iPhone 12 PRO MAX vs iPhone 12 PRO Camera Comparison Review By Andy Paulos

What's up my ponds Andy with Andy vlogs sharing another video here with a much anticipated, controversial, iPhone 12 Pro max compared to the pro itself. Uh. A lot of people are saying that it's not worth it. I uh most of your tech bloggers and you know personalities on YouTube who are talking about this device, they're saying that there really isn't much difference between the camera from the pro and the pro max, and I want to try to put my hat in the ring to share with you guys why they are wrong because well, I feel like they are: let's go to unbox the device, and then we will jump into all of those reasons why they are. I'm also going to show you a demonstration, and I'm going to do side-by-side, video hand-holding these devices and doing what normal people would do with the two devices and showing you why it's so much better. Now, you're, probably like Andy, you haven't even checked out the device, but I have every intention to unbox this device and show you, even though I haven't looked at it.

Yet it's just on paper. It's so much better and I think it is worth the couple of hundred bucks that you're going to be paying, because I mean why else are you buying an iPhone because of the camera? Let's go and open it with the simplified unboxing experience. The iPhone 12 max is no different from the others. You're going to see it here. First, with that awesome matte finish of the graphite black.

This is the pro max itself. There is some glaring from my key light, but we'll just leave that be the chassis on this device is gorgeous it. Just shimmers you've got your sim tray. Your volume rockers here on the side on the top you've got connectivity. Your uh wireless bands on the side here you've got your power button.

You've also got your 5g wireless band on the side there and then the dreaded, lightning, cable and also the bigger grille for sound. On this. On this side, you can see the speaker grill. You can see the front-facing camera. Turning to the back of the device, you can see it's beautiful glass, matte back as well as the new camera array that everyone's talking about.

I forgot to mention that the front side is that ceramic protection. You can see that it is much, much taller than the pro, and it's not much wider thickness goes you're a little thicker on the pro max you can. You can tell the difference right there. I thought I'd share in on that speaker, grill action. You can see that the speaker grille for the max pro up here is much bigger than the grille on the pro.

As far as screen real estate, I cannot connect my fingers, whereas on the pro I can grab it all the way around to connect my fingers, it's going to be more difficult for you to reach the top and the bottom of the device. As far as weight goes, it's its comparable. I mean I can't really tell the difference it. I mean it is noticeable on paper, but I mean when you're when you're hefting, this around I mean the biggest bet is, is not being able to fully grab around the device. Furthermore, I mean you're going to have kind of this like claw, clamp, I've gone ahead, and I've I've gotten a very, very thin silicone case.

That's going to protect it until my moment, lens case comes in about a week or two and more on that up in the cards above that you can check out a much-needed notation here are those lenses are bigger. I don't care if you don't like it or not. A bigger lens is always better for low light, especially for those who vlog. Like me, I've logged primarily inside, so I'm going to need as much light as I can and as much you know, fidelity in the photo or in the video, because I'm going to be running around so that allows you to have a lower ISO that allows you to have a lower f-stop aperture, and it's just going to be an all-around, better experience. Now that they've got the stabilization on the sensor rather than the lens you're going to see a huge difference, or at least I hope to see.

So I'm that's my hope here to be able to share with that. With you with that said, I'm going to go ahead now, and I'm going to boot. This upload into my account, do all the background stuff, and then we're going to obviously cut to my demonstrations. Okay, take a couple of shots outside, get you some piano shots, I'm shooting into the sun and see how it takes it like you're, getting more of a wide shot. I don't know, there's clearly better stabilization on that pro-max.

You can tell that the pro is trying to get focus as well as contrast and exposure. Let's move over to the photo composition and computation. As you can see, the photos are pretty comparable. I did get a little of a lens flare on the iPhone 12 Pro, but the is of-stop are pretty much the same, but I do feel like there's much more clarity in the picture. As you zoom in you can see a lot more contrast within the clouds on the pro max.

You can also see the deep colors here. As you get closer to that sedan, you can see more detail in the dark and the shadows of the buildings, while still keeping the fidelity in the sky. The shot was taken seconds after the previous shot. You can notice the ISO on the pro max is down to 220, and the ISO is 32 on the pro. The shutter speed is much, much higher for the pro, as opposed to the pro max.

You notice that the f-stop is a little smaller for the pro-max, as it only went to an f point two. Lastly, I would like to have done a manual shot for this, but because of timing, I let the auto do its course, and you can tell that there's a lot of grain on both of these, despite it being such a big, dense picture zooming in closer, the pro max does really well keeping a lot of detail. You can see the shutters on each shingle there on the house, and you're getting a lot more deep, dark within the mountain range as it transitions to the sky last. One I wanted to show here was portrait mode. This is with HDR on.

You can notice a couple of things here. It's really well blurred the picture's super sharp. It's also in perfect focus, and you've got quite a bit of contrast. Here. You can see that the sun is kind of harshly shot on my wife's face.

You can still see a lot of detail where her ear is being covered by her hair. The pro is overexposed, though, as we zoom in closer. You can see that there's a lot of compression here. If you look at the edge of your cheek on the pro it looks like it's done much better than the pro max, but you're still getting a lot of detail. A lot of clarity, even some cleanup on the skin, you can tell it looks like the pro took out a little blemish on my wife's skin that you could see on the pro max.

Okay, we made some pastries and I want to do some slo-mo here, showing off how to drizzle this glaze. On top of this bunt cake, I think it's a bunt cake in the bunt cake. You get a little more rich color on the pro max. On the pro it's a little more washed out. I want to say that I got much more depth with the pro max.

The background was a little more blurred, as we were focusing on the subject. I really liked 2x slo-mo. I feel like this. One was the most natural three and four was much slower. This is more of a top-down look, as my mother-in-law is finishing, scraping off the pastry.

It was perfect. This is to show the low light capability of both phones is phenomenal. It was really, really dark in here save the light coming in from the blinds that are closed from the window other than that when it transitions from really dark to really light. When we go upstairs phenomenal, both keep perfect fidelity, I go into 0.5 x, and it gets really dark, but when you zoom in on the pro max, it gets you that 2.5 zoom, which is nice, don't present yourself. Yes, you see there.

She is, oh all right, we're going to show you landscape and lower light situations. This is the pro max. It's in body. Stabilization looks perfect, there's a lot of shaking because we're in a car, here's the exact same shot, but on the pro the color's a little washed out for some reason, it's picking up the crap on the windshield, and then it's not as stabilized here's the front facing camera pro max. First, it's pretty well stabilized, in my hand, we're going to switch over to the pro, and this is a little more shaky.

You get a little more noise. It struggles a little more. Here's the time-lapse. This is what the time-lapse looks like pro max. I don't think it did as well as far as the colors go.

It did do in camera. Stabilization way better. You can see it shake a lot more on the pro next up, we're going to show a little more of this in body stabilization. This is incredible, so I put the cameras on the dash while I held them up and obviously the pro max is being stabilized way better. The pro was just shaking like a madman, and it was no good.

This footage is terrible. It's going to make you sick all right now we're moving on to the low light. Here's a situation where we're literally pointing right into some headlights. Now we're going vertical and showing you a couple of shots where we're driving down the road, the pro-max is grabbing much more light, giving you an in-body stabilization, and it's giving you a much better experience. This next section is my favorite.

By far this is very, very dark, very, very light. We went to a local religious building and I decided to take some pictures. Here's what it's going to look like when you just tap that 2.5 x on the pro max as opposed to 2x it zooms in a little more. The exposure was a little weird, but once I cleared it up, it started to look better again. Here's that 2.5 against the 2x zooming in by hand you're getting much more blue out of that dark backdrop you're getting a little of digital noise, but that's to be expected because of the high contrast, front-facing camera pretty well stabilized for both of them very, very interesting notice. What happens when I go from 0.5 x all the way to 7 on the pro max wow? You see that that was weird. It's so weird look how stable that is, and then I'm going to do that same thing with the pro 0.5x to 6. You're, getting some weird transitions from each camera.

It kind of clicks right when you get to the very furthest end of the telephoto. Why does it click like that which makes it looks really rich and stabilized, but it's just this weird click that I hope that they can get out the 12? Does it too, like the 12 click? No, let's talk about photos now. This is not portrait mode but photo mode. I've got it in 0.5 x. It's giving you a perfect all-around.

Look here. Typically, you get with night mode at 0.5, x, you're, getting a lot of sharpness and overblown contrast, because they're trying to compensate for the bad exposure, but it looks perfect here. This parking lot is pretty well lit. Now I took that same picture, but I tapped in to 2.5 x and then 2x respectively, and it actually looks really, really clean on the pro max on the pro I mean you're, just not as zoomed in, so you can tell that there's, obviously more fauna and more of the light, but as I manually zoom in further to get you more detail, I feel like the lettering is much more clear on the pro max. That's just my opinion.

Let me know in the comments down below what you guys think about night mode pony's. That does it. Thank you so much for watching. There was a lot of good stuff. It took me a while to be able to film this.

I did it over the weekend with the family, as you can see, I'm a vlogger and the pro max is just perfect for what I need to do. It is such a nice phone and I didn't talk about battery life, but the pro died after all that shooting at night, because I shot for about a day straight from the morning to the evening to the night and the pro was about to die, and I had the pro-max at about 15 to 20 percent, left, pretty incredible, pretty incredible, being able to shoot at 4k pretty much all day long. Let me know in the comments below if this was really anything interesting, also check out. Some of my other videos up above and down below in the description, are some links for some products for your pro max and pro please check them out. Thank you so much again guys for watching this is Andy with Andy vlog setting out.

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