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EDIT/UPDATE: Poll questions have been updated/changed by moderator based on my request. This polling thread is now re-activated. You may now access the link to the pictures, compare them, and vote!

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

I configured the questions for a multi-voting system, but I failed to realize that the poll feature only allows for a single vote. Anyway please indicate your answers below and I will manually collate them. Thank you for your understanding and participation :)!

Hi Friends,

A lot of new and old members/users are curious about the quality of the Ported OOS Camera and how it compares against the official/stock OOS Camera that comes with OxygenOS. Let's find out via a poll!

Visit this link and observe the pictures. I uploaded some normal and zoomed-in side-by-side shots, but I recommend you download the original pictures so that you can observe better and on your own (zoom in/out, compare, etc.): click me!

There are four (4) sets of side-by-side pictures. Try to identify which picture (left or right) was taken using the Ported OOS Camera, or the Official/Stock OOS Camera, by voting in the poll at the top of the thread.

You can put your answers below. I will give the answers once the poll has ended (scheduled to end on April 17, 2017).

Note: this is not a "science experiment", but hopefully this makes the comparison less subjective. I'm not a professional photographer either. Please be assured though that I took the best efforts, in my ability, to reduce variables/factors when taking those pictures:

I used a tripod and made sure that it didn't move as much as possible, so that it will be easier for viewers to compare the pictures side-by-side.

All pictures were taken using "Auto" focus (I let the camera do the focusing, I did not tap the screen to focus to an area).

All pictures were taken using "HQ" mode.

I used a timer (3 seconds) to ensure that any "shake" or "vibration" of the phone is eliminated before it actually took the shot.

This poll will close on April 17, 2017. When it closes, I will tell which ones were taken with Ported OOS Camera, and which ones were taken using the Official/Stock OOS Camera.

Thanks in advance!

ANNOUNCEMENT: POLL RESULTS!

Hi Friends,

Big thanks for everyone who participated. :) Here now are the answers to the poll questions. Apologies for the delay in posting as I was busy last week.

I have read through all comments (both here in this thread as well as the reddit thread c/o [MENTION=3930547]himsin[/MENTION]) but I couldn't respond to them while the poll was still open/running, so as not to influence the voters. :) Anyway, to answer:

1. I took the photo sets in indoor lighting (I wouldn't say they're good lighting, but they weren't dark-light conditions either)

2. There are people who are undoubtedly highly skilled with photography, so they pointed out "errors" in preparing the photo sets (lighting should be such-and-such, shouldn't have used "HQ" mode, shouldn't have shot nearby objects, should've shot moving objects, etc.). However, the point of this poll/thread is that these were taken by an amateur (me) who has no knowledge of photography - hence it (hopefully) mirrors how a typical user would take photos. I'm almost certain that a bigger percentage of smartphone users mainly use the phone's camera for point-and-shoot scenarios as well as "selfies" and aren't professional or hobby-level photographers.

3. The only reason I had to use a tripod was to try and make both photos look identical as possible (obviously so that people can compare).

4. This thread drew inspiration over comments about the quality of the ported OOS (OxygenOS) camera, where I saw some comments saying that the stock OOS camera is still better. Those comments sparked my curiosity with the question "...but can they really tell the difference?" This explains the title of the poll/thread in itself, and the motivation/inspiration behind this poll/thread is explicitly written in the original post itself.

That said, here are the results.

A total of 41 votes were cast via the polling system, and there were other voters who cast their vote via the comments. Adding all of them, there were a total of 69 votes.

One observation is that nobody (who cast via the polling system) cast a vote on Set 3. There were a few who cast their votes via the comments system.

Here are the percentages, per Picture Set.

In "Set 1", half (50% of the voters) said that the left picture was taken using the ported OOS camera; the other half said it was taken using the stock OOS camera.

In "Set 2", 70% (or 7 out of 10) said that the left picture was taken using the stock OOS camera.

In "Set 3", 71% (or 7 out of 10) said that the left picture was taken using the ported OOS camera.

In "Set 4", 63% (or 6 out of 10) said that the left picture was taken using the stock OOS camera.

The Answers:

Set 1: Left picture was taken using the Stock OOS Camera

Set 2: Left picture was taken using the Ported OOS Camera

Set 3: Left picture was taken using the Ported OOS Camera

Set 4: Left picture was taken using the Stock OOS Camera

So if we ask the question: which Picture Set had a high percentage of voters getting the correct answer?

It's 50-50. :)

Of the four (4) Picture Sets, two (half) of them got a higher percentage of correct answers (Set 3 where 7 of 10 got it, and Set 4 where 6 of 10 got it). The other half had lower percentages of correct answers (Set 1 where it's a 50-50 split, and Set 2 where only 3 of 10 got the correct answer).

Takeaways:

1. It is likely that those who got the correct answer did so through guessing (i.e. "best guess"). :) I could have added some "checking mechanisms" in the poll so that "guessing" can be detected, but unfortunately it was already too late for me to realize that XDA's polling system only allows for single-votes. Maybe next time when I create another poll.

2. Even if people assert that they didn't guess, it was not easy to tell the difference of picture quality between the stock OOS Camera and the ported OOS Camera - myself included. I tried to jumble the pictures in a separate folder and I couldn't totally tell which is which. :)

3. In Set 3, nobody cast a vote through the poll system. It was indeed very difficult because the object (it's a 1/44 scale Gundam Sinanju) had a gloss-type finish, plus the television was turned on at that point in time I was taking pictures of Set 3, so the light from the TV was reflecting towards the object (you'd see that in one shot, there were tints of violet/purple). So, even with the same camera, changes in the surrounding environment (lighting - no matter how subtle) can create that difference.