Note20 Ultra vs Pixel 4a vs iPhone 11 Pro Camera Comparison! Which Is Best? By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is wade with tech daily and in this video we are doing a camera comparison test between the Samsung Galaxy note, 20 ultra the iPhone 11 Pro and the Google Pixel 4a. Now, obviously, everything about these three phones is different from their price to the actual camera hardware and shooting modes and everything in between, and I want to offer as comprehensive of a comparison as I can showcase all the capabilities and limitations when it comes to shooting with these three phones. So I won't waste any time. There's a lot to go over here. Let's just jump straight into some samples and as we go along I'll break down the specs of the phone, the features, and I'll also offer some of my own thoughts on these pictures and videos. So right off the bat.

Let's talk about the selfie cameras, the note 20 ultra has a 10 megapixel, f, 2.2 selfie lens up front. The iPhone 11 Pro has a 12 megapixel, f, 2.2 aperture lens and the Pixel 4a uses an 8, megapixel, f 2.0 shooter. Now, with just your standard selfie, I think it's probably pretty obvious that these three phones do things a bit differently. While I do really like the look of the selfie on the note 20 ultra, I think, like we've seen before the Samsung selfie tends to be a bit soft. It smooths out my face a little more than the others, but I actually think the color and exposure are pretty well-balanced.

The iPhone to me shows quite a bit more detail which I like, but obviously I'm probably more pinkish than I'd like to be in that shot and with a pixel while there's nothing necessarily wrong with the shot. It's very natural, it's very true to life. I think it is a little dull and maybe less pleasing to the eye than the other two. All in all, though three very good shots with plenty of detail, and I think you can't go wrong with any of them, with a portrait selfie shot. What immediately stood out to me here was actually just how well the note 20 did background foreground separation is really on point, especially around the top of my hair, which you can see.

The iPhone did have trouble with. I think there is still that smooth softening effect with note 20, though that might take away from the image a bit, which is why, in this particular set, I think I like the pixel most. It has similar edge detection all around and while again it may be a little dull, the amount of detail you get in my face is just really great. Moving over to the rear cameras I'll go over the specs in just a second, but let's just talk about what all is going on with these shots. Now, interestingly enough, in this particular case, I think the iPhone seems to be the most colorful which in this case I don't know if that's the right look, but again just how pinkish red my skin tone appears to be.

The note and pixel are similar with their color and exposure, but the detail on the pixel, I think, is just way better. You can pick out little bits in my beard and my hair a lot more and with portrait shots with the rear lenses. I don't want to overstate anything here, but the pixel to me just seems to do an incredible job with everything here. The edge detection and separation is really, really good. The detail on my face far exceeds the iPhone and the note 20 and while it maybe once again doesn't have that color to make it pop.

It's really incredible what this phone can still do, given its super limited camera hardware, so, let's actually just touch on what all is going on with the rear setups on these phones, while some more of these samples click buy now I think it's no secret that the camera setup on the note 20 ultra has received a lot of attention since its release, which makes sense this phone has a crazy 108, megapixel main lens 12 megapixel telephoto lens with 50 times, hybrid zoom and a 12 megapixel ultra-wide. The iPhone 11 Pro, of course, has a triple lens setup, with a 12 megapixel main lens 12 megapixels, telephoto lens and 12 megapixel ultra-wide lens and the Pixel 4a is the most limited hardware wise with just one lens around back and eight megapixel shooter. Of course, megapixels and specs aren't everything, but let me just explain the differences in shooting modes with these three phones, because there are two important things to consider. Obviously, both the note 20, ultra and iPhone 11 Pro offer a wide angle shot with their wide angle lens, and for me this is actually pretty useful from time to time. Getting a nice broad shot of a landscape is great and being able to squeeze more in an interior shot can also be helpful.

I think the note 20 ultras wide angle, shots look a little nicer to me. They tend to be brighter and more colorful, though the detail appears to be comparable on both shots. The thing is: it's just good that these phones have that option, and I think the pixel not offering a wide angle is still a bit of a miss now. Similarly, the note and the iPhone also have a telephoto lens, which means zooming in can be done using actual lens hardware up to a certain point, rather than just relying on digital zoom and with this to start out, you're going to get a lot more detail on really any zoomed in shot just in general. But to put things bluntly, the note 20 ultra is, of course the king of the zoom.

In this case, this phone has a ridiculous 50 times, hybrid zoom, which means you could potentially zero in on something from literally miles away and in a more extreme sense. You could, for example, take a clear picture of the actual moon. If you wanted to seriously here's a nighttime landscape shot- and here is the moon using the 50 times hybrid zoom, on the ultra from that same scene, it's truly incredible, and while yes, it maybe isn't the most useful feature for like everyday shooting this phone just offering. It is pretty amazing, okay. So now you know some sort of extras that the note 20, ultra and iPhone 11 Pro offer.

Let's just talk about the regular old pictures and videos for a bit because, to be totally honest, most people are just going to pull these phones out of their pockets and snap. A quick pick using the standard shooting modes and here are the results you might expect now. First off, let me just say that for these regular pictures I almost always used the note 20 ultras, 108 megapixels, shooting mode, because I think if you buy this phone, you may as well use it all. The other. Two phones, don't have any sort of high pixel shooting modes, but I don't necessarily think it makes all that much of a difference.

In general, I actually found these phones to shoot really similar pictures, which is surprising, given just how different the setups really are, but I did find that in most cases like I've said already the Pixel 4a, while maybe a little duller than the others. It is the most honest true to life in terms of capturing the scene, as it really is, the iPhone actually tended to be maybe a little more colorful than even I expected, and the ultra tended to have a nice balance of color, but maybe was a little more exposed than the others. More often with some outside shots in particular, I think you can tell like the blue sky, for example, looks a little grayer on the pixel, and it looks a little brighter on the note, with the iPhone falling somewhere in between having the deepest color of the bunch, and it's a similar story with like the trees, you lack a bit of color on the pixel, which is fair. The trees really aren't that green in real life anyway, the note brightens them up a bit and the iPhone is maybe a little darker but offers a punchy deep, green color detail-wise, like I said, I think, I'm just most surprised at how well the pixel shoots. This is a phone that relies so heavily on Google software, and they do an amazing job with image processing.

The iPhone has relied more and more on Apple's software too recently, with its image processing and, I think, as powerful as the note 20 ultra is Samsung really embraces more packing in as much camera hardware as possible, and their image processing has seen its ups and downs over the years now for low light and nighttime shooting using the three night mode features on these three cameras. I initially thought that maybe the pixel would have the edge here and in some instances it just might, but actually all three of these phones take incredible nighttime pictures with the iPhone tending to be a little darker at times and the note 20 ultra, maybe over exposing the shot every once in a while, but really nothing that takes away from anything of these pictures. All three of these phones can literally see in the dark, which is just incredible, and I really wouldn't mind shooting with any of them. When it comes to video. I actually have a lot of thoughts here and first off.

I do want to mention that, yes, the note 20 ultra can shoot 8k video, which is something the other phones can't do, but for these samples, we're shooting in 4k 30fps just to make this a straight comparison, and what I have to say here, with the ultra to start out with, is that Samsung has done a great job, improving stabilization for one, but also in the case of the ultra. Any issues with like focus hunting that we saw on the s20 ultra earlier in the year are pretty much gone with this ultra phone, which was definitely needed. The iPhone, of course, has really fantastic video. I think everyone knows that, and Apple does a great job with stabilization in particular, while the Pixel 4a can shoot some pretty good videos too. I think the difference here is maybe a little more noticeable compared to the other two phones.

Furthermore, I personally wouldn't use the 4a as a phone to specifically take videos with if I did have the option of the other two devices, there's nothing wrong with the result with the pixel, but capability wise, the ultra and the iPhone offer a lot more. Furthermore, I also think they do a little better job, keeping things steady and color and exposure wise again. The pixel just doesn't really offer that bright. Pleasing looking shot that I know a lot of people prefer- and I may be wrong here, but I also think the pixel misses out on detail just a bit compared to the other two cameras as well, which to me is particularly important when shooting video. Obviously these are just my own thoughts and opinions.

Of course, I could be totally wrong. You may think otherwise, and I'm sure you have your own critiques with these samples, so I'm actually going to go ahead and let a few more shots play through now for a bit check them all out. Let me know what you think, and I'll catch back up with you guys at the end of this video. So what do you guys think? Which phone did you prefer for me? Personally, I think with portrait shots, for example, the Pixel 4a is the clear winner for video. The iPhone might still be my preference, but for overall capabilities and everyday shooting, just with all the features and all the extras packed in the ultra, of course, is the one to choose.

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