Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Vivo V11 Pro vs Pocophone F1 vs Samsung Note 9 Camera Test Comparison”.
So welcome to probably the most comprehensive camera test. I’Ve ever done on this channel we’re currently using the selfie cameras on each of the phones and also the respective microphones, on whichever one I’m talking on now. You’Ll probably notice that two of the phones on the left-hand side are the pocket for an f1 and the vivo. P11 phones aren’t really in the same price tag as the galaxy note 9.
And the reason for that is that both of those phones have cameras that defy the price tag, so we’re gon na see just how close they can get and starting off. Weird video from the front camera you’ll notice that all three phones have a slightly different color profile. The V 11 and the note 9 I’d say, are both a step above the Paco f1 here mind you even the f1 footage is pretty good, but it’s just a little bright, and if you compare the white t-shirt on all three phones, you’ll notice that the V 11 and the note 9 managed to keep it from over exposing when we move to front-facing photos, though the story gets more interesting in my full review.
I talked about how I don’t think I’ve tried a phone which can take better selfies than the V 11, and you can probably tell here, whereas the Paco f1 and the note 9 have severely overexposed the t-shirt with the V 11. You can still see the stitches. The V 11 also wins in dynamic range. It manages to properly represent both the really bright areas of the image, for example, the t-shirt and the really dark areas, for example a black door. In the background, then, we’ve got selfie focus, aka front-facing portrait mode, and you can probably tell the pocke phone f1 is by no means subtle. I think the V 11 and the note 9 have a slightly more realistic bokeh effect.
But if you look at my hair on the note 9, it’s pretty much treated as background. Yet again, the note 9 doesn’t do a particularly good job, realising that the car behind me is actually part of the background, so that remains in focus and something that I thought was pretty cool. The V 11 is that when you’re taking selfie focus photos like this, you can add a rainbow effect or, alternatively, monochrome background. As the light starts to fade I’d say: the PACU f1 has the sharpest front-facing camera. If you look at the V 11, you can see noticeable grain starting to creep in and if you look at the note 9, it’s just a little soft and for fun really. I took it a step further and went to super low light, and the trend is pretty consistent in terms of front-facing photos.
The note 9 doesn’t keep up very well. The V 11 also has a brightness compensation mode, which does a better job than the other. Two phones, flush is at lighting up your face, but unfortunately doesn’t remove the green from the background and now we’re at it. This is probably as good as we’re gon na get for a microphone test, so we’re gon na flick between the audio of all three phones – and you tell me which one, you think sounds better so now we’re testing the audio from the poco phone f1.
So what do you think is that better or worse than the last one and now at the Galaxy Note 9, which you would expect, given he immense price difference between these phones to, of course, have the best audio quality and the lowest background noise? Alright, we’ve spent enough time talking about the front-facing cameras so onto the rear, and for this the V 11 for some strange reason. Only caps out at 1080p, video, which is poor, considering phones with an equivalent chipset, can do 4k. It does make up for it in terms of photos which we’ll get to in a minute, but if we look at video in isolation, the V 11 is generally a disappointment. So, with the phone set to 4k, apart from the V 11, you can see that when it comes to stabilization, the Galaxy Note 9 has a massive advantage compared to the shaky mess that is the V 11 or the Paco f1. The note 9 almost looks like you’ve got your phone on a slider and it’s just gliding through the environment.
Something else worth pointing out, though, is that the dynamic range on the Paco, F, Wan’s video, is amazing and actually I’d say better than the Galaxy Note nines. If we put all three phones at 1080p, video, then I’d say the Galaxy Note, 9 is still winning it, but the gap between this and the pocket phone f1 has definitely narrowed in terms of slow motion. The note 9 wins.
This comparison should give you a pretty good idea of how much difference there is between those other two phones, 240 FPS and the note 9s. 960. Now the note 9 can’t record at this super high frame rate consistently. It can only do it for a short period of time, but if you prefer to have slow motion like the other two phones continuously, then the no 9 can do that too. Autofocusing was pretty fast on all three actually tough to distinguish, which does it foster. But if you look at the note nine, it’s definitely handled better.
The transition between focusing on this close and thus far object is much smoother than the slightly jerky V 11 and Paco f1 also notice how blown out the colors are on the f1. In most cases, I do prefer the extra saturation ads, but obviously, in cases like this, it has gone a little overboard, okay, photos and for this next little section, all the phones are gon na be using their HDR modes. And while you can probably tell the note, 9 in the F one’s photos, look pretty similar.
The V 11s look completely different, that phone’s HDR mode works by bringing the shadows up significantly and bringing the light areas down to almost create a neutral looking photo. But it’s not in a bad way. You could argue it’s the least realistic of the three, but at the same time it keeps the detail in the skies, whilst also making the details in the previously dark areas really rather visible.
So some people would argue it looks better now. The note 9 has the luxury of being a higher-end phone which gives it the option for a telephoto lens, which means you can zoom in two times and pretty much suffer minimal detail loss. So if we now crop into the already zoomed image, you can see the fact that the note 9 has lossless zoom like this is playing to its advantage, and in this specific case scenario, the V 11 has less noise per pixel than the f1.
Now, one image that I think makes a really interesting comparison. Is this macro shot here, while the sky has completely disappeared on the V 11 and the f1, you can pretty clearly see the details on the note 9 and you might be thinking, wait a sec. That’S the exact opposite of what was happening before the V 11 was meant to be doing better at keeping the sky under control and not over exposing well, what seems to be happening is this. The vive V 11 has a really amazing HDR algorithm for both the front and the rear cameras, but in those cases where you can’t use this HDR mode, for example, in macro photos like this or in terms of video, then the V 11 seems to suffer. Meanwhile, the note 9 has a variable aperture function, which means the in broad daylight.
It can close up its aperture, so it doesn’t let too much light in, but this also comes with disadvantage of getting less of that lovely bokeh effect. So if you look at the car number plate in the background, it’s much less blurred out on the note nine portrait mode, and here the V 11 is back on top, whereas the F 1 and the note nine have a real faded. Look to them. Doovy 11 remains punchy and contrasty, I wouldn’t say, there’s any clear winner for edge detection.
Literally every other image I took there was a different result, but one thing that is clear and very annoying is that, with the note, nines live focus mode. It zooms in to the image, which basically means you have to take three or four steps back to actually take the same photo because the V 11s primary sensor has an F 1.8 aperture versus the F 1.9 of the pocke for an f1 low-light, shots tend to Favor that device, but let’s not forget that when things get really really dim, the note 9 is still in a different league altogether being able to open up its aperture to F 1.5. It can make some really dark scenarios. Almost look like a completely different time of the day and now to answer for some people, the most important question detail. Well, all three phones have a 12 megapixel primary sensor and cropping into them they’re pretty much the same. Each of course has its own color profile and I would say the V 11 and the note 9 have a slightly cleaner, slightly less noisy image than the pocke phone f1.
But detail is pretty much the same. Ok so, which one do you think represents the best value for money when it comes to camera. Bear in mind. The V 11 is around the $ 400 mark, the poco f1 about the 330 to 350 dollar mark and the note 9 about $ 1,000. Thanks a lot watching guys, my name is Aaron. This is mister who’s, the boss and I’ll catch.
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