what's happening everyone my name is
alex and welcome back
for this camera comparison we have the
brand new samsung galaxy
s21 and the highly popular iphone 12.
as always throughout this video we're
gonna see a bunch of daytime pictures we
have portrait mode pictures we have zoom
pictures we have pictures taking the
ultra wide lenses i have a bunch of
nighttime pictures using the night modes
on both devices
of course sample videos and selfies and
just before we start make sure to press
that like button and
let's begin by checking out some
portrait mode pictures
alright so looking at the portrait mode
pictures that i took and more
specifically the edge detection around
the subject in those pictures well that
seems to be identical from both devices
in every single picture so i can really
see that one does better than the other
one for that
i overall prefer the somewhat brighter
pictures from the samsung galaxy s21 but
then i don't really like that
filter that the samsung galaxy s21 adds
over our faces our faces
don't have any texture anymore so i kind
of prefer the texture and the details
that we get from the pictures taken by
the iphone 12.
so if i have to choose one of the two
four portrait mode pictures i feel that
the iphone 12 will do better at least in
my opinion
but what do you guys think which
pictures do you prefer for those
portrait mode pictures the ones taken by
the iphone 12
or the samsung galaxy s21 definitely
leave a comment and let me know
next we are moving on to some zoom
pictures and for zoom pictures i've done
five times zoom now keep in mind that
the iphone 12
doesn't have a telephoto lens we only
have a telephoto lens on the back of the
samsung galaxy s21
so clearly every single zoom picture
that you're gonna take will be better
from the samsung
galaxy s21 because the pictures are just
sharper and so much better
so for zoom pictures i feel that the s21
is definitely the winner
moving on to some pictures that i took
with the ultra white lenses on the back
of the s21 and of course the iphone 12
well first of all i'm very excited to
see that the samsung galaxy s21
doesn't over saturate those pictures as
it did with the s20
so a lot of those pictures are actually
looking more natural than the pictures
that i took with the iphone 12.
not to mention dynamic range in most of
those pictures is better from the
samsung galaxy s21
so if i would have to choose one of the
two devices for pictures taking the
ultra wide lens
i feel that the samsung galaxy s21 does
better once again than the iphone 12.
but once again leave a comment down
below and let me know your thoughts
about the ultra white pictures
and we're moving on to pictures that i
took with the main cameras on the back
of these two devices and the trend kind
of continues the s21 doesn't over
saturate the pictures as we've seen in
the previous years so a lot of those
pictures that
you are seeing actually seem to be
closer to reality from the s21
than they are from the iphone 12 quite
surprising because samsung is not
known for that the dynamic range is also
somewhat better in most pictures taken
by the s21
as for sharpness the sharpness seems to
be somewhat identical but
the iphone 12 does use a bit more
contrast in those pictures
so i don't think can go wrong with
either device for the main camera they
both seem to do really good
and once again i'm very happy to see
that the s21 doesn't over saturate them
those colors
so leave a comment down below and let me
know your thoughts about the pictures
that i took with the main
cameras on the back of these two devices
and we are moving on to some nighttime
pictures and for all the nighttime
pictures that you are about to see i use
the night modes on both device so they
both support the night mode for the main
camera and for the ultra widened camera
and we're starting with some pictures
that i took with the main camera
now the sharpness seems to be similar in
between the two so i can't really say
that one does better than the other some
pictures are sharper from the iphone 12
some pictures are sharper from the
samsung galaxy s21 however most pictures
taken by the s21
do seem to be somewhat brighter so maybe
a bit
better since samsung also cut down the
crazy saturation
now we also get a bunch of pictures that
look more natural from the s21 than they
look from
the iphone 12 and that's something i
never
imagined that i would be saying so for
the main camera and the night mode i
feel
the samsung galaxy s21 did better than
the iphone 12
but what do you guys think which ones do
you prefer the ones by the
samsung galaxy s21 or the ones taken by
the iphone 12 definitely leave a comment
and let me know as for the ultra wide
lens and the night mode most pictures
taken by the samsung galaxy
s21 do seem to be somewhat brighter
however if you look close enough for
those pictures you're gonna see that
they also introduce
more noise so the pictures taken by the
iphone 12
the ultra wide lens don't have as much
noise and they do
seem to be somewhat sharper or maybe
they use a bit more contrast but
overall i would say that for the ultra
wide lens the iphone 12 does
better for uh the nighttime pictures and
once again check out these pictures and
let me know your thoughts do you prefer
the ones from the s21 or the ones from
the iphone 12.
for me for the main camera the s21 but
for the ultra white camera the iphone
12.
and next we are going to move on and
check out some sample recordings that
i've done with the samsung galaxy s21
and of course the iphone 12.
well up until this year the iphone seem
to be the best for video recordings but
i feel that that's changing quite a lot
to the samsung galaxy s21
once again i wasn't actually expecting
that so a lot of the videos
that you're going to see notice that the
video quality is pretty similar in
between the iphone 12
and the s21 i feel that the s21 actually
has
better image stabilization and also
better sound
than the iphone 12 so i'll let you guys
watch those recordings and i will be
right back
all right we have our first recording
between the samsung galaxy
s21 and the iphone 12. for this
recording i'm doing 4k at 30 frames per
second and recording with the main
lenses on the back of these two devices
today it's a pretty nice and sunny day
but also pretty cold
so i'm gonna start running for a bit
just so you can see how the image
stabilization does while running
we're gonna stop somewhere around here
here you're gonna hear
some water you're gonna see the water in
just a second
and also it's a bit windy and there is
some traffic
to my right i guess we'll walk this way
slowly just you can see once again how
the image stabilization
works if you're holding the phone on in
your hand
so yeah 4k at 30 frames per second with
the main lenses on the back of the
samsung galaxy s21 and the iphone 12.
all right we have a quick video
recording with the front-facing cameras
on the samsung galaxy
s 21 and of course on the iphone 12
for this recording i'm doing 4k at 30
frames per second even though both
devices could actually record at a
higher resolution
now keep in mind that it is fairly windy
and you're probably gonna hear
some traffic to my right i'm gonna stop
somewhere around here
we'll pan around today it's a super
sunny day but also
pretty cold i believe we have somewhere
around -15
you can see the river to my right which
is frozen so i'm gonna walk a bit faster
just so you can see how the image
stabilization
does um for the front-facing cameras
i'll try running a bit as well
so yeah front-facing cameras on the
samsung galaxy
s21 and on the iphone 12 in 4k
30 frames per second all right we are
moving on to another quick recording
between the samsung galaxy
s21 and of course the iphone 12. for
this recording i'm using the ultra wide
lenses on the back of the two devices
and once again recording in
4k at 30 frames per second so i'm just
going to walk somewhere around
here i guess we're going to stop and pan
left slowly
then we'll turn around and walk this way
a bit
stop here and turn to the right
and walk this way once again so yeah
this is all recording in 4k at 30 frames
per second with the ultra wide lenses on
the back of the s21 and the iphone 12
would look like
and i also wanted to show you how a
recording in 1080p at 30 frames per
second between the
s21 and of course the iphone 12
would look like so we're just gonna stop
here and pan left slowly
what i'm seeing on the screens here uh
the columns are a bit more vibrant
on the s21 but again i'll have to see
how this footage actually looks
on the computer so walk this way for a
bit
and turn right so yeah 1080p at 30
frames per second between the
s21 and the iphone 12.
all right we have a quick video
recording between the samsung galaxy
s21 and the iphone 12 for this recording
i'm using
the main lenses on the back of the two
devices and recording in 4k at 30 frames
per second
as you can probably see it's nighttime
so we're gonna see how the cameras do
in low light basically because low light
is also an important factor of the
camera mostly
the sensors in smartphones are pretty
small we're just gonna get close to
these buildings here
because it gets a bit darker and i have
to say i'm quite surprised to
see how much brighter the video is um on
the samsung galaxy s21
this was not the case um the samsung
galaxy
s20 so yeah this is how recording
in low light between the iphone 12 and
the samsung galaxy
s21 would look like in low light
for our next recording in low light i'm
using the ultrawide lenses on the back
of the
samsung galaxy s21 and of course the
iphone um
12. for this recording once again i am
recording in
4k at 30 frames per second so we're just
gonna stop somewhere around here
i'm gonna pan left and once again i'm
seeing uh the video being a bit brighter
um
on the screen of the samsung galaxy s21
but again
we'll have to see how this recording
actually looks um on the computer
so yeah this is how your footage would
look like if you are recording in 4k 30
frames per second and using the
ultrawide lenses on the back of these
two devices
and as you've seen for yourself the s21
has improved the video quality quite a
lot mostly compared to the s20 that we
had
last year that one was not that great so
quite surprising to see that from the
s21
so overall which device do you guys
prefer for video recordings the iphone
12
or the s21 definitely leave a comment
and let us know
all right next we are moving on and
check out some selfies
now for selfies it's kind of difficult
to tell which one is
better because some pictures are
actually better from the iphone 12 some
pictures are better from the s21 it kind
of
depends how the light was hitting my
face because in one of those pictures
the iphone 12 did
change the color of my face quite a lot
as for the nighttime selfies
some are better from the s21 some are
better from the iphone 12.
so i feel that we can really choose one
that's better because in some situations
one is better and
some the other one is better so i'm very
happy to see that samsung actually
stepped up their game and they offered
us a phone with better cameras
and this is also a cheaper phone than it
was um last year
so quite unexpected so once again which
one would you prefer the iphone 12
or the s21 definitely leave a comment
and
let us know all right guys thanks for
watching don't forget to press that like
button and i will see you in the next
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