Hello ladies and gentleman, I am here, let's get technical.
On October 4th, Google officially announced their rumored smartphone, the Pixel and the
Pixel XL.
Not the MEGApixel, but, Ahh you can't win everything.
Now, when they announced the phone, Google claimed that their Pixel phone had the best
camera on any smartphone on the market, but, as you might notice, lot of companies tend
to say that, Google provided evidence.
The camera rating company DXOMark gave the Pixel a score of 89, which is the best score they've given a smartphone camera. They gave the iPhone 7
3points less, with a score of 68. But what does that mean?
Well, at the end of the day, it's just a number, so to find out which camera is actually superior,
we're gonna have to take them both out into the field.
If you're like me and you can't decide what premium flagship phone to pick up this year,
hopefully this will help.
This, is the iPhone 7 Plus vs. Pixel XL Camera Test.
So, in this camera test were going to test 7 different aspects of the camera: regular
photos, low light photos, panorama photos, zoom, 4k Video, Slow Motion Video, and finally,
we'll look at some of the cool features of each phone's camera.
Before I start, let's talk specs.
So, the back facing camera on the iPhone has 12 Megapixels and an f/1.8 aperture and the
Pixel is rocking a 12.3 Megapixel camera and an f/2.0 aperture.
The front facing camera on the iPhone 7 has a 7 megapixels and an f/2.2 aperture, while
the Google Pixel XL has an 8 megapixel front facing camera and an f/2.4 aperature.
Ok, let's start with regular photos.
Zoom has been a pretty big factor in these phone, especially the iPhone 7 Plus, which,
as you probably noticed, sports 2 cameras on the back, a 28mm camera and a 56mm camera.
So, for the next test, I decided to take photos with cameras on full zoom.
Woah woah woah, hold up a sec.
Ok, obviously the zoom on the iPhone 7 Plus is going to be greater than the Pixel XLs
zoom.
But, wait a sec, I just noticed something.
(Alex looks to computer).
If I just crop the Pixel photos so they look like the iPhone photos, they’re about the
same quality.
Huh.
Ok, I did that to all of the Pixel photos, aaad, back at it!
Now onto lowlight photos. I took these photos in the garage with little external light.
Now let's take a look at some panorama photos.
Now, we gotta test that front facing Camera with some selfie action...
What? What was that?
Now that we’ve done plenty of photo testing, let's check out the video.
Since both flagships record in 4k video I decided to test out how good the video and,
subsequently the audio really is.
*Snaps finger*
So, this is the 4k video from Google’s Pixel XL, along with the audio I am speaking to
you right now, which is, of course, recorded using the on board microphone. Sorry for the terrible framing, by the way. Hopefully this will give you a
sense of the video.
Oh, I changed shirts, I guess.
This is the 4k video on the iPhone 7, not a ton different, but still a bit noticeable.
The audio is also recorded on the on board microphone.
So, we got 2 not too shabby video options.
*Snaps Finger*
Here's some more 4k video.
If you want to see some more footage from Google Pixel and the iPhone 7, I recommend you check out
MKBHD's series of videos on the Tesla Model S T100D.
He makes this series all about the car and all about the features of the car, and he record it on the camera
on whatever flagship smartphone is out at the time.
So, he has one with the iPhone 7 Plus and with the Google Pixel.
Links either here or here, or click on the i!
The last video test we'll do today is slow motion video.
So, right now we're going to record video at 1080p, at 120 frames per second.
Our final test of the day isn't really a test at all, I just wanted to point out some cool
features in the camera of the phones.
So, first off the blur the background feature.
This feature will, once you give it a sense of depth, blur the background to make it seem
like it was taken with a high quality DSLR, or something.
Right now, the blur the background feature is only on the Pixel phones, but some suspect
a software update for the iPhone so that it can do it too.
Nothing yet!
On the iPhone 7 Plus camera, you got plenty of these cool photo-booth like effects to
add some pop to your image.
A feature unique to Pixel include Google Assistant integration.
So, I can just go to the Google Assistant say “take a picture,” and it will count
down from 3 and take a picture.
This won’t work for video though, but it will still open the camera app.
The iPhone 7 Plus has live photos, and, along with that, force touch.
On the Pixel phones, there a couple camera-related shortcuts you can do.
You can double tap the home button to get to the camera, even if it's asleep.
Probably not useful to everyone, but, Uh, you can also do this on a Nexus 6p, and man
do I love this feature.
Also, when you're in the camera app, you can do this shaky thing to move flip it to the
front facing camera.
Or the back facing camera, if you're on the front.
Which is nice and handy, great for selfie taking.
Google’s Pixel has a setting kinda like this, you can take a burst, and then it creates
a gif of your images
Speaking of which, you can also take a burst and Google will use machine learning to pick
the best one.
The iPhone 7, as you probably know, is water resistant, which means you can take photos in sprinklers or water, spretzer things??
More on that, the iPhone 7 Plus is IP67 certified, which means that it can be submerged in a
meter of water for 30 minutes or less and be fine.
Great for some underwater shots!
The iPhone 7 Plus is water proof, which might come in handy on a rainy day like today.
And that’s just about it.
Are there any aspects I missed?
Which phone are you going to pick up?
Let me know in the comments down below.
Hope this is helpful, thanks for watching, and explore on!
Oh, hey, remember to ask questions in the comments below for an Upcoming Q & A video. Thanks!