Google Pixel 3 XL vs iPhone XS Max: Camera Review + GIVEAWAY! By Tony & Chelsea Northrup

We're going to take comparison, pictures and video with the new pixel 3 and the iPhone 10s max. What do you think Justin site, there's some construction on the road right now, I'm just checking out the stabilization in the video I think the pixel 3 is better? Why don't you hit that bump for me whoa, where the pixel three is better? Did you see that Justin, you know Justin said it, and then I'm also testing the wide angle lens you can definitely fit way more in, but I still can't see, I still can't see Tony there you are, that makes filming video way more convenient, but first things? First I can't get a car sure that jaywalking was a term developed by the automobile-manufacturing to try to I, know I, don't trust them either. Really camera shy. Full disclosure, google brought us out to New York city, so we could be the first to test the pixel three, the pixel threes 4k.30Fps footage looks pro unless you zoom in, unlike the iPhone, has only one camera and using digital zoom affects the quality. The iPhone also has the ability to shoot at 4k and 60 feet see how much it corrects. All of that it's close, but the pixel is a little smoother.

The iPhones exposure of Chelsea's face is better, but the iPhone lens shows terrible flaring. Really one thing I really like about the pixel 3 is that you can just double-click the button, and it opens up your camera immediately. The expo is pretty easy. You can just touch this button. It can flake on me a little I like the double click I, just like it.

Okay, it's, like both cameras, have a portrait mode which simulates the both of a big, fast lens on a real camera to blur the background out. So my questions are: how does it naturally handle blurring the background when there are stray hairs covering up the background? How does it handle the fall-off of both? Is the both, nice and smooth as the background fades away, or does it happen artificially? Let's see, you'll definitely get the stray hair demonstration I've got that locked down. Oh my gosh, honestly. Both these portraits look bad, but in different ways. The pixel photo is wider angle.

It's underexposed and way over sharpened. The iPhone HDR processing eliminated the shadows from her face and over saturated the colors, but showed more natural detail without over sharpening what is up with the way the iPhone processes portraits. It looks like there's heavy beauty filters applied, but they say it's not. We think it's the way, they're handling their HDR processing it through moving all the shadows from the face and making it look flat. The pixel just generally looks better, despite the fact that the pixel is crushing the blacks and over sharpening one big difference.

I see is that the iPhone has a more telephoto lens. It actually has two lenses, whereas the pixel only has one, so the pixel is cropping in to get the more telephoto perspective, and it's using the dual pixel autofocus built into this single sensor. To do the depth mapping the iPhone uses both lenses together to figure out how far away different parts of the scene are even out. The fake both, the pixels HDR processing created distracting halos, while it tried to handle local contrast. The pixels fake both look passable on the smartphone screen but unusable on a bigger screen.

The iPhone spec both also sucked in areas of detail, but these are really challenging circumstances with the hair flying everywhere. Both cameras also have background blur and selfie mode, so I'm going to try that out too. So this is without the background blur on the pixel 3, and this is with I like the pixel 3, so I'm going to try doing the same thing in selfie mode, taking a picture but heavily backlit to see how it handles it. So the flare is far less aesthetically pleasing in the iPhone. You can see that there's these big circles around my face and they both have that awkward green flare, but this one's a little smaller on the pixel and also the picture is just cleaner.

Overall, let's try a backlit in portrait mode, both the camera's jacked up the both and her hair a little, but the pixel did much, much better, blurring varied from scene to scene, but generally the iPhone flared more. We made sure both lenses were clean, keep saying that there don't they don't do any beauty processing on the iPhone, but they're doing something right. Both cameras did a better job of separating the foreground. When we moved out of the wind, you can also add more both or remove it completely. So the cameras mistakes are never permanent.

Of course, you can change color and lighting after you take the shot. A little editing fixed most of each camera's default problems, so we can go and get shots at this damn school down here, Arthur, Murray, panoramas! Let you take super wide angle shots even though they don't have wide-angle lenses. So, let's try it out on both the iPhones panorama was vastly superior. It was far sharper throughout the stitching was generally better, though they both had serious stitching problems in this challenging scene. The pixel also has a spherical panorama mode.

Where stitches together a lot of photos. The spherical panorama was unusable, as was every other spherical panorama. We attempted the third-party apps, do a better job on both phones. Well, now we're going to go to our daughters, soccer game and test out the slo-mo features on both phones. Both cameras produce shareable slow-motion, but the iPhone footage was noticeably sharper, and it had better color, though neither has a true macro lens.

The pixel 3 showed higher magnification and more detail when working close-up with a handheld night shot, the iPhone had better sharpness and white balance. However, Google is planning an update that should improve night photography, we're doing a giveaway. You can pick between these two phones just go to free, SDP comm, and if you actually want to learn how to take better pictures check out our book stunning digital photography, it's a video book fourteen hours of video you can get at north of that photo or Amazon. If you go here, you can get 20% off with the coupon code. Pixel Chelsea, as a professional photographer, which of those two cameras, is best I.

Think I would lean towards the pixel I like the colors better and the contrast, the color contrast and just the contrast in general I really like what I didn't feel like. It was a clear win, though, like sometimes the night, shots were better from the iPhone and as I went back and forth yeah, they were really equal. Initially, when I first started, shooting with the pixel 3 I was like polyamory, this blows away the iPhone, and then I started kind of getting more controlled with my testing, so I would go the same lighting the same subject, and I'd really zoom in I'd, be like they look about the same sharpness. It looked pretty equal, but you can see the differences in some places and, if you're serious, photographer who's thinking about shooting raw, you can kind of forget it with these two cameras, because they both heavily rely on computational photography where they're stacking, multiple images, and that does not go into the raw file. That only goes into the final process file.

The raw files actually look worse, and I think the compensation for that. Both developers need to give us some control over that initial processing. They need to. Let us change the sharpening levels, the contrast the color, if you'd like to see us review those new features in the pixel 3, we'll be doing that soon so subscribe and hit notifications. So you see that video give us a like and comment down below.

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Source : Tony & Chelsea Northrup