- [Linus] That's really natural bokeh.
- It's so cool
today, We're looking at something that you, unfortunately,
probably can't buy because it's exclusive to Japan,
but I wanted to check this phone out anyway,
because on a hardware level, it's really cool.
And it's Leicas first smartphone,
the Leitz I think,
Leitz phone 1.
Let's see what's in the box.
(phone wrapper crackling)
Oh, it goes from a white box to a black box,
a little red Leica logo.
Okay. Here's the phone.
We'll look at that in a second
SIM removal tool
and oh, we have a case
and what looks to be a type C to type A adapter.
And then there's this rubber case.
Oh, and it has a little Leica logo.
So even when you put a case on this phone,
you never lose your Leica logo.
That's important guys.
- [Andy] Or you can tape it
like a lot of Leica users
- Oh yeah
Just a lot of Leica users tape their logos
because you don't want people walking on the street,
knowing that you have a Leica, which is like $10,000,
just strapped to you.
So the price of this phone is roughly $1,700 USD.
It's not exact
because it's actually a Japanese yen conversion.
It's actually a rebadged version
of the Shark Aquos R6,
which is also only available in Japan
and a couple other choice markets.
But the cool feature of both of those phones is that
this phone and the Shark
have a one inch sensor on the camera body,
just like the Sony Xperia Pro-I,
that I checked out recently.
Now, unfortunately for the Pro I
something that we actually
weren't able to mention in the video
at the time that we made it
was the one inch sensor in that phone,
doesn't actually use the entire sensor.
I'm not 100% sure if this phone uses an entire
one inch sensor, but I think it does.
Okay. So let's take a physical tour of the phone
on the right.
We have a volume rocker,an assistant button
and then power and lock.
And then you actually notice on the phone
it's, knurled on both sides for grip,
which is a nice touch
on the bottom,we have a headphone jack, type C,
a speaker and mic.
on the top, we've got a, is it dual SIM?
Let's see.
Nope, but it has a single SIM and a micro SD expansion,
which apparently is up to one terabyte,
which is pretty solid.
I really like how it feels on the hand.
We've got a gorilla glass matte black silicone feeling back
if you've ever used or held a Leica.
This feels like it is very inspired
by the design of their cameras
because you have that cylindrical smoothness
to the entire phone.
And then it's a black and silver finish with the obviously
lovely, Leica red badge.
And then we have a lens cap guys,
a lens cap on a smartphone camera.
It sticks on magnetically. You see that
- [Andy] Magsafe
- it's kind of silly like that they have this.
I mean, I get it.
Cause the camera bump is like
almost as thick as the phone guys.
Like, look at that, the case,
Eddie, do you see this?
Aesthetically,
even though it's a thicker phone
and it's kind of on the bigger side,
I really like it so far.
Now this phone is $1,700 US. And what do you get for that?
Well,
it has a Snapdragon 888,
obviously the one inch sensor
that we're going to test in a second,
a 6.6 inch IGZO OLED
one to 240 Hertz variable refresh rate display,
but it feels like pretty good for variable refresh rate.
This one kind of has a weird resolution.
It's 2730 by 1260 with a 2000 nit peak brightness,
12 gigs of Ram and a 5,000 milliampere battery.
So you can start to see with all those things
that kind of adds up to a lot.
And that's probably why they're charging 1700 USD.
But the biggest selling feature of course
is this one inch sensor.
All right, let's open the camera up.
Now like I said, that
it's a pretty simple app that lets you just completely
focus on taking photos.
Honestly, it looks like a pretty standard smartphone camera.
So we've got yeah, three part 220 megapixels.
We're using the full thing.
No in-body image stabilization.
So it's all electronic image stabilization,
for the photo and video.
When you go from 1.0 to 2.0 it zooms in digitally.
But when you go from 0.7 to 1.0,
it just shows you grid lines. I think of what it's taking.
Let me see that photo. Let's see.
Yeah. Okay.
Interesting.
The 0.7 is the full sensor and the 0.1 is just taking
a crop of that full sensor image.
So the camera in the Leica,
if I haven't gone over it already,
is the Summicron 1.9,19mm ASPH.
Which is stands for aspherical.
The quick explanation of that is that
the lens is sharper than a non aspherical
version of this design.
Take a photo here.
And I actually have an IPhone and a Pixel 6 Pro
Leica has a very interesting mode
that they've added to the camera app called lights looks
and it's a black and white version that
they've kind of color toned.
it looks good like right off the bat.
It has that feeling that you'd get
taking a black and white image on like a monochrome camera.
It has like the depth.
Guys, I know it all feels vague in description,
but Leica is a feeling brand.
They want to emit a feeling in the use of their cameras,
in the looks of their images.
And the vibe of that
is what they're trying to translate to this phone.
Now also I realize in the camera app,
there is an m.photo mode.
And if you go to the settings for this mode,
that is where you see the format
where you can save JPEG and raw
and it has a little balancing.
So, you know, if you're kind of off-kilter.
So I just realized
that on top of Leicas version of the camera app,
there's also the lights camera.
And that's just a really simple camera app that gives you
a focus point, middle grid frame, auto-focus gallery button,
and then a shutter that's it.
So I think this is what they meant by an experience
that is completely uninterrupted by any of the stuff
that you could do with your camera.
And it's just to focus on taking photos.
Why don't we have a look at how the speaker sound
and how the display looks.
{phone music playing}
Even though there's stereo one of those front facing
it's not good.
Okay. Let's take a look at the display.
So just look at the HDR quality of this display.
- [Jono] It looks pretty good
- [Andy] That's pretty good
- Yeah
This line less thing is pretty awesome.
And even though the audio isn't good,
the main focus of this phone is in the camera.
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Let's try the camera
one.
Here's the IPhone and here's the Pixel.
Let's go to like Alex's car
Alex's car has such a good color for photos.
Whoa careful Andy
1, 2, 3.
Okay.
And this is just a quick video test to give you an idea
of what this looks like.
It's also taking AI photos.
Oh yeah. There's some shallow depth of field there.
- That's actually not bad.
- Yeah. I'm actually like,
as I get closer to you closer to your camera,
the bokeh gets better.
All right, let's go back inside. Okay? Cool
So I'm just taking a look at the video that we took
really quickly.
Video is not really the focus of this phone.
I don't expect it to be very good.
Here's Johno.
It looks okay.
And the bokeh is pretty natural looking for a phone.
It looks decently shallow
auto focus is struggling a little bit.
Where this phone shines is definitely,
the stills that you can get off of it.
So on the left, we have the iPhone,
which looks very much like iPhone image, super bright.
HDRy almost feeling and on the left,
this is the Leica image. Honestly looks pretty good to me.
Now.
It's hard to say
if the blur is that much significantly better
because these aren't quite at the exact same angle,
but even on his bike here,
you can see how much sharper that is on the IPhone
and how much lessened focus on the Leica
and the Leica it has kind of like a natural contrasty,
but like the look that you get out of a camera
and not a smartphone,
let's look at the Pixel as well,
Pixel's really contrasty in a way
that I actually don't love in this photo.
It's clear that with the computational photography
background stuff,
the IPhone and the Pixel are sharpened on capture,
whereas the Leica is not okay.
Let's take a look at that photo that we took outside.
Pixels is quite a bit warmer. It's more contrasty as well.
I mean, they look like flagship smartphone photos,
and then the Leica.
So yeah,
The Leica is quite a bit wider than the pixel and the iPhone
from the same spot.
So on this tree image from a detail perspective,
I'm sure a lot of people,
if polled would like the pixel photo,
and the iPhone photo more.
But when I look at it from like a photography point of view,
which of these images I would prefer to edit and actually
kind of try to manipulate and do something with,
I think I go with the Leica because yes,
it's not as sharp out of the box,
but you could probably get it
if you like that punchier look,
but you also have a shallower depth of field.
Like you can see on the closeup of the leaf here,
how much more out of focus the back leaf,
that's a decent amount, more shallow.
It actually is quite noticeable in this image.
I'm impressed.
All right, let's take a look at our last photo man.
The iPhone image is like very bright,
shadows are brought up as expected.
The Leica photo is darker, contrastier ,
but what I was seeing
and then the pixel image,
man the pixel this time around
really goes for the post-processing
because you see every little detail in the shadows here,
again, compared to the Leica.
It's a lot brighter a photo,
but the Leica is what I was seeing with my eyes.
So between the three of these cameras,
the Leica is the most real.
Some of you out there might prefer
the iPhone and the pixel image.
And it is very convenient,
but for me,
someone who enjoys editing photos,
and who would potentially edit a photo off my phone,
if I thought it was good enough,
I think I'm gonna go with the Leica.
In the photo examples that I have here.
It's really quite an enjoyable camera to use.
Now I want to test one more thing.
I actually don't know
that even if you went through all the effort,
to order this phone from Japan,
can you use your SIM and just pop it in with no issues?
Right? Let me just see if I can call you Andy.
- [Andy] Brandon's calling.
- Okay
So that part works. How come I doubted it not working?
Not sure why.
It's not in the scope of this video for me
to troubleshoot that.
- [Linus] Oh is that the phone with a crazy camera?
- Yeah,
Depth field is clearly more shallow.
And the photos I think are,
in my opinion, better than the IPhone and the Pixel
from a like photographers perspective, you can edit this.
The colors are very true to life.
- That's really natural bokeh.
- It's so cool.
- Okay, cool.
See you later.
- Bye.
So if you put the effort in to buying this phone,
just make sure you know, that it'll work in your region.
And I hope if they ever make a phone like this again,
if like it keeps going that they release this worldwide,
because now I want one, even though it's expensive,
I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
As much as I enjoyed making it. This one is really cool.
And I hope it's just a sign of the future of smartphones
and the cameras that can be put into them
because I have no confirmation of this.
If this phone uses the entire one inch sensor on the phone,
unlike the Sony,
this might be one of the best smartphone cameras ever made
and not for everybody to be very clear, but for me,
absolutely.