7X MkII with me. Only 12 megapixels, no manual controls and no optical zoom limits what you can do with a phone camera.

"IPhone Disappointment Hammers Suppliers, Fuels Taiwan Outflows"

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/0bddeaa4-8db6-3231-9700-a589415fc128/ss_iphone-disappointment-hammers.html

Forget DXO for a moment, read all the reviews of the phone online, or all the camera comparisons, they are pretty much all saying the same as DXO, that the iphone 8 is the best out there.

For people saying 'large sensors cannot possibly be outscores by this little sensor'.... why not? Its already been said that when we are talking about tiny sensors, software, lenses, sensor technology, image processing (remember its powered by a monster chip) are all as or more important than just image sensor size!

So sure, DXO could just be losing their marbles... But every other reviewer out there is saying the same thing, that the iPhone 8 is the best smartphone camera on the market at the moment....

Nope, they never tested the Panasonic DMC-CM1... Of course there would be less revenue if it came known that a smartphone launched 4 years ago smashes this iPhone thingy. Talk about hype!

I looked at the DXO (thank god they finally post some images instead of just numbers) and am really puzzled on the Iphone 8+ fairly blurry low iso images. And this phone gets the top marks???
And then I read some of the comments and one poster point out the Samsung S8 almost has a higher number across all tests (ie. Color 85 vs 78, AF 92 vs 74, Texture 92 vs 64, Noise 92 vs 68 (wow, Iphone 8+ lose big here and is reflected in the real world images) ... etc )
So why on earth did Iphone 8+ gets a much higher mark then Samsung S8. Something is fishy in the tallying of the total ......

Interestingly, Samsung Galaxy S7 and S8 with 88 points each were omitted from this list. Oneplus 5 with 87 points as well as Meizu Pro 6s and LG G6 with 85 and 84 points respectively are also not there. But it was important to feature the Iphone 6 with below 80 points on that "Top 10 list".
Biased opinion?! NOOOOO! :)

For the same money I can buy a nice Android phone and a well enough APS-C camera))

Based on the images and video I have seem on the web, I guess one need to go up to Iphone X to beat the Samsung Note 8.

I think their review's comments are a serious misrepresentation of their own data. On the one hand they write, "It is at the top of our scoring charts in nearly every category", but a look at the numbers of the Google Pixel, using their new revised numbers too, shows the Google having better contrast, exposure, color, texture, and autofocus.

In fact, it only loses to the iPhone, per their own data, in the newly included zoom and bokeh categories. Even the artifacts category the iPhone beat it in, is due to the artifacts introduced by Google's worse fake bokeh implementaton.

In normal stills, the Google Pixel is the one that is superior in almost every category. And that is with their own reported numbers. See for yourself below:

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/42fad570cd45bd7ae071f1817ca7847c4dad09aa1b0f3cb461dc34862aa40ba9.png?w=800&h=435

Sounds like the IPhone 8/8+ really rocks in so many departments. Good camera. I even read for the CPU can out perform a core i5 in some benchmarks. Pretty impressive!

Even if these tests are all a bit of a con, things are heading in the right direction.

A DSLR still crushes the camera in every photography respect, and a PC does as well for computing. Portability and convenience is how the iPhone wins.

I just can't stand the Apple walled garden and the fans. Any fans really.

Has anyone here noticed that DxO Mark recently changed their scoring system for mobile phone, so that lower ranked iPHone 7 was pushed up to 2nd?
https://www.dxomark.com/introducing-the-new-dxomark-mobile-test-protocol/

I have iPhone 7plus, 6plus, 5s etc from 4. I can't deny iPhones generally produce great images with quality which are on par along with my Android phones. And I myself is a royal DxO Mark sensor test believer, though having strong doubt about their zoom lens scoring protocol.

Honestly, I don't believe in DxO anymore. They work with mobiles phone brands and they probably give these results for their own interests.

There's still some company/website who tests cameras and mobiles with sincerity?

Oh dear...
P. S.: one thing that caught my attenion on my i7P is not related to photography, but to the incredible amount of water this phone can stand. You can take a (serious) shower with it, guaranteed. It is the D5/1D-X II of the smartphones from that perspective, I think...

The best phone camera still cant match a good old 1/1.7 sensor from a compact câmera.
The funniest part is to read that the nokia 808 is one of the worst phone cameras..LOL

Great stuff. I'm a die hard DSLR user but I love what folk can take with these devices (blimey, I sound old, Oh, I am....!)

Why doesn't the Panasonic CM1 ever get compared to other cell phones?

So iphone is slowly catching up with last Lumias 950 ☺
http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/22478_Camera_head_to_head_Lumia_950_.php

Yesterday my brother visited me. He placed his Samsung S8 right next to my new iPhone 8 on the table. Then we got out to the terrace for a beer. After a while we heard a strange noise, like a rubbing coming from the floor.
When we entered the room the floor was wet, though there was no water in the room before we got out to the terrace. You should have seen my brothers face when he realized that the iPhone was wiping the floor with his Samsung