Another iPhone launch, another DXOMark camera test. This time, the iPhone 13 Pro scored 137, nine points higher than the iPhone 12 Pro in 2020. This places it in the top five on DXOMark’s list of best smartphone cameras, despite being far from some of the top , which belongs to the Huawei P50 Pro with 144 points.
DXOMark explains that the score includes a “photo score of 144”, a “Zoom score of 76” and a “video score of 119”. We also already know that the iPhone 13 Pro Max sensors are from Sony.
With an overall DXOMARK camera score of 137, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro is among the top devices in the camera ranking. The overall score is made up of an excellent Photo score of 144. As with all iPhones, the color rendering is vivid with pleasing skin tones and a slightly warm touch, and the camera is generally very reliable. DxOMark still notes that the overall performance is quite similar to last year’s iPhone 12 Pro.
Analysis shows that the iPhone 13 Pro has accurate exposure, pleasing colors, excellent skin tones, and good white balance. It features fast and accurate autofocus, good detail in indoor and outdoor conditions, and much more.
On the other hand, DXOMark says the iPhone 13 Pro has a limited dynamic range in challenging scenes of high contrast, luminance noise in primary, ultra-wide and telephoto lenses, especially in low light. The company also faced occasional white and pink balance projections in some conditions and some white balance variations in videos. The problem with the latest iPhone is the camera’s zoom.
The camera’s zoom score of 76 doesn’t live up to the best, but performance is still improved over the Pro 12, thanks to the optical zoom 3x longer versus 2.5x on the older model. The video, on the other hand, was one of the most praised features of the iPhone 13 Pro:
The excellent Video score of 119 places the iPhone 13 Pro at the top of this sub-rank, thanks to several improvements in key areas. Tone mapping instabilities that were very visible on the iPhone 12 series model have been fixed and the exposure is now generally very stable. Autofocus performance has also been improved, thanks to better tracking and very smooth refocus at the right moments.
With all that in mind, here’s how the top DXOMark smartphone camera ratings now split:
- Huawei P50 Pro: 144
- Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra: 143
- Huawei Mate 40 Pro +: 139
- Apple iPhone 13 Pro: 137
- Huawei Mate 40 Pro: 136
- Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra: 133
- Huawei P40 Pro: 132
- Oppo Find X3 Pro: 131
- Vivo X50 Pro +: 131
- Apple iPhone 13 mini: 130
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