Google Pixel 3a vs. iPhone XR: Camera Versus By John Warminski

What is going on everybody. Thank you. So much for tuning in my name is John. Today we're going to be doing a camera comparison between our best buy of 2019, the Google Pixel 3a, which you can pick up for about 399 and the iPhone 10 R, which you can pick up at retail, for about 749. Both are fantastic smartphones and both have very similar software. Camera features that I want to explore and compare so that when you make your next purchase, you make a smart one.

So, let's get right down to it. Both cameras use utilize software features and algorithms, like port for portrait mode. The Google Pixel 3 a definitely uses a lot of those software features for night mode and for reducing noise and for creating more contrast overall, and you'll definitely notice that the iPhone 10 are uses its neural processing engine and software algorithms to detect, faces and subject matters, so it can create accurate background blur. What's really cool, and I learned this from a video done by Rene Richie another YouTuber? He was saying in his video that Apple actually went out and emulated or simulated the different lenses at different focal lengths so like, if you have a f1 point for Africa or maybe an F for aperture lens or an F 3.5 aperture lens when you use portrait mode and toggle back and forth between the apertures they're meant to emulate each respective lens that they test it out and upload it onto the phone hard to explain, really cool. Nonetheless, both cameras are one point for dense.

That is pixel wise. The Google Pixel 3/8 is a 28 millimeter lens, and you'll definitely see that in the photos. Here, they're cropped in a little more. The iPhone 10 R is a 26 millimeter lens takes beautiful photos, we're gonna, I, won't say until the end, which phone I think is the better camera phone. Nonetheless, let's go ahead and look at some of these pictures here.

So one of the main features that the was counting at its iPhone launch event last year was the ability to pick up shadows and things like that, and the iPhone 10 are really does a good job of it. Picking up shadows, as you can see the shadows from the staircase they wrap around, and it really does a good job of highlighting those shadows and making them contrasting. Looking the Google Pixel 3a does a pretty good job as well, but I think it's a little more focused on color as where the iPhone 10 are, is a little more focused on those shadows and creating a more balanced composition. The Google Pixel, 3/8 I, think, is really looking at maintaining a more balanced composition in terms of color. This next photo I took is off this deck area, overlooking the lake in our neighborhood.

It was very early in the morning this morning the Sun was coming up. The iPhone 10 are very natural-looking, but the Google Pixel 3ei a little more cropped in, as you can tell there's a little more railing in the iPhone 10 are when compared to the Google Pixel 3a, the Google Pixel 3 just looks so colorful and sharp there's actually like this light pole to my right. You guys can't see it, but you can actually see them in the background there across the lake. Well, one of those light poles, I'm actually standing right next to right. Next to it and the iPhone 10, our width is 26.

Millimeter lens is really letting in all that light. The Google pixels 3a, on the other hand, is not it's sort of cropping it out the focusing in on the main subject, which is the sunrise and the reflections off the lake, and it really balances that light out that extra light out and makes the image a little more contrasting. A little more interesting, I think both do a great job of picking up the reflection final in the lake, and they both do a great job, I think of depicting color as best they can both are different, but they both do make the attempt to depict color the best they can. I've got some more photos of like the gazebo around the lake, like I, said before both make an attempt to depict colors accurately they've. Both I really like to do zoomed in photography quite a bit.

So I think this is a perfect demonstration of the focal lengths and how the cameras look when you're zoomed all the way in, so I believe it's 10 times zoom on both phones. Don't quote me on that, but I think the Google Pixel 3/8 does a little better of a job at noise reduction. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I really like the graininess of the iPhone 10 art. It makes it almost look, painterly and yeah. If you really zoom in on a subject with the iPhone 10, are and like a gorgeous flower, or something like that, you can really make it look splotchy and painterly, and almost like impressionist style, I, really love that the Google Pixel 3/8 tries really hard to take out noise and grain and that type of stuff and the iPhone just doesn't it lets it fly, and I like that.

I appreciate that um, okay, so I've got a picture here. I was taking a walk on the beach with my dad one morning. It's just something we like to do beautiful morning, a little overcast, but nonetheless good conditions for taking photography. There's always good conditions for taking photography. So here is a sea turtle.

Nest, I have my hand, may have been shaky a little with the Google Pixel 3ei, but the Google Pixel 3ei just looks a little more contrast, II, but I think the colors are a little more accurate they're a little brighter on the iPhone 10 are and, as you can tell that, that focal length difference really allows you to see a lot more with the iPhone 10 are so that beautiful see turbo mask that you cannot touch that are absolutely. You must stay away from them and for good reason, looks really a little better on the iPhone 10 arm, but I will say that on the Google Pixel through a background, looks better, it looks, sharper, looks cleaner and overall I think both are very sharp and very crisp and clean, but I think the iPhone 10 hours just a little more focused in on the subject and the subject here. Is the sea turtle nest sign and the ropes keeping people out as where the pixel 3 an is more I, think less focused on the sea turtle nest and more focused. On the background- and that may have been my fault but any nonetheless, you can see that ok, so here is sort of an artsy photo. This one is of the pier just you know, I, absolutely adore this photo on the Google Pixel 3, a sunflowers or the lilies or whatever they are really pop and the lines just look so much darker and more intense on the Google Pixel 3, a sky looks a little more intense and it is just overall.

The lines in the photo are intense, and they're, and they're, quick and I. Think a more contrasting punchy photo like you get on the Google Pixel 3a makes this photo look better. This photo of this man, I, really like on the iPhone 10, are better. It's a more lively photo. It's a more lively, looking foot on the iPhone 10.

Are it's brighter? It's clearer, the Pixel 3a, it's just a little too dark for taking pictures of people, and it's kind of a little unfortunate, because taking photography of people is actually very intimate and almost actually very intimidating feet. If you ask me, you know stopping and taking a picture of this of this gentleman, you know he could have turned around and said: hey you or something like that. You know, and that's just you don't want to upset people or piss people off in any way, but he was very kind enough and kept walking. Nonetheless, it's a great photo I think, and it really shows you know beach life, and you know for Meyers life, and this is how people you know look down here. They go fishing and the guy's got his cooler as he's got this big tackle box and his fishing poles, and he's going to go and fish off the pier this morning, but I think the photo just looks a little more lively on the iPhone 10.

Are it's a little too dark on the Google, pixel, 3a and I? Think anytime you're trying to depict subject human subject? You definitely want to go for a lighter photo okay. So when it comes to taking pictures of really cool stuff like we went to breakfast afterwards, usually we walk, maybe four miles or so, and then we go and eat breakfast and fill up. So I took a picture out front. This restaurant is called Yucat?n. It's got this totem, poles outside, or I'm, not sure what they're called, but they're.

These really cool totem, pole, issue things and the guys this mask is holding two bottles of probably liquor, and it just looks much more fun and more exciting on the Google Pixel, three, eight two. So it's more punchy- and you know it looks like memorable. It looks like something memorable, and I think that's actually the big difference between the Google Pixel 3a and the iPhone 10. Our is photos on the Google Pixel 3a, just look more memorable than they do on the iPhone.10 are the iPhone.10 are just takes to how they are no pun, intended. Okay.

So these next round of photos I took at a park lakes park again. The photos just looks so much more memorable on the Google Pixel 3a. They look a little washed out on the iPhone.10 are, or at least this picture in particular lips a little washed out just a picture of a triptych or yeah triptych right. This would be called considered a triptych. Three paintings.

It's sort of a monument here dedicated to whomever I, did not read it. I was wearing Sam anyway, it's a long story, I just didn't read it I just wanted to take a picture of it, as you can see, just looks so much more punchy and like lively than on the iPhone 10 are, but I will say, given the fact that it is like this Monument monuments are really supposed to be not memorable and really something to be admired rather and I. Think the iPhone 10 art does a better job at admiring the monument instead of depicting it as memorable. So that being said, the colors look better on the Google Pixel 3a, but I think the whole idea behind taking a picture of something like a monument or a memorial is a little more accurate on the iPhone.10 are, and that's kind of an abstract thing to say, but that's just my opinion, so I'll go ahead and just kind of throw some of these other photos up for you guys, as you can see, they're just so contrasting on the Google Pixel 3a. Sometimes that contrast, date, like I said, is unneeded and the picture of that memorial that, or it's not a memorial that that monument that we just looked at is a good example of that.

So this is a really accurate picture of this lake, with the moons to allow both look good on either phone. You know it. It speaks for themselves. It's all this. Both phones are perfect at taking pictures.

It's just such a matter of personal preference, really like if you're a photographer. This is a matter of personal preference like Google Pixel, three, a wrongness of iPhone 10 are or the contrast II really come. Life LY live like photos, memorable photos of the Google Pixel 3, a's really up to the person making the purchase really so anyways. Let's take a photo. Let's look at some photos using night sight on Google Pixel 3 8 is absolutely fantastic.

Photos look just crystal clear as where the lighting and the iPhone 10 are. They looked a little blown out anyways guys. That concludes this video. This camera comparison between our best by 2019, the Google Pixel 3a and the Apple iPhone 10 are I will see you guys in the next video. Thank you so much for watching.

Source : John Warminski