iPhone SE 2020 FULL Camera Test! BETTER than the Specs? By BubVisuals

So, this is the iPhone SE Apple's newest budget iPhone. It was released a couple of days ago, I actually only unboxed it yesterday, but so far I'm really loving. It feels great and hand touch. I'd works great, but historically, whenever Apple make a budget phone, an area where they often seem to cut back is, of course, with the camera and as somebody who loves to take photos with my phone that got me thinking, how does the camera on the SE perform? Is this still great only really lacking that second focal length, or is he seriously flawed? Let's find out, so thing is: there's no one definitive type of photography, I've decided to break it down into sections where we could really see where this camera shines, where it falls short and if there aren't any problems along the way, I'm also gonna, throw in some shots from the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 11. Just so, we can see how it looks relatively bad. Let's go.

Take some photos all right. So the first thing we're really going to be testing with this phone camera is landscapes. Now this is an area I like to take photos of all my friends a lot and on the previous iPhone 11 I found it to be perfect. Most of us do to that ultra-wide camera and, while Apple haven't included it on here, they have included their standard one times in which I personally think is a good thing, see the ultra white and the telephoto are both very nice focal lengths and because there is only one focal length on this thing, I think it's a good thing that they went with the general focal length things that we typically look forward: we're taking landscape photos of dynamic range and detail, and so, while I can't really go anywhere at the moment to take some nice photos, I'm lucky enough to live in a place, working, go for a walk, take some photos, they're nice landscapes and then bring them back here. So that's exactly what I'm going to do alright, so that was good.

We're going to be taking a look at those in a moment, along with how they, compared to some photos, are taking on both the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 10. It's not going to be side by side, though I don't really do scientific on this channel. We're going to take a look at those in a minute, but for now we're going to be moving on to my next category, which is detailed. Now. This is a pretty important factor for smartphone cameras because, let's be honest, you can't really fit a giant full-frame sensor in one of these two making sure that your phone sensing can produce a nice.

Detailed image is important in this section. We're also gonna, be tested for distortions and to do this, I like to take photos of trees. Honestly, a good wide angle of a tree the easiest way to spot any distortions. We're also going to be doing some close-up shots for detail and overall sharpness, so yeah, let's go take some photos. So next up and in a suitable location, we're going to be testing the color science.

We're going to find out how this camera replicates colors. Is it too saturated the easy to contrasting, or is it just right in this section? We're also going to be testing how well it handles skin tones and, of course, we're going to be testing out how well the HDR works. Does it do a good job of preserving those highlights, or does it just like totally flattened everything? Alright, so next up we're going to be talking background blur and portrait mode. However, there are some pretty severe limitations of the portrait mode on this iPhone SE, which we'll be talking about later, but for now let's go test them all right, so the next test is gonna, be the low-light test and when I previously tested the often 11, because of that night mode, it actually did really well in this test. So while I'm not expecting the iPhone SE to do as well, I am still looking forward to seeing how it's gonna work, also I'm going to be throwing in some results from neural cam, because I am interested to see how it works with that a13 processor.

Alright, let's take some photos, okay, so voters are all well and good. However, a big part of the camera nowadays is, of course, the video quality, so I'm going to shoot a quick sequence now I'm going to be using a variety of frame rates and, of course, some slow motion, let's throw away the GH 5 and see how this thing does. Okay, so finally, we're going to test the editing possibility with these photos. Can they hold up some editing or do they start to fall apart instantly, let's find out with a time-lapse okay? So now we're going to be talking overall, what I think of the photography experience using the iPhone SE and first, I'd like to talk about the app experience so, first, for the most part, I do like the modernization of the app I like how you can now sweep up, and you can change the aspect ratio you can disable or enable live photos same with the flash you can set a timer. All of that great, however, as somebody who takes a lot of bursts, photos I really don't like the whole four video features do I think I'll get used to it.

Yeah, do I like it. No everything else about the formatting of the app, though love it okay. So now, let's take a look at the photos, the first being the landscapes honestly in terms of taking photos or landscapes. I think this does a great job in terms of dynamic range. I was very impressed.

Overall I do find the smart idea to work well, sometimes it does to look a little plastic, but honestly I think that's just an HDR thing. Even when I shoot HDR video on this camera I do notice, it does sometimes get a little flat. Looking just noticed, I was on auto ISO the whole time, so it was trying to overexpose me. Hopefully it wasn't too bad, though, and that we can carry on with the correct exposure going back to the landscapes. I have found them to be very sharp, not quite as sharp as they were on the iPhone, 11 I think that's almost definitely down to the camera hardware itself, though.

The a13 chip in the SE does a fantastic job of handling that sharpening it looks tagged sharp, but it still manages to look natural and yeah overall in terms of sharpness and shooting landscapes. I think this looks great, leading on from this we're going to be talking detail I found that on the iPhone SE there was a good level of detail. As they said it was nice and sharp. If you take a look into those typically demanding areas, it doesn't look overly muddy, and so, when I bought these photos into post-production I did have that little early way where I could just like to adjust the colors in the exposure always nice to have that as an option, because it just takes your photos from looking yeah pretty good too near professional standards. If you edit right, obviously, I've said it before I, don't think a phone camera can ever replace something like this, but that's not the purpose of this phone.

In fact, I'm pretty sure all my recent Instagram posts have been taken on my phone run, the through Lightroom and on a social media platform. It is very difficult to tell the difference going back to detail. I also didn't notice that much distortion, sometimes it did look a little distorted, especially in situations was like loads of tree branches. I did is a tad of chromatic aberration in a couple of these, which is hold on I'm gonna according to Wikipedia in optics chromatic, aberration is a failure of a lens to focus on all colors. At the same point it's caused by dispersion.

Essentially, it looks a little distorted as I said, though, I barely ever had this problem, and it was very light when it did have it. It could almost definitely be corrected for, in fact, looking at least it's probably more of an HDR thing. It does look like chromatic aberration, but I think that might just be caused by the HDR, so yeah on that particular shot where it did have the sky in the background, I did get a little of distortion, but most of the time it was absolutely fine. If somebody who knows more about this than me is watching this video, please leave a comment about what this might be. Because I.

Do want to know yeah well, as I said, detail is good here, following on from this, we have color. Honestly, it looks pretty good, there's a good level of saturation, in contrast, without it looking over processed and as I said before, there is an option for a little of post-production. Don't get me wrong, it's not going to be like raw editing, it is still a JPEG or an ATI C codec, but regardless you think Lightroom, mobile or Snap seed. On this thing, you will be able to pull up some pretty nice edits using this thing, yeah overall colors I think they look pretty good. Next up, we have background blur and portrait and honestly, in my opinion, this is probably one of the weaker areas of this camera.

First off in terms of general background, blur you're not gonna, be getting that much regardless. There are two main elements that cause background: blur aperture and sensor size now in terms of the SE. This thing as an aperture of f/4 point 8, which is actually pretty fast. However, due to the size of that sensor, it's really not gonna, be like Bach, a central. In fact, even on the camera, like this Micro Four Thirds sensor, as we can see, I don't actually have that much background blur now granted.

This is on f4, but in terms of organic background, blur synthesized can play a huge part in how blurred your background is actually going to be so to overcome this. A lot of phone manufacturers have actually started developing technology. That artificially blurs the background gives you that nice full frame look while managing to avoid dedicating like a quarter of the back of this thing to just camera. I have to say, though, I would honestly prefer that, honestly, you can keep the four or five lenses phones, I started. Putting nowadays I would sacrifice all of that for one lens and just a bigger sensor.

It is probably going to happen. There's going to be a phone company that develops a phone would like a full-frame sensor, and if you used a November in recent years, then you may have tried apples version which, as I said before, is called portrait mode. However, on the iPhone SE, it is pretty badly limited. Well, it does still have that aperture slider that I love I seriously I wish the iPhone 10 had that. That is such a useful feature.

It can only actually be used on people honestly on my iPhone 10 camera poor Jim. It was probably one of my most used features honestly I. Don't know why a police I did hey. Furthermore, it should only work on people, it doesn't even work on pets. Well, there's something I thought was cool was that they seem to have added animal autofocus.

Now this has been a feature on some of the higher-end DSLR's for a while now, but I usually think it's quite cool that they added this anyway, going back to portrait mode on both cameras, it does work well when you're taking photos of people still I, really don't like how it was limited in this way. Finally, for the photo side of things at least, we have low light now. Apple famously chose not to include their low-light technology on this iPhone, which is a shame I did say in my initial impressions. Video of this thing I would have loved to see the night mode. It was one of my favorite features of the iPhone 11 seriously.

If you never tried it, it's magical. Alternatively, you could watch my video testing it up there. However, neural camp is still an option and a lot you actually requested. I tested it with the iPhone SE. So that's exactly what I did side by side with the often 11 in these two images, I find it very difficult to tell the difference.

Honestly. I am going to test this further and well stock low light on this thing: isn't all that impressive yeah honestly with this iPhone SE best neural chemistry I've ever had. Finally, in total now we're going to be talking video now, obviously, I, love, video and I find on smartphones. It is generally a little hit or miss I was actually pretty impressed with the video quality coming from the SE I'm, not gonna, be talking too much about video specs in this one. I am gonna, be saving that, for the review I found that as long as you've got that HDR to engage, you could get some perfect.

Looking dynamic range out, this thing, I test them pretty much. Every frame rate, 4k, HD I, even tested the selfie camera. Now it was something I don't want to say. Are you? Does it lose these slow fees from the front-facing camera, but yeah, not exactly a deal-breaker compared to the iPhone 11? You do also lose that 4k front-facing video, though, however, most of the time I'm shooting video on this thing. I am using main camera and the quality of this thing is actually pretty good.

I found it edited nicely, and I did have a little of room in posted to a little. Color grading, always good. The 4k at this thing does look good and the slow-motion looks like well. Phone slow-motion I did find the 120 fps to be a little better quality than 240 FPS. So if you do prefer quality of a slowness when it comes to your slow motion, that could be an important factor.

However, if you want the maximum quality on this thing, I do suggest shooting in 4k and yeah. Overall, as I said, video quality out. This thing is solid, alright, so in conclusion, I'm, honestly more pleased with this camera than I thought it was gonna, be now, let's not say it doesn't, have its shortcomings, name like the portrait mode, I like a night mode and I, don't like the new way getting a burst photo. Obviously, I also would like another focal point in my unboxing and first impressions, video that I posted yesterday I said: I was looking forward to using this phone even more and honestly, the camera experience this thing's given me has taken that to a whole other level seriously. This could end up being one of the best value iPhones ever made alright guys.

So that's it for today. I do want to take this time to say. Thank you all so much for the support on the videos recently remember earlier this month we were celebrating 25 thousand subscribers, and we're already at 28 thousand subscribers. That is ridiculous, alright guys. So, as I said, that's it for today.

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