we are going to showdown of the two most popular flagship devices on planet earth this is the brand new s21 ultra from Samsung and iPhone 12promax.
It has ultra in the name so you know it's gotta be good.I have three extra ones that's because it also i should mention we have later cases for both of these devices both flagships fully covered.
I sent both mo and kirk out with one of these rigs one of these things right here and they placed one of each flagship in this unit and went into the wilderness for some reason in order to test each of these two flagship level cameras without me knowing which is which that's why i have a video right here of an a b of both of these devices and i'm gonna have to try to tell the difference not knowing which is hich i'm going to examine each frame attempting to distinguish the attributes that i like on each of the two cameras samsung went for the massive sensor 108 megapixels. they also have the periscope style zoom so yes there's some features on this side that are not exactly here however the iphone approach is to have a lower megapixel count and to do more work.
I suppose
after the fact with the neural processing and all the rest of it. we have tons
of ram up to 16 gigabytes inside of the ultra uh the high end model 512 gigs of
storage so that's comparable across the two we have a slightly bigger display
on the samsung side 6.8 inches versus 6.7 and it's a slightly better screen to body
ratio as well ip rating is the same cross both but the samsung device does have
a much larger battery at least on paper on the iphone side you have arguably
the best processor in a smartphone at the moment in apple's latest a14 and then
over on the samsung side we have the latest snapdragon that's the triple-a so
without further ado let's get into the video you're going to watch it along
with me and we're going to discover the differences between the s21 ultra and
the iphone 12 pro max or we're at least going to try to first up we have the
ultra wide shot and immediately we see a significant difference we have way more
black on the image on the left definitely more contrast and a shift towards
blue a cooler tone definitely warmer on the right i already have my inclination
as the witch's witch i think the important thing about this test since you're
playing along is to know that each phone is going to stay on the same side the
whole time so whichever way your brain is trending then keep that in mind as
you attempt to be a detective here exposure i mean definitely the right hand
side is trying to keep the shadows up to maintain some level of detail both images
are nice i think either is acceptable even in the foreground here on the log on
the snow i feel like 'm getting a little more detail on the image on the left
i'm gonna keep going here okay all right next up e have the wide image here
it's a similar type of frame now the right image has added a little bit of blue
in the snow so it has interpreted this frame a little differently i mean if you
look at the jacket that kirk is wearing there it's certainly darker and more
black and more contrasty on the left hand side here we go with telephoto so
this photo is a round 3x zoom it's the first tap on the zoom this white on the
left looks more accurate to me and there's more detail in the jacket huh that's
quite interesting let's let's proceed now we're into the video 4k 30fps, now
here we're going to be looking at a couple things obviously exposure somebody
fell that's the second wipeout you took today but that's kind of a good test i
guess it looks quite a bit different the right one remains a little smoother through
your fall the green is more saturated on the image on the left it's more muted
in the image on the right however i've seen this jacket in real life and i feel
like the right one is probably a little more accurate than the left but it's
subtle it's a subtle difference both are really nice 4k video and even without
the extra tabilization turned on okay now the right one is far more stable than
the left and this is with just default settings on the video mode i see
flickering in the snow a little bit there's an exposure thing happening where
the xposure is shifting a little bit it's struggling a little bit 4k 60fps oh
wow so what's interesting here is the ootprints in the snow on the left-hand
side it's tremendously more detail where it's a little bit blown out n the
right or at least tougher to pick up all the details in the snow the left one
just looks a lot higher esolution i mean i know that they're both 4k but it
just seems i don't know if there's some sharpening dded there or if it's an
exposure choice that's happening automatically in the camera but certainly the eft
one is resolving a lot more detail but i'm still getting a little weird flickery
thing as the pan takes place and the right image still has a greater smoothness
to it now this is where i'm starting to figure out which is which because i'm
seeing what it's doing with kirk's complexion like these are quite a bit
different these approaches he has a lot more color in the image on the left and
he's a lot more pale in the image on the right wow that's a much different
approach here now i'm a bit screwed up now i am a bit screwed up i'm the only one
in here by the way that doesn't know which is which but interesting here we get
a sense for the depth of field as the focus shifts to the bark and this is good
for an auto focus test as well close focusing test interesting the camera on
the right for sure can focus closer they both can focus pretty close but the camera
on the right can focus closer huh wow we're gonna check out some portrait mode now
the skin tone the skin colors it's a there's a little more yellow on the left and
a little more pink on the right and the focus fall off around the head and this
is not not particularly easy because of all the branches and stuff and i
actually noticed a little segment around it the ear on the photo on the right
where maybe it didn't grab it and a little section near the jacket as well
where it kind of screwed up the portrait mode ever so slightly yeah i think the
left one probably nailed it a little bit better it's uh both are nice images in
different ways here we have mo's version whoa those are wow the question is
which is the better image it depends what you're looking forif you really like
crushed blacks if you like that really dark black color the camera on the left
almost never gives it to you the camera on the right brings you there
immediately it's tough it's a lot of this is is personal taste the the left
does have more detail it does have more detail in the skin low light wow i ean
the image on the left for sure look at the noise and stuff on the image on the
right i mean this is so noisy the image on the rightthe image on the left wins
slow motion so it's 240 fps 1080 there's
interesting ings that are happening to the exposure here in the indoor
environment especially around color temperature oh this is an interesting clip
the clip on the left is really struggling with exposure it has blown out his
thumb and the wall is nowhere near black it's very gray so it's a there's some
guesswork going on there the right hand side is a lot more true to life here wow
this this is a tough challenge right here close focus oh so the one on the
right has like basically macro that's on the main camera the dollar bill is
touching the phone wow super close focus tremendous detail i guess the photo on
the left is the same range but it's picking up the grass in the background
because it can't focus quite so close auto focus now this was kind of the there
was an auto focus issue sort of plaguing the previous generation ultra looks
like it's not there i anymore the autofocus is acceptable on both of these at
this point the obviously the left one the approach is a slower transition between
focus points which some may prefer it's a more action-like type of footage on
the on the right hand side it snaps into focus faster it's hard i mean in
certain circumstances i preferred what was happening on the left in certain
circumstances i referred was happening on the right oh this is harder than i
expected it to be to be honest i it went back and forth i'm gonna go ahead and
guess that the left is the samsung and the right is the iphone the left is the
iphone and the the right is the samsung are you sure wait a second the iphone
is on the left the samsung is on the right wow interesting wow this is really
interesting i feel one thing that kind of surprised me is how close these have
become and the fact that it wasn't as easy as i thought it would be to tell the
difference between the two at least immediately the portrait mode maybe should
have been the giveaway for me that i when once i saw the complexions and i saw that
sort of yellowish more yellowish hue in the skin tones i probably should have
said okay that's got to be the iphone but the thing that threw me off was the
struggling the exposure struggling on the snow i was like that's got to be the sew
phone with the new software and because i had auto focus issues with the last
generation of the ultra i was like maybe that maybe there's some sort of
software problem or update necessary because that looked really bad to me but
yeah it's a little bit of this and a little bit of that i guess maybe that's to
be expected when you're talking about two leaders in the segment at this you
know at this type of price pointbut i guess i kind of expected the iphone to do
a little better maybe if i had to post this picture immediately i would pick
the one on the left the wide here i think i still take the iphone photo that
one is tough only reason i'm gonna give it to the iphone again is because of
the snow being what i perceive to be the color of the snow and the samsung
going blue our first video that was weird man because here he falls and samsung
device is super stable now maybe it's just the way you fell and then you look
at this frame here with him uh laughing and the face is just so much more
detailed on the right hand side i'm gonna take in this video clip i'm gonna
take the samsung this one really surprises me in this case the iphone looks a
little less natural in the coat color which i've seen in real life so i'm going
to take the samsung one hereas well this 4k 30. now the running one is really
what screwed me up the iphone is ust going nuts trying to figure out exposure
and so much so that it would be distracting to have that in your clip and also
in the default stabilization mode the there there are more stabilization modes
on the samsung the right is just a more pleasing smoother movement 4k 60fps we
have blue snow from the samsung device again but i can't accept the flickering
i'm taking the samsung again yeah i'm taking the samsung again it feels like
photo mode is going to the iphone in video mode as going to the Samsung because
now i'm into portrait mode and i remember that the iphone was the superior one there
as well so i give portrait to the iphone night mode iphone wins slow motion the
hand is blown out it's not just not good looking yeah i mean the samsung slo-mo
here looks way better close focus we already covered this it's not even close it
goes to the to the ultra model and then autofocus where i expected the iphone
to kill the samsung is tight now i think most people can appreciate just fast
find the focus fast so i give hat to samsung as well in that exact circumstance
and then samsung gets the bonus because it has the extra cameras a 10x i mean
that's ridiculous that is a really usable 10x that's optical 10x 100x is
obviously the software coming into play here you have it if you want to i don't
know be a weirdo but and then and then it can shoot an 8k whoa it can shoot in
8k 24 frames and that is cinematic the snow is still blue but yeah samsung wins
i think the iphone won the photo compartment just as an overall package for
what i do and how i use my camera i'm gonna go with the s21 ultra they are both
fantastic though like they'd just be shooting this caliber of content off of a
smartphone but yeah i mean tough choice you saw i even had the two devices
wrong it is a tough match it's a tough battle it's a split decision so there
you have it camera showdown complete s21 ultra versus iphone 12 pro max i
thought this was kind of a fun way to do it really test yourself what you see
and what you're looking for and even to just figure out what you like in an image
or inside of video so hopefully you had fun taking part and guessing yourself .
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