hey guys it's max angelica and vadim and today we're doing another
unbiased blind camera comparison with a brand new s21 ultra against
the iphone 12 pro max go ahead and get out your pen and paper or your notes app
it's a lot more fun if you play along and i just want to say that
looking at these images i went out and shot them this is going to be an
absolute tough comparison but there are a few shocking images that
i really wasn't expecting so let's go ahead and jump right in you
guys see this first one what do you think i mean to me it's
obviously the one on the left i really hate when the white balance
gets so cool like the one on the right i just it really bugs me
i don't know if i'm just crazy but it seems like there might be a little bit
more
detail on the right but also the white balance is really really messed up and
that might just be like some sharpening but i'm also going with the left
and the results are s21 ultra first points
goes to that next shot right here we have theo chillin
uh i think i'm going with the one on the right i feel like there's a lot more
detail yeah if you look very closely you can
tell that on the left um all of his fur is very kind of like smeared and soft
12 pro max so one for each and we have a macro shot here whoa
so this is the closest each camera can get
uh i think i'm definitely going with the one on the right
there's so much more detail and you can get a lot closer
yeah the difference in detail is just insane i think the uh
depth of field on the left is just too overkill
so you don't really get much detail there it's kind of like blurred out so
yeah one on the right again s21 ultra and i will say that
with the s20 shots like this look terrible
and now they have somehow fixed it and with that difference that we're noticing
here i do want to mention that we're gonna
redo this blind camera test with the new s21 ultra the note 20 ultra
and the s20 ultra that's three generations of samsung
phones to see what differences we have there so definitely subscribe
so you see that and here is the next one and i have to say that i took
like five shots each time because i wanted to make sure that the results
were accurate and what you see is accurate
basically obviously the right i mean yeah of course the left one looks really
bad all right that is the 12 pro max and it
just has a faster shutter speed with that
huge sensor and both are big it takes longer for it to read it out so
this was just a natural shot that i want to get and you can't grab it and here we
have a nice beautiful colorful piece uh i kind of like the brightness of the
right one but i feel like you can see a lot more
detail on the left one i think i'm gonna go with the right personally because i
like the extra depth of field so the background looks a little bit more
blurred out so it kind of stands out s21 and now it's time to head outside on a
foggy morning so with this one the same issue came up
where the one on the right looks too blue
but if you do look closely the one on the left is just kind of soft it's just
not as detailed if you look very close so personally i would rather go with the
right one and maybe fix the white balance a little bit because you can't
fix that loss of detail yeah i completely agree 12 pro max and
it's weird that once again it got the white balance off
and there's a lot of details that are crushed right here usually it's samsung
that gets white balance off and they crush the blacks all right so
now we have a selfie one of the few selfies that are in here
these are very very different the one on the right there's a lot of added
contrast but honestly i like that because on the one on the left you look
old hey my hair's not great
you do not look like that in real life yes i look a lot a lot more
attractive there so for me i think there's a little bit too much
not too much contrast but it's a little bit crushed on the right that's what i
don't like about it and it's a little bit too
cool but the one on the left is extremely flat
and it has much less detail it's much more soft and it's just too flat so
the one on the right for sure s21 ultra it's interesting that's more
contrast here when in the previous photos it had less contrast so
now we got a nice portrait shot at the park i like the one on the left more
because the right one there is like not as much detail on
her shoes and then with the portrait mode it messed up over here
yeah it is a good point for me i'm choosing the left also
but because the details are not crushed on the right you can see like the jeans
are totally black like in this area very crushed
and if you look closely there's more detail especially like in the hair if
you look up close more detail in the hair so s21 ultra
alright so now we have an ultra wide shot right easy right
wow yeah that's easy first of all a lot of crushing dynamic range you could
actually see blue in the sky right you got much more detail
everywhere the one on the left everything looks like
i don't know if that's orange or green it's all like one color
this is why we're doing uh the unbiased style
because i like the one on the left and i actually vote
i saw the images but i chose which ones i like best and i know my results out of
all these images so it's going to be interesting to see what they get
and also what you guys get so you guys can comment below
that is the s21 ultra once again all right
so landscape shot here let's see if that 108 megapixels
helps man this one is really really tough it's almost identical
yeah it's so close but i think i'm going with the right because of the extra
detail i can just see everything's more sharp it does have
more contrast but man it's it's tough uh i'm thinking the opposite the only
thing that i can notice difference wise is that there's a lot of crushing so i
see less detail because of that yeah because
of that maybe over sharpened i don't know so you're going left
yeah i'm going to stop all right s21 and 12 pro max
what no way well i mean yeah i mean you have the crazy zoom lens this
is so no way wow is this 100x
no no this is uh this is 10x no this is 10x the iphone does have the new
two and a half times um zoom lens and has deep fusion which
isn't work it's working here look you could see
like the little trees way back there this is all like a big foot
yeah not only all the details incredible you also get
color look at that this is just gone so obviously that is the s21
ultra and then now we have another portrait shot of emily here and this is
a really really tough one with this one i
really like the one on the left because it has a more natural kind of
blur roll-off where it kind of like goes deeper
the only issue is that right above her head there's no blur at all in that
section which is really really annoying whereas this
one does a little bit better at that but the detail is just so much better on
the left i don't know it's just so tough for me this is really hard i think i do
like the one on the left more even though there's like some crushed
detail but yeah like up here this just looks crazy there's so much blur here
and there's nothing there and also behind the
pigtail right there yeah but then over here there's like a
lot of her hair that's kind of too blurred so you
lose a lot of detail there's some weirdness s21 ultra so they're both good
at different things this image looks like a dslr
it's sharp it's detailed the color looks great this isn't detailed the color
doesn't look good but the blur is much better we got
another shot here another zoom so this shot um i
was thinking about how much zoom shots did i put in there's not too many
uh but this was a natural shot they climbed up on top of this hillside i
want to take a photo of him so i can see him
i would take a shot like this normally day to day life so
yeah you choose one why do you have to ask they look scary
the one on the right looks way better it is the s21
ultra okay and we have a shot of elon here
chillin this one is very very close but if you look closely
there's more detail on the left where you could see like this texture
in the wood and everything and yeah i'm definitely going with that
left one for sure um i disagree i like the one on the right
i don't know exactly why i just do just
like it yep i agree 12 pro max s21
ultra so the iphone colors are always a bit off
still the samsung colors are great but the iphone
you look at the hand slightly this looks like a dslr photo as far as the blur
this looks like a dslr photo as far as the detail that it's able to capture
all right so ultra right over here interesting uh yeah i mean right one
just for the details sake i'm going with the right it's more ultra wide
but because of the detail i'd rather go with that one i think i'd rather go with
the left one the right one looks sort of like distorted in an unnatural way where
the left one looks more natural that's the point it's hard it is
really hard and this is crazy how little distortion there is
while it's being so wide so you guys chose yeah
12 pro max and s21 ultra so far it is a close battle and i'm curious what
you guys are gonna have to say and the next one
bam what what happened this is not
a joke this is not a joke i gotta tell you guys
i shot this three or four times yeah to give this camera a chance
this is what you get no way how did that happen
that's garbage sorry it is garbage yeah it's a left for sure what is it
all right s21 ultra and i have to say this is the brand new three times
optical camera no using night mode versus uh
apple's two and a half times camera so it's fair here 10 megapixel versus 12.
i did this like i said three four times this is a result every time
and it's what happened the software is just
trash and we have another nighttime shot uh but this is using
standard cameras i'm gonna go with the one on the left i mean um it brightened
it up a little bit more i can see more detail in the sign
and in the uh table everywhere i like that one better
yep same 12 pro max trying to catch up yeah is it trying to catch up now
all right next one we have a portrait shot
at night man this one is extremely tough they're just so close i say i don't like
either one really they both look terrible but honestly i
kind of like the one on the right more because
i kind of like the look of the bokeh better and the one on the left just
looks over sharpened like
sharpening to the extreme i don't know
and you know what i don't even remember which one of these is which yeah
angelica do you um i disagree i think the one on the left looks better
just because there's like a such a big lack of detail
that the over sharpening i think actually helps kind of makes up for it i
don't know and i will say i don't remember which one is which but
the iphone is using the two and a half times lens
where the samsung even though it has that three times optical zoom lens
it still crops in digitally on the main sensor for this shot and then
but the results look very similar s21 on the left getting close
and i said it's a close one and then what
i have to do is i have to do a moonshot after you did that one
whoa that's so good is this this is 100x yeah
uh this is i don't know i just zoomed in as much as i could to fill the frame
what um and then the iphone i had to digitally zoom in a little bit more
because it does 12 and a half so this might be like 30 years noise
it was i will say that the iphone the moon looks a lot better than last time
and a half it's fake it's cgi yeah
obviously i think i know which one you guys would want you can actually take
moonshots with this this is an incredible and it wasn't that hard
wow i the iphone actually took like three or four times
because i thought my focus was going off this was just done
honestly this is one thing that would make me want to switch just for this for
moonshots just for moonshots s21 ultra that one is very obvious
killer and here you go this is another zoom
shot yeah i'm going with oh man that's kind of
tough i'm going with the right i think i see more detail and
the lights aren't as blown out uh if i had to choose one to be my phone i think
i'd go with the right s21 ultra killing it next one
this is uh nighttime it was super dark okay
yeah and it's a nighttime portrait selfie portrait left for sure
a lot better destroyed it absolutely s21 man ultra so floating heads it's
that's incredible that's true actually i was looking at the vases look at the
my jacket yeah you're right all right next one we have this nighttime scene
with lots of bright highlights and then lots of shadow areas as well
that's close these guys have been looking at this photo for
i don't know a couple minutes now and that shows that both of these are good
great cameras it's so tight you guys gotta choose one
i don't know i'm gonna go with the point i'm gonna go with the right two
all right s21 ultra so both both are awesome shots
it was really dang dark though super dark i will say that
all right we got one more this one is an ultra wide
shot okay i like the one on the right yeah
the one on the right like uh the left one's super flat everything's all flat
nothing pops but the one on the right those lights pop um compared to like
those trees in the back stand out more details yeah good points
um i don't remember which one is which s21 ultra wow all right i can't stop it
and we got a clock tower yeah you guys saw the wide shot here's the
tighter shot left wow um this is for me it was kind of tough
yeah this one's tough because you have more detail and like all this kind of
stuff right but everything's like so flat
and you have like annoying all this noise too whereas this is more soft
it's not as detailed but at least it stands out man this is
super positives about this than there are about that i don't know i mean
if your goal was to see what time it is it's this one
i guess uh i don't know man i'll i'll go left i don't know
s21 ultra i have to say though this is a two and a half time
zoom shot with deep fusion so when it starts getting dark
i mean they process it differently but i thought it was going to be a much bigger
difference now we have a shot of emily and then
there is also anoa hiding in the background
and i would say like i said it's super dark so like the snow to my eyes looked
almost blown out
and that was like i could barely see noah so both these cameras did a killer
job at capturing this i guess it's
preference what you like i mean i'm going with the right i see more detail
everywhere more detail everywhere so right
i like that yeah right 12 pro max oops i guess i got a glitch in here
that is the 12 pro max though and now we have a street scene here and
both of these just did a killer job i would say it's not perfect
but i was surprised i know what i'm going for okay yep
that was quick i'm going for the left right
all right s21 ultra 12 pro max these signs
were bright and here was super dark you can see so much of the detail in it
and then that and if you want you can just bring it up and it'll be a little
brighter a lot more detail here even though it's 12 megapixel instead of
108. i just don't like those reflections yeah
yeah yeah and i actually before you guys need to see this is the issue with the
iphones all those little dots look how clean
yeah there's nothing here and this was a really tough scene
super bright and colorful inside pretty much pitch black outside
why'd you do all these tough ones man i don't know honestly i did not expect
this to be this close i don't think we've ever had a test that was disc
this close when they're both making images so similar and doing a great job
at it i feel like i can see a lot more detail
on the left this one's tough i think i'm gonna go with the
left because i guess like less details crushed
like near the bottom and then like i think the colors pop a little bit more
on the inside and the detail is good too even imbalanced yeah you are right 12
pro max
i actually didn't remember which one is which this is the last one okay
ultra wide shot yeah i mean here i'm going for the right
for sure just because of the contrast between the lights
and the sky this guy's all black we're here it's kind of like faded
and you know yeah i mean you kind of see the clouds and stuff right see trees
you see trees and clouds so it's it's capturing that
yeah but it's not the better image in my opinion it's not as detailed yeah
so 12 pro max i think the last few have been the 12 pro max
so maybe it's just maybe it's more mature night time photos but
that's interesting because this is a new sensor here this one they've used since
the s20 it's just software differences so all
right guys so pause for a second guys go count up what
you chose we want you guys to comment first
before hearing our hearing what they got and then
hearing what i got in my test so go ahead and pause guys did you choose
yours all right yes we got them okay angelica
what did you get i got 17. you want to show it off to
them or the s21 ultra and 11 for the 12 pro max okay ambidi 18 for the s21
ultra and 10 for the 12 pro wow and you guys can
make sure make sure you commented below and this is why we do
unbuy style it's interesting and we don't know which is which now me
personally i disagreed with these guys a few times i i just personally like a
little more contrast on some of the shots and that's why we have preference
i got 14 and 14 really when i was going through
no way and it was i did not do that on purpose but i also didn't do it unbiased
like you guys did so it looks like yes the s21 ultra
is the better camera and samsung has done a fantastic
job it's the king it is the king not only in that zoom
i think the one thing is that 3x optical i don't know what it's even there for
marketing i don't know but the zoom is awesome and a lot of the shots just look
natural and great like the iphones used to look i guess so
there you guys go make sure you guys click that subscribe
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this s21 the note 20 and the s20 that's going to be
very interesting and check out one of those great videos over there this has
been max angelica and vadim and we'll see you
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