this is my camera comparison test of the new Samsung Galaxy S20 versus the
iPhone 11 Pro I'm Ben from Authentech, let's jump right in now I bought both of these
phones with my own money no sponsorship in today's video starting with a
front-facing at video 4k 30 now I purposely did not get that S20 Ultra
for a few reasons a it's way too expensive and bulky for my pockets plus
that's what all the other youtubers have already reviewed but I think it's the
s20 where you get the most bang for your buck especially for the average consumer
right off the bat both selfie cams are recording nice and sharp looking 4K
video which I like to see the iPhone has a wider field of view on this lens which
I prefer the iPhone skin tones are a bit wonky though as this is sort of common
on iPhones my skin in real life is not that red or soft looking while the s20
looks a bit more accurate and flat as for dynamic range the iPhone in the past
has always been the clear winner but finally it seems the s20 has really
stepped up their game and it's doing a fantastic job as well with maintaining
some colors and clarity and the super contrast you've seen with those bright
sunlights and dark shadow areas and blacks on my jacket now going for a
quick jogging stabilization test the s20 looks to be the winner here while it's
still jerky back and forth we can see much more wobbles and shakes the iPhone
has which I like to keep my eye on the background objects and the horizon to
see which one is more stable which one do you guys like better this is an audio
test on the galaxy s 20 and this is audio on the
11pro now we've got some waterfalls behind me we've got the train going off
in the background how does the audio sound and compare between the two audio
test one two three four left live authentic audio test one two three four
let's live off that tech I'd say the s20 is doing a slightly better job at wind
and ambient noise reduction however it's a little too strong for my taste and
it's making my voice sound a little tinny and flat the iPhone is giving us
much louder and more natural sounding vocals however it's at the cost of
louder wind and background noise jumping to some photo comparison starting with a
few selfie shots now hands down both of these cameras have been some of my top
favorites I've had in years and I don't think you can go wrong with either in
these shots notice there's a bit more natural background blur on the s20 which
I kind of like when I switch over to portrait mode on each I think they both
look pretty good with fairly nice edge detection and again the iPhone is making
my skin a little too reddish while the s20 has that more natural real to life
look now switch into the rear-facing triple camera setups these are really
fun to compare side-by-side and I've always been a huge fan of the ultra wide
lens creating that immersive fresh
perspective shot the primary lens on each is 26 millimeter both at 12
megapixel F 1.8 both of these look really nice and sharp with beautiful
colors good dynamic range fantastic looking white balance and clarity is
honestly pretty insane for a smartphone camera and as for the telephoto lens
this is where it gets a little bit tricky the s20 is what Samsung calls a
three times hybrid optic zoom and basically what I don't think a lot of
people realize myself included this is where the 64 megapixel camera is and as
for the lens well it's just a little tighter field of view than that primary
lens so all that extra zoom range is mostly digital zoom now this isn't
necessarily a bad thing because with that same 64 megapixels this s20 can
also record a K video which I had no idea
that 8k was only on the s20 ultra but it's here as well in all these shots as
I continue to zoom in you'll see that the iPhone maxes out at 10 times zoom
the s20 can go all the way up to 30x and while it still gets pretty pixelated and
sorta unusable at that extent we can clearly see just how much sharper that
as 20 looks over the iPhone it's kind of like night and day difference and again
just because the camera allows us to zoom all the way into 30x doesn't mean
we have to but to just go third or halfway produces excellent shots for my
eyes sticking to around the 10x zoom maximum is an incredible range to have
and from 0.5 to 10x the images and even video as you'll see in a minute look
really good and look at this as i zoom into the downtown map sign it's really
fun and impressive to see how much more clarity we have on this 20 with all
those extra megapixels going to work for us I heard rumors that the next iPhone
12 pro might have a 64 megapixel sensor this would be great to see when we're
zoomed out on the ultra wide and the primary lens I think both of them looked
pretty dang awesome now this was another fun example switching through the lenses
and sensors from ultra wide down to ultra zoomed in on that rocket it's
quite the difference in resolution now speaking of those 64 megapixels this was
another big feature I hadn't heard anyone really talking about and on the
s20 we can snap full resolution photos at 64 megapixel so with the ratio 4 by 3
this is a resolution of 92 48 by 69 36 at first I thought this was a little
cheesy and maybe a party gimmick but I was wrong as soon as I snapped some
side-by-sides versus the 12 megapixel iPhone and then start zooming way in
it's again a big difference in terms of sharpness clarity and resolution at the
end of the day though megapixels only go so far and there's many other important
features I like to focus on like dynamic range in this flower shot it's a good
example we can see these tiny little white specks on the flower which I think
are pollen dots kind of amazing for the s20 however the exposure is blown out on
some of those key highlight details here's a few low-light shots
first on the ultra wide and the silly iPhone can't do night shot on the ultra
wide lens while the s20 s looks really good competition evens out a bit on the
primary lens but the iPhone is still leaning a bit too warm of its white
bounce while the s 20 hit it more accurately with the clean white LED
light plus it's sharp and nice looking and the telephoto lens will another win
for the s 20 in my opinion and while the iPhone shot doesn't look terrible I feel
like the S 20 looks just a tad sharper this is a rear-facing 4k 30 video test
has a to look and compare ultra wide honestly as you'll see in the video
footage both of these phones produce really beautiful shots that sharpness
and clarity look good on both the ultra wise and even the colors and dynamic
range are nice as well though I noticed in just a few specific examples here the
iPhones video wins for better HDR just look at the crazy bright sunlight for
example and the blown-up circle is smaller on the iPhone however a big
caveat wherever there's motion involved like wobbling the camera around the
iPhones HDR causes some pretty gnarly HDR flickering that I've commented on
before and it can look pretty bad sometimes it's much harder to notice on
the s20 while I'm here jogging I'd vote the iPhones ultra wide as producing
though a slightly smoother stabilization funny enough it's the Samsung's that
have touted that super steady mode and I'll complain about it again it's only
for 1080p video even on this as 20 it does not work in 4k which is a major
bummer now I don't understand why we can't have super steady 4k on that 64
megapixel sensor that can shoot up to 8k video there's plenty of canvas
resolution for EIS right well if the 1080p doesn't bother you then the s20
super steady produces some pretty cool smooth almost gimbal looking shots which
is fun to use moving on as i zoom into the docs
I'd say the iPhones 2 x telephoto lens still looks really good and the s20 has
that farther reach and zoom which can be a nice option to have switching to the
primary lens they both again look great the HDR and colors look nice and
when jogging around I'd say the s20 has a little too much glitchy jittering in
its stabilization while the iPhone looks a bit smoother it still has that bad HDR
flickering effect I'd really like to see improved optical image stabilization in
both of these phones in this spot let me quick pause and show you the highlight
and fall-off comparison between my shiny skin reflection and the sunlight and
personally I'd vote the iPhone looks a bit better the s20 is blowing out a bit
too much of my skin here's another shot starting ultra wide the medium lens and
then the telephoto and even though the s20 has that farther zoom range
it just looks okay sometimes it's not an optical zoom whereas an iPhone has that
two times telephoto lens so it's still able to produce some nice clarity at
that 2x range it's funny because 99% of the time when these photos or videos are
gonna be shared on smartphones and social medias no one is even gonna tell
the difference in my patent-pending autofocus test the results are so close
I have to slow the footage way down and frame by frame I was able to notice the
s20 was faster to respond to start hunting for focus but it was oddly the
iPhone that more often snapped and locked on to the accurate focus plane
just a few frames faster than the s20 but sometimes at ISO there you go as for
slow-motion both cameras can record up to 240 FPS at 1080p and I think I like
the quality of the s20 a tad better but for bonus points as 20 can also record
up to 960 fps that's almost a thousand frames per second and we can literally
count and see the individual specks of water which is pretty awesome
now resolution is only 720p but I'll still take it and we can't forget a
little low-light video starting with the ultra wide and they both look really
dark and grainy however the iPhone is really loud with
noise if you can see it plus it's white balances off again on the primary lens
I'd vote the s20 the winner as it's a little more real to life looking and
sparking a solid balance between color sharpness and noise reduction jumping to
the telephoto the results are simply magnified
while neither of them looked great in this super dark room I'd say the s 20s
clarity wins by just a hair final results who do you guys think is the
winner it's pretty dang close I think I'd say four photos I'd probably pick
the s20 now all these were shot in Auto and between the different lenses the 64
megapixel full resolution and I didn't even get to show you the full manual
controls we have on the s20 app which i think is so much better than the iPhone
and when it comes to video it's almost a toss-up the 8k videos locked at 24 FPS
on the s20 and it's pretty bad autofocus and jello effects so it's not that
usable unless it's a locked-off tripod but the 4k 30 looks really great on each
HDR and saturation is beautiful autofocus is very close tie the s20 has
manual video exposure controls which is really awesome I personally will be
sticking with the s20 for at least a few more weeks for my in-depth review make
sure you stay tuned for that as I've been on the iPhone for the past six or
nine months so it'd be really interesting to see all the pros and cons
plus stay tuned for my other camera comparisons of the s20 Versa note 10
plus and google pixel for until i see you guys next time let's live authentic