hey what's up it's Jerad with State of tech and I just got back from shooting a
whole bunch of photos and footage on the s9 plus galaxy s 9 plus and the galaxy
note 9 now the reason that I wanted to do a camera comparison is because there
really aren't any out there I found that with Samsung devices these reviewers and
these different channels put out a bunch of content like before you can even buy
the phone and then they don't even talk about the phone anymore and some of the
things that are interesting to me are these comparisons obviously a lot of
people have came out and said that both of these phones have the same camera in
them but that doesn't necessarily mean anything they could have the same exact
camera in them but can have different image processing and a lot of different
things going on kind of under the hood as one would say
with the phone and so I wanted to kind of take a look at the comparison between
the two because for me I absolutely love the note 9 it's a great phone my full
review is out on it and you can kind of get my thoughts on it and then I've also
had the s 9 plus most of this year and that's been a great phone so which one
do I make my daily driver I mean I like the smaller footprint of the s 9 plus
but I love the big screen and the S Pen and the long battery life of the S 9 so
I'm gonna look at everything here and just kind of go through it all together
with you looking at the images and everything and the video clips and
seeing if I could draw some sort of a conclusion I've got my nifty little
contraption that I made here out of Redrock micro adapters and stuff and so
let's just take a look at these photos together
so this first kind of no parking sign up against this wall with the sky up in the
background I wanted to shoot this image because I wanted to kind of get some
heavy contrast and see what the sky looked like now the sky is really clear
it it kind of emphasizes the blue a little bit more I think you know Samsung
phones have always been known for making the sky a little bluer than it really is
which isn't necessarily a problem if they've gotten better at that over time
but I'm going to zoom in a little bit here and kind of
get edge detail and see if I could determine which one is better when it
gets up to the edges of that sign and the wall and see if there's like
distortion or anything like that man they look almost identical almost
identical there isn't really much that I can tell here of the difference between
these images I don't think that there really is much of a difference so the
next one was walking so I was walking with both phones let's see if we can
just tell a difference here the note 9 I have that that mode enabled that's
supposed to kind of help with some of the digital stabilization that's
something that's not available on the s 9 plus so the crop is slightly different
very slightly different but as far as the image quality itself they both look
kind of the same I mean the s 9 might be a little more shaky than the note 9 it's
really hard to tell I don't think that it's that big of a difference I mean
both shots look the same there was a tiny little bit of lens
flare there for a second with the s 9 that was not present in the note 9 but
that could very well have just been just the angles I mean I did my best to angle
these phones the same but they do have different cases on them the note 9 has
an Otterbox case and the s 9 plus has a spec case on it and the reason I put
cases on them is just to protect them especially I was writing my boosted
board we'll talk about that in a second with with these and I just if they with
one of them fell out I absolutely did not want one of them to hit the ground
and the phone just be shattered so the next image is also another really
contrasty image where this sign that says no trailer exit was you know the
Sun was not shining on that but on the left-hand side of the image the Sun was
very much shining and bright and I noticed that the
note 9 seems to be a little bit brighter it seems it seemed to desire to brighten
that section of the image now I did not tap on the screen at all on any of these
images to achieve focus I just simply hit the shutter button and let the
camera do what it wanted to do I didn't go into pro mode here I wanted this to
be straight up as consumer as possible and that means just showing you exactly
what you would get if you hit the shutter button no pro mode none of that
stuff no making adjustments to anything so the note 9 seemed to have kind of
brighten up that darker area I'm gonna zoom in on the edge of the brick and the
sign here where you can really kind of see a difference with the note 9
definitely must have changed the settings or something I mean something
is a little different here about this image I'm going to see if the actual
settings if it's okay so I'm gonna go into the details here and go down to the
camera settings and see what happened so aperture was at F 2.4 on both both the
focal lengths were at 4.3 millimeters no flash the exposure on this camera was
120 157th of a second and this one was 115 17th of a second so that's where
you're getting the brighter information or where the brighter image is that the
shutter speed actually is a bit slower on this one that's still a very fast
shutter speed 15 hundredths of a second but the fact is the shutter speed was
handled differently on this camera here and that could very well just be by
chance because I didn't do anything other than leave the cameras in auto
mode that's why we didn't get extremely consistent images here but that's kind
of what happens I mean a very more scientific approach to this would have
been setting the cameras to the exact same settings in Pro Mode to see which
one produces the better image but that's not what the average person buying one
of these phones is going to do you're gonna be in auto mode shooting photos
and whatnot most of the time so we just had a little bit of a
difference here now one thing that is interesting is if we go see with the
slower shutter speed which means more light was able to hit the sensor before
the shutter closed so when it opens and closes longer amount of time is a slower
shutter speed faster amount of time is a faster shutter speed and so that note
the note 9 had a slower shutter speed than the s 9 so let's zoom into the tops
of the trees here and you could even see there's a bit more there's a bit more
light in the trees the background though in the sky doesn't seem to be that
different so that's an interesting fact right there is that you would think that
if everything else is brighter in the image why wouldn't the sky be brighter
and typically when the sky is brighter it's more washed out and you have less
less color and detail and stuff like that so very interesting indeed looking
at this image of course if we zoom in quite a bit here on the edge between the
sky and that wall the only thing that I see on the note 9 images maybe a little
bit of it just the edge just doesn't look as good of course there's a little
bit of weirdness going on there where it looks like it's being highlighted with
with light it's really hard to explain but in this there's this little notch
here in the in the brick and on the note 9 it seems to have a little less detail
than the s 9 which may simply just be because of that shutter speed difference
it's really hard to tell this was a photo I just I was looking up at the sky
and I looked up at the overhang on the building and so there isn't really a
whole lot to tell here I mean they look pretty much exactly the same we've got a
photo of the boosted board here this is at camera 1x so this is using the wider
angle camera both images look very much the same this is a 2x here of the
cameras so let's kind of zoom in and just see with the 2x camera
what kind of detail differences we're getting gosh it's really hard to tell
both of them are so close to the same I don't think that there's really any
difference if I go down to that kind of gross looking pipe sticking out of the
ground both have pretty much the exact same detail there's some shadowing going
on underneath it both of them seem to have the exact same shadows I mean there
is not much difference to tell there between these two photos with the 1x and
the 2x camera in that situation very much the same here's another one where I
wanted to get a good contrast difference we've got the this brick wall that is
not lit and then we've got the bright sky up there not too exciting of an
image it's just you know me kind of looking to see what happens sometimes in
photos these power lines the cameras can do weird things with the power lines I
kind of think like if we zoom in really far that the note 9 has a little bit
more sharpness on those if you look at the s 9 photo the power lines are a
little blurry ER and it's it's really hard to say I mean to be honest but the
s 9 that does look just a little blurry er and if we go in really really far
basically zooming in until we can't anymore on the leaves of the tree back
there it's it's really hard to tell there's no way to to say one is better
than the other and most of the time we're not going to be you know zooming
in that intensely on things so anyway is very interesting but no real definitive
winner there now I kind of went selfie mode with the camera I wanted to see
it's kind of how it went as I rotated the camera around to see if it
maintained focus on me or not and it looks like it did a pretty good job of
that keeping focus the front-facing cameras on these phones they're so much
better than they used to be maybe the note 9 is a little better than the s9
one of the ways that these cameras would fall apart and this is a
a Samsung thing than it is other phones these days is the edge blurriness on a
face it seems to blur things a little bit and I would say if I have if I was
looking at both of these videos and trying to analyze them I would almost
say that maybe the note 9 was a little better but it's very it's very tough to
say if I kind of zoom in a lot here and let's kind of look at my left eye and
the my ear and the background and see if we could tell any differences I really
can't accept that maybe the note 9 has a little bit of more sharpness with the
fall-off so you know some would say maybe that's less depth of field but or
a different depth of field but I think that Samsung has been known for making
things blurry when they're not really needing to be just to I don't know give
it some sort of an effect so let's go and kind of look at the hairline here a
little bit I don't know I mean it's it's really hard to say both phones are doing
a much better job these days than they used to so continuing on here's another
boosted board photo after I got back from my ride here is a shot of me riding
back to the office and I'm gonna go up a bump here
at least I think oh no I was waiting at the was waiting at the stop sign okay so
let's see how this handles the bump when I go up the curb the image stabilization
is so good on these phones that it's really hard really hard to tell which
one is better so let's get back here I want to go to another video so these are
in 4k okay and here's kind of a selfie video going down the road and selfie
mode just to kind of see how things are I was on the skateboard they both look
really good there were times when focus kind of lost off of me and fell into the
background but that was with both phones and that's just I'm moving fast and
things are flying behind me the I'm moving around the frame quite a bit so
it's a little bit of a challenging shot to get but it worked out pretty good and
this is kind of a moving shot I just aimed the camera down at my foot
and took a picture so we're looking at like really blurry Road because I was
moving I was going probably about 15 miles per hour right here and both
photos look pretty much exactly the same no real differences there this was me
writing I think this is the first ride on the boosted board with this setup
that I've got going on here and let's just see what it looks like
trying to go over some bumps and trying to kind of give you a good idea of what
you know what kind of image stabilization this setup has a little
bit of color shift going on there as the camera tries to decide what the white
balance should be
it's so hard to determine which one's better than the other it just watching
this video I mean I might say that the note 9 is doing a little bit better of a
job keeping the white balance consistent but that's even really hard to say the
note 9 seems to have a slightly better image stabilization but that could very
well be because I have that software option enabled that option definitely
helps I think with the image stabilization a little bit here's an
indoor shot of my road bike on the trainer let's kind of zoom and this is a
more of a lower light situation so let's just kind of zoom in and look for detail
same exact photo same exact situation it looks like maybe the the note 9 pulled
focus a little bit better on the object that was closest but like I said I
didn't tap on anything here I didn't tap on the image at all so it's really the
camera is deciding where the focus point is in two separate cameras two separate
pieces of software running it could change things a little bit here's
another shot outside just of some boards that are over by the dumpster a couple
more shots and here's me walking over to that area so this is I think my first
shot
one thing that might be a little noticeable in the note 9 footage is the
fact that the that that stabilization that I think's happening digitally is
warping the image maybe a little bit and that that could just be me over
analyzing it but it could very well be you know something so it's hard to say
so let's let's just we're gonna put this down and we're gonna talk for a second
and then this video will be over but both of these cameras both of these
phones have amazing cameras both the One X and the two X cameras are great they
both shoot 4k 60 frames per second super slow-mo modes all of that good stuff
if you're trying to decide which phone to buy based on the camera you're gonna
pay a lot more money for the note 9 because of the added features the
increased storage and whatnot now the s 9 plus is a 64 gigabyte phone
that's the way that it was available to me when I bought it there is not a lot
of memory left on that phone once I've installed a couple of games and some
apps not a lot of memory left the price point there also is huge difference
because you can get this phone right now for around eight hundred eight hundred
and fifty dollars in the US and this phone is gonna cost you about thirteen
hundred so it is a huge difference in price there's a lot of things that you
can get to go along with your s 9 to make your your experience taking photos
even better with that extra money so it really comes down to preference both of
the phones have great displays great cameras there's lots of good features
there the note 9 does have a bigger battery so if you shoot a lot of photos
and video the bigger battery might also be a bonus for you if you want my full
thoughts on the note 9 definitely check out that video it's a recent one on this
channel and a few months back I did my s 9 plus review so you can check that out
as well I hope that you liked this video make
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