iPhone 12 FULL Camera Test - STUNNING Results! By BubVisuals

How's it going guys will here and, as some of you may know, over the past few days, I've been using this iPhone 12 as my personal phone. If you've been in the loop, then you will know that this is a new release from apple and something that I've, certainly at least noticed over the last few years, is an increasing effort on apple's side to really push for those smartphone cameras. So today I decided to come up with a load of different tests. To really put this thing through its paces, we're going to be testing the standard lens, we're going to be testing the ultraboy the night mode, the portrait mode, all the photo features of this standard, iPhone 12, let's go take some photos. Not only is it the best time of day to be doing this, but at least in my opinion, it's also the best time of year to be doing this too, honestly apple, releasing this more or less photo focused phone could not have come at a better time anyway. Let's go take some photos all right, so first we're going to be testing the regular focal length.

So that's the one time zoom, and we are going to get multiple shots, but first, I'm really in the mood for a detail shot alright. So I have found a nice detail shot here. We got some really nice colors in these leaves as well as some red berries, so yeah number one shot. That does look pretty cool. Actually, you know what let's get another medium shot.

Just have some leaves this time, though. Certainly one of them will do. I think we're going to go with one last horizon shot now, but instead of using the ultra-wide lens, I'm just going to use the standard lens, because I really want to see what the dynamic range is like with this focal length: let's go with a nice portrait, one and now, with a nice horizontal one. Ah, that's bright next up we're at this field right here, so this field has been the background in many a video of mine, so it only seems fair that the first ultra-wide photo we take is of this field. Let's get a nice looking, oh the colors on this phone.

Do look amazing, love how nice and saturated they look, so I've just spotted our probably second ultra-wide shot. Now this isn't too far from the first. However, it's a totally different subject: it's going to be a pretty difficult one, but wow. This is also going to be a great test of dynamic range, because the sun is right there, as you can see in the video all right. Let's get the shot.

Okay, so dynamic range seems to be a serious, strong point of this phone. That is amazing. Can you see the sun peeking through those branches there? That is really cool, okay, nice! You know this would be a lot easier if it wasn't constantly getting distracted by cool shots. I think we, I think we're going to have to there. We go, got all the ultrawide shots now to progress onto the portrait mode.

Before we lose the light see it is such a nice time of day, especially for photography, but damn does it go fast? Guess that's why they call it the golden hour. I mean it's an hour. I wonder how long we've actually been shooting for so far, not actually that long, so we have got a little of time. Left. Definitely going to have to hurry things up, though alright, so I'm back home at the moment, because there seems to be this tree here.

That is pretty much always good to take photos of no matter the season. I've to say those actually do look pretty fantastic, especially considering they were taking on the phone. There are some things that I have noticed already that we are going to be talking about later, but for now let's take some more photos, all right, so yeah. Those do look pretty great test isn't quite over yet, though, in fact, the next test is, of course, going to be the night mode and seeing as it's not quite night, yet see you guys when it's dark. Okay, welcome back to my garden.

We are now late into the evening and what would the time to test out the night mode on the 12 like the night mode does of course, work on all cameras now, so I definitely think we're going to be able to have some fun with that. Alright, let's get take some photos. You know what that actually looks pretty good. All right. Let's go! Take some more try an ultra-wide one, now yeah once again, pretty nice all right guys, so it is pretty cold.

Now, I'm going to go take some more night mode photos. Now, then we'll go. Take a look alright. So let's take a look at some of these photos that we took first, we're going to be taking a look at the standard focal length photos, so the first one we took was of these berries. As we can see, we have a really nice amount of sharpness.

The colors look perfect and saturated, and there does seem to be a good amount of dynamic range now bear in mind. I did shoot this at sunset, where the light is at its most soft, but regardless we were shooting directly into the sun. We can also thank to that faster aperture, see some more background blur now seeing as the iPhone doesn't use a big sensor. Honestly, it's not going to make a huge difference, but regardless a faster aperture will mean a little of extra background blur, as well as better low-light performance, so always nice to see next up another one I was pretty impressed with. Was this dynamic range test, so this was just a vertical shot of the field.

If we look at the grass, we can see that it's properly exposed, it doesn't look muddy or like overly raised, and if we look into the light again, we were shooting into the sun. So the fact that it's exposed this almost perfectly really impressive. Next up, we have another photo of some leaves now here we can see again great dynamic range with this thing, often with a camera like this, even though this is technically a professional level camera, it won't do the best job of conserving the highlights, in fact, often you'll have to take multiple photos or go seriously hard with the raw file for you to stand a chance of recovering anywhere near that amount of dynamic range. So does this mean the iPhone's, the better camera? Not really, however, it does have one significant advantage over almost every other DSLR on the market see this phone camera has two focal lengths and a pretty small sensor. So if Apple were to build this without any computing technologies, then the results wouldn't be great.

You wouldn't be able to get any blurry backgrounds low light photos, wouldn't look all like good. I say you wouldn't be able to get any blurry backgrounds you would be able to get some, but just not to the level of portrait mode is because of the image processing and things like HDR. The iPhone 12 keeps most dynamic situations lit very evenly and there isn't a dramatic drop in saturation or contrast put simply that compute power helps the photos, look still natural, but also pretty good, and I think that's something that apple has seriously nailed down over the last few generations of the iPhone. I noticed it when I was reviewing the iPhone 11, and I've definitely noticed it again here going back to the image in question, we can see that the colors look nice and saturated again, nice and sharp, and the dynamic range just ties this image together, yeah honestly very impressed. I've just realized I haven't been wearing my hat the entire time, one minute anyway, back to it.

So next up we're going to be talking about the ultra-wide lens. Now this is something that actually took a little while to grow. On me, as some of you may know, I was really fond of the telephoto lens on the older iPhones, but, as I started using it as I started experimenting with the types of photos I could get with an ultrawide, I really grew to enjoy it. So, let's take a look at what I could get all right. So, first we have this nice landscape.

We've got the leading lines with the gate, and once again this is a nicely balanced in terms of light level. Nicely saturated. To be honest, not a lot of wrong with this. If we do look in the corners, we can see slight bits of warping now this is actually pretty common on ultra-wide lenses, because they're so wide they can occasionally get that fish eye effect now this can usually be fixed in a program like Lightroom, but I found especially on the mobile photography side of things, leaning into it as an effect can actually be pretty fun, we'll get to a photo where I've done that in a minute. Yeah, honestly, not a lot.

I can say this is a very general photo, but the iPhone 12 seems to have done well. Okay, so next up we have a slightly more intensive photo. However, I really like how this one turned out so again, this was another landscape photo, but this time we were shooting towards the sun. As I said nice golden hour light- and here I think this has really highlighted the colors of the iPhone- that's something a lot of people really don't take into consideration when they're taking their photos. Color science is real.

If we take a look into the Skype, we can see really nice looking organic blues, the greens are nice and saturated and a good hue, occasionally with some photo branded. Greens can look a little warm. However, on the iPhone they look pretty much perfect again. If we dig for that dynamic range, we can see the darker areas do look nice, and if we look at the sun we even get a nice little lens flare. Honestly, it's not perfect.

I mean you can still see a little of a roll off into the sky. However, for a phone sensor, this is pretty damn good in terms of the ultrawide distortion. I can't really see much of it here to be totally honest, so yeah in terms of colors and dynamic range ultrawide lens on the iPhone 12 will do fantastically well alright. So next up we have the final ultrawide photo. Now again, this is one of my favorite photos to take with an ultrawide lens, because of the way an ultrawide lens will compress an image, and I don't mean in terms of file format or like size.

I mean in terms of lens compression photos, kind of look longer if that makes any sense. If we take a look at this photo sweeping down the road because of that ultra-wide focal length, the road looks significantly longer so yeah, color, sharpness and dynamic range. All look great on this photo kind of just through that one in there, because I wanted to give you guys a little photo tip moving on. We have the portrait mode now. This is one of those computing tools that was talking about earlier and, if you don't know what this is, it essentially fakes a blurry background like you would get on a DSLR once again, because these sensors in these phones are pretty small you're, not really going to be able to get that much organic background blur.

However, because of clever computing, you are still able to get that blurry background. So how does it perform on the iPhone 12? Well, taking a look at the first shot of these crab apples? We can see that it's significantly better than in previous years. I mean. Obviously, this technology isn't perfect and often a telling sign of a portrait mode type of technology would be slightly skewed edges. However, as I said in my unboxing video, and I'm now doubling down on, I think the portrait mode accuracy has been significantly improved with the iPhone 12.

You can still control how much of that fake background blur you can get, but I've found that, due to the accuracy, you can actually add a little more nowadays. If we take a look at some of these leaf shots, because again it would be stuff like this. That gives it away. Traditionally we can see that the edges actually look pretty damn phenomenal, I mean even with the seed photo, the effect actually works, pretty well, which is, of course nice, okay. So next up we have the night mode, which actually did see some improvements on the iPhone 12 from the iPhone 11.

If you've been following me for a while, and you've seen my iPhone 11 content, then you may know that the night mode was one of my favorite features, so how's it different with the iPhone 12, and how does it perform well? First, it now works on all focal lengths before it would only work on that standard, one-time zoom. However, now it works on the ultra-wide and the front-facing camera, but how does it perform well on the front-facing camera? It isn't quite as good as on the main two cameras. I found that skin tones do look a little more contrast and there is just a little more noise than with the main cameras. However, this is to be expected, and I'd say for general selfie use the night mode on the iPhone.12 would certainly cut it. For me, that said, how does it perform on the main lenses in order to properly test the night mode? On the iPhone 12, I took a range of photos on both focal lengths in a range of different light levels, so this first one I took was with the one time zoom lens, simply of a chair in my house at nighttime, and I got a say this is probably the ideal level of light.

It's still low light. However, it's not pitch black, as we can see. If we look closer, it's still nice and sharp, I mean not as sharp as a non-night mode photo, but there's also a distinct lack of noise and so yeah in the time zoom in moderately low light night mode great. However, let's take a look at a slightly darker one, as we can see, we have this photo of me holding my camera now this was a pretty difficult photo to get. I mean the camera has a lot of textures and I had to keep it seriously still for like four seconds, and so, if you're taking photos of something textured, then you may have to still reshoot a couple of times.

In order to get a perfect picture, I mean the computing technology behind this thing is good, but it's not magic. Taking a look at a couple of ultrawide shots. We can see that it actually does look a little more contrasting. We can see this clearly by comparing a photo I took of this wall here. So here is the photo on the one time zoom lens, and then here is that photo on the ultra-wide lens.

I don't think it looks quite as bright and, as I said, it does look significantly more contrast, but it is still a fairly clean image. Saturation levels, a good sharpness, looks fine for night mode, so yeah all in all, while I haven't quite found the ultra-wide to be as good. I do still think it's pretty usable. However, looking at another photo that I took side by side, you can see that here the light levels are pretty much identical. The colors on the ultrawide look significantly more accurate, however, remember what I said about the warping of the ultrawide lens earlier on yeah from the looks of it that can't occasionally be a little of a problem so yeah well.

This certainly does seem to be an early quirk of the night mode on the ultra-wide lens. I think this probably is something that can be fixed with updates. Finally, at least for the main photo sections we have the front-facing camera now this is gonna, be quicker than most of the other sections I mean it's. The front-facing camera dynamic, range, colors and sharpness all do seem to be good. I mean yesterday when I shot this video for the first time I actually took a photo with this soft box behind me and even the selfie camera still managed to get the exposure.

Looking pretty good yeah, honestly, not really that much, I can say about the selfie camera portrait mode seems to work well. Skin tones are nice and accurate, which is important for a front-facing camera. Yeah, front-facing camera seems to work well. I will, of course, be testing this further, and I'll report. My findings in the full review, but for now in just this fun little camera experiment, selfie camera seems to work fine.

Finally, just for a bit of fun as a little bonus round, we have edited the photos, so say: you've gone out, you've shot some amazing looking photos, and you just want to take them to that next level. So what do you do? You crack open, Lightroom mobile, and you start to edit your photos now. This is actually something that I did myself in my previous video. In fact, the wallpaper that I currently have for this phone I actually took and edited on the iPhone 12. So what was the experience like well? First off when I was editing in Lightroom mobile, the iPhone 12 didn't skip a beat honestly iPhones have always been pretty good in Lightroom.

However, I think that a14 processor is certainly coming in handy in terms of how the actual photos handled being edited gotta say, I think it handled it pretty. Well, honestly, I think, because of the nice amount of dynamic range, as well as the good out the box colors and sharpness, that the iPhone 12 can provide until you start pushing into those like crazy, Caleb edits, then chances are. You won't really have any issues I mean to be honest, I have no plans on doing crazy, edits on my phone photos anytime soon. In fact, most of the time I just do colors perspective cropping, occasionally noise, but that's pretty much it and the iPhone 12 handled it like a champ, so yeah overall, I have really enjoyed using this iPhone 12. So far, photography is now a big part of the modern smartphone experience.

For me, I mean I've said before I have no plans on buying a new point-and-shoot anytime soon I mean especially thanks to the compute power. Also, the convenience phones are a pretty obvious choice for most casual scenarios nowadays and in my use so far, the iPhone 12 will be great for this. Alright guys. So that's it for today, as always, thank you for watching, remember to like the video. If you want to see more content like this, then smash that subscribe button, if you want to make a one-time donation to the review front of this channel, that is a link in the description.

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