- Alright, today we are back at the beach
and we got the Galaxy S10+.
This thing is loaded with all kinds of crazy features
and specs.
This thing could also take like, really good still photos
so let's see here.
Hey, Sam.
What's up?
Look at this, what?
I'm getting you in color, but the background's
all black and white.
How does this even wo--
like this technology in this thing is absolutely insane.
But most of you guys already know, I only really care
about the video camera in this thing.
And I'm still waiting for that day when this thing
gets as good as one of these digital cinema cameras.
And so far, it actually looks really, really good.
It's 4K, up to 60 frames per second,
and it has three lenses back here and two lenses
up here and even the front facing camera is 4K.
So that's pretty awesome.
So we're gonna compare it with our cinema movie camera here
so let's see how the look side by side.
So let's start off by using the wide angle lens
built into this Galaxy S10+.
I put a 14 millimeter lens on the Red, as most of you know.
Tha'ts very, very wide.
But the Galaxy is able to go out even wider,
which is really impressive.
It's the widest angle I've seen on a phone camera yet
and I can see this being very, very useful.
So check this out.
This is what a standard camera would look like.
See how close up it is to my face.
And this is kinda the focal length you would expect
out of most camera phones.
But this has this option to kinda go all the way out
like that.
And I know a lot of vloggers that would love this option.
And it's very cool, I would personally use this lens
a whole lot.
If we look at a side by side footage of my jeep,
you can literally see every single insect I murdered
on my last roadtrip.
And now actually, looking at this footage side by side,
the Galaxy looks sharper than the cinema camera
that's worth more than my dignity.
So right off the starting line, the Galaxy S10+
looks super impressive.
But there is a reason for this.
Cinema cameras are generally designed to shoot flat.
That way we have a little bit more play room
to adjust the images afterwards in post.
And oftentimes, flat images can come across
as not looking sharp.
So I'm gonna just do a very, very simple
contrast boost to the Red footage.
And that's about it, I'm not gonna do much else
to the images to keep everything looking fairly raw.
By the way this video is being shot at 30 frames per second,
because the Galaxy natively only shoots at
30 frames per second or higher frame rates.
But out of the box, it does not give you access
to 24 frames per second, which I usually shoot my videos at.
But there are workarounds for that.
There are after market apps that will allow you
to go into 24 frames per second if you are going for
more of that cinematic look.
But to keep this video simple, we're gonna set
all these cameras to 30 frames per second.
Now let's take a look at the dynamic range
on the Galaxy S10+ and it's actually really insane.
On the contrary, without that much dynamic range,
you would have to choose on exposing the sky,
where the foreground would be a silhouette
or you can expose the foreground and blow out the sky
where it just turns white.
Neither of them look that good.
So the fact that we do have the HDR option is sweet.
And it's basically like a smart feature
of taking the really bright skies and also the shadow
where Sam's sitting and kind of merges them together
to make one complete image where you can kinda see
the details on both the shadows and the bright ends.
This technique's been around for pretty much ever
in the photography world, but now we're starting to see
it roll into the video field and it's awesome.
And again, these are smart features that the phone
is automatically detecting and applying into each shot.
The Red, on the other hand, will never automatically
try to apply some sort of filter, or look,
or any sort of effect like that.
And when you look at the raw shot, you're only looking at
a fraction of the information it actually gathered.
So if I were to slightly tweak the Red footage,
we can definitely get an HDR look out of it.
Sometimes, HDR looks awesome but sometimes, it doesn't.
The downside of HDR is if you push it too far,
it can come out looking very unnatural.
So sometimes, out of the camera, the Galaxy can look better.
But you're just kinda stuck with what the phone
decides to give you.
Red, on the other hand, we pretty much have unlimited
options on what we wanna do with that footage.
It's because we have all that raw data.
Now to get that more cinematic footage,
you definitely have to pay the price for it.
So not just with money, which that is obviously
a huge part of it.
But convenience is also a huge part of it as well.
Like, this thing is ginormous and heavy.
Sure, sometimes it's kinda cool having this
big 'ol camera.
You walk around,
"Look how big my camera is!"
(laughs) No, but seriously though, if you have a big camera
people think you're more legit than you actually are.
But it can definitely be a hassle a lot of the times.
I mean, the weight itself can get really brutal
after a couple hours of carrying this thing around.
If you're trying to be kinda low key
and film something discreetly, like you can walk around
anywhere and film with this.
No one's ever gonna say a thing.
But as soon as you pick up this thing,
every two minutes someone's gonna be like,
"Hey, what are you filming?
"Do you have a permit for that?
"Can you please stop filming me urinate?"
There's not a single smart feature about this camera.
Like everything is manually controlled.
You dial in every single setting, it never does anything
you don't tell it to, which is generally a good thing
on a professional set.
But if you're just like, "Oh, that's a nice shot of my kids.
"Here, let me record for a second.
"Okay, how do I upload to Facebook through this thing?"
The Galaxy shoots 60P in 4K,
which is impressive.
4K, 60, a sure way to get sharp, slow motion footage
that just about always looks awesome.
There's no going wrong with 4K, 60.
Going in a little bit more slow motion,
240 frames per second.
They both can do it in full HD and the Galaxy
actually looks kinda decent.
You're definitely gonna notice some loss in quality
on the Galaxy.
But realistically, most of the time, we're just having fun
with this so it's an awesome feature to have in a phone.
And then we got super slow motion up to 960
frames per second.
Which is insanely fast.
But you'd only have a point four second window
to shoot 960 frames per second, which is super fast.
You blink, you miss it.
And I did actually find it pretty challenge to get some
super slow-mo shots within that point four second window.
A lotta times, I would just get right before
or right after the action I wanted to capture.
So with that very short point four second window
and that very low resolution, obviously it's not ideal
but the Red doesn't even offer 960 frames per second,
so I'll take it. I mean, two weeks ago, when we shot that
super slow motion video, we had so much fun
with 1,000 or 5,000 frames per second.
Once you realize how different things look
at 960 frames per second, it's really fun.
Now the S10+ does have the ability to shoot
in the HDR 10+ format.
And this is separate from the auto HDR mode.
I know the whole HDR thing can be a little bit complicated.
But yeah, unless you have your entire workflow
figured out in HDR 10+, I wouldn't be in any rush
to put it in this setting.
Now my biggest reason for not loving the way
camera phones look is what Matti Haapoja describes
as sharpness versus detail.
- Some of these cameras are really sharp,
but they don't necessarily have a lot of detail, which
the cinema cameras definitely have the detail
but they aren't necessarily super sharp.
For example, the DJI drones, they're very sharp
so they're adding a lotta post-sharpening
or in camera sharpening.
But there's not much detail.
When you zoom in, there isn't all this detail in,
let's say the grass or the trees,
it's kind of just all mushy but it's sharpened mushy.
- And it seems like camera phones still don't have
the proper hardware to make everything look super detailed
so they generally try to compensate by just
sharpening out the edges and a lot of times,
it can look good.
But sometimes, it can sharpen out things like
pores, or wrinkles, or other things that aren't
super flattering.
And again, professional cameras like the Red
take a different approach and they don't try to
digitally sharpen much.
They just kinda capture what's there with as much detail
as possible.
So it just does a better job at just seeing things
as it sits naturally.
So a lotta times, faces just look more flattering
on a cinema camera.
Let me show you what this camera looks like
if I pump up the sharpness a little bit.
And there, look at that.
My skin looks like sandpaper, right,
because it's trying to just gather any sorta details
and contrast and it just like sharpens it.
Not great, I'm gonna turn the sharpening back down.
Looking at the zooming options.
Again, you have your standard 1X zoom.
You can zoom out to point five
and you could also zoom into 2X.
And that's awesome.
If I were to design a phone, it would literally just
be like (makes sound effect with mouth)
a bunch of lenses back here.
It would barely be able to make a phone call
or send a text.
The telephoto lens on the Galaxy is a 2X zoom
so that's useful but obviously, the Red's still
gonna have an advantage because it has like,
thousands of lenses it could choose from.
So if you wanna zoom way in, the Red still looks
brilliant but the Galaxy is compensating like crazy
with its sharpness.
And we all love that shallow depth of field
or basically getting that background blurry
while your subject's in focus.
The Galaxy has the ability to kinda fake that
in the photo world, but can't really fake it
in video yet.
Who knows?
Maybe we'll start seeing that in the future
but the Red camera obviously just naturally
looks like that.
It's a cinema camera and it looks cinematic.
The Red camera doesn't have anything built in
to stabilize the footage.
If you want it to be stable, you have to put it on like
a Gimbal or steadycam.
The Galaxy has a super stable mode on.
So clearly, if you're just walking around handheld,
the Galaxy is gonna look more stable.
A big, big plus.
Once we start losing that sun and we enter
low light territory, the Red still looks sharp.
You can tell that the phone's trying to do everything
it can to try to make that image look as nice as possible
but a lot of it just looks kinda artificial and clumpy.
But the Galaxy can shoot with an F1.5 F stop.
So in the world of camera phones, this is definitely
a leap forward.
And honestly, I'm trying to think about
what camera phones are gonna look like 10 years from now.
Curious what mirrorless cameras are gonna look
10 years from now.
What's a cinema camera gonna be like 10 years from now?
It's really hard to imagine because
10 years ago, a camera phone was just like
utter (bleep).
In the mirrorless camera space, we're definitely seeing
smaller sensors come out that are actually really powerful
and surprisingly, look really great.
So the technology's definitely on its way
and in development.
Anyways, I feel like I should cut my hair.
It's kinda growing out kinda long.
I'm heading to NAB in a few days.
Let's do this.
Sam?
- Yes?
- Oh, we're multitasking today.
We're gonna read some comments from my last video,
which was all about the Aputure 120d MarK II,
which is my favorite video...
I'm gonna start again.
(laughter)
- Holy (bleep).
- What did you do?
Make sure I don't look crazy
going to NAB. Are you sure you know what you're doing?
I'm going to NAB, I need to look good, okay?
You are literally just taking all the hair off the top.
I'm gonna have a bald spot on the top.
- Shh, shh, shh.
I don't tell you how to do your job,
don't tell me how to do mine. (laughs)
- I'll just do it myself, dude. I don't need your help.
This is easy.
Why do barbers exist?
Why don't we just do it ourselves?
This is so good.
Do I look jacked up now?
Sam, I need you to un(bleep) this.
Anthony Burnett says,
"Random skill to learn.
"Mastering of pogo sti--"
oh my God!
Sam, you're fired.
Wait, wait, but fix my hair before you leave.
How bout doing a handstand or a backflip?
Backflip, I don't know.
Now that I'm 30, like my body hurts when I fall.
Like sometimes I'm like,
"Maybe I should try skateboarding,"
and I'll try to do one trick and fall on the ground
and I'll like be in the worst pain ever.
When I was 20, I can like fall on my face
and just scrape up my body and I'll get up and be like
no problem.
Andy says,
"Learn how to stack dice."
What did I tell you abou--
oh, it's still on fire!
Get out of here!
I guess this is gonna be my hair for NAB.
I can't trust Sam cutting my hair anymore.
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