HUGE Xiaomi Mi 9 CAMERA TEST vs iPhone, Canon! By TechZG

This is a camera test between the Xiaomi me9 and the iPhone 10, and we're going to throw in a cannon just to see what the results should look like on a DSLR camera versus two smartphones. So, let's start with the Xiaomi me9 and let's just see what the audio is like on the Sham ue9. Actually, what I can see on the screen looks pretty good. It looks exposed really well. You can see up here. This is the sky, it's pretty bright, so it's probably a bit overexposed.

You can't really see much detail there, but actually the lake looks really nice. The flowers in the background, look perfect as well. I would say that compared to the iPhone, it looks a little bright, a little brighter than the iPhone. Maybe the greens are not as vibrant as the iPhone, but what we see on the screen and what we see on the actual video when we get it into the editing room, is very different. So actually I would say that the video coming out of the mean 9 right at the moment.

It looks perfect. I, don't know what the audio is like until we see it in the studio. So let's go to the iPhone. Now what I can see on the iPhone colors look a lot darker. It looks a lot more underexposed than the 9, not necessarily under expose.

It just looks a bit darker than the mean line. That's on the screens, what happens on the screens and what happens actually on the video are two different things. The greens looked way more vibrant than the mean 9. The colors just look completely different. Actually I'd say the mean line is looking a bit cooler than the iPhone.

Just look at my skin tones as well. Now, obviously under me 9, it probably brightens up my skin tones because it's a Chinese phone, and it likes to do that, whereas the iPhone would be more natural or more normal for my skin tones anyway. Actually the video out of both of them looks perfect to me on the screens. Anyway, maybe you can compare that to the Canon now the audio and the Canon is coming straight out of the camera. I, don't have any microphones on the Canon I, don't have a lapel microphone.

All the audio is coming straight out of each of the devices. I wouldn't say that the 9 or the iPhone looks better than the other one, but it's just different colors, which one you prefer is going to be up to you. Maybe we can have a little wander around and just see what the stabilization is like on both of these cameras when we're walking around there's no optical image stabilization on any of these cameras, it should go up the stairs. Now the selfie cameras aren't going to be stabilized, but the processors might do a little. Of that.

I can see the mean line, actually looks perfect on the screen, and so does the iPhone. So we're just going to have to see when we get the footage into the studio which one does a better job of stabilizing images. Have a look at the selfie I took on both of these iPhone on the left me nine on the right, I prefer the iPhone personally. Look how wide I am the 9 makes me look like a ghost. It just makes me look so white, also in the background, those buildings that are really blown out, whereas on the iPhone it retains a lot of the detail in the photograph I.

Just personally prefer the iPhone have a look at the wider angle on the mean eye and be wider angle gets way more in the shot than the iPhone selfie camera. The iPhone has a dual camera set up a main sensor and a telephoto two times optical zoom sensor. Both of those are 12 megapixels and both have optical image. Stabilization. The Xiaomi has a triple camera set up.

The main sensor is 48 megapixels, the telephoto 2 times optical zoom, camera is 12 megapixels, and the Xiaomi adds a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera, something that the iPhone doesn't have. None of the cameras on the Shame have optical image. Stabilization. Both phones do 4k, video and slo-mo. Moving on to the back cameras, it's a different story.

I actually really like the me9 here, I think it's offering a really rich picture in video, and it looks perfect something that you don't get with. The 9 is optical zoom, with video. The iPhone has two times optical zoom with video, and you can go up to 6 times it zooms. The main line does 10 times zoom I've zoomed in 6 times here to make it fair, and I think the iPhone is keeping so much detail here. The 9 looks very noisy.

It looks like it's given up a lot of detail, comparing the iPhone to the mean iron and the 948, megapixel mode. Three, really great images does 48 megapixel mode really have any difference. Yes, it does look at the mean eye on the left and the 48 megapixel mode on the right. You can see a lot more detail is kept in the 48 megapixel mode as opposed to the normal mode. However, when you just look at a picture normally, you can't really see much difference between them.

Moving on to this tire and zooming in really, really close, all three cameras keep a lot of detail. Let's do an a/b test again, the colors are different in the photos, decide which one you prefer before, seeing the names of the phones and there it is me 9 on the Left iPhone on the right, which one do you prefer? Is it a or b? Is it the 9 or the iPhone there you have it me none on the Left iPhone on the right. This is a video HDR test. If you look at the bottom right-hand corner as the bus passes, the bottom right becomes very light and the background becomes overblown as the bus passes and the light normalizes. Both phones do a perfect job of taking that background and exposing it properly again.

Both phones to my eye are doing exactly the same job. How is focusing on both of these cameras in video? This is the iPhone shooting the 9 doing a perfect job. It's really quick. It's really snappy! No problems. I had a few problems with the 9, focusing on the iPhone, though, if you just take a look at some of these, it does a good job.

Sometimes, but no it's not in focus it's not in focus. Is it there? It is it's just in focus there. It took a long time there that time was no problem. Actually that was fine, just test it again. Yet no problem, no, it's trying to focus its wracking focus back and forward all the time.

Look, how I just changed the angle of the phone, and it changes the focus I'm, not really sure why it's doing that. Alright, let's test the stabilization of both of these cameras. Let's just go down the stairs and see which one looks better on this. Actually, they voted it perfect. The Xiaomi looks like it's on some sort of gimbals.

It looks so completely level the iPhone actually on the screen looks a little shaky, but the way that they process the videos after you've taken them. Definitely it's different, so just have a listen to the audio on both of these phones. I have no idea what the audio is like. It's really, really silent out here, obviously we're just down by the river. Maybe you can see how each of them deals with different light, because we've gone from a really, really bright light area into a really, really dark area, so you can see which one keeps the most detail.

If you look ahead, obviously it's really bright out there. So it's probably really overexposed, and you can't see much detail in there, and it'll be interesting to see when we go into the light to see which one changes first and which one brings in the most detail of both of these I would say on the screen. Actually, the chamois looked brighter than the iPhone, but that may just be automatic screen brightness on there really don't know how they deal with it. So we've come out into the brightness and again the chamois looks so, so level it'll be interesting to see when I get that in the studio and get that in the computer just to see how level it actually is. I'm just holding these both on essentially just like a metal plank, and they're bolted to it, I'm just walking along I'm trying to be as stable as I can, but they both look perfect, actually, and I would say.

The colors of the Xiaomi definitely look more poppy more bright and more vibrant than the iPhone on the screen, and obviously the screens are different. So I really don't know how the actual video is going to turn out, but they both look perfect. If you look at the sky, they both keep a lot of detail in this guy on the screen. Anyway, what I can see is a lot of darker clouds, mixed in with the brighter clouds. They look perfect, there's a bit of wind coming so maybe, depending on where the microphones are placed, you may get different wind noise depending on, and I'm, just about literally about 20 centimeters away from the phone talking into them so depending on which one does good audio.

Now the iPhone have awful audio when I tested that, against the Redmi Note 7, so I want to see which one has better audio out of these two, the Xiaomi or the iPhone. Alright, let's just go back up the stairs to see if going upstairs is any different to going downstairs. Alright, let's shake these about and see which one looks better. Wow, that's Xiaomi, honestly, on the screen, it looks like it's not even moving. It's absolutely crazy, whereas the iPhone does look a little shaky, but after the video is a process, that's when we can find out which one really looks the best, but if you're just going by what they look like on the screen that Xiaomi both phones have a really cool slo-mo feature.

This is the iPhone they're in 240 frames a second, and it looks really cool. It also keeps a lot of detail. This is 1080p. Video at 240 frames, a second, the Xiaomi me. Nine has 960 frames a second that is super slow, but it does lose a little of detail.

The clarity goes down a bit, but just look how much the mean iron is slower than the iPhone. You can only do that in a really short burst zone. The screen is such a big factor when you look at photos. This is exactly the same image. This was taken on the Shame me 9, but I'm viewing the same image on both phones.

It doesn't look the same. It looks completely different. The screen has a massive effect on how you look at images and how images are reproduced to your eye. This was shot on the iPhone dude on both again, it's not the same. The colors are different of both phones.

The screen is such a big, influential factor on how you see the images, because that's where you will be looking at them most of the time 1080p iPhone video versus 4k me 9, video versus you can m6 1080p video colors are different for sure. Is there any difference in clarity? Let's zoom right in on that saddle, I would say the middle one is clearer. The one on the right has a lot of noise. The one on the left is in the middle somewhere yeah the me9 4k video is much clearer than the Canon m6 doing 1080p. You can see a lot of noise on the Canon m6 there.

The 9 is looking much sharper than the other two, and it should do because it's 4k video who does portrait mode the best left or right the left is the iPhone I think that's probably better. Here, it's a little more blurry. So what do you get out of this camera? Apps? Now look at the photo on both of these. You get the one x or two times the zoom in the middle on the 9 you get ultra-wide mode as well, which you don't get on the iPhone. You can see one x or two times zoom in the middle and both of these the mean iron, giving in that ultra-wide.

That is a feature that you just don't have with the iPhone, so it definitely gives you a little more in terms of the type of images that you can take. Let's go through the video, though notice that on the iPhone you keep the one and two times at the zoom. You can zoom in one and two times optically on the mean nine, you can only use the ultra-wide camera and then go back to the northern camera. There is no zoom in on the 9. You have to use digital zoom there.

If you go to forty-eight megapixel mode, there's no optical zoom whatsoever. If you look on the iPhone going through photos and video, you keep the same, zoom there's something to be aware of, because when you are zooming in and out optical zoom preserves a lot more clarity over digital zoom I would say that today the iPhone camera app has been a bit smoother than the shimmies. The shimmies had a couple of issues going through different modes, and also I put in my cells. Not you yeah. The Xiaomi had a little of trouble going through the app, sometimes and also one of the times.

It said the camera couldn't connect to the app, but that's actually like closed the phone or closed the screen and open it again, and it was alright, but it was slightly strange, so yeah look. The iPhone is so much more expensive, and you expect it to work really really really. Well all the time and I guess. The Xiaomi has some little bugs and things in some places, but there is a big price difference between them all in all. Using the phones there isn't that much of a difference.

Actually, the Xiaomi gives you a lot more modes than the iPhone. You get that 4k video recording you get the 48 megapixel mode, which is just nice to have. Sometimes, if you want to just try it out and do different things.

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