HTC One Versus DSLR Images, Can You Spot The Difference?

HTC wants to put your knowledge of photography to the test with a series of 10 photos, identifying which one of two images was with a smartphone. Can you spot the difference between a professional digital camera image and one taken by HTC’s One smartphone series?

I’m eager to take this challenge myself to see if I can’t spot the difference. I don’t consider myself even a amateur photographer but I know the HTC One series takes some seriously awesome photography, for a smartphone. My question is, are there distinct differences that will help you find images taken with a smartphone and if there are, can you go a perfect 10 for 10? Let us know your results!

HTC Blog via Androidandme

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PBX 51 pts

I cannot see the photos there.  I wonder how I'll be able to view the photos.

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Got 8 out of the 10.  The smart phone shots did not have the depth of field capability.  However, pretty impressive for a smaller aperture and lens.

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RaphiBF 5 pts

With the f2.0 aperture, you can actually get some nice bokeh with the One X. But it's no comparison to a good DSLR and nice 50mm lens of course.

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Liskrig 8 pts

I got 9 out of 10 correct... but I also went to school for photography so I may have a bit of an advantage. An easy way to spot differences is chromatic aberration (where the edges of an object in the foreground has an unnatural color against a brighter background), extremely blown out highlights, an almost "HDR" look (assuming no post was done) among some other details. They aren't quite there yet for this test to be accurate and impressive. The one MAJOR difference is control. I have little to no control of the settings on my iPhone (or even my GNex), so until they have a point where I can change the aperture and/or shutter speed manually, then I will be impressed.

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RaphiBF 5 pts

 Liskrig The One X at least let's you adjust ISO which is really helpful in low light situations. I keep it on ISO100 all the time, thus the imaging processor won't try to brighten up the image. This way, there is little to no noise in low light which is great and works like I have never experienced on a smartphone before. The BI-Sensor is great, too, combined with the 2.0 aperture. With a manual mode however, there would be countless possibilities - especially with a sensor this great. Since I bought a DSLR and some nice lenses, I sadly don't have fun anymore, taking pictures with a smartphone...

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I got 7 out of 10...not bad though.

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Costin Dabu 5 pts

I got 7 out of 10. But this is pure advertisment.  No way a smartphone can beat a DSLR. Not even an old Canon 300D. 

The pictures are irelevant and the comparison is not fair. They should put the same photo, a version for each device. And tha flash based thing they use to show the photos does not show the real depth and rezolution. If you look very close you can see some purple fringe on the smartphone photos. You got to admit it .. a DSLR is a touch huge   in comparison to the smartphone sensor. The DSLR takes photographs ... the phone takes snapshots. 

All that in mind ... i think they are heading the right way on picture quality. 

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rmeyer 5 pts

This was kind of worthless.  They should have put the same or at least similar shots side by side.  Some of the photos were shot in much better lighting than the comparison photos right beside them.  A decent point-and-shoot with perfect lighting is going to get a better photo than a DSLR with bad lighting.  Plus the photos were really small, would have helped a lot if you could see more detail.

 

Still, it was easy to get 6 out of 10 correct even without an apples-to-apples comparison.

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