Smartphone Camera performance evaluation

A complete report gathering all image quality metrics

Understand your camera’s performance with our detailed report, which compiles all key image quality metrics for photos, zoom, and video. Using our user-focused evaluation protocol, we assess all major use cases through both objective and perceptual measures. This robust, scientifically-based methodology has been trusted for over 15 years in testing. The results are presented in a comprehensive 90-page report, including key metrics, sample images, and videos that illustrate the main aspects of our protocol. Discover how your camera performs in critical quality areas, as well as specific scenarios like Friends & Family portraits and challenging lighting conditions such as indoor, outdoor, and low-light environments.

Evaluate low-light performance 

Even for today’s most advanced smartphones, low light remains a challenging area, often cited as a major source of user dissatisfaction in photography, video recording, and zoom functionality. Measuring your camera’s performance in various low-light scenarios is essential to identifying its limitations and improving overall user satisfaction.

Our unique Multispectral Lighting System (MLS) solution enables accurate and repeatable tests in extreme low-light conditions, even below 1 lux, providing invaluable insights into how well your camera can handle these tough environments. Through this evaluation, we assess your device’s ability to convey authentic night atmospheres, balancing exposure with noise and texture to ensure an optimal viewing experience.

We focus on critical elements such as exposure, dynamic range, color accuracy, and fine details, but also consider aspects like motion blur, autofocus reliability, and capture speed, ensuring a holistic evaluation of your device’s low-light capabilities.

Evaluate performance on new types of usages 

Our testing protocol is regularly updated with new use cases to keep up with the changing ways that consumers use their devices, such as:

• Zooming in and out while recording videos
• Recording videos while in motion, such as running
• Capturing night scenes
• Taking portraits with a blurred background
• Using video bokeh and cinematic mode
• Pro mode or RAW capture mode

Extensive coverage of the portrait use case

Portrait-taking is the key use case for smartphone cameras in most regions of the world. Using cinema-grade mannequins and AI measurements in our laboratories, we’re able to get very precise measurements on skin tones. This is completed by natural scenes using real people, covering a wide range of skin tones, in still or moving action scenes.