New Review Site to Focus on New Era of Smartphone Camera Tech

By David Tobia
October 12, 2012

Camera review website Digital Photography Review has launched a new platform called Connect which is “dedicated to the fast growing world of mobile photography,” reports Wired.
DPReview promises to provide detailed reviews of cell phone cameras that focus not only on resolution, but on the “sensors, lenses and software that all contribute to the look and quality of the images,” explains the post.
Connect “will be combining DPReview’s qualitative assessment of performance and image quality with technical testing,” through its partnership with DXO Labs.
Editor Barney Britton says a new studio will help create objectivity for the nine to ten page cell phone camera reviews.
“We’ll be able to test cameras and phones using a common scene which greatly improves on our current setup,” he says. “This means we can shoot from a reasonable distance away on cellphones, avoiding issues with distortion and sharpness that plague attempts to shoot smaller scenes with fixed wide-angle lenses/cameras.”
As reports indicate that the iPhone 4 is the most used-camera in America, DPReview will fill a much needed void of analyzing which cell phone cameras are best. The detailed, respected reviews could incentivize cell phone companies to improve their cameras, speculates Wired.

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