- What's up guys, Saf here on SuperSaf TV,
and welcome to another SuperSaf style camera comparison.
This time, between the iPhone X
and the Samsung Galaxy Note9.
So in the usual style we'll be looking
at the both the front and rear facing cameras,
images, videos, too.
Also look out for the audio icon in the corner
of the screen, that will indicate to you
which device the audio is coming from.
And we'll be switching between these two
throughout this video to give you guys a better idea
of the differences in audio as well.
So we're currently using the front facing cameras,
and we've got good light, let's go ahead and test out
the stabilization from the front facing cameras.
Just taking a bit of a walk,
now let's go ahead and run.
Now moving on to the rear facing cameras,
we're filming at 4K, 30 frames a second.
Now both devices do have two times optical zoom,
so we can use that.
There we go.
Switching back to regular.
Let's test out the stabilization.
So just walking,
now let's run.
Now we're at 4K 60 frames a second in both devices.
Once again we're just going to do a bit of a run,
to test out the stabilization.
What do you think?
Just going to test out the auto focus on the Note9.
Super super fast, dual pixel auto focus,
still one of the fastest in the business.
Same auto focus test on the iPhone X.
Also pretty fast, but wouldn't say as fast
as the dual pixel on the Note9.
So that was the video,
now before we move on to images,
just having a quick look at what we're working with here.
For the front facing cameras,
the Note9 does have a slightly higher resolution,
but it does have a much wider aperture as well.
For the rear facing cameras,
we've got dual camera setups on both devices,
all cameras have 12 megapixels
with optical and stabilization,
and the secondary camera on both devices
is going to give you two times optical zoom
as well as the portrait mode.
For the primary cameras,
the Note9 actually has a dual aperture,
now this is going to change between the two,
depending on the amount of light,
and we'll see that it can go pretty wide, up to f1.5.
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All of the images that you see have been taken
on automatic, I haven't tweaked anything,
that's to keep things as fair as possible,
so I've let the cameras decide what's best.
Let's get to it.
So let's start off with some selfies,
because everybody likes to take some selfies.
Now these first images, both of them really good,
the Note9 is slightly wider for images,
so you are going to be able to get more into your shots,
however, the dynamic range, to me,
looks better on the iPhone X.
The clouds have been better maintained.
Now this is quite a surprise,
because traditionally the dynamic range
from the front facing camera on iPhones really sucks,
so it looks like Apple has maybe watched one of my videos,
And has definitely improved this.
I can see a big big improvement here.
Let's try another selfie.
Once again, the dynamic range is better on the iPhone X.
If you look towards the clouds, some of those
have been maintained better on the iPhone X compared
to the Note9, but generally speaking,
both are doing a good job.
Once again, slightly wider on the Note9,
compared to the iPhone X.
Now trying out the portrait mode
from the front facing cameras of both devices,
neither are doing amazing,
but the Note9 is definitely doing better here,
the edge detection is better,
the front facing camera portrait mode
really sucks on the iPhone,
this is something that Apple don't seem to have improved.
It kind of just puts a blur around your face, really,
if you look toward my ears they've been blurred out,
the sides of my beard, my hair,
really not good for the front facing camera portrait mode,
it is definitely better here on the Note9.
Now, low light selfies,
because people like taking selfies in the darkness.
The Note9, that f 1.7 aperture is definitely showing,
we've got a brighter image, we've got less noise,
quite a big difference here compared to the iPhone X.
And if you use the front facing flash, once again,
I would have to give the overall win to the Note9,
which has a much brighter image with less noise.
The iPhone X is doing much better than it previously,
but the image is very very noisy,
and you can't see a lot of the details in my jacket,
which you can do on the Note9.
Right, now we're going to move to some outdoor images.
So we've got some flowers here,
both doing a really good job,
with the Note9 it really seems to have
boosted up the contrast.
Now, I did mention earlier on
that everything was in automatic,
so it looks like it is using those new AI features,
and it did detect the flower
and it's kind of really punched that.
Some of you may like that, some of you may not,
but overall both are doing a great job,
and if you do go in at 200%,
you can see that details have been maintained
on both very well.
Now an outdoor wide shots up.
Both doing really good here,
can't really notice too much of a difference between these.
Now we can use the telephoto camera for the situation,
and this is going to give us two times optical zoom,
once again, lots of detail, both doing a very very good job,
but I do think we've got a little bit more contrast
on the Note9, this might be down to the AI once again.
Now an outdoor wide shot with tricky dynamic range,
we've got some light kind of creeping
through the clouds here, and here the dynamic range,
I would say is better on the iPhone X.
We've got a little bit more details in the clouds
while still maintaining the shadows in the foreground,
so I would have to give the win here to the iPhone X.
Now let's move on to the portrait mode,
or live focus as it's called on the Note9.
This is basically where it's going to blur the background,
both doing a really good job overall
in terms of edge detection,
I really can't fault either of these,
I think they are both very very good,
and I would have to call this a bit of a draw.
Now another portrait mode shot,
once again both are doing really good,
but the dynamic range on the iPhone X is better,
and it looks like Apple have really been concentrating
on dynamic range when it comes to their software updates
because I'm seeing a big improvement overall in general
compared to what I've seen previously from the iPhone X.
So a thumbs up to the iPhone for this test once again.
The dynamic range is definitely better
and I do prefer the shot from the iPhone.
Now let's move on to lower light,
this is where things get interesting,
so we've got a low light wide shot.
Here the Note9 is doing much much better,
that is thanks to that super wide f 1.5 aperture.
If we go in 200%, you can see it's a sharper image,
we've got much less noise compared to the iPhone X.
Trying out another shot in very very low light,
once again much brighter image here on the Note9.
Just to do a very final extreme test,
this is something you probably wouldn't do,
but this is in very very low light indoors,
and the image is barely visible on the iPhone X,
it's very muddy, you can't really make anything out.
Whereas you can still make out this little toy
and also the text on the toy if we go in 200%,
it is a bit of a smudge on the iPhone X,
but on the Note9 it's actually a pretty good image
considering the situation.
So, a big win here for low light for the Note9.
So those are the results,
now in terms of my conclusions,
for the front facing camera, in good light,
I'd have to give the win to the iPhone X.
The dynamic range has been massively massively improved
since we initially had the iPhone X.
So over the past few months with the software updates,
it's definitely improved.
But you do have a wider angle of view on the Note9,
so that might be beneficial to you,
it's also got a better portrait mode from
the front facing camera,
and the low light images from the front facing camera
are also better compared to the iPhone X.
When it comes to video from the front facing camera,
it's a big win for the Note9,
you've got much more stable video,
although it does crop in to achieve the stabilization,
so that's just something to bear in mind.
And it's also got better dynamic range overall,
there was lots of highlights that were blown out
on the iPhone X when it comes to video
from the front facing camera.
So that win does go to the Note9.
Now outdoor images, I think both were really good overall.
The Note9 does seem to punch up the contrast quite a bit
if you do have the AI enabled,
something to bear in mind.
Some of you guys may or may not like that,
but it's probably going to come down to personal preference.
On the zoom, telephoto zoom was also great.
However dynamic range, I would say
was better overall on the iPhone X
from the rear facing camera as well,
and this was also the case when
it came to the portrait mode.
So although both did a really good job
in terms of edge detection,
the iPhone X did do a better job
for dynamic range overall.
However, for low light,
the Note9 absolutely crushed the iPhone,
and that is thanks to that super wide f 1.5 aperture.
Images were brighter with less noise,
and they were also sharper.
When it comes to video from the rear facing camera,
both were good, although I did prefer the Note9,
it was a sharper image
and you also had slightly more stable footage
from what I could see.
You can go back and have a look,
but for video I'd have to give the win to the Note9.
4K 60 frames a second is nice to have on both of these,
but you don't really have a stabilization
at 4K 60 frames a second,
so unless you're going to be using these on a tripod
or you're going to be holding them really still,
I would advise sticking to 4K 30 frames a second.
Auto focus, the Note9 does have that dual pixel auto focus,
so it was much faster compared to the iPhone X,
so auto focus win goes to the Note9.
The slow motion, the Note9 also gets the overall win,
because although you have the 1080p at 240 frames a second
on both devices, you do have up to 960 frames a second
at 720p on the Note9.
Finally when it comes to audio recording,
this is the case over and over again,
for the iPhone you only got mono audio recording,
yes you've got stereo speakers,
I'm not talking about the speakers,
I'm talking about audio recording,
you can go back and have a look,
and the sound is just so much lower compared to
the stereo recording of the Note9
which just sounds much more rich.
That's what I think anyway.
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