This is a smartphone camera shootout that I personally was very excited to test and compare
And I'm intrigued with the results and I think you guys might be as well
This is the official authentic camera comparison of the brand new LG V 30
Versus the Samsung Galaxy s8 let's jump right in starting with some daylight outdoor photo
Side-by-side shots make sure to watch this video in the full 4k
Glory if you can this first one will be a blind taste test on the left
You can see it's a bit tighter feel the view on the right a bit wider angle all
Camera settings are left in default auto the colors in the sky, and the red stop sign look pretty similar
But there's great clarity retained in the clouds and shadow areas when we zoom in
200% a few more differences jump out look at all the clarity and sharpness
In the white border of the sign and even in the wall of brick behind it
Which one is which well the LG v30 is on the left and the Galaxy s8 is on the right
Did you guys guess it correctly now on each one of these tests? I'm also gonna show you what the crazy awesome
wide-angle lens looks like on that new V 30
versus the standard
Angle on the s8 I've been really digging this ultra wide angle on the V 30 now onto the next shot
I moved in closer to some tree leaves and pretty cool comparison here
again colors and saturation white balance all look pretty close and really Pleasant on both in my opinion
I find the background bokeh to be a tad more blurred out on the V 30 in this shot, but man
It's super close now. Let's zoom 200%, and I've got to give the sharpness to V
30 just look at all the cool vein details on the leaf back to the ultra wide on the V 30
And this lens unfortunately does not feature
autofocus and it's slightly lower
megapixel so often these close-up objects will look a bit out of focus and I'm pretty sure that's because it's set to
Infinity focus here so that trade-off here is the super cool. Wide-angle is gonna. Have a lack of image clarity
Understandably, so now this next one's pretty interesting
I think the V 30 missed the focus point and went a little bit far while the SI
Auto focus right where I want it to on that grass closer to the lens
Also note the blacks look a bit darker on the v30 in those shadow areas
Zoomed in you can compare the bokeh and daylight noise differences punching back out
Honestly that infinity focus on the v30 looks pretty good next to that
Autofocus s8 shot moving on to the classic close-up flower shot this one.i
Autofocus both cameras right onto that yellow flower and that v30 looks way
Sharper over the s8 colors and saturation look nice on both zooming in we can kind of see the s8 looks to be blurring
And/or blowing out some of those yellow details while the v30 keeps those nice outlines and again
wide-angle v30 verse zoomed out sa good differences here switching to a landscape shot you should notice the
consistent trend colors white balance and dynamic range look pretty great on both cameras the v30 field of view is
71 degrees a bit more narrow than the s8
77 degree field of view zoomed in I gotta give it to the V 30 again though the
Quality and sharpness in the grass and the willow tree just simply look better overall and here again the ultra wide-angle
Just looks gorgeous on that V 30
It's an incredible 120 degree field of view, but of course quality and resolution
Just don't look quite as good as the s8 as a final rear-facing
Photo test one more close-up macro shot the details in the tree bark look way better in the V 30 in my opinion
Zoomed in the sharpness differences become even more apparent plus interesting to see the blurred out background grain
Similarities switch to wide-angle shot the V 30 has 13 megapixel versus the s 8's 12 megapixel very interesting now
Let's switch gears to 4k video comparisons some really interesting
Differences here same as before both shooting default Auto settings 4k 30fps
I'm seeing a bit more details in the shadow areas on the s8 though as a continued trend
I've touched on in the past the Galaxy s8 has this terrible pixel blocking issue you can clearly see it up in the sky for
Example it honestly ruins my shot sometimes
It's almost like the V 30 has it too
But just not as terrible or a parent switching to wide-angle lens colors and white balance still look nice on both
Sharpness for the Infinity focus actually looks pretty good some might have the personal preference that there's too much sharpness
Processing going on here. I personally find it ok. Here's a quick autofocus test
I'd say that the good ol s eights laser autofocus is well laser fast
and while the V 30 is still fast and nails the focus the
98% of the time it's always just a couple milliseconds or frames behind the s8 for one of my favorite tests
Here's a side by side walking
stabilization test the V 30 features OIS
And E is while I believe that s8 has the same as well while I'm shooting these at 4k res
Cameras can't turn on the EIS while capturing full-frame 4k video, honestly. They're both pretty mediocre
Stabilization in my opinion with the s8 possibly doing a slightly better job. What do you guys think now just for fun?
Here's a side by side versus the new GoPro Hero 6 with LG on the left and man look at that amazing
Image stabilization on the GoPro it's looking buttery smooth all on handheld while the V 30 is just so shaky
I can't wait for smartphones to improve their stabilization technology GoPro has officially raised the bar now switching back
I'm using the wide-angle lens on the V 30 and you can clearly see that there's no
Oh is on this lens very very unfortunate in my opinion and one of my biggest gripes with the camera
But hey that wide-angle sure looks cooler on these panoramic shots versus the s8 both cameras can shoot ultra slow motion
240 FPS at 720p
Though they both look smooth playback the resolution quality
Clearly goes to s8 on this one and this is a video
front-facing camera test on the LG V 30
And this is the Galaxy s8 house walking
stabilization
House field of view which one looks wider how about color clarity quality?
dynamic range
contrast about the colors and
saturation
And here's a quick photo comparison on the front selfie cam
And
Last up a couple quick low-light comparison shots the V 30 primary lens is an incredible F
1.6. Versus s8f
1.7. Though the sensor size is larger on the s 8 I'd say the grain looks much less and better on the V 30
Though zooming in that si looks in return on sharper image, wide-angle
Interesting to see that the color
differences the V 30 is
Leaning a bit more red while the s 8 leans more green and in this one
We can spot those same differences s 8 having much more clear image though that dynamic range is pretty
Similar in both these shots with 4k video interesting stuff here the noise levels look pretty grainy in both
I'm not sure if I'd like one over the other I
Would say the dynamic range looks better on the si at least with its HDR processing or whatever?
It's using it has this nice balanced exposure of the bright outdoors
And the dark indoors versus look at the V 30 it looks too
Underexposed for those shadow areas and it's trying harder to expose for those bright windows
The s8 is doing some really wonky
Glitchy e is or o is in my pans while the V 30 looks more smooth and motion
Punching out we get that lower quality higher noise
Wide-angle on the V 30, but man just look at how much more of the sealian floor
We can capture in frame and lastly a low-light selfie photo yuck. They both look pretty
terrible the V 30 looks horrendous and that s 8
Just slightly less wore fine as I've said before it thankfully
I personally don't use selfie cameras as especially in low-light very often
So I'll look past this one and there you guys have it my side-by-side comparison test of the LG V 30
Versus the Samsung Galaxy s8 now I want to hear from you guys down in the comments which one
Do you think is the better camera overall if you want to stay tuned for more camera comparison tests like this one in the future?
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