iPhone 12 Pro vs Samsung S21 vs Pixel 5 Camera Comparison(Standard, Wide, Night, Zoom, Audio, Video) By Jonathan Jones

You guys it's john, and it's Kane, hey Dan. You know why he's here, you've already seen the title of the video today we're going to be comparing the pixel 5 and the Samsung Galaxy s21, with the iPhone 12 Pro we're both going to go through the features after taking a bunch of photos comparing them side by side, and we'll give you our opinion on what we like the best out of them right. Let's get into the video okay, we've come back now, and we're going to go through the photos we just took so the first photo we took was of a garage with spray paint on it, and it was yellow painted. We thought this would be good just because of the saturation of the actual garage and see what the camera would take and, as you can see, on the iPhone 12 Pro, the yellow is more muted than the pixel 5 feels more true to what we actually saw and then the Samsung s21 is heavily saturated um. I mean for editing. I'd say that you've got more control of the iPhone 12 Pro just because, if you've got the Samsung s21 giving you that much saturation, then you've got to pull that saturation away, and I just feel like you've got more control with the pro yeah with the Samsung.

You probably just want to post that and not really tweak it afterwards. It's kind of just like there you go, I think the pixel 5 and the f12 have more like you can adjust it a bit more yeah. I think, like the medium ground, is the pixel 5. Yeah. That's why I have per in between them, because I know the Samsung saturated the iPhone is always brighter.

Maybe we'll see that as like a recurring theme throughout it, we took a wide angle photographer now the colors have changed a bit. If you've noticed the pixel 5 is a bit yellower. Instead of the dirty yellow, it wasn't yeah. This one looks more saturated than the s21. Now yes, which is strange right so for this one we noticed there was a color difference between the wide angle shot and the normal standard camera.

So what I've done is in photoshop. I got the mosaic feature and I got the average color of the yellow garage door, and I've split them from the wide with the standard. So we can compare the colors and, as you can see, the Samsung s21, the standard is quite bright, yellow, but the wide is almost like a dirtier yellow like the colors are way off. Then the pixel 5 is like a dirtier brown at the bottom, almost like flipping sides with Samson like opposite colors and the wide ones like a lighter color part of me thinks that it's something to do with the fact that, because it's a wide angle, it's pulling more average colors or something which is balancing it differently. Yeah.

That makes sense so like it's seeing the sky color it's trying to like color balance it with the sky in it. I think the iPhone 12 is the most balanced here, there's Samsonite when anyone's just like way overboard and then like way, under board yeah next one right. The first thing I notice here is the sky. I know it's the gravy, but the sky on the left is slightly warmer in the middle is slightly whiter and on the Samson it's actually like slightly darker yeah. I noticed that you can see more hot, like the highlight details in the 12 pro like there's just more.

You can see more definition in the clouds yeah. The pixels are kind of a little overexposed in a way and then Samsung 21 is actually pulling out some good results, and then they're all very on. This is surprising. This image actually, because you see it to the yellow, photo prior there's a massive change here. It's very they're all yeah they've done very well.

You could definitely tell the iPhone's warmer colors yeah. Others have gone from more of a neutral and bloody kind of colors yeah totally, I'm naturally drawn to the iPhone 5, because it's brighter. I think the clouds will make it look better, but I think the warm thing is sending the colors of it off Drake yeah, because it's giving it that warm color, it wasn't a warm day. It was kind of a cool day. Do you see what I mean it's like kind of warm ever so slightly yeah ever so slightly right, so for this one, what I did well, what we did is? We just took a max zoom of all the cameras to see how far they'd zoom in on these houses we can see.

The iPhone 12 is the brightest image. The pixel, 5 and Samsung are all true dull in the sky. The pixel 5 is more true to what we were seeing, though yeah in the day. Obviously it wasn't that blue, the colors of the houses on the s21 and the pixel 5 are similar they're more pastel, but in the iPhone 12 Pro they're, more they're brighter they're more exposed yeah. The zoom is obviously better on the Samsung s21 yeah in terms of zoom quality.

Like you know, you can start to see it almost look like a painting when they get further in on the zoom. I think the colors are better on the pixel 5, but the zoom wins in the s21, the shrubbery down the bottom. We can look at the detail better in this one when putting this together. I noticed this is the same image now. What we've done is we've actually scaled, the pixel 5 and the iPhone 12 Pro to be the same zoom in as the s21, so they have digitally done to compare the details, so the s21 that's the standard camera and then on the pixel 5.

We can actually see really destroyed it's destroyed, and it softened it yeah it's really muddy as well. This looks like a painting yeah, but the colors are similar to the s21 yeah, then on the iPhone 12. If you look at the bush kind of shrubs down here, it's kind of like it's trying to fix it. Let's try to sharpen it with, but it doesn't. It looks way better than the pixel 5.

If you were to use one of those images which would use the iPhone 12 on the pixel 5, because that's got those like scratchy effects, it's brighter than that, though, but look at yeah, but I think the reason the sky and the pixel 5 looks better than the sky and the iPhone 12 Pro, because you see pix elation yeah because it's trying to shut it out yeah. I think what it softens out, the skies yeah, we've softened it and the iPhone 12 has just kind of sharpened. It yeah so two different ways going about the rendering of the zoom on the camera, but yeah. Overall, I prefer the pro in terms of scaling it, but as a whole like says twenty years wins this one right. This is a portrait.

It took a view. So when we took this on the iPhone 12 Pro, I had a beautiful background blur. But when I put them on here, I only just noticed that there actually isn't a blurred background. So I think we needed to say like explore the image yeah, so the photo was taken in portrait, but for some reason transferring across has removed the blur that we'd applied. That's something you can say that also we can just talk about the colors of the image instead of yeah, the three colors.

The things that stand out for me here are the iPhone.12 pro is got a warmer color yeah. The pixel 5 has more contrast so like. If you look at your jacket, it's kind of like the shadows have been pulled up yeah, but the pixel, 5 and s3 won't have like the darker contrast. The blacks are definitely the blacks are better. The pixel 5's like blur, is kind of a bit shoddy.

I think what it's done is it's trying to like use edge detection, and it's kind of cut it off with the kind of road there. So the road is not blurred, but the wall in the top left is, but the s21 here has done really well, it's blurred everything perfectly yeah, and it's cropped around your hairline beautifully yeah, the pixel 5's kind of did a crap job and the iPhone 12 didn't come across yeah. It's a shame, really cool. This was just a photo of the graffiti to see how the color hold held up in front of all the LED lights like. If you look on the concrete on the iPhone 12.

That is definitely like a warmer washed out, whereas the pixel 5 is like a blue and then the s21 is like a deeper kind of like gray, blue, so three different colors again overall image I like the most here- is pixel 5. Yes, oh there you go actually if we zoom in, if you look along the lights, there's that purple fringing again the pixel 5 is great. But it's got that problem. It looks a bit sharper as well as there's like yeah. It's definitely like halo around the lights, which I think is more natural yeah I think, but on the s21, but it doesn't have the issue.

The Samsung doesn't have the issue that pixel 5 does have. What would you say is the best thing? Well, I would, it's gone for the pixel 5 on this one yeah, just because it looks like a nice image, I'm going to Samsung. Actually oh yeah yeah, I'm going to have Samsung just because there was no it's similar, but it doesn't have the horrible like pink fringing around the lights. So that's the one I like. What do you think of the tree? The left image is instantly more exposed than everything else and the sky's white, the middle one.

It's picked up, there's a lot of detail on the wall of the brick wall and that it's strange because, like these cameras are picked doing all different things, every time we go to different uh locations and the pixel 5 here has got more of a blue sky, whereas earlier we had 12 which had the more blue sky yeah, the Samsung's had the clearer image crisp wise yeah. If we zoom in on the wall, I feel like the iPhone 12 is like sharp. You know when you're sharpening, it's got a lot of contrast. It's got a sharp, I wouldn't say contrast. I see it sharp there's a lot of contrast in the bricks in that you can tell, I think, like overall, more neutral image here is the pixel 5, and I prefer that one, but I think the pixel is perfect at doing a neutral image.

The iPhone 12 is better, like I think, as we've seen like exposing things getting them bright, yeah and the s21 is the Samsung looks quite pleasing, but the feel like the pixel in it is actually better yeah. I've only got more to work with in the pixel 5 on this photo. The grass is totally different between all three right now bristles disgusting river instantly, the left image again, the sky warmer colors warmer tones sun, it's kind of almost like it's gone down and scales. Yeah, it's gone from warm to cold warm yeah yeah. It does, actually.

So I personally think that the iPhone 12 pros are my favorite image, just because the sky's got the more detail warmer, but I prefer it. I think I prefer the pixel 5 more neutral. I don't like Samsung s21 here, just purely because it's just feeling too cold. This is the night mode. It's a little dark chubby in my block of flats um.

There is light shine in his face. That is from little keypad, honestly, not much illumination at all. It was pretty dark, so they've done really well to pull it up. This is bright, I think the pixel 5 is a bit blurry at times a bit too soft, and then I do some. I do kind of think that the pro and the s21 is a little too sharp so like on some areas like especially the face it's definitely sharper.

It sounds nice. I feel like the pixel.5 is a bit blurry and the colors are not as good as the other two. The Samsung has the better white balance. The iPhone 12 is a bit warmer. It's between the s21 and the pro here, but only because my face looks a bit funny in there the reproduction of the photo.

It just seems to be better. You know what I mean. Yeah, last photo selfie of me um. I look disgusting on the sounds of this 21. I like ill.

It's weird, isn't it horrible? What they've done to your face? What they've done, the camera, the little people in the camera controlling how it works? The pixel 5 has like the wider shot. Uh, the colors are balanced on the pixel 5, then the iPhone 12 Pro the shadows have been pulled up in the dark areas and well it's just not as it's not as contrasting, not as contrasting yeah. But overall you look better in the 12. I look better in the 12 pro I think, and it's warmer. If we look on the.

If you look at my sticker here, you can probably see in this lighting what color is it's white? If we look on the bottom left of the Samsung, it's quite dirty. It's like a dirty orange yeah. I mean overall, I think the 12 car is better images, because you look better. I think I look better in the iPhone 12 Pro, but I like the colors more than the pixel 5. If I could get those both together, that'd be perfect, yeah overall, both great lenses, all great possible Samsung yeah, so that about wraps it up for the comparison between each camera um.

Overall, I think the pixel 5 and 12 pro have kind of come out on top a lot of the time yeah. I think the s21 has a great zoom um that really telescopic zoom is pretty it's good. But how awesome would you use exactly? That's that's the thing the colors, I think were the best in the pixel 5. Portrait was better on the Samsung, as you can kind of see as we've gone through things, it's quite subjective. The photos you like, like Kane, liked a lot of different ones to me, um, depending on what, like you, look for in the photo warmer or more contrast, it's all down to personal preference, so you might actually prefer different options to us, which is cool.

It's what you like. In conclusion, I think they all did really well yeah. I mean, if you're, getting if you're stuck on getting any of these cameras. They're all going to produce great. You know images yeah.

They all had the different age where they were better than others. I think we all kind of balance each other out yeah. So now for a quick video test, you can see straight away that the pixel 5 is more exposed than the other two. I also think the color reproduction is better on the pixel 5. In terms of audio, though I personally think the Samsung s21 sounds better, but I'll play the clip twice for you and you guys can decide which one you like the most okay cool.

So here we're doing a mic test, and we want to know what is the best microphone. Okay cool. So here we're doing a mic test, and we want to know what is the best microphone thanks for coming here today, Kane to sort this out with me, film, some stuff and yeah the photos. My pleasure, it's been. It's been interesting to see that the comparison between each camera, yes and see what produces the best results.

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Source : Jonathan Jones