Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 14 Pro vs. S22 Ultra vs. Pixel 7 Pro: 1,000 photos later”.
Telephoto lenses with 100 time, zoom macro shots on the ultra wide portrait modes, using AI stereo depth maps and cinematic video in 4k. The cameras on our phones have gotten incredibly Advanced and full of features. So I decided there was no better way to test these cameras than to take a thousand photos with each of them we’re going to be focusing on three cameras this year, the iPhone 14 pro the pixel 7 Pro and the stylus touting Galaxy s22 Ultra. This is the Thousand photo smartphone camera shootout. Welcome back to full frame buds foreign, just as packed with features as they are with megapixels are three contenders and the best smartphone camera of 2022 contest all have multiple lenses that provide perfectly good images.
But to Crown the very best smartphone camera I’m going to be going through each lens and whatever camera has the most winning lenses while they take the crown, let’s start with the widest one, the ultra wide. Our three contenders all have 12 megapixel, F, 2.2 Ultra wide lenses with macro modes and with similar specs come similar photos that are only differentiated by the processing each camera does after the photo is taken. Although many – and I mean many of these, photos are hard to tell apart the iPhone wins narrowly by allowing the Shadows to be shadows, an ultra wide lens can create a great deal of impact by exaggerating the frame warping, those edges just a bit, and what makes That drama, stronger is contrast and at night, when all of these cameras have their own downfalls, I mean the iPhone and pixels Reflections here. The total lack of clarity here the iPhone reproduces an image that most looks like what I was seeing.
Irl, the iPhone also preserves a bit more detail in the highlights. You can see it here in the clouds or on the side of this church and it’s this small difference that makes the Iphone the winner of the ultra wide, but so so narrowly. And unfortunately, that contrast and Clarity can’t make up for the iPhone’s lack of a telephoto lens, so the iPhone 14 pro it does have a 12 megapixel, F, 2.8 telephoto lens, but it optically only extends to a three-time zoom or a 77 millimeter equivalent. The pixel 7. Pro has a 48 megapixel quad bare, so that’s a 12 megapixel equivalent five times or 116.2 millimeter, F, 3.5 telephoto lens and the s22 ultra well. It has both a 10 megapixel 3 times, F, 2.4 lens and a 10 megapixel 10 times. F.
4.9 lens. For this test, though, I’m only going to compare each camera’s farthest reaching lens, since it’s a telephoto comparison and that 10 times telephoto lens on the s22 ultra it’s equivalent to 230 millimeters, and it is very crisp in great light, far crisper than the iPhone and the Pixel digitally zoomed to 10 times I have had so much fun taking photos with this focal length. The contrast levels are dramatic, but not too much so the image is nicely flattened out. But quite plainly, this camera can see further than my eye and it’s just fun to show off, but at night that F 4.9 aperture really slows this lens down, and it is shocking how much the image quality drops, even with its Optical and digital stabilization, images are Pixelated, obviously, over processed and just flat out blurry in dark situations, you can get a much clearer photo from the pixels five times lens, which is a bit sharper than the iPhones three times. The pixel does a nice job of smoothing the image, while also capturing enough light to preserve the details so for daylight.
Shooting nothing comes close to the s22 ultra’s telephoto lens, but at night that pixel 7 Pro it still can’t be beat so both of them get a point wow way. So, whether I’m checking, if there’s something stuck in my teeth or I’m on a zoom call, the front facing camera is by far the most used camera on my phone and on the iPhone. You have a 12 megapixel, F 1.9. True depth, camera the pixel has a 10.8 megapixel, F 2.2 front facing camera and then the s22 ultra has a 40 megapixel F 2.2 front facing camera.
Also, the image is incredibly sharp and clear. Almost too sharp. Some might argue. I happen to love it, but when you compare it to the iPhone well, the iPhone’s, just not as sharp that’s not to say it’s blurry, though either I like the way that Apple’s you know not over sharpening the image at all, and ah man, this pixel, I Don’T know it’s just like too contrasty for me.
I wish that they would tone it down a bit, but how do all these cameras look when it’s a bit darker? Okay, welcome to the dark um, what you’ll notice right off the bat is. The iPhone is dark. Um much like its photos, it’s really not afraid to keep the shadow shadows and when it comes to video on the front facing camera, I’m not sure that’s the best idea, but it does have the least amount of smoothing and Noise. The pixel it kind of sits right in between these two right.
I mean you can kind of see my face a little bit better, but it’s a lot of noise and grain happening and then on the s22 ultra. You can see me the best. It really is gathering a lot of light, but with it comes a pretty fair amount of noise on the photo side, more megapixels doesn’t always mean higher resolution photos, but in good light the s22 ultra’s front-facing camera is a step above the competition. The naturally blurred background is subtle, yet adds a great deal of value, and overall, this camera provides more detail than the iPhone or the pixel.
If you do want even more blur, though Samsung has the best cutout in portrait mode too lower light situations can cause the s22 ultra to be a bit less predictable and fall into some bad smoothing. For example, the iPhone did a much better job here of providing a clear image, but overall I love the level of contrast, detail in depth. The s22 ultra provides it gets the win it’s time for the title match, folks, the most important round, the wide lens and right off the bat I’m going to knock One camera out of the competition completely. Although the pixel every so often has a big win in low light, I have found that overall, it’s continually a step behind the s22 ultra and the iPhone 14 pro. The system’s choices are incredibly inconsistent with photos either leaning to magenta or Too Blue. Sometimes they lack contrast and its Hardware creates these strange light Reflections, both during the day and night, not to mention that its added features like cinematic mode and stabilization often fall flat.
It Is by no means a bad camera, but it is not as consistently good as its competitors foreign 14 pro it has a 48 megapixel wide lens that is pixel bin to a 12 megapixel sensor, unless you’re shooting in raw mode there’s also a two times lens Option that crops in on that 48 megapixel sensor to create 12 megapixel images, but since that lens is using the same sensor as the main wide lens, I’m not going to spend too much time on it. The 48 megapixel photos from the standard wide lens are gorgeous. I don’t think that the average user is going to tap on this raw option often, but for anyone wanting the most amount of detail. Well, you got it.
Photos feel like you, can reach into the screen and just grab this cone right out and, if you’re going to bring them into an editing program, you’ll have more options to punch in or slightly adjust the colors before the image falls apart. I love this feature very much, but apple is playing a bit of ketchup here. Samsung has used an 108 megapixel sensor since the 2020s s20 ultra and that amount of megapixels is in the s22 ultra as well. The Raw photos here are incredibly crisp, but what makes them even better is is the pro mode that you have to be in to take them with the s22 ultra. You have full control over ISO shutter, speed, white balance, exposure value and even focus in this Pro mode, and all that is nicely packaged and so fun to use in the phone’s native camera app. And I cannot believe that Apple doesn’t have a native Pro mode, especially with a 48 megapixel camera. It’S kind of insane when not taking photos in raw mode, though the iPhone will pixeled in the sensor or use software to group 4 pixels into one and produce 12 megapixel photos. These photos are not too Punchy, but not too flat either, and what I love most about them is that they are consistent. The color temperature, the saturation, the contrast it all feels the same regardless of time of day or location and the skin tones are balanced. The s22 also, on the other hand, well it loves the color blue and, as soon as it recognizes, the sky it’ll turn that blue up to borderline turquoise, but not all the time. It’S just some of the time and there’s no telling when this might happen. Samsung has always had a reputation for creating far too saturated images and, most of the time, with the s22 ultra, it’s able to tame that desire, but just about every 20 images it can’t hold back. This unpredictability is its biggest downfall, where the s22 ultra makes up. For this, though, is portrait mode.
The s22 ultra uses an AI stereo depth map feature to map out small elements such as pieces of hair on a subject’s head and keep it in focus with the subject to better sell the applied blur. This creates far more realistic depth between the subject and the background and leads to photos. I truly can’t believe I took on a smartphone, I mean in this photo it held onto the cat’s farther eyeball, and here the s22 didn’t over correct the warm light that was present at the table. The iPhone, however, is quick to seemingly just draw a circle on what it recognizes as a face and add a big blur to everything else case in point: Pete’s dog tags. Here, oh gorgeous day in Brooklyn, let’s go on the video side. The iPhone 14 pro is again very consistent with color contrast and Clarity.
It can shoot up to 4K 60 frames per second in prores and when comparing it to the s22 ultra’s 4K video, it’s just a bit crisper and less Jagged. That’S not a professional term. But when filming small details such as leaves you’ll notice that the iPhone does a better job at separating details, but not over sharpening them, but the s22 ultra also shoots an 8K 24 frames per second, and while I don’t think anyone needs 8K, I mean. Were you actually gon na be watching this footage? It does look noticeably better than the iPhone in this mode.
There’S a crop but there’s also more details November, something or other, and it’s like 70 something degrees. This ain’t right, but I’m not gon na lie. It feels real good at night. However, you can see that both cameras are really working hard to stabilize the image with Jagged details such as on this stoplight. Although the iPhone does do a nicer job of smoothing out the Grain in the shadows. And yes, both cameras have a video stabilization mode and both have some sort of cinematic video mode that adds depth of field, but I think both of those features are still too unpredictable for the average user to use them foreign so who wins? Last year, everyone got real mad at me for saying that if you’re an iOS User, it’s the iPhone, if you’re an Android User.
Well then, it was the pixel, so this year I’m promising you a winner and that winner is the s22 ultra, because folks, this camera system has so many good features, not just a couple of Great Tricks. When you use this camera system, you have 108 megapixels to play with four great lenses, one of which the three times lens that I didn’t have time to talk about, but is equally as sharp and very usable. You have a portrait mode they’ll. Have you saying I can’t believe I took this on a phone and then on top of all of that, there’s 8K video. But more importantly, and what makes this system feel like an actual camera and not just a camera slapped onto a phone? Is you have Pro modes that let you control every part of it check, check, check, check, and I think that that control is what makes it the winner so long as you’re willing to pay one thousand two hundred dollars for it, which I guess in that regards It is following along the actual camera path a bit too closely, but in the age of every phone having a perfectly acceptable camera, the ability to then tune that camera precisely to what you want it to look like is what makes it the best tool for capturing The world around you – and you know you might actually learn a bit more about photography while you’re doing it too. I know you’ve got thoughts and I have galleries for you. There’S a pinned comment down below with some of my favorite photos that I took on all of these cameras. Download them mess them up. Let me know what you think: who has the best camera I’m coming to from the s22 ultra the front facing Cam, and I just like cannot get over how good that is, it’s kind of insane all right. I don’t know if I’ll ever do this project again. It almost kills me every year, but I appreciate you for watching .