hey guys it's max and vadim and today i am doing
an unbiased blind camera comparison we're gonna finally find out does vadim
truly love his iphone photos or is he actually an underground pixel
fan let's see these things are a ton of fun please get a piece of paper in a pen
or your phone out with the notes he's going to be choosing
which photo he likes better he'll let you guys know why as well
i've seen some of these not side by side so i'm going to choose which one i
prefer even though i might know for some of them it's going to get interesting
and i have no idea and we want to hear you guys opinions
both of these are budget phones 350 bucks for the pixel 4a
and 400 for the iphone sc and they both use older cameras with older sensors but
the software is newer on these phones so let's see
which software is better and i took a wide variety of shots
selfie uh regular photos even some videos in panorama so we're gonna have a
really nice scope of images and video for this first
photo i'd say that i definitely like the one
on the left better because it looks more bright
and not only that i like the color balance better
and i see more detail especially on the moose like
a bunch of fine details over there 4a no right off the bat all right it's warm
we're not we're not biased at least this far we'll see what happens oh wow that's
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number two this is a very tough call right here
because they're so similar but to be honest i think i like the one
on the left because it does very well with the high dynamic
range but on the right everything looks a little bit washed out
or gray like in those darks they seem like they
should be darker but they're not and that one is the iphone s e
good job apple next one is this i don't know why she put it i don't
know why she put it up so close here well obviously the one on the left looks
better i mean you got the bokeh on the back do you agree though
maybe you like this one better no maybe you want to see all that's too much
stuff in the background well this one you guys may have guessed
if you didn't already know the iphone can only do portrait with people
and this is a situation where it's great to have that portrait mode
and the pixel does it for this one i'm definitely gonna go with the one on the
left because if you look through the window
you have much more detail on that house the car
everything and everything on the inside looks better yep the sky is not blowing
out either so definitely the left four
yeah it's interesting the iphone actually made all this brighter than it
actually was it was darker try too hard okay the next
one and this is zooming in all the way um so i try to
zoom in and take a shot with both and neither of these have
telephoto cameras so well for this photo i definitely go with
the one on the left because the goal is to zoom in more it seems
like on this photo and you can read that text that meter
better on the left so that one and the camera on the left zoomed in
a lot more than the one on the right it's also sharper and that is the 4a
4a even though the sensor is i think two or three years old now
from the pixel 3 the sensor is impressive quite old
and then this is another zoom image but instead of a lower light situation
it is similar lighting and i zoomed in the same amount for both
this time around i'm seeing a lot more detail on the right like especially in
the water and in the building but i am seeing
noise in the sky which is a little bit it's actually not
noise it's compression artifacts is it frozen i think i'd still go with the one
on the right overall on the right four
i actually thought that the iphone was that one
because that usually the iphone has artifacts and stuff in it
yeah but i guess not this is a macro shot right here it took me a while
to try to get these because it's so hard to capture them on these phones
well it's definitely the one on the right the left is too blurry everywhere
absolutely it was easier it was definitely easier
to take the image i actually did three i think on these
wow and this is a portrait shot um same situation using the portrait mode
honestly i think the one on the left still looks better because uh the one on
the right is very flat there's not much dynamic range and yeah
it's just brought up too high the mids are 4a vadim you're a pixel boy
i like my iphone it's a pixel oh man this is just a little too cool i like
the warmth on this side yeah but it was in the shade so i guess it's
more accurate to what it was yeah it seems like so and here we have a
shot of some delicious food which one is more appetizing which
one do you want to eat the one on the left of course i mean it
has more color and the plate on the right is too cool it's blue
it was not a blue plate iphone for the win on white balance
for this one and we have a low light shot here
it was darker inside yeah on the right for sure the one on the left is blurry
motion yeah and i actually took a couple of these two
iphones so iphone is known from all the tests we've done to have really quick
shutter speeds even if that means a little bit more noise
definitely helped out in this situation and we have our first video here
okay i know the shots last wasn't just ugly so let's watch this video back
all right so right off the bat the one on the left is super blown out
and even now it looks like the one on the right has better
hdr better dynamic range and at times the one on the left
your beard becomes fully black blacked out
and that's the iphone what that's the iphone honestly i was
surprised i saw this a little bit earlier
i was surprised at the 4a dynamic range it's a little flatter at times like this
because it's pushing the hdr a lot more but look at this pause right here i
can't believe it it's hard to watch when you're just watching
but too bright and his beard suit dark pixel 4a for sure
and i'm surprised pixel usually had issues with this but
yeah they i guess improve the video software for this shot i'm seeing better
dynamic range in the sky seeing more blue and in this texture of
all this stone work masonry work i'm seeing more detail
there as well so left 4a
i actually forgot to vote a couple times and which one is my favorite so i'm
gonna skip that yeah okay uh but you're you're the
important person right now and so far the pixel is doing really good so this
is a wide shot here with a ton of detail lots of light and the late i'm going to
crop in to see the close-up detail without using the super zoom
algorithms they have uh what do you think so far in this one
all right so it looks like there's better dynamic range on the right
there's this little sign here that's very white and bright and
it's better on the right side and you see more texture in the sand
yeah it pops more more contrasty and then this is the crop
okay yep definitely the one on the right for sure get a
little more detail out of it too so four four ah oh wow it seems like when
you need a little more contrast yeah it's there but then when you need a
little more dynamic range it's also there google impressive
they're doing a good job and now we have a selfie with the sun in
the background nice sunset what looks better which one
would you want on your phone if this was okay you not me
this one is shocking because you're getting much better dynamic range in the
sky yes but the trees are so much more sharp
in the background yep everything's more sharp and the foreground
and look at this flaring i wanted to flare and i cleaned these off perfectly
less no smudger like yeah a lot better wow oh come on
google how is this 350 that's insane with
double the ram double the storage and cameras like these all right let's let's
move on and here we have two panoramas these are
white so i'm gonna go back and forth take a look at this one let me know when
you want me to switch go ahead there's the other one oh yeah the other
one the first one the first one's better first one looks better
why is it better i don't know it just looks better brighter overall
just i don't know yeah better contrast the first one's the se is it the second
one is the pixel this looks flat and colorless and detail loss it
looks weird they have i wanted to test this because
google pixel phones have had issues with panoramas
it's like three megabytes whereas the apple one is 20 megabytes so they
really compress it looks like they still haven't fixed that issue
now a nice sunset right after sunset shot here yeah this one's obvious
left the left why do you like the left one better i mean like
the one on the right like the one right it's killed like the delicious here's
the trees everything's crushed 4a no how much do you have for the
iphone four okay well yeah yeah we'll wait to
count and uh another nice sunset different location here
wow the one on the left kills it so much more detail
48 yep all right and then this is already after
sunset it's a nice night shot here and i i
rested the phones on a railing here for this one i mean the one on the left
is definitely nicer brighter i i don't really like how
this becomes so red near the bottom of the trail like the
one on the right looks more natural but to be honest i still like the one on
the left because it just brings out more detail it pops like crazy
and the trees aren't crushed on the left either here's one thing you didn't
notice look at all these compression artifacts over here
okay on the sky yep and look how clean this one is yeah
left 4a wow this is going to get interesting
right now oh we have an inside shot of my dog
i didn't expect that all right where's my puppy look better
the one on the right i think i like that one better 4a again i
oregon i didn't think the iphone shots were this bad when we tested it i
thought it was good what okay so next one uh
nighttime selfie just with my street lamp
on from my house this giant lights do you look mad
i was very tired this was late the one on the left
yes um left 4a so the 48 could do night mode
shots on the rear camera on their front camera but
which it's a massive difference and then my truck here yep left again 4a
don't forget to write it down a compression artifacts
noise detail and then a close-up grille i guess we could have got rid of this
one but the one on the right it didn't use night
mode but the lamp is right here looks just sharp sharper it's nice and
then that tree the one on the right okay
maybe i shouldn't have put as much night shots here but another one
left left for a uh look at the stars and i didn't have a tripod here i just
rested on the grille which is why it's kind of
the angles are off okay and then it automatically went into astra mode and i
just kind of held it there while it did its thing
uh the iphone doesn't have that and this wasn't supposed to be here but yeah
write it down for a i don't know we had two of those and
that is it that's the last and apple tell says that they don't want to
put night mode unless the sensor is capable of being read out fast enough
but this sensor is old look at the results why won't apple do night mode on
these front-facing cameras that looks like a great photo that you'd want to
keep this looks like a photo you would just
want to delete basically so you guys check your results if you've been pause
the video pause it check him out if you kept track let us know down in the
comments your thoughts and what you got vadim what did you get
20 for the pixel 4a and 5 for the iphone sc
wow yes so basically we have our conclusion um
first off we might want to make a pixel shirt
well other than that if you care about photo quality
go for the pixel i mean check out our comparison between the two after this
video if you haven't there's a lot of great things about the pixel
photos are way better and even the video seems like it keeps up definitely not
with the 11 or 11 pro but compared to this one it does uh
that's a great value for 350 bucks and we'll leave a link down below
as well the iphone you have the long-term usability
software updates a13 processors just chip yeah but
photos are okay yeah in the pixel good job good job all right guys thank
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