iPhone 12 Pro vs Pixel 5 Camera Comparison - Night Mode / Portrait Night Mode / Video / Wide / Zoom By Jonathan Jones

Hi, I'm john and I'm Kane. I've got a pixel 5, and I've got an iPhone 12 Pro, and today we're going to be comparing them. So we're just going to go out now with our pixel 5 and iPhone, and we're just going to walk around town and take some photo samples of different areas. Some night modes, some plants, tree all the sort of stuff you kind of want video. Now, let's get into the review boost just quickly before we get into the video you see this chart on the screen. This is how many people watch my videos who aren't subscribed.

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It has also taken the light source and made the skin a bit of lighter too, whereas the pixel 5 looks a bit warmer. I think in this instance the pixel 5 takes this one yeah. Looking on the lint 2 on the top, you can see the pixel has a bit more detail in it than the iPhone does, and if we're pixel peeping zooming in on the back, we can see that the iPhone 12 has a sort of blurrier dottier effect on the cables in the bottom right. The pixel 5s is a bit softer more smoothed out right. The next image.

Here we have a photo of a fake plant. The iPhone seems to have a bit more green in the shadows, whereas the pixel 5 is a bit darker in the shadows. The saturation is a bit brighter on the iPhone and a bit warmer, whereas the pixel 5 is cooler zooming in on the leaves. I think they both did really well with detail here. I can't really tell what came out better, there's only slight differences in the color.

If we take a look at the back wall, you can perhaps see a bit more bumps with the iPhone 12, and it's a bit softer with the pixel 5. Here's a zoomed in shot. This is just the times to zoom in the standard default on both cameras. As you can see, the same pattern copies over the green is a bit more saturated on the iPhone. It's a bit more toned down on the pixel.5. almost has a bit more orange warmer colors and the pixel 5 actually and the iPhone 12 is a bit lighter green.

It's a bit brighter and again in the shadows. You can actually see a bit more detail in the pixel 5 than you can on the iPhone 12. Here we have a test to see how the cameras compete when it comes too low light photography. This is without light mode. You can see the colors on the pixel 5 have actually made the white look a bit more blue, but on the iPhone 12, the white has stayed white and if we look at the back too, the iPhone 12 has a much cleaner blur, but the pixel 5 is a bit grainy.

So I'd have to give this one to the iPhone 12 Pro and the same shot in night mode. I kind of messed up the focusing here. I focus on the duck and the back with the pixel five, and I focus on the foreground, the knife and twelve, but ignoring that. Looking at the colors looking at what the night mode is actually doing, we can see they both pulled together, really well lit at the scene, a lot better um, the iPhone 12. The back wall is a bit more orange.

The lighter the keyboard is shined out a bit more, and it's brought more of the color in, whereas the pixel 5 has toned down the colors a bit more again, I think the iPhone 12 actually comes on top here. The scene did have a bit more color to it than the pixel 5 is producing. So this shot is my block of flats. You can see there actually is quite a difference here. I shot these with the wide-angle lens.

The iPhone 12 Pro goes down to a 0.5, whereas the pixel 5 goes to a 0.6. The colors on the iPhone are a bit warmer, which the colors actually weren't. It's some people will probably say it's a more satisfying image because people like warmer tones, but the colors were actually more muted, like the pixel has done. If you like to edit as well. The pixel 5 is probably better here because you can adjust the colors.

More whites are better to work with and warmer tones zooming in on the back wooden panels. We can actually see that more detail has been kept in the pixel 5. It's a bit sharper. You can see the ridges between the wood, whereas the iPhone 12 has softened it a bit more. So I think the Pixar 5 comes out on top here, but this is just my preference.

Everyone will have their own. This is just the one I'm leaning more towards, so this is outside under some street lighting. I've got a nice photo of a bush here, and you can see there are some differences. The iPhone 12 has a bit greener colors, and it's pulled more of the streetlight on the wall. Behind it, you can see it's a bit orange the pixel 5 has actually muted down the colors made it a bit of lighter and almost given the bush a bit more of a teal blue color to it.

I think the background colors are slightly better on the iPhone 12, but the brush color is better on the pixel 5, which is a bit strange on the iPhone 12. You can see. There's almost like overexposure going on in the bush, whereas the pixel 5 has kind of kept those highlights a bit better. I think the pixel 5 takes this one. Here we have a wide shot of some bike racks.

The colors again are different. The iPhone 12 Pro has made a warmer kind of tone to it, whereas the pixel 5 is a bit whiter, there's a slight purple halo around the lights on the pixel 5 2. , so the iPhone 12 wins this one. For me again with a zoomed in shot here, you can actually see the purple fuzz around the light, a lot more on the pixel 5. Here it's struggling a bit with the contrast of light.

The iPhone 12 definitely takes the win here, it's a lot more detailed, and it's kept the colors a lot better. The iPhone 12, though, does have a dedicated zoom camera with a pixel 5. Doesn't it's all software here we have a nice building with night mode on really. You can't really tell much of a difference here. They're, both perfect, pulling together, really well.

The colors are really nicely lit. If anything I'd say, the iPhone is slightly more saturated, but they're both equally good as each other I'll be happy with either one so a flash test. We took a photo, a nice pink flower with flash on to see it handle the colors. I think the iPhone 12 Pro has done a better job at lighting the scene. You can see a bit more detail on the petals here.

It's a bit brighter they're, not as lit colors, seem to be more muted as well on the pixel 5. , like the greens, have a slight undertone of blue, whereas the iPhone 12 is a bit more green has a bit more saturation in the green. If we look at the middle top right, we can actually see the pixel 5 has got better detail in the flowers here. These are kept the crinkles, which are a lot crisper, but are a bit softer on the iPhone 12. Also on the top left, you can see the white flower in the iPhone 12 Pro is a bit too overexposed.

The pixel 5 has kept the colors down a bit better. It's hard here to really pick a winner, they're, both really nice. I think the iPhone has done a good job at keeping the colors really nice. The only thing that's kind of putting me off is the slight over exposure of some areas of the image and a night mode photo of the flowers. The iPhone 12 has definitely got more color to the image.

If we take a look in the back, you can see the details on the flowers are a lot more crisp on the iPhone 12 than they are in the pixel 5. I think this is a win for the iPhone 12. This one was a good test to see how the portrait worked with night mode on you can see the iPhone 12 Pro keeps the frame, whereas the pixel 5 crops in a bit more zooming in on Kane's top. Here we can see there are some sorts of red purple coloring in the gray areas, but in the pixel they aren't there. It's just got the gray.

I would have thought this would come from a warm streetlight, but the area we were in was just white lights. The edge detection on the pixel 5, I think, is a bit off. It's blurring out parts of the hat bits of canes here, whereas the iPhone 12 actually did a lot better, cutting around the edge, probably because there's a LIDAR scanner to help out again here the pixel 5 looks more contrast, whereas the iPhone 12 is pulling out some more light in the shadows. These are just the default settings and the blur in the pixel 5 is a lot heavier than it is on the iPhone 12. I think both look really nice.

The detail seems to be a bit better on the iPhone 12 when you're looking at Kane's face, you can see, even though it zoomed out a bit more, I feel, like you, see, a bit more of a stubble, a bit more details, definitions in his face compared to the pixel 5. , so I'm going to give this one to the iPhone 12 again. This was just a simple test: shot to see how the flaring works on both phones, the iPhone 12 Pro has given it a bit more of a white flare, whereas the pixel 5 has got more of a purple kind of flare. The colors of the sign are slightly different too. The iPhone 12 Pro has the sign in a bit lighter color, a bit more blue, but the pixel 5 has it a bit more orange.

So I think the pixel 5 here actually pulled together with a contrast, a bit better rough keeping. The detail lit up a bit too much. Here's an example of the front-facing camera on both phones personally and this personal preference. I think I look a bit better on the right. I feel like there's more detail around my eyes.

A bit more defined. The blacks are a bit blacker, more contrast. The detail in my stubble is a bit more defined, whereas the iPhone 12 Pro has kind of softened the image up a bit more, and if we take a look in the tree in the left, it's quite blurry and the sky is really like. Fuzzy the sky in the pixel 5 is a lot cleaner and the tree is a lot more detailed. So the pixel 5 wins this one.

A beautiful shot of the river down by temple meets. We can see. The running theme is the iPhone.12. Is still having a warmer colored image and the pixel 5 is more blue tones. Both, I think, have done really well here.

The only major difference I can see here is that if you look at the sky, the iPhone 12 actually has a couple of stars in there which the pixel 5 didn't pick up. So it's very tough, but ever slightly the iPhone 12. I think, takes this one and a standard shot from my balcony. Here we can see we can see the train station. This is just a normal photo without any night mode.

We can see. Some stars have been picked up on the top left here. There seems to be more detail on the iPhone 12, especially in the grass and on the brickwork here, and if you look in the back there's a lot of noise in the sky on the pixel 5, but it's cleaner on the iPhone 12. And a shot with night mode from the exact same location. The sky is a bit purpler on the pixel 5 and the sky in the iPhone 12 is a bit bluer and blacker.

I think the iPhone 12 has done better handling noise in the sky. It's ever so slightly more grainy on the pixel 5. The pixel 5 has definitely got a lot more detail in the grass here than it did in the previous photo again with the light blue tones you can see on the pixel 5, the train is smudged. This was due to night mode, taking a bunch of foes and sticking them together, they're, both very, very good. Here, it's hard to pick a winner I'll be happy with either one of these photos and now on to videos right.

This is the video quality 4k at 30 frames per second. This is what the audio sounds like on the pixel 5, and this is what the audio sounds like on the iPhone 12. So from this video test, they were both shot at 1080p 30 frames per second. Naturally, my eye is being drawn towards the iPhones, because it's a brighter image, but in the beginning of the shot you can see the light in the back has been handled a bit better. I think the dynamic range on the pixel seems to be better.

You can see the slight blue coloring around the light which it does have, which is kind of overexposed on the iPhone. Also, if you look at the shadows, you can see more detail in the shadows on the pixel 5. , the audio I left as it was recorded. I didn't do any adjustments to the video or the audio. This is just how a point and shoot came out again.

The pixel 5 had whiter tones and the iPhone had warmer tones to it, I'll, let you guys be the judge of which one you prefer and in conclusion to all the photos and the one video that I shot. The iPhone always seemed to add a warm tone to their photos and the pixel 5 had more natural colors. This will obviously be down to preference, but people seem to like warmer color tones, so the iPhone always goes for something you can take a photo of, and it's ready to share, but the pixel 5 is more natural, which gives you a lot more freedom to edit it and control the colors a bit more. If you wanted to edit them, the pixel 5 had better front facing selfie night mode photos. The zoom was better on the iPhone.

It did have a dedicated zoom lens, though, which the pixel 5 did not have. One thing I did pick up on was the pixel 5 did have some purple fringing on high contrast areas around some lights, which the iPhone did not have, but you got to remember: the pixel 5 is 600 pounds and the iPhone is a thousand pounds. So there is a big difference in cost here. I think it's incredible how the pixel 5 can still do really well with three-year-old hardware. iPhone camera specs are far better than the pixel 5s, but the pixel 5 seemed to keep up really well, which is absolutely incredible.

Google have got some perfect software. If google pulled the socks up and bumped this specs up, they could probably destroy the competition, but we'll see what happens with the pixel 6. In conclusion, they're both perfect. It does come down to preference on if you'd, like warmer toned photos or if you liked more natural, looking photos, there wasn't really much difference between them, but let me know in the comments what you actually thought of this. Is there anything you preferred anything you thought was better anything I missed out on just throw it down in the comments.

Thank you for watching hi, I'm john, and I'm Kane.

Source : Jonathan Jones