iPhone XS Max vs. Note 10 Plus camera comparison By CNET

Samson's new note, 10-plus has a few new camera tricks up its sleeve, including a new 3d sensor and an ultra wide-angle lens. Can the old iPhone tennis max compete with just two lenses? That's what we're going to find out. This is note vs. iPhone aside from that new depth of vision, camera. The note m+ has a very similar setup to the Galaxy S ten, which edged out the iPhone 10s Macs in our previous comparisons. So I, for one, was kind of expecting the same results.

It has a 12 megapixel main camera with dual aperture, a 16 megapixel ultra wide-angle lens and a 12 megapixel telephoto lens. The iPhone Menace max, on the other hand, has a telephoto and wide angle only so for most shots taken in good light with the main camera. It's really hard to tell the difference between these two phones, and honestly they're, both incredible. They have great color contrast and dynamic range with just a few subtle differences in color temperature and brightness, but it's not really consistent. Sometimes the iPhone is warm or sometimes the Galaxy Note 10 is warmer.

I did notice, however, that the Galaxy Note tendon for your everyday shots. These phones would be neck-and-neck, except for the fact that only the note can do this and trust me. It makes a huge difference. I didn't think I needed an ultra wide-angle but turns out I just didn't know what I was missing. You can even use it for video on the note, and it works up to 4k, which gives you three different shooting angles from which to choose from at the click of a button.

Now I've always been a fan of video on the iPhone and I still think I prefer the softer more cinematic. Look when shooting people but I have to, say Samsung has really stepped up its game on the note 10, and it's not just the fact that you have the three different angles. The differences between video on both these phones is a lot more subtle than before, plus tracking shots. Look a lot smoother now on the note I started running on a sandy beach, so I definitely did not make it easy on either one of these. But you can tell that the iPhone struggled with the exposure switching between the sand and the sky, and it looks to have a weird effect.

While the note seems to have been up for the challenge. Plus, it has a super, steady, video mode that you can now activate from the screen, although it will only work at 1080p but check it out now. It almost looks like it's on a rig. Another new video feature about the note is that it's supposed to be able to zoom in on sound as you zoom into your shot. So as the subject gets closer, it gets louder, but since the mic doesn't just zoom in on one source, it actually increases the volume of everything else around you as well.

In my case, that included the sound of the waves which ended up drowning out my voice, as you can tell now, you're not tied to it, because you can always choose to turn that off in the settings later. Both have time-lapse and slow motion at 240 frames per second, but the galaxy has super slow motion and 960 frames per second, just like its predecessors, which adds a whole new level of drama, but that only goes up to 720p. So both of these phones have done some kind of blurred background effect for Stills on the iPhone it's called portrait mode and on the Galaxy phones. It's called live focus, but the new thing on the note is that it now does the live focus effect on video. So in theory, you will be able to blur out the background when you're shooting a subject even in video, so we're going to test it out.

But already it's telling me that it needs to find a face which obviously I have one in front of me, but it's just not a human face, so I'm not really sure if it only works for human faces, so we're going to test it out and see if it does the trick. If not, it means that Charlie over here is out of luck, even with human subjects. It was tough to get live, focused video to work correctly. It only works from a certain distance when it detects a face. I think so.

Moving toddlers was obviously a challenge and, while I didn't end up using my focus, video as much as I had hoped, I would for stills it's a totally different story. Both phones take incredible portraits of people, pets, shoes, sir statues, whatever it is that you want to blur the background of they both also let you adjust the intensity of the blur and add some fun effects. This category I have to, say, is a toss-up as well. On the one hand, I like the more natural cut out of the iPhone, but the note also gives you two angles for portrait mode to choose from, while the iPhone only does one because you're probably always going to and again the galaxy also gives you two different angles to choose from when it comes to selfies. It also produces brighter low-light selfies and that's another area where the note has improved the note.10 has a new night mode, so in theory this would allow you to take better photos even less than ideal lighting conditions like what you're seeing here, we're at the aquarium by the bay at Pier 39 in San Francisco, to see how these two phones do in low-light, with these amazing sea creatures around me, it's technically using the same effect that was made available on the s10 and note 9 via software updates, but low-light shots on the note, look even better. They definitely outshine the iPhones.

Even when I didn't use the designated night mode, it seemed like the note still beat out the iPhone for low-light shots. Now. Low-Light video, though, was a little tougher to choose, because the iPhones, while not as bright, did, look more natural and true to life. At least the colors did to me, whereas the note kind of exaggerated the Blues in the underground aquarium, and then you have all the bells and whistles which the note seems to have plenty of another neat little trick about. The note is that it lets you use the s-pen to control the camera remotely using the button and gestures.

So over here, I can take a picture or, if I, just swipe right, I can change modes or even swipe up to change the camera. You have new AR doodles, which use the 3d sensor to draw on your subject. My little drawings even followed Lexi when she left the scene and came back. However, you're probably never going to use this. Let's be honest, there's also a built-in video editor that lets you trim, rotate or add a filter to your clips.

You can also add clips together from your video library. That said, though, the iPhone will be getting native video editing in iOS 13, including the ability to rotate video I have to, say the iPhone 10s max put up a good fight, considering it is last year's model, it delivers great video, great photos and fantastic portraits. However, at this very moment the note just has more to offer, and I'm not talking about those gimmicky features. Those are kind of hit or miss they're. Just there I'm more referring to things like the ultra wide-angle lens, the brighter night, shots, the smoother video and, if you're, looking to take your phone photography to the next level, you just have more tools to get you there, but that's just my opinion who do you think won this camera comparison, the notes or the iPhone.

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