$200 Redmi Note 9S vs $1000 Galaxy S20! (Camera Test Comparison) By AuthenTech - Ben Schmanke

What's up guys, I'm Ben from authentic, and I'm dang excited about this video because I love a budget stuff. This is the Redmi Note 9s from Xiaomi for $200 now, currently that's on sale, but even off sale. It's super cheap thanks to gear best for sending it, and this is the galaxy s20 that I bought for over $1000 I thought it'd, be fun and interesting to compare this $200 phone versus the thousand dollar S 20. This one has a quad camera set up. The S20 only has three and yes, the Redmi works here in the US I popped in my T-Mobile SIM, and it worked fine even on LTE, but make sure you double-check your compatibility in your area on your networks. So it's $200 too good to be true, well at first I thought so, but the more I've gotten to play with it there's actually a ton of impressive features that has now.

Let me rattle off a few first, it's the note series. So it's a massively large six point. Six seven inch display it's bright and vibrant slim bezels. All around the front facing camera has a hole, punch, cutout, centered and balanced how I like it now that display isn't quad HD or 120 Hertz refresh rate like the S20, but the screen resolution is still good enough. I'd say a full HD plus 2400 by 1080, and that's about 400 PPI in the box.

I am comes with a nice, simple bumper case, which I appreciate these little touches on the bottom, the three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack. We don't see this nowadays USB type-c fast 18 watt charging, there's even an IR blaster on top, which I haven't seen in forever. There's a massive battery inside five thousand and 20 William hours and I honestly feel it I was out shooting camera tests the other day and I felt like the battery lasted for a very long time. It barely dropped on me, which I was impressed. The phone feels fast and snappy enough.

Now it's not the latest and greatest snapdragon 865, but at some of these specs that will achieve that cheaper price tag. It also has 4 gigs of memory and 64 gigs of storage at this $200 price tag now pay a little more for 6, gigs of RAM and 128 gig storage, or just use that expandable micros card slot to expand the internal storage up to 512 gigs, there's even a fingerprint reader built into the power button on the side. I like that placement. Now, yes, this is a large phone. It's got that big screen.

It feels pretty hefty with that massive battery and I usually prefer the smaller phones, it's easier to control single-handed, but this one still feels well-built and sturdy, not cheap feeling at all. Let's move on to the main event the camera system- and this is where I'm most excited to experiment and compare again for just $200 I was really thinking that the camera would take a pretty big hit, but after shooting lots of samples and side-by-side comparisons versus my s20 I was really impressed for this price tag. Now it's not perfect, and it doesn't have every single camera feature some people might want, but for a $200 device versus $1000 I was very impressed. First, snapping a few outdoor daytime photos, colors and vibrancy. Looks nice.

Even the dynamic range looks great too pretty natural. Looking and snapping some pretty shots. The ultra-wide lens even looks pretty sharp and nice. In some of these shots, I was surprised with how similar and close the Rene camera was able to stay with the s20 when I tap on the telephoto zoom button. While the red me actually doesn't have an optical telephoto lens, but it just crops in on that main sensor.

We can see how it's not as sharp as the s20, but it still looks pretty good and only when we zoom way in and then the clarity differences really show, and while I really do like the zoom capabilities of the s20, it shows how impressive it is when it's compared to other phones. Another sweet feature of the red-meat that primary lens is a 48 megapixel sensor, which we can snap full res shots in the app and here's how those look compared to the s 20s at 64 megapixel camera when zoomed all the way out. They both look super nice and then, when we zoom way in on digital crop, the sharpness and clarity actually look really dang impressive on each of them. Now we can see how the s20 has more pixels to produce more details, but for $200 versus a thousand I'd say well done to read me for including that 48 megapixel sensor snapping a few photos on the front-facing, selfie cam and funny how the Redmi actually has 16 megapixels over the s, 20s only 10 megapixels and I can see how the Redmi has some sharper details and clarity, but megapixels aren't everything and I kind of the skin tones and overall dynamic range of the s20. Now when turning on portrait mode, they both do a fair job of edge detection and blurring out the background and another funny surprising benefit of the red-meat.

It has a dedicated depth sensor for portrait mode blurring now, honestly, I'd say either of these photos. Look pretty nice and comparable in this first low-light shot. The LED lamp was set to 100% and they both produced a really nice shot when using each camera night mode, the second shot. The lamp was set down to 10% and the s20 really shines with super impressive long exposure shot. The read me for some odd reason, even in night mode on this tripod, snapped a quick shutter and produce a dark and grainy shot.

This is one big area that the s20 and its software will reign. However, not to be outdone, I switched the read me over to Pro manual. Photo controls set a low ISO with a long 30-second shutters, and it produced a pretty nice very sharp, looking low noise night shot now right before we get to video I have to show you my favorite feature of this phone, and that is macro mode. This quad camera setup has a dedicated macro lens and even though the sensor is a tad smaller at five megapixels, it produces some insane shots, and let me show you now in case you don't know macrophotography is basically extreme a close-up photos usually of teeny tiny objects. It's almost like having a microscope built into your phone, not your wife, but I'm kind of addicted to playing with this lens.

Maybe it's because very few phones have it. So far, but getting this camera lens right up next to almost any object, reveals details that almost no human eye can even see it's amazing and super fun to play with now, even though there's a macro mode in the camera, my little trick is to go into the pro camera mode set. The lens to macro, then manually set the focus to just one click off of auto, basically setting the closest focus point possible, and we can not only take macro photos here, but macro video as well at 1080p HD, which is super fun for social media posts. Just look at this one example: these are centimeters, and it's a little gross, but that is my human hair. Look at how massively thick it makes it.

Look. It's really incredible. Jumping over to some videocam since starting with the front-facing camera I'm liking, the colors and dynamic range on the s20 better plus its stabilization is much better as well. The s20 is recording here at 4k. The read me front: camera maxes out at 1080p I.

Think video is one of those areas, it's much harder to sort of hide or fake a top-tier camera, and this is where the valley of differences greatly widens. Now I got to remind myself often for a 200-dollar device compared to $1,000. It's not horrible, and it could do you just fine, it's important to set healthy expectations of quality to price ratio, and this is audio on the Samsung Galaxy s.20 audio test, one, two, three: four: how does the audio sound and compare, so another point goes to the S 24 sounding better here and oddly, the Redmi is recording audio only in the right channel and not sure why it's easy for me to configure it to dual mono and editing, but I want to make sure I include this detail for you switching to the rear camera, starting with the ultra-wide video again Redmi Max is out here at 1080p. The s20 can shoot 4k 30 in this one. We can really spot the sharpness differences plus the colors are a little wonky on the red meat.

Its contrast and dynamic range actually aren't horrible, as I'm very strongly lit by the bright Sun, but its tone, mapping or saturation has turned up a bit too high for my taste on the primary lens. We can finally turn on the red, MCAS, 4k video, making it look much sharper and better in comparison to the s20. Even the colors and vibrancy look nice and punchy. Now I'd still take my S 20. If I had to choose just one, but the red me is looking pretty dang nice going for a quick jogging stabilization that as 20 clearly wins in this one as I, don't believe the Redmi has any optical image stabilization.

Just keep this in mind when I tested the autofocus speed. I was really impressed with the Redmi, as it competed very well against the s20, even beating it and speed. Sometimes very nice and another fun and impressive feat of the red MIA can shoot in slow-motion at 120 or 240 FPS at 720p. Now: here's how it looks when compared to the s 20s and 1080p, and definitely not as sharp or crispy, though it could still work for possible fun moments here and there. The red meat can also shoot up to 960 fps, which is just awesome now it's only in short, bursts like the s20 and I think the red Me's doing some frame blending, but it's still a fun feature and I appreciate they included it and last camera test is low-light.

Video and again I'd vote the s20 the clear winner here. But the red me does an okay job of bright exposure, maintaining a bit of clarity, and I'd, give it a passable grade. So is the red me camera better than as twenty by no means, of course not I wasn't even dreaming that would be, but I was hoping that it'd be competitive in some areas and I really think it was to think that we could buy five of these phones for the same price of just one. S20 is kind of insane to think about, and I want to make it clear. The red me phone is far from perfect at this price point: you'll be making some compromises, but for some people it might be the perfect budget phone that they're looking for one major glitch I had the other day.

I picked up the phone press, the power button and nothing was coming up on the display and I could feel the haptic motor recognizing my thumbprint. But it's like the display panel was bugged out after toggling the power button over and over and nothing happening while I held down the button for about 10 seconds, and then I think it did a hard reboot. Then we were back to normal. I was a little scary, but thankfully it hasn't happened since, and I also got in MINI OS update, which said increased system stability and since it's a brand-new device, maybe they had to iron out some of these bugs who knows- and the second issue I had was when using the camera. I was snapping a few sample shots at 48 megapixels and the camera app froze on me.

Now I forced close the app reopened it, and it was fine after that now funny enough. My s20 actually had a very similar issue in it. First release so take that, for what it's worth is the macro camera mode super awesome and fun I'll absolutely be holding onto this camera for any future b-roll shots that I need them. Certainly close-up angle: now the pricing of the Redmi still at $200, but it's always fluctuating I'll, give you guys my coupon discounts and links down in the description. Thank you so much for watching and until I next time.

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Source : AuthenTech - Ben Schmanke