What's up creatives this is Tom welcome back to another video so i'm here with Tomi
GadgetsBoy, we are testing the new iPhone 12 Pro, I thought who better to help test the
iPhone 12 Pro than one of the uk's best tech creators so we're here we're going to get
some we're gonna get some shots compare all of the different lenses uh that's the 13mm
26mm that's the normal length and the 52mm so we're going to compare the EOS R a
professional camera to the iphone 12. let's get shooting let's go yo guys what's up so i've just
got back from london from the day shooting with Tomi putting the iPhone 12 Pro through its paces
super good fun for once to just get out and shoot with a phone like i've not done that
for a little while to sort of put a phone through its paces and really give it a test sort of
photography wise so in terms of the camera we were comparing it to like i said i was comparing it to
the Canon EOSR this is the professional stills camera that i use for all of my client work
and in terms of lenses i wanted to keep the comparisons sort of as scientific and uh close
as possible so i was using predominantly the canon 16-35mm f 2.8 lens so that's what i
was using for the wides to compare it to the 13mm on the iPhone 12 obviously it doesn't
go right down to 13 mil but it uses 16 mil so that's relatively close in terms of equivalent and
obviously i was using that for the 26mm shots as well so we can get pretty much identical
on that one and then for the 50 millimeter shots we were using the canon 50mm
f 1.8 that was to compare to the 52 millimeter shots and obviously the portrait mode as well
so this is actually my first time shooting with a 13 millimeter wide focal length on a
phone i've never had a phone before that has been able to do this sort of super wide angle
and i absolutely loved it i actually think this is one of the coolest editions i know they had this
with the previous iPhone versions it's not brand new to the iPhone 12 Pro
but that 13 millimeter focal length really is exceptional i think when you compare the
photos from the 13 mil to the 16 mil sort of wides from the professional camera i actually
think the iphone stacked up exceptionally well this is one area that the iphone really really
excelled in i think because one of the biggest differences between the professional camera
and the iphone camera is the sort of the sensor size and the ability to get a depth of field a
you know that sort of shallow depth of field that background blur
and at a wide focal length that really isn't a look that you're getting on the full frame camera
so the looks that you're getting out of both the camera and the phone are actually relatively
comparable this is amazing for capturing things like architecture even sort of nice really cool
scenes where you're shooting a subject like i was shooting Tomi here and you're getting sort of
a nice wide angle with him entirely in the frame that's something you wouldn't be able to do with
a slightly more zoomed in focal length i do think that you can tell the difference between
the professional shots from the professional camera and the iphone shots but i really don't
think this is an enormous enormous difference i think if you're just wanting to shoot some really
high quality super wide stills this sort of super wide 13mm focal length lens on the back
of the iPhone is actually a really good choice and it's probably just in your pocket anyway
okay so next up is the standard iPhone focal length that is 26mm we have a direct
comparison with the EOSR and the Canon 16-35 i was able to pretty much dial it into exactly
26 so you get a good like for like comparison and this is where the the sort of camera is
starting to prove itself a little bit you are getting a bit more depth of field here at 26 mil
and for me i think the biggest difference is that the iphone shots shot at 26mm are
starting to really look like a phone and like they've been shot entirely on a phone
because this is a view which we've been really used to seeing over the last sort of you know
six seven eight years whilst mobile photography has really taken off this focal length is almost
like synonymous with a phone shot don't get me wrong you can still get some really nice shots
out of the iPhone 12 Pro and that 26mm focal length but i do think that is a big step up
between the EOS R and those photos that we've been taking okay so next up we've got the 52 millimeter
focal length and then we're going to talk about portrait mode because these are two quite separate
things so first that telephoto 52 millimeter focal range the fact that you do get a double
reach so you know two times the original zoom on the iPhone you have that option on the back of the
camera and you're losing no resolution when you're zooming into that that is really really cool to be
able to get a nice zoomed in shot if maybe you're you know taking photos from a little bit further
back and you just need that extra reach this is a great option for that again there's a significant
difference especially when you're comparing it to shooting on something like this the
canon 50mm f 1.8 the biggest thing here is just the depth and field if you compare this
like for like between the 52mm and the 50mm it's night and day
which one comes out on top and that is why we need to talk about portrait mode
okay so as someone who's been using portrait mode for a little while on their iPhone XS
plus like i've had that camera for like two years now i'd sort of written off portrait mode i didn't
really like it i obviously just naturally prefer the real thing when it comes to bokeh
and it comes to depth of field now that doesn't really change i obviously do prefer the real thing
however some of these tests that we did with the iphone in portrait mode actually really surprised
me a big one here was this shoe shot like this is an incredible photo to come out of portrait
mode the fact that this is digitally enhanced when you put that next to the eos r photograph
like that is pretty much like for like maybe not in terms of detail and things like that but the
background is really exceptional and this actually does does a very good job of isolating the subject
and looking really professional it's not necessarily perfect though because portrait
mode isn't just a one and done like always works there are some times where it really
doesn't work and a big one is when the lighting is not stable in the situation that you're in so
for instance this shot here was just really not good tommy was in the dark and the background was
quite blown out and just had a really hard time pinning down sort of what should be in focus and
what shouldn't be and this for me has always been kind of the issue with portrait mode what
is different now is that you can actually get some really fantastic results with portrait mode
and get results that are relatively similar to something that you might get with a lens like this
okay so we're wrapping up here i think overall i've thoroughly enjoyed shooting today
you know taking it on an actual proper photo shoot it's super cool to have a choice of lenses on
your phone where you're getting no degradation in quality you know so i had to bring my eos r around
i also had to bring this lens and this lens and some spare batteries so obviously it's going to
be a better result this is a professional camera that costs you know £2,000 pounds uh almost double
the price of this phone however is inconvenient and that is where the iPhone really comes in it
is massively convenient to have these three lens choices in your pocket i think particularly the
ultra wide setting is just something i'm gonna absolutely love having on my phone just be able
to you know shoot some crazy architecture shot that you normally would have to have a camera and
a super wide lens for just one very quick side note is that we still have a significant issue
on the iphone with these really sort of weird lens flares that you get either in low light situations
or but like this was daytime and i was just shooting with some artificial lights you can see
the sort of strange lens flares that i'm getting in these photos i really really wish apple would
have fixed this is a pretty significant issue that when you're taking photos and artificial light you
get this sort of sort of horrible uh mirroring and hazing but that's just a quick one i just thought
i would mention it because it is an important thing to know about if you are buying one of these
phones that's kind of my thoughts and feelings about the cameras on these phones hopefully you
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