Note 9 vs iPhone X Camera Comparison - Field Test! By AppleInsider

Hey guys its max from Apple Insider, and we just got our hands on the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 9, and today we're going to be doing a camera comparison against the iPhone 10, which is getting close to about a year old. Now we compare the iPhone 10 to the s9 plus from Samsung and the note 9 uses a very similar or almost identical camera setup, but now with the no 9 they have extra software updates. That should improve the quality. So let's go ahead and get started and see how these two stack up. Let's start off with some macro shot comparisons, so we found some berries over here. I'm gonna start out with the wide camera and try to get as close as I can here, and we'll see what kind of perspective we can get if you're shooting with a wide-angle camera.

You see typically see more in the background, so you kind of show off your location a little better. This is about as close as I can get with the wide angle. Now I'll switch to your Samsung here, so it looks like I can actually get closer with the Samsung on the wide lens. So it's interesting that the Samsung is actually showing us a little flower for macro mode, so it did sense that we were trying to get a macro shot. So that is definitely nice.

So the only difference is I notice, at least on. The phones themselves is how close I can get to the subject. It's much closer on the note 9 in the wide camera angle. After we get done, shooting we're, going to go back to office and I can comment on things like details and colors and things like that. But for now let's switch to a telephoto lens and, let's find another subject, so we're getting into the fall now not many flowers around, but I did find a few over here, and I'm going to test how close I can get using the telephoto lens.

Once again, it looks like I get much closer with the Samsung, and it also looks like the exposure might be it better as well. So the dual aperture on the no 9 is very convenient. It allows you to get the best aperture for either low-light or for bright shots. So right here in the landscape situation, that X 2.4 should give us more detail. So let's compare the two shots side-by-side.

There's our 2.4 aperture, and I'm going to switch it over to F 1.5, and then we can zoom in and see the detail difference now. One thing you don't get up here in the pro mode to control your apertures manually is HDR mode, and in this situation we have bright lights. We have water. We have some shadows that really can make a big difference. Shooting in the auto mode.

Now we're going to do a shot with our iPhone, which doesn't have those dual apertures. We are using HDR and comparing these two shots side-by-side, the HDR on the Samsung really makes the image look a little too fake, they're, pushing it too much we're still getting some blown out areas and the iPhone does have a little more contrast, and it looks a little better, at least on the phone. What we'll take a closer look when we get back to the office now both of these phones have their own portrait modes for both their rear cameras in their front facing cameras. So, let's see how they compare, so the Samsung is live. Focus actually allows you to select the amount of blur our defaults about five out of seven on the strength.7 looks a little fake, so we're gonna stick to the default here and looking at these two side-by-side at least on the phone, the iPhone looks a lot more realistic as far as the edging. This could even pass it off as a DSLR shot as long as you're not blowing it up.

One thing I do like about the Samsung. Is it adds these little both balls, it simulates those and similar to what you get with a nice real lens. If you have some different lighting, I like that, but overall I'd have to give the win to the iPhone. Now, let's compare the front-facing cameras with their blur modes so right away before I take the shot. The iPhone looks more realistic.

I accidentally turned on Bixby. So that's not good. Let's see, I'll just hit the button on the screen here and I. Think once again, the edging where it cuts out your face implies a blur is more accurate, looks better on the iPhone. The iPhone has a little too much contrast on my face.

Just for my taste and also one thing: I notice is that the iPhone it's a little closer to your face. The Samsung has a wider lens for selfies and I. Definitely think that's nicer, especially one take a selfie with a friend by default. The Samsung adds some skin blurring, and actually you can go into there and lower that, so I'm going to do that shot another time, and now, when I zoom in, unfortunately, it still looks like, even if you move the slider all the way to zero, it still places some skin smoothing, which I'm not a fan of the both these cameras offer 10th. So both these cameras offer up to a 10 times zoom, which does use both the telephoto lens plus digital zoom, and we have a bunch of turtles over here.

So this is a perfect scenario where you really want to zoom in and get close now, let's take a peek at these photos. Just on the phone and I definitely look like the Samsung is better in almost every way, so we stepped away from the waterfall. So hopefully you can hear us a little better now, and I'm going to do another portrait mode test, but this time I'm going to see how far away I can be from my subject and still use the portrait mode. So this is about as far as I can get with the Samsung and now let's try the iPhone, and it looks like it's grabbing Vadim as well, so both of the phones were able to do portrait mode shot at that distance. But it's interesting that the iPhone didn't apply very much.

Blur is almost hard to tell if there was some blur added because it adjusts the amount of blur based on the depth, which makes it look more realistic, like you would get with an actual DSLR camera where the Samsung added much more blur, and it really doesn't look too realistic and then also the edging around the camera in the face isn't very good. You could tell that it's a fake shot. So not only does the Samsung have a wider lens for selfie photos, it also has a panoramic selfie mode, and that allows you to get much more of your background into your shot. So I am honestly shocked by how well that worked. I can't tell any stitching artifacts and actually move the phone back multiple times its much wider than even the wide selfie camera.

The note 9 and you can also see, but even the shot right over there. Now. One thing you have to be careful with the note: 9 is the little selfie skin, blurring options, I've turned it down and then actually it just turned back on. So you got to watch out for that, because it will make your skin to look a little weird. So I turned everything off again: I'm going to do another selfie.

We can compare the detail of the front-facing camera before we do some low-light testing. Let's do a last detail shot using our wide-angle lens here. So taking a close-up look here, the Samsung looks much better. The iPhone is having too much contrast in the shot, and it has looks like some over sharpening where the Samsung, the sharpening looks natural contrast, looks natural, and the colors look a lot more true-life, so we're back in the office. We turned off the lights here in our shooting room, and we're going to test out some different low-light shots, and we're going to start out with the portrait mode, and both of these can shoot in this kind of condition better than like the older iPhones.

So I'm going to start off just taking a photo here, and this is without flash. The Samsung is kind of struggling a focus here, but there we go and then now I'm going to turn flash on, and we'll compare the results. Now see was the wide cameras I'm going to set both phones to completely auto, and we're going to see what they decide to shoot it they just like newsflash or if they go. Looking at these side-by-side I like the colors, in the contrast more on the Samsung and if I punch him, it actually looks sharper as well. It almost looks like the iPhone didn't focus properly in the situation, so I'm going to try it one more time.

This time, I'm gonna touch on Vivian's face. Once again, it looks out of focus compared to the Samsung. Actually I know this time. The focus was spot-on. That might just have to do with the Samsung, having maybe a newer sensor, and also that aperture where's, the F 1.5 compared to the iPhones f17 and now, let's finish off with a low-light selfie, also in auto mode I'm gonna start off your iPhone 10. Looking at these two shots side by side, neither one is really great, but I would have to say.

The notes are better. I do have a little too much flash on my face where the iPhone is more neutral, more realistic. But surprisingly, the colors look nicer on the Samsung looks warmer and more true to life, even though it flashed a whiter color than the iPhone did, and if I had to choose. Definitely the Samsung selfie would be my choice, so we had some time to sit down. Look at and compare all the photos, and surprisingly the Samsung note.9 was better nine times out of the 15 different scenarios. So more than half the time, we're honestly very surprised and Samsung has come a long way as just a few years ago, the iPhone was better in almost every scenario.

Overall, the Samsung actually had more natural and better looking colors and contrast, and it also did much better and macro shots. On top of that a lot of times, we had better detail from the Samsung camera, and it also did really well in low light. The one area where it does suffer and falls behind the iPhone 10 is, if you're doing portrait mode shots both in the rear facing and the front facing portrait mode. It seems like Apple has a much better implementation. They do a lot better with edges and the photos.

Look more natural and more realistic, like a DSLR camera, where the Samsung's looks a little too fake. On top of that, the Samsung offers a lot more extra features if you choose to use them, so we're very impressed with a note, 9, and we're excited to see what Apple has to offer in their new 2018 lineup. That should be coming out fairly soon. If you guys have your opinions on these photos, let us know in the comment section below make sure you guys subscribe, so you don't miss out the no 9 compared to whatever Apple releases here shortly then we'll see you in the next video, if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button, also check out our price guide, which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily, be sure to follow us on social media, and we'll see you in the next video.

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