- Hello everyone...
Classic. (laughs)
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Hello everyone?
End of last year, I bought this new Google Pixel phone,
and also upgraded my DSLR to a Sony mirrorless camera.
Question, can you spot the difference between the photos
from this $1000 phone
and the photos from this $4,500 camera?
If it's anything like the results we got last year,
it might be much harder than you think.
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For those of you who are new to this channel,
I'm Loïc Bellemare-Alford,
young photographer and filmmaker
on the journey to become better at this art.
I will take plenty of photos
of the beautiful city of Vancouver,
but to make this comparison more interesting,
I won't tell you which photo was taken with which camera,
instead I'm just going to label them A and B.
Stick to the end,
I'll reveal the answer to this question.
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Before we start taking any of the compressing shots,
let's talk about the devices
and camera settings we're going to be using.
So, first of all, we have my Google 6 Pro right here,
which is four lenses and each lens produce
about a 12 megapixel image in the end.
Then we have my Sony A7 IV here with two lenses.
So the first one is a 28 to 200, F2.8 to F5.6
and then I have my 17 to 28 at F2.8.
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The first thing I want to compare is the dynamic range
in both of these cameras.
If you don't know what is dynamic range,
it's basically the amount of detail
that you have inside of the dark parts
and the bright side of the images.
Smartphone cameras have become very good
at producing very high dynamic ranges of images.
So I wouldn't be surprised that my Google 6 Pro,
if we take jpeg images on each camera,
actually has more dynamic range inside of it.
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One feature where smartphone has really tried
to catch up to DSLR mirrorless cameras,
is actually for the bokeh.
If you don't know what bokeh is,
it's a background blur inside of the images.
And this is very important,
especially in situations like this
where I take pictures of people,
because you want to separate your subject and the background.
This is called portrait mode inside of most phones
because it just takes very portraits of people.
So let's test it out with my friend, Nicholas, right here.
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What do you think up to now?
Do you know which one is camera A
and which one is camera B?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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One of the most underrated features
of mirrorless or DSLR cameras,
is actually the ability of being able to change some lenses.
So on my Google 6 Pro, we actually only have three lenses.
We have one that's ultra wide at 17 millimeters,
there's one that's 24 millimeters, which is a wide lens,
and finally, there's a telephoto at four times zoom,
which is about a hundred millimeters.
On my DSLR, we actually can stop
and we can switch the lenses right here,
so we can take it out here.
I can go in my bag and have a second lens,
so I can really choose whichever lens is the best
for the situation.
And this is very important actually
for a situation like this,
where we had a beautiful sunset in the background here,
and I want to take some detail shots on the mountains.
So I can use this lens,
which is a 28 to 200, to take some detail shots.
But if I wanted, I can simply come in my bag, come here,
switch my camera to another lens in here,
and now we have a wide angle lens.
So, I'm not limited to only these two lens,
I can actually choose much more lenses.
I really can choose whatever the lens I want.
So it really gives a lot of flexibility
on which type of shots I can get in the end.
And I'm not limited to the free options
that I have inside of my phone.
One of the downsides of having lenses,
is that they're actually usually pretty expensive
so you have to think about it.
When you're buying camera, you cannot only buy the body
you also have to buy the lenses.
So that's definitely a downside, but in the end,
you're going to get sharp pictures throughout the whole range.
Well, this going to be a problem on the phone
because if you zoom in between,
let's say, two times zoom and four times zoom on my pixel,
this is actually digital zoom,
and it doesn't look that good in the end.
So if you can zoom physically with a lens,
it's always going to be better in the end.
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If we're talking about our next point,
which is going to be about taking some night photos,
because this camera is starting
to come out and being really nice.
I want to talk about the difference
of ease of use versus customizability.
So for a smartphone,
it's very easy to use you, take it out of your pocket,
it's always on me, I take a picture,
all the processing is done for me.
I can get some great results very quickly.
My DSLR, instead, it's not as easy to use
because I can change pretty much everything on it
but I can also customize everything.
So this is in the good point
for this alarm is actually that's super, super customizable.
So I can really change any button on the camera.
I can change things inside the menu
to really get it to work exactly as I want.
But these are very different tools
for very different people.
So it's really important to understand
that they don't act the same way
and that you cannot really compare them exactly
because they're not trying to accomplish
the same thing for everyone.
But look at the view of the city in the background here
this will be incredible shot tonight of the city.
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One of the things that impressed me the most inside
of my compressed zoom between my Google Pixel 4a
and my DLSR, was actually the night shots.
So on my Google Pixel 4a, because it uses night sight,
it gets some really sharp and detailed images
where it's really actually hard
to get some night shots using the DSLR
or mirrorless handheld, because the moment you take a shot
you have to be super steady (camera chimes)
to not get some blur inside of the images.
On the Google Pixel 6 Pro and the Google Pixel 4a,
they have a more lens that's called night sight.
It takes six images,
merges them together to create a much more stable shot.
Now, all of these changes, if we go right here
and we put the cameras on a tripod,
on my DSLR I'm going to be able to get some much better shots
because I'm going to be able to control the exposure
and the ISOs and be able to go
for longer exposure and get less noise inside of the images,
whereas here on the pixel, we're sending some
of the limitations that we have, and because it's steady
it could go a little bit longer for the night shots
but its not going to change much inside of it in the end.
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After passing way too much time on the city,
I decided to split this video into parts.
In this first part,
I'm going to share a preview of my in-depth analysis,
share which camera is which
and also share some bloopers at the end of this video.
In the second part, it's going to be coming this Sunday.
I'm going to share an in-depth analysis
and comparisons of the shots that I got
with both of these cameras.
Now is the time to hit that subscribe button
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Again, this is one place where I think there's
a very big difference.
We're going to send the background
of these images, these portrait images.
We have much more details inside
of the Goggle Pixel 6 Pro shot
than the one on the Sony here.
The Sony here has a hard time
and just brings everything to almost pure wide.
Yes, I could go inside of lightroom
and try edit these images and get a little bit more detail,
but straight out of the camera,
and quickly editing both of these, you get these results.
So this is pretty impressive that Google 6 Pro just
by default has so much more information inside of the shot.
One very impressive example here again with portraits,
I think a lot of times here
the Google 6 Pro just does a better job of portraits.
Look at this background here,
we basically have more information inside of this shot
but straight out of the group, 6 Pro you can see right here
there's a lot more information inside of the sky
but we still see my friend, Nicholas
perfectly fine in the shot.
If we look at these shots here,
I think we see a huge difference between the two here.
So this one is just warmer in general
where the Pixel again, a little bit too blue to my taste,
I don't know why they go so blue,
because it definitely wasn't as blue that day,
it was probably more realistic on the Sony right here.
And again here, I think the colors here
on the Google shot are much more natural,
it was a really nice sunset with the light we had here
on my friend Nicholas,
while here we just see that the Sony had a hard time
with the highlights and just kind of lost the colors
inside of the bright part of his face,
where here there's no at all lost inside
of the colors here on the face on the Google 6 Pro's.
I was actually pretty impressed
with the night shots right here,
because I was expecting here
the Google Pixel 6 Pro have a much harder time
with these types of shots where it's not clear
what is the foreground and what is the background?
They got almost everything perfectly, right?
The only thing right here is actually
underneath the knee where then realize
that this should be treated it as a background
not be treated as the foreground
but on the side right here, it's very natural,
they progressively add more and more blur to the background.
So I was actually very impressed with these shots.
And there's some cases like these ones
where they don't look as good.
So definitely here, you kind of see
that a portrait mode is having a really hard time
determining what is foreground, what is a background?
What should be sharp and not,
where here it's shot from the Sony camera
just looks perfectly fine throughout
because it's totally natural blur in the foreground
but also the background here.
And so that's definitely one of the difference.
So this is definitely an advantage of DSLRs
is just how you can control the blur
and you can get more or less
as you want by control the settings on your cameras.
Some of the most impressive results we got is actually
for the shot here of my friend.
So we can see here that on the Sony camera,
there's too much noise
and had a hard time retaining
some detail inside of my friend,
where here the photo on my Google 6 Pro
is actually super sharp, detailed
and just looks a lot better.
In my opinion, there's more detail inside of the shot
and it was actually really dark.
So it's kind of impressive
how much detail you get inside
of the Google 6 Pro shot.
Again here with my two friends side by side,
this one looks very good,
even though I took some settings here
to get some better results on the Sony,
I still think the one from my Google Pixel Six Pro
kind of looks better, so it's very impressive.
So now the big reveal,
camera A was my Sony A7 IV camera
and camera B was my Google Pixel 6 Pro.
Did you get that right?
Let me know in the comments down below.
I'm very curious to know what you thought
about this comparison.
Are you the person that still uses a DSLR mirrorless camera?
Have you switched to only using your phone?
Are you just starting out for the graph B
and take all your pictures using your phone?
I'm very curious to know what you think.
My goal wasn't to tell if this camera
or this camera is better, that wasn't a goal at all.
The goal was just try and compare
because I'm still very impressed how good phones have become
in the last few years.
I want to end this video by seeing a big thank to my friends,
Trevor and Nicholas, that helped me filming this video
while we were on our trip in Vancouver,
it wouldn't have been possible without both of them.
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See you on the next one.
- Are we filming? - Yeah, we're filming.
Test one, two, test microphone.
- This one is working. - It's good.
And this $4,500 camera, I'm missing one line.
Question, can you spot the difference between the phones
from (speaks gibberish)
between the... (laughing)
And upgraded to this Sony?
Oh, sorry.
And the photos from the pho...
- [Trevor] You were so close.
- I was so close, I was so close.
River channel, I think it would be more popular
than the main channel.
- [Trevor] I have it recorded.
We have no choice now.
- Like me taking pictures of Nic.
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- [Trevor] I don't want to get shot
two are already going around. (camera shutters)
(Bellemare laughing)
- [Trevor] Loic.
One of the tests I'm impressed...
I need more water right now.
So first of all, we have my Google Pixel 4a,
oh, Google pixel 4a.
Only got pixel on all lenseses.
Ah, lenseses.
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