Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Ultimate Smartphone Camera Comparison.”.
It is finally here the ultimate camera test. We’Ve got your top five most requested devices and we’re gon na settle this once and for all, so welcome to maybe the first five in one smartphone camera comparison. We’Re gon na leave out the 1 5 t here, just because of how soon its replacement is coming, but yeah we can always do a follow up down the line. Alright, let’s get into it starting off with portrait mode and you’ll notice. Even given the exact same subject in the exact same position, these five images look completely different.
The s 9 of the P 20 Pro focus on making the subject, look good, which I’d say for 70 to 80 percent of the population is actually what we want, whereas the iPhone 10 and pixel to have a focus on realism, which is not a bad thing. Either but throughout these photos you might have noticed the S mine plus seems to have the best EDD tection, something that wasn’t present at launch, but has obviously since been improved, whilst both Google’s pixel, 2 and Sony’s Xperia x2 have a single camera setup. The Xperia lacks Google’s software trickery and therefore doesn’t have a portrait mode at all. In terms of video, all these phones shoot in 4k resolution. So in terms of the number of pixels, you aren’t going to be able to find a difference, but the s9 plus pixel, 2 and P 20 Pro produce a much more vibrant image and they handle the high dynamic range of these situations.
A little better. Moving to the next sequence, looking at the iPhone 10 and the Xperia Z, majouk ANSI, not only are they a little bit dull and a little bit lifeless in terms of color, but you’ll also lose a lot of detail in the sky. The Xperia really has the worst end of the deal here.
You can barely make out anything in the clouds. What about stabilization, though, flicking these over to 1080p video you’ll notice, although the Xperia is the only phone here with no optical image, stabilization that actually handles it? Surprisingly well and it’s the iPhone 10 that is the most affected by me. Stepping all these phones can also shoot slow motion, video, but the S line at p20 pro and XR 2 can do 960 frames per second, which is much slower than the other two phones that are limited to 2 and from 40. But it can only be done for short period of time if anything, the xperia winds this section, because whilst there are two other phones that can also shoot super slow-motion video, the sony is the only one that can do it at 1080p. So it does so while maintaining the quality low-light, and this is where we see a surprising divergence between these cameras. The Google pixel, notably even in this semi low light condition over here, has noticeable grain creeping in moving over to what I would consider as very low light.
The iPhone starts to have problems, and whilst the pixel does have a bright looking image, you can tell this. Has been artificially enhanced because there’s still a lot of noise ultra low light, the kind of condition you’d find very rarely on a day-to-day basis, but in this situation, Samsung’s dual uh pata system really comes into its own in low light. The aperture opens right up. So you actually get enough light to still be able to see clearly with very little noise. It’S a clear winner here and taking a little bit further just for fun in a lighting condition of about 2 Lux which, to give you an idea, you can’t see with the human eye in the s-line plus still produces a reasonable image and the p20 Pro is Not far behind see ya low light is a huge win for Samsung, but you have to always bear in mind how often you’re going to be experiencing those kinds of lighting conditions, not very often for most people, something we haven’t tried yet is just straight up photos Going out in broad daylight, just taking photos of things around you and you can see immediately hallways image stands out upon recognizing the blue sky. The phone’s artificial intelligence system boost the saturation all the way to the max, and I think it’ll be pretty dividing you’ll either.
Love it or you’ll hate it, but this next image demonstrates the problem. Is that when it doesn’t recognize these things, you’re left with a flat looking image and to have that level of inconsistency in one phone’s, camera I’d say, is not great a couple of other takeaways here. The Xperia phone again has lost almost all detail in the sky, and, I would say, in these kinds of photo, is just taking a simple shot of a landscape.
The pixel is on top 80 % of the time upon taking a photo with that phone it’ll make all sorts of adjustments to things. Like contrast, structure, sharpness and the end image is often something you’re instantly ready to post somewhere. I did also try taking a photo of this lump post when the Sun was directly behind it, which makes it a challenging subject to retain detail on.
But, surprisingly, all five phones managed to keep the foreground clear. A quick note on shutter speed, which is essentially the amount of time the your image sensor is exposed to light while taking a photo and the shorter. This time is the better you’ll be able to capture fast-moving objects without any blur.
So what I did, I got right up close to a fountain and with each of the five phones, we’ve taken, one photo of fast-moving water and you can tell all of these ferns have captured it very very quickly. These almost look like stagnant bodies, but if we crop in six times, you’ll notice, huawei’s p20 Pro does the best job at capturing this very quickly and Sony’s Xperia does the worst aside from portrait mode. There is one other notable benefit with moving from a single camera to a dual camera, and that is zoom and you might be thinking well wait. A second. The Xperia x2 only has a single camera. The Google pixel only has one camera and then we’ve got Huawei’s p20 Pro over there with three. So how did these phones shape up? As with a lot of other things on this test? Huawei takes this one away with three times: optical zoom.
It beats out the s9 plus and the iPhone 10, which both have two times, and the pixel and Xperia which have no zoom, and it’s not a close competition. Huawei is way ahead of the game here, but again, as with super low lighting conditions is one of those things you’ve got to ask yourself: how much will you use it and therefore, is it a deal breaker selfies for some people, something you’ve never taken in your Life and for others, the entire use of your phone’s camera. So, let’s see how these stack up you’ll notice, a very similar trend to what we saw with the portrait modes, whereby Samsung’s, s9 and Wally’s p20 try to make you look good and pretty successfully the iPhone 10 in pixel to produce more grungy looking photos with a Little bit more sharpness and contrast, and because they’re not dialing the exposure all the way up, they also retain more detail in the background behind you, and it is totally up to you whether that’s something you want loss detail is lost in the background in the foreground. The p20 Pro actually has the most detail here.
The front camera on this phone is 24 megapixels and, on the other end of the spectrum, Sony’s has a 5 megapixel and, as you can tell, it is a pretty poor job in high dynamic range scenarios. The first four phones also have the option for selfie focus, which is basically portrait mode with the front camera, and whilst it’s possible, you might prefer the way you look in the si and p20 pro. The Google pixel 2 is undoubtedly the only front camera here. That looks as good as a rear camera now something I’m a fan of is macro photography, going on right, up, close to objects and seeing how much detail you can capture and how much you can separate the foreground.
From the background we mentioned earlier Samsung’s dual aperture system, which shoots at F 1.5 in dark, but then f, 2.4 in broad daylight, which means that compared to its rivals, you’re actually getting less light into the sensor in broad daylight. And you also get less blur and less bokeh off the background, which I think doesn’t look as good as say. The Google pixel or what Wiz p20 probe with a fixed aperture of F to the Xperia phone, also suffers a similar fate. But without the flexibility that Samsung’s dual aperture system offers, but what about the most obvious question of detail, which it would be easy to say well, Huawei wins: Huawei has a 40 megapixel sensor on their phone, but you’ll probably find you won’t be taking 40 megapixel photos Because photos take longer to capture there’s a huge space requirement and lack of zoom options, and the phone also uses something called pixel binning to take advantage of that 40 megapixel sensor when taking 10 megapixel photos, so yeah it’s not being wasted, and this actually leaves Sony’s Xperia exit tube at the highest resolution – camera you’ve got a 19 megapixel sensor there and in a sense, even though it’s been trailing throughout this entire test, that could be the ace of its sleeve when we’ve zoomed in eight times it is notably sharper than the other.
Four phones, which seemed to pretty much trade blows on a photo by photo basis, but on average Google’s pixel probably has the weakest level of detail here Wow. So you may not have anticipated just how many factors there are to consider here and unfortunately I can’t do the easy thing and tell you that one of these phones is the best outright Samsung makes you look great on camera and kill the low-light scene, the iPhone 10 is very balanced and the pixel 2 knocks it out the park when it comes to scenic shots and front-facing portrait mode qualies offering is a very forward-thinking camera with a lot of innovative, interesting features and sony has super slow motion, video that is the best of The bunch, but on balance is the only one I can safely say is not as good as the for anyway guys. I really hope you enjoyed the video and you found it useful and if you did, if you could smash that subscribe button down below I’ll really need a lot on here.
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