all right so welcome to day two I guess
what's gonna was gonna be isolation vlog
plus camera test of some of the hottest
smartphones on planet earth to hopefully
distract you from the fact that you are
trapped indoors avoiding certain other
activities as far as an update the vlog
portion the virus portion around here we
have now a state of emergency requiring
a shutdown of restaurants and public
spaces and gyms and all kinds of
different venues and where they're not
requiring it they are requesting it's
essentially telling people to stay home
the world leaders were back going over
their plans their game plan going
forward I heard some numbers getting
passed around in terms of when this
thing will peak in North America and
there was a number they were talking
about 45 days I mean they didn't want to
commit to that number but that's a big
number and it totally has to shift your
perspective on just what this
undertaking really is what the
commitment level has to be from
individuals who really are people like
myself yourself we're just getting
started with this thing like it's not
we're at the entry point still which is
kind of a crazy thought because it
hasn't it feels like we've been doing
this for a while now even though
obviously that's not the case well this
is day two for the studio yes it's an
empty place the idea if you recall from
the last video the coronavirus update on
unbox therapy studio staff is staying
home update video I came up with the
idea of passing the time publishing
videos around some popular smartphone
camera tests I set up some objects
across the way and I'm gonna flip the
camera around right now and over there
you can see on that table there there's
a bizarre variety of objects over there
the way this idea goes I will be picking
a different smartphone there's a whole I
have a whole stack of them each phone is
going to have the same circumstance
each phone is gonna shoot the same
objects going to have the same lighting
the same environment so the variables
will come from the phones themselves and
then you can watch in an attempt to cure
your boredom I can't make any guarantees
that that will happen and you can
compare that with other phones that
we'll test in the future on these
isolation updates tomorrow we'll pick
another smartphone tomorrow so you can
actually suggest what that smartphone
should be right now in the comments
section another thing I want to ask you
just before we get started where are you
in the world and what is your current
status the country or the city and
whether or not you're trapped indoors or
if it's not that severe where you happen
to be at the moment I'm curious and I
think the comments section can act could
actually be kind of interesting and
maybe make people feel slightly less
isolated seeing that there's a lot of
other people experiencing the same thing
okay as far as the camera settings are
concerned this is a video camera test
and as far as the video settings are
concerned I'm using the highest
resolution and frame rate possible while
maintaining video stabilization so in
the case of the s20 ultra here that
means 4k at 30 frames per second if you
step above that the stabilization
feature gets grayed out if you go up to
60 frames so we're gonna shoot 4k 30
frames per second I'm gonna flip the
camera around and there you have it and
we are going to approach our variety of
objects which are placed in order of
value from the least valuable to the
most valuable it's such a bizarre such a
weird it's such a weird variety of
things I think it's kind of fun anyways
so we're gonna start over here on the
far side of the table this is a
highlighter and one thing you're going
to notice with this camera right now in
automatic mode it's kind of jumping
around a little bit with the color
temperature now I can't blame it there's
some different light coming in here we
have the outdoor light and the
artificial light and this I mean this is
just a realistic test this could happen
to you you're asking a lot of your
camera here to be able to automatically
determine the color temperature and
we're also getting a sense for the
autofocus and how it can struggle at
times
pick up objects like this when they are
competing with the surroundings and it's
amazing how much that blue color on the
highlighter changes depending on the
color temperature shift now if you were
outdoors with a single light source you
probably wouldn't experience that but
it's important to know that this is how
these cameras operate and will compare
this to some other phones to see if they
do a better job of maintaining a
particular autofocus okay so that is the
highlighter I'll now move to the zoom
now by default this takes you up to 5x
and that's pretty impressive and
surprisingly stable at least in my
monitor right here this one is also oh
it lost focus up there it's grabbing the
floor and then it gets it back point 5
ultra wide and maybe I'll just move in a
little bit and each of these cameras
performs quite a bit differently and of
course it's a combination of software
and hardware at play to create what you
see this is a one dollar bill now I put
this here for the purpose of trying to
focus on this text well there you have
it
obviously it's focused quite a bit now
even up close almost macro borderline
macro this note is legal tender for all
debts public and private that's pretty
cool that actually looks good on the
stock camera there is your zoom of
course I got a move back there we go
that's how far back you're gonna have to
be the quality looks pretty good but it
hunts a little bit for focus stressing
out point 5 this is the wide why
obviously you probably want to use the
stock camera for something up close like
this I mean the default lens boom that's
your best look that color balance is
really all over the place
our outdoor light over there competing
with artificial light even though
they're pretty close in color
temperature this is a reality of
shooting indoors where you have mixed
colors is where cameras and the software
inside of them and the various
processing that takes place they it aims
to kind of alleviate some of that this
is the world-famous
green plant which cannot come there it
is it's in focus now a video test is
good because it kind of simulates what
would be happening to you your
viewfinder or the screen is is sort of
like a live video feed and a lot of what
the camera is doing with color
temperature and autofocus is something
you may very well experience in the
photo mode here is the unbox therapy
knife some reason that red doesn't
really pop as much as I would have
expected it to
it's the samurai unboxing knife well if
I pull it out of there bring it closer
how about now ooh color temperature
yellow that looks pretty cool very nice
so outside of the color temperature
hunting some pretty cool results going
on I'm leaving that on the table we have
a red iPhone because it's red I mean
that's really the reason I picked it
it's just vibrant and red and I'll spin
it around a little bit now I know some
of you are probably saying that color
temperature shift is driving me crazy
but it's a reality of the situation most
people are just gonna shoot this video
in automatic mode and this is a reality
they may very well face and I kind of
hate it I think it happens too
aggressively on so many smartphone
cameras where it like I mean it's
hunting is jumping around there with
color balance and I'm not even moving I
wish that this was a bit more subtle but
it just it's pretty gross now obviously
you have the pro mode for video that
allows you to lock that white balance
but in automatic mode I think it's it's
worth analysis to see how it behaves
since this is how so many people are
gonna shoot video
you can see the white of that speaker
that's the famous DVLA bluetooth speaker
one of the most loved unbox therapy
videos I don't know people see me in the
street they always tell me that delight
the DVLA speaker how does that thing
sound I'm like well you saw the video
you know wide boom you get that big kind
of like effect going on and you probably
noticed we've been going up in value
with our objects in this particular test
we are now on the Sony a nine with a 24
to 70 f28 lens this particulars
mannequin head goes way back to two
studios ago to the old old office
somehow useful for auto focus testing I
can see it's not getting focused which
is crazy okay it's got it now and it's
got it there and when it's in focus it
looks pretty good but you feel like
because it's a face it should grab it
and track it and not easily lose it it's
got it now she is wearing my favorite
headphones in the world right now
those are the sennheiser HD 820 can we
focus and then the most valuable thing
of all of course I had to throw it in
these are Lysol look at this
disinfecting wipes for something that's
supposed to be the top dog right
obviously this camera this smartphone is
supposed to be the top dog there's a
couple things you notice and note and
maybe I'll have a better handle on this
as we move through this test with other
phones the white balance hunting is very
aggressive the autofocus leave something
to be desired this is not news though
this has been talked about from the time
the smartphone launched Samsung even
addressed it I think it said they were
gonna put out a software update it's
been nothing substantial and still the
autofocus just feels a little bit a
little bit clunky or a little bit slow
somehow and that's demonstrated really
well when you're doing a video test like
this when you have the main camera
locked on focus you're gonna get some
some incredibly detailed images look it
is what it is that's the test it's in
automatic mode I'm going to
all the other cameras the same they got
to perform in automatic mode and the
reason I'm choosing to do that is like I
said I think that's the way the majority
of users use these devices you can give
Samsung a few extra points in the
background just because of the fact they
give you the Pro options they make those
options available in the menu if you do
want to dive a little bit deeper and if
you do want to lock things like white
balance and kind of override the
automatic behavior image stabilization
yeah
there's a little walking test for that
walking and talking of course the
front-facing camera I'm actually pretty
impressed with so that's a part of it
too the cool thing about these tests is
that the entire video that you're
watching audio and video is coming off
of the device that you're analyzing so
it's Tuesday it's day 2 being indoors
mostly well I've been indoors for longer
than two days but I mean being at the
studio alone it is a weird it's a weird
feeling it's a weird vibe I'm not used
to it yet you're probably not used to
whatever your situation looks like yet
or kind of I we're up against something
here obviously it appears to be a fairly
terrible thing that we're up against
it's an unfortunate thing nobody wants
this thing to exist it's a collective
battle and there's probably some I don't
know there's probably some type of
upside in that well maybe I'm just
optimistic in general but move but maybe
there's some sort of upside that
it sort of brings people together gets
people thinking about what matters to
them helps people connect not physically
but connect on the internet that
wouldn't have otherwise connected around
a shared experience who knows yeah I'm
probably just trying to see the bright
side when in reality it's pretty grim
right now it's weird so many places so
many cities are just ghost towns kind of
a shell of what they were and we're
already living in a time where people
are feeling increasingly isolated I
think you just got to make the best of
it in general we only have so much
control over over circumstances and
situation so you try that's it
you try I'm trying can't you see all
those strange objects over there I mean
if that's not trying I don't know what
is anyways alright that's our first
camera test galaxy s 20 ultra leave a
comment down below for what you want to
see in tomorrow's test and we'll also
chat a little bit about whatever
develops in the crazy world that we're
living in in 2020