- Hey, Geoff. - Hey, Chris.
- I have a real test for you. - Oh, boy.
- So I've spent the last weekend
playing with the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro
and, if there's one thing people expect
when they buy a new iPhone, it's better camera performance.
So, I took a bunch of photos with those devices
and a few older and other ones, just for funzies,
and it's your job to tell me which one you think is best.
- I'm a little nervous. - Good luck.
Let's dive in. - Let's do it.
- We have some photos of the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Anh, they're all kind of about the same.
- Pretty tough, yeah. - So we gotta zoom in.
The coloring looks better on 2 and 4.
Number 3 is working super hard to sharpen.
There's also just a little bit more dynamic range on Number 3.
I'm going to go with Number 3.
- Number 3 is in fact the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
- Wow!
- I cannot believe that you did that.
All four of these photos were taken at 3x zoom.
So, Geoff, you've got four photos.
Pick the best, please.
- Pro models have actually had a optical 3x zoom.
- Correct.
- So they don't actually have to rely on software
to be figuring out how to zoom in like this.
Number 3 feels like software figured that out,
so it's got kind of a softness about it.
Number 1 and Number 4 feel like a real lens got us to there.
I prefer Number 1.
I think Number 4 is the iPhone 14.
- Number 4 if the iPhone 13 Pro. - Ooh.
- But you did prefer the iPhone 14 Pro Max, so.
- I did it again! - Did it, did it again.
Jeez, we're going to be looking at me a lot
and I don't love that.
- Aww! - That's a nice picture.
Let's look really deep into your eyes, Chris.
Compare your eyebrows.
Look at that lovely texture.
I feel like you could put a brush over that.
But here, it seems sort of dull. I like Number 3
because it's giving us nice detail on your face.
- Number 3 is the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
But this was a bit of a trick
because Number 1 was the iPhone 14.
So, quite similar, in some respects,
but just I wanted to include them because,
right off the bat, there is, to me,
at least, quite a different feel between the two.
- Yeah.
- We now move into our last test, low light.
- Initial impression is 2 is the winner.
But I want to zoom in.
Was there a tripod? - It's all handheld.
- If I said anything nice about 2, I take it back.
- Okay, why is that?
- It just can't get a sharp line on your glasses.
Your face looks a lot more like smoothed out.
You've had some Botox in Number 1.
- No comment. - I'm going to go with Number 3.
- Number 3 is your pick? - Final answer.
- Number 3 is the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
You absolutely nailed this test.
So, Geoff, we've just looked at a bunch of photos.
What have we learned here, apart from the fact
that you really like the iPhone 14 Pro Max?
- My takeaway is, gosh,
it was hard to tell the difference.
So, you have to think about who you are, as the customer here.
If you are the kind of person that is going to spend as long
as I just did zooming into pictures,
looking at the detail differences, um,
hey, then go for the 14 Pro.
You're going to enjoy it. - Yeah.
- If you're not, not a reason to upgrade to this phone.
- So, here's where I am, at the end of all of this.
If you have an iPhone 10S or older
and you move to an iPhone 14 or a 14 Pro,
that difference from camera to performance to battery life,
it's going to be palpable.
It's going to be really, really big and in your face.
- Sure. - But if you have a newer device
and you're thinking about it,
there are other factors that may come into play.
So, emergency SOS via satellite, car crash detection,
these are things that might tip the balance in favor
of the iPhone 14 Series,
even if you have a more recent device.
Hey, everyone, thanks for watching.
I hope you found that video helpful.
If you have any other questions
you'd like to ask to the help desk,
please send us an email to YourHelpDesk@washpostdotcom.
And, by the way, every bit of the video that you just saw,
we shot on the new iPhones, so, not bad on video front here.