I had to talk about this.

This is the blind smartphone camera test video that you did a couple 1,000,000 views on a lot of people talking about it.

I saw people talking about it on Twitter and so on.

And I mean, the basic idea of the premise here is a bunch of photos.

You don't tell anyone which smartphone camera They were shot on.

And then you ask people, Hey, which one's look the best Blind, blind, truly blind?

That's that's why the word is in the title.

The blind smartphone camera tests and you tested a bunch of cowards.

How many total 16.

Something like that.

That Ah, full on bracket play.

That's a ton of smartphone captures the thing like when you have 16.

They're not all gonna be great, right?

So we have everything from the highest and iPhones that pixels.

But then we have we go down the list, you go, l g go red Samsung.

They suddenly have the one plus in the BlackBerry, and you're kind of feeling in the bracket.

So the hardest part about that at the very beginning was making the bracket right.

What do I blindly put up against the iPhone?

10.

So I put another great phone or just sacrifice a BlackBerry against it when I watched the video actually didn't think about that.

But you're kind of right, because in a typical bracket fashion, you would see things would have one seed versus 16 seed, so the favorites will be more likely to make it through.

What did you end up doing?

We kind of had a sort of a seating.

You attempted attempted one seed versus 16.

I think we essentially thought we'd end up with an iPhone and a pixel MP and or something like that.

So we didn't want to put iPhone versus Pixel on round one.

So we kind of had awhile, way phone against the palm phone, uh, BlackBerry against an iPhone.

A lot of matchups like that in the first round.

But spoiler alert, uh, didn't quite go that way.

And that's actually what I wanted to bring it up because what ends up happening in this ah experiment here is that the results are not what anyone expected them to be.

Now, of course, has his reasons for that.

I mean, I immediately had my speculation on why that might be the case in the video.

You actually talk about it a little bit, but ultimately, we were gonna kind of spoil the video a little bit here.

Yeah, but some phones make it through this bracket that have no business in most people's minds, making it through the bracket.

You traditionally think certain characteristics would carry through and make the photo obviously better.

But we did the tests and the voting on instagram and Twitter, so it end up kind of boiling down to putting them to side by side.

People generally felt towards voting for the brighter, more saturated, more vivid one.

Even though the highest end best smartphone cameras, we traditionally know as you know, yeah, one pixel don't do the brightest, vivid, most crazy photos they do sort of more neutral Maura adjustable, great herbal, higher dynamic range photos which didn't win.

The interesting thing for me about about this about this experiment this video was it brings into question the idea of good in general who gets to decide which is better, is it?

It's not strictly this is a higher resolution photo.

It's Which one do you like?

Better was the way it was positioned.

And so when people went and picked phones that that typically wouldn't be, you know, like, let's say, the polka phone against iPhone tender.

The BlackBerry beats the the 10 s like on paper.

No one's supposed to pick that, but blindly they do, like, who gets to pick what's good and bad.

Is that you and I?

Or is it the general public?

I mean, they had the same photos at their disposal.

Yeah, right.

You had these photos, You published them on social media.

After you saw them post compression.

I blind tested myself a little bit.

That was what I was wondering.

So on my computer, when I'm looking at the full resolution because we basically like crop the two and put the top on the bottom next, each other.

So I'm looking at the original files next to each other original files.

I picked the higher end expected winner every time, right?

But then I put them on instagram stories, and I forgot about the letters, and I tested myself and I voted for the crowd favorites the upsets more often than not, um, and most of this was because I'm looking at the original files on my Mac.

They're high resolution.

I can see the detail in one and the softness and the other.

And immediately I pick that one.

But yet we lost in that particular characteristic of the high end phones, and suddenly it's just like, Well, I like the fact that I can see all the colors and one of them, and the other one looks a little muted, so I'll pick the brighter one so that so you have the same effect that the audience that had this effect on me, you ended up picking the cheaper devices a couple times.

Yeah, sometimes.

And I also like I put 16 phones in because I wanted to eliminate the Oh, I know this is the pixel, Saul Vote for it.

So if it was a versus B, and I told you once a pixel one's an iPhone, at a certain point you can kind of identify a photo shot on a pixel, for sure, just decide you want to pick one or the other.

So when we had 16 options like this, it was like, well, every single time one of these might be the pixel.

And I was kind of like I don't want to evaluate too hard.

I just kind of glanced at it and picked one and moved on.

You know what?

I'm just doing that, which is kind of like what most people do on Twitter.

Anyway, I was picking the BlackBerry and the local unexpected, but interesting.

Nonetheless, the crazy part year is that these companies spend tremendous amounts of time and energy to create these amazing cameras that have completely replaced these gigantic systems that people have had in the past.

And, of course, point and shoot cameras and so on.

And then people end up taking these photos, and and the only way we end up seeing them is on the telephone instagram, Twitter and your phone.

And so people aren't like, really what the story is about.

This particular video is that people are not sharing their photos and receiving their photos in such a manner that constitutes spending the extra money on the better camera in the first place.

You've got to know what you want out of it.

If all you want is to take a photo that's good enough for Instagram Twitter literally any of those stones?

I think that's what I learned because I wouldn't have even been on the phone is an instagram photo.

It's hard to find a really, truly bad phone now, but I think if you also value that like well, you know, apples running a shot on iPhone contest where you can share your original images to be put on a billboard like if you care about seeing them on a as a wallpaper on your computer, you want a little more detail or a little extra finesse for things like that, then you're actually looking at the top couple instead of just whatever looks fine on Instagram.

How if you take a lot of selfie is not enough.

There's all kinds of priorities.

But if you know what you want out of a phone, that will dictate what kind of weight you put into this test right?

There's something to be said for, like the extra work that gets put into pushing that bleeding edge of phones.

That's why I love that I carried the pixel as like a camera.

Yeah, I I keep trying like all these other phones I keep falling back to the camera.

That camera for me.

Beside note.

That camera for me was the most like just point it and shoot it.

Yeah, out of any smartphone camera every night.

Sight too.

Yeah, absolutely.

No, sir.

It's It's ridiculous.

I mean, again, somehow in the blind test.

But it lost to one pixel.

Lost to May 20 pro.

Yeah, which then went on to win.

The whole thing really crushed the whole thing.

Yeah, it did win the whole thing, right?

Yeah.

Okay, so let me ask you something, then, in closing out of this entire bracket here, obviously, the May 20 pro ended up winning.

But some cheaper devices like the polka phone went all the way to the final round.

Yeah, And now that smartphone cameras are such a differentiating factor for people and one of the main reasons people will actually spend MME.

Or on a smartphone out of this group, which do you think represents the best value for money?

I think it be hard to argue with if I'm just looking at this test, the polka phone being one of the less expensive phones going so far, the BlackBerry, it's Still, you have to like a BlackBerry like there's a whole lot more baggage that comes with switching to a BlackBerry.

But I think a lot of people who were like, Oh, well, I'm on this older phone.

Um, I'm thinking about this polka phone, but I don't know if the camera's gonna be good enough.

I think they can probably rest easy like this is a good enough camera.

If you want the highest end, the most detail, the most dynamic range.

The test results won't really help you so much.

But I found this really interesting way.

It played out which phone wins your bracket of like, cost Doesn't matter.

You had you had full rest files, you had your own taste buds.

Me, Tony, really?

And the reason is because, like it took the brightest photos, and that's why I kept winning.

But it was also very detailed and had a good amount of dynamic range.

So you can you can pull down exposure if you don't like that high exposure.

If you want that just kind of like how some bias Samsung bias is a little high exposure.

Apple tends to go a little lower.

Um, But I think looking at the raw files by blind tested myself with the raw files and not the compressed version.

I think I would have ended up picking mate 20.

Very cool.