The RED Digital Cinema Camera versus the Huawei P20 Pro, but you already knew that, I mean
you saw the title, right? Like that's why you're clicking and watching right now.
That thing took me so long to setup that the sun is pretty much setting now. I thought
I was gonna have a little bit more time to film, things always take longer than you expect.
Huawei P20 Pro, a ton of you guys requested me to test out this camera. I havn't even
heard of this phone until you guys asked me to review it. They don't even sell it in the
US so I had to order from some weird German website. Had my roommate kind of translate
some German for me to try to order this and didn't really know what I was doing. Just
after I did all the work and got it, I realized now they're selling it on Amazon here so great.
You're looking at the phone right now and you know, it's not looking too bad. We're
filming in 4K right now. You don't get image stabilization in 4K so that's a bummer. It
was mounted on a tripod but the wind was blowing pretty hard pushing it around. Let's take
a look at the RED now. Colors are much more neutralized but there's definitely a lot more
detail in there. All this footage is straight out of the camera, no color correction. So
if the colors are a little bit too dull for your personal taste remember, it's much easier
to add color and contrast. So that's the plus side of shooting flat. The Huawei is definitely
pretty sharp, the details and everything, pop but for my personal taste, it looks a
little bit too much like artificial sharpening. What do you guys think? Now, I just got to
say this. When I found out that there's no image stabilization in 4K and that kind of
made the 4K useless to me, the smaller your camera is, the harder it's gonna be able to
hold it stable. So when you're dealing with phones, I just feel like it's a necessity
and that alone is enough of a reason for me to not want to really switch to this
phone and just stick with my iPhone 10. The iPhone 10 at 4K keeps everything nice and
smooth and the Huawei, you just see every little jitter, every step. So if I ever use
this camera to shoot a vlog, I'll probably just shoot in HD and keep that image stabilization.
And yes, those little hiking boots are adorable. She didn't like them at first but now she
loves them. This camera is just way too shaky. Sorry for getting sidetracked, back to the
comparison. So right now, we have our RED 30 to 90 millimeters all at a T2.0. So now,
we're gonna do a couple more test shots with it. It's overcast day, the Huawei set on a
3x zoom so you can immediately see a big loss in quality. It's technically still at 4K but
it's a digital zoom which is never as good as if you could zoom in the lens. Now, if
we look at this shot from the RED, yeah, that's pretty much a wrap on this video, you guys
get the point. Now, let's look at a little bit of slow-mo because who doesn't love slow-mo?
If you hate slow-mo, you might be a sociopath, you might want to talk to your psychiatrist
about that. Now, the Huawei has more frame rate options even more than the RED. So, how
well does it work? Here's some slow-motion samples from the Huawei P20 Pro. I actually
think it's so awesome that all these smartphones now are having 120 or 240 frames per second
in slow motion. You can ramp this all the way up to 960 frames per second in a very
short burst, but to me, it doesn't look like real 960 frames per second. For example, if
you use software like Twixtor, you can shoot at whatever frame rate and it artificially
draws in those frames to make it seem smoother. You can spot this by looking at the tail and
the ears. I feel like super slow-motion is just so much fun and it just never gets old
playing with it, and the slow-motion footage out of the P20 Pro, definitely solid but at
the same time, you can't really call this cinematic like if you were watching National
Geographic or planet Earth and this shot came up, you'd be like, "Meh." But the RED on the
other hand, just imagine I have a British accent and a less annoying voice, okay? Que some
dramatic music. At this point of the day, the canines partake in their favorite yet
deadly activity, it's called the fetch where their natural hunting instincts are unleashed.
Their master launches their squeaky prey into the distant unknown. The moment the target
is released, the canines rush after it at lightning speeds, all the way into the ice
cold water. Okay, maybe it was an ice cold, cold enough to where you would put your toe
in there and be like, "Wow, that's pretty cold." They return the prize to its rightful
owner and then they do it again and for some reason they find this amusing. There's a bunch
of skunks here trying to haunt us. We thought we had gotten away clean but on the drive
back, it became very apparent that somebody probably took a jog through the skunk's nest.
Her room smells so bad. Apparently, tomato soup is supposed to help absorb the smell.
I went on Google for like two minutes to research this tomato sauce remedy, it turns out it
actually barely works, it's more of a myth [laughs] oops. So, it turns out the tomato
sauce thing is a myth.
Oh. [Laughter]
But back to it. You guys get the point, it's not about the resolution or what's
on the spec sheet, it's more about this versus this. So, what did we learned today? A cinema
camera that costs a fortune is better than a camera phone even if it has three lenses.
Was that obvious? Are you gonna complain now that this was a totally pointless video, you
didn't learn anything? Well, how about I teach you a little something about these nuts, these
nuts. I don't know what you were thinking, you weirdo. Harvard University did a huge
study where they followed a 120,000 people for over 30 years. I mean, they started this
study back in the days of Led Zeppelin. Quick moment of silence. I mean, how do you even
keep track of a 120,000 people for 30 years? I can't keep track of my keys for a day. It
categorized everybody to six different groups, people that don't eat any nuts all the way
up to people that eat nuts every single day. And what did they find out? The more nuts
they ate, the less likely they were to die during that 30-year study. Oh, it's got the
good cholesterol, lowers the bad cholesterol, antioxidants, all that good science nutrition
stuff that you don't really care about, but you kind of want to live longer and be healthy
so that's why you're gonna force yourself to eat some nuts, even suggest that eating
nuts regularly can be just as beneficial to your life expectancy as running four hours
a week. I just ran like two and a half right there. Now, there's a lot of people out there
that say, "Oh, it's high in fats. It's gonna make you chubby." You could just tell them
to shut up. They've done a ton of studies to see if nuts will actually make you gain
weight and they all say no because nuts are also very high in fiber and protein to make
sure that you stay full longer and you get those gains bro. I can't rip my shirt
I need to work out. So, next time you're at the store, pick up some nuts, preferably
unsalted because you want to lower that sodium intake, keep that blood pressure nice and
hopefully you think, "Oh, I'm so glad I watched that potato jet video, that was totally not
a waste of eight minutes." So, let's get back to camera stuff. Obviously, a phone is never
gonna be able to compete with a Cinema RED camera that's decked out, but what if you strip down
the RED, just put like a little basic lens on here and just shoot like normal stuff,
like if we were to document simple things like the dogs first time seeing a Roomba.
Now, the RED is definitely a huge pain on shooting stuff like this, it's much heavier,
you're always wondering if it's in focus and double checking all your settings.
No more dog hair. Yay!
And if you're wondering, yes, Carrie is a crazy dog lady but it works out, I take
advantage of her dogs for content. And the dogs and the Roomba have not yet become friends.
I should also mention that I love how RED shoots in raw. Aside from the sharpness, there's
a ton more information captured in the RED. For example, let's look at this shot. I'm
gonna darken it to try to get some information out of the windows, nothing. The camera just
doesn't record any of that information. Switch it over to RED, what you're looking at right
now is just the settings that was shot on. What's awesome about raw is that you can go
back and change the settings in the camera. It's as close at time-travelling as you can
get, at least as far as the government wants us to know. And since you have all this information,
you can bring down the windows just a little bit so it doesn't look so blown out. So if
you're that guy that always shoots on the wrong setting, this raw capability might save
you once in a while. And now, just looking at a couple more clips, the RED generally
just looks a little bit more natural and organic to me whereas the Huawei, it just looks a
little bit like it's been over sharpened. But really, the fact that we're even comparing
these two cameras is insane, like the shot of the salad doesn't look too bad and I was
also pretty impressed at its low-light capabilities. It's not perfect, it starts to look a little
bit pasty and artificial but at least you can see what's going on, which is pretty impressive.
The RED is at 2000 ISO and the lenses at F1.8. I still think the RED is a clear winner, it's
sharper, everything looks much more natural, it has that cool red look to it. But with
Huawei, I'm actually pretty impressed. A lot of times at night if you just whip out your
phone to try to film something, you're not necessarily trying to get the most cinematic
footage, you just want to see what's going on, and the Huawei I think achieves that.
By the way, I dropped the Huawei's resolution from 4K to HD so I get that image stabilization
totally worth that smoother footage. And just to put things into perspective, this is what
my iPhone 10 looks like in the same lighting, definitely darker and grainer. I think Huawei
is doing something to enhance this image and it makes it look a little bit pastier but
it looks so much brighter, so that's pretty cool. But once you start walking with it in
low-light, you definitely see that digital image stabilization trying to kick in. So,
points for the iPhone for its image stabilization, which brings me to my final point. The Huawei
can look really good in the right condition, but in terms of video, I think this is far
from being the best camera phone. This is selfie mode on a slightly cloudy day. So if
you're a vlogger, this is how your footage is gonna come out. There's just so much over
sharpening that makes everything look kind of, uhg. The highlight roll off is pretty
terrible, the skin tones don't look very natural and vibrant. Here, the dogs just blending
in with the ground, there's just not enough depth in the color. To me, it kind of feels
like they were just aiming for high numbers on a spec sheet but they left out a lot of
crucial things that make a video look really nice. Putting it side-by-side with my iPhone
again, the iPhone 10 just looks a whole lot more natural, the Huawei, it just kind of
looks like someone put a really bad Instagram filter on it. But I kind of want to know what
you guys think. Do you guys agree with me? Do you guys think that Huawei looks better?
I feel like you put a lot of focus into the camera for photography and stills which is
awesome, but they kind of just like we're like, nah, for the video. I still prefer the
Galaxy and the iPhone over this. But the still camera on this is pretty interesting I must
say like they've done some innovative stuff like here, they can see that it's food so
they put the settings on it for food like nuts. They still have a little ways to go
for video but I must say, I'm very interested to see what kind of stuff they do in the future.
That's all I got for you guys. Thank you so much for watching and also thanks for recommending
this camera to test out, it's been interesting for sure. And I got to go clean all these
nuts off the ground so.