- So the other day, DxOMark ranked the
Galaxy S10+ having one of the best
smartphone cameras you can buy today.
In fact, actually tied the Hauwei Mate 20 Pro
for the number one spot.
Now I personally don't take DxOMark seriously,
but I thought it would be great
to compare these two smartphone cameras.
So here we have a beautiful sunny day.
Both phones did a great job of taking the photo.
If anything, it comes down to small key differences.
S10+ hits the cooler tones, the picture itself
looks a little bit more blue,
especially when you look at the bottom
left hand corner of the screen.
Those two small ice patches are
a little bit too blue.
Whereas on the Mate 20 Pro, it looks
a lot more like a real life
or at least it did at that time of day.
Also, you can tell that the S10+ is being
very aggressive with the over sharpening.
The building itself looks softer on the Mate 20 Pro,
especially in the foreground.
If you look at the water fountain
or at least around it, it's a lot sharper
on the S10+ compared to the Mate 20 Pro.
Now I do think the S10+ did a much better
job of capturing the details
and you can especially see this when you zoom in.
You can see the details around the clock tower better,
you can see the black lines going through it.
The only difference again is that you're getting
slightly more over sharpening with the S10+.
The next photo I wanted to test,
a high dynamic range, or HDR.
This is a picture on sunny day,
pretty much pointing at the sun.
I wanted to see what it would do with the foreground.
The S10+ definitely has better HDR.
The sky looks a little bit more blue,
which is great, but the key area to notice,
in terms of HDR, is the building itself.
The Mate 20 Pro had a difficult time
of capturing those details.
Whereas on the S10+ you can actually see the
windows, you can see the colors of the tree
and the color on the dome looks a lot more realistic.
So in this photo, I just wanna test out how
the camera sensors would handle different colors.
Both phones again did a great job
but it comes down to the same thing
I talked about earlier, cooler tones with the S10+
and you can see that in the snow,
it's a little bit more blue compared to
the snow with the Mate 20 Pro.
I do think the Mate 20 Pro did a slightly better
job with the shadows, if you look at
the bottom right hand corner, the shadows
have been lifted up so you can see the
green of the leaves itself.
So this photo's interesting because it was
taken around six o'clock in the evening
and it definitely didn't look like either one.
In fact, I think the S10+ is going too heavy
on the blues, giving the whole feel of the image
a different vibe compared to real life.
Whereas, with the Mate 20 Pro,
it's a little bit more realistic,
but it's tending to lean towards a warmer tone,
which that time of day didn't have,
I'd say the picture, or at least the feel of the
picture, would fall somewhere in between both phones.
This is kind of interesting because
both cameras reversed roles.
The S10+ now has the more vibrant, warmer tones
the Mate 20 Pro looks a little bit cooler.
I do like the picture on the S10+ better,
the clouds look better, it's a little bit more blue,
you also have a little more contrast in color,
so the leaves themselves look a little bit more vibrant.
I'm finding that the Mate 20 Pro is
crushing the blacks a little bit too much
and you can see this along the bushes,
but when we go to the wider lens,
you're seeing a lot more contrast with the S10+.
The blacks are a little bit lower now with the S10+
but not to the point like it is on the Mate 20 Pro.
The Mate 20 Pro is just starting to
lose a lot of detail with the wider lens.
Those blacks are a little bit too dark for my liking,
I would've loved to see them bumped up a little bit more.
And third up we have two times zoom on the S10+
and you have three times zoom on the Mate 20 Pro.
Again, you're seeing those blacks
being crushed a little bit too much.
I am seeing the details in the leaves
and the sky a lot more with the S10+.
Moving on to low light photography,
the S10 is a big improvement compared to the S9.
It doesn't have a night mode,
but it does detect when it's night time
and it takes seven shots if you're holding the camera
or 17 shots if you're holding it with a tripod,
which means it'll use that information
to create the best image possible.
The Mate 20 Pro, on the other hand,
actually has a night time mode.
So both of them actually look quite similar.
If anything, I'm gonna give the
slight edge to the Mate 20 Pro.
You can see the details on my jacket a little bit
better, my face is slightly exposed better,
and the lighting in the background is also looking better.
So again, another night time photo,
I am going to give the edge again to the Mate 20 Pro.
If you look at the bushes on the left hand side,
you can actually see them.
Whereas on the S10+, they're completely blacked out.
However, I will give a point to the S10+
for actually using more realistic color tones.
I mean, this is at 11 O'Clock at night.
The sky shouldn't look that blue.
So this is portrait mode for both phones,
or live focus on the S10+, I think they
both did a pretty good job, obviously
the background looks a little artificial on both
but I think it looks a little bit
more artificial on the Mate 20 Pro.
You could actually see the power lines
a little bit with the S10+, whereas
the background on the Mate 20 Pro
is just like one fuzzy blob.
Next up is selfies and both phones
still don't take the best selfies.
I'm still gonna give that to the Pixel 3 and the iPhone 10S.
But, this is an improvement for the S10 compared to the S9.
It's definitely better than the
selfie taken with the Mate 20 Pro.
The Mate 20 Pro, my skin is just a little bit too red,
not true to life, the colors are a little bit off.
Now don't get me wrong, the S10+ is not perfect either,
my skin tones are a little bit yellow,
but I do like the way it looks.
So again, we have the exact same shot
with live focus on this time,
completely blurred the background of the S10+.
It looks super duper fake, kinda cool,
but really really fake.
The Mate 20 Pro, on the other hand,
I kept portrait mode on but it just didn't
do a good job of blurring out the background.
Based on my first impressions, I think
the Galaxy S10+ has the better front facing camera.
You guys let me know in the comments below.
This is the audio from one of the microphones
and this is the audio from the Huawei Mate 20 Pro.
So now we have some 1080p video,
both phones are doing a pretty good job
stabilization slightly better on the S10+
but it's pretty close between both of these phones.
But once you switch to 4k,
that's when things really start to change.
Again, you can see the cooler tones with the S10+,
but you do see the sky a lot better.
Also, the stabilization is better
on the S10+ compared to the Mate 20 Pro.
So that pretty much wraps up my camera comparison
between the S10+ and the Mate 20 Pro.
I'll be honest with you, both
of these cameras are amazing.
But, for daytime photography,
for most situations, I find the camera
to be slightly better with the S10+.
It's not until you go to nighttime mode,
that's where you see the difference
with the Mate 20 Pro.
I still think night mode with the Mate 20 Pro
is better, overall, they're very, very close
and there's really not much to complain
and a lot of the look of the photos
really comes down to personal preference.
Let me know which ones are your
favorite shots in the comments below.
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