Pixel 2 XL vs Galaxy S9 Plus Camera! By Nick Ackerman

Pixel to excel or the galaxy s 9 plus, which has the better camera. Well we're going to find out in this video to access the camera on the Google Pixel to excel. You do have multiple ways to get to this thing. One is going to be at the power button. You do have a quick launch. You can just quickly just double tap this power button to get into the camera, really easy and just start firing away.

That's a nice feature that we've seen on prior Samsung devices and on the lock screen. You can go ahead and open it up. Also, you can go to your typical camera button to just get into there and when you are in a software, you are presented with a fairly simple camera experience. You can click that little. You know two arrows to go to the selfie camera click it back to go back to the rear, and you just fire away with the burst button.

Furthermore, you could hold this down for a burst photos, and you can get multiples at once. It will show you the number there right on the screen. You can click the video icon to go in and shoot a video, and what I like about this video on a pixel to pro is it doesn't start recording video right away as it does on the s9. When you click video, you can go ahead and pause the video and continue recording heading back over into the camera settings. You can see that you do have your hamburger menu over here with slow-motion settings panorama settings photosphere, you do have portrait mode just like you can find on like an iPhone.

You do have AR stickers, which is augmented-reality stickers and going into settings. Furthermore, you are presented quite a few settings here. Furthermore, you can't change the grid here. Furthermore, you do have some gestures to go ahead and get into the camera, and you also can change the resolution at twelve point to seven point: seven one point: nine eight point, three four point: one and zero point: nine megapixels. Now on the front camera you can change it all the way down to point two megapixels but I.

Don't know why you would ever want to go down to point two megapixels, but you can do that. There on the Google Pixel to excel. Also, you have your panorama resolution. If you want a higher resolution, panoramic shot that is available on board and in advanced settings you do have these show dirty lens warning: HDR+ control there now under video, we can go up to 4k 30, but unfortunately you cannot do 4k 60 here front camerae does go up to 1080p, and then you just have some Sun feedback and help. Now.

Here's where the pixel 2xl really shines is under the HDR mode. You can go into HDR, on/off or enhanced, but I would recommend, leaving it on its actual by default. When you do get a pixel to excels, so most people are gonna, be shooting in the HDR mode, but if you do want to turn that off, it's just going to give you a worse picture overall on the pixel to excel, so I wouldn't turn that off. You also have motion photos which is essentially google's version of the live photos. You can see on an iPhone.

These work pretty well as well. You do have auto you know modes here for your white balance. You'd have cloudy. Furthermore, you can change it to fluorescent or tungsten to get the right lighting scenarios going here for your device. Also, you do have the flash on and off buttons here in the software.

So you can see everything is really simple here on the pixel to excel and if you never touch anything, and you just open the camera and just tap the photo, it can pretty much do what you need to do without changing any of these settings, but those are basically the settings in the pixel to excel and the software that is onboard now on the galaxy s 9 plus there is that telephoto dual camera setup that allows you to go a little better on the zoom that way to access this camera is actually exactly the same as the pixel to excel. You go ahead and hit the power button twice, and you're in you can swipe up from the lock screen, and you're also in, and you can also remap that Bixby button, if you use some third-party software to open the camera, if you'd like to do that, that's going to take a little of know-how, but you can do it if you remap it now the camera down here at the bottom. You can go ahead and just click that to get in as well. Now, when you get into the galaxy s, 9 software, it's easy, just like the pixel to excel to just snap a photo and hold it down for a burst mode. But when you get into more of the settings, does get a little more difficult.

You can go ahead and open up the selfie mode, as you would on any device here, are some filter effects that you can do right on the galaxy s 9 plus, you have filters like cream, deep forest classic cozy and many more cheesy features. If you do like them, they're all there, you can go ahead and download more from the Samsung store, and some of these actually can make for some nice dreamy photos. If you do know what you're doing and maybe edit them in just a little and like something like Snap seed or Lightroom, they can make some really dreamy photos. So you can go ahead and use that flash on and off. You can go for a full screen, but when you do go for a full screen, it does assume you in a little, and also it doesn't give you a sharper resolution.

So I wouldn't go full screen if you're looking for the best photos, you do have your optical zoom there as well, now go into the settings menu. Here's where things start to get a little more complex on the rear camera. You have many resolutions you can do, including the one by one aspect: ratio for Instagram. You can save raw and JPEG files, for you know tweaking the photos yourself or just getting a decent JPEG. Furthermore, you can do that.

A video size on the rear goes up to 60 frames per second, and you can't do it for more than five minutes and there's no tracking autofocus when it comes to 60fps. So you really gotta have this thing set up on a tripod to get the best shots. You can and do not do more than five minutes. You do have timer modes. Furthermore, you can turn HDR rich tone on and off tracking autofocus right there super slo-mo and one thing: I, don't really like about the s9s camera.

Is that if they don't leave the timer right front and center on the software I wish they would do that like they used to on some older devices having the timer right there in the settings facing forward is really nice. It's not there. All the time you got to go into the settings to turn the timer on. You have shooting methods. You have face correction, so you know there's a lot that's going on here.

It can be a little overwhelming for people who don't want to really tweak everything, and you can edit all those modes that they do show. You can add the regular slow motion and if you don't want to do super slo-mo, and then it was a little tricky to find that slow motion feature because I was like does all this. Do is super slo-mo, but no, you can find it here in camera settings. You have grid lines location, tags, review, pictures, quick launch, you can save it to your SD card. If you want to put up to four hundred gigs, you can go ahead and say smile, cheese capture, shoot to record, and you could just reset the settings now getting back into the software to access different modes.

You just swipe over to the right. I actually found this software to be a little sensitive from time to time when swiping through things like AR, emoji hyperlapse. You also have even more features all the way down to your left, which is gonna, be the live focus which allows you to blur that background to your own liking and see a wide-angle shot. You do have pro mode here which allows you to tweak things like your white balance. Furthermore, you can go ahead and tweak things like the focus.

Furthermore, you can add some filters here. Furthermore, you can also do the aperture yourself by clicking the F 2.4 and go from 1.5 to 2.4. If you leave in an auto mode, it will do it automatically. You have ISO settings as well that go pretties high up to 800 they're, not high as a regular camera, and you have panoramas, and you do have food modes, which kind of makes your food look a little more dreamy. If you do foodies now, I do like to mention that this Hat landscape mode does help when you are recording on a tripod, because it's right the way you would like to have it when you do shoot, but let's go ahead and take a look at some real life examples here between both cameras.

So here on the first photo. You can see that the galaxy s 9 plus in the sky kind of blew out the exposure, but both are very sharp photos. Taking a closer look at the Brig, you can see that the Google Pixel to Excel did a better job at pulling in that detail, although it was darker, so the grass also looked definitely more natural on the left, but some people might prefer that brighter look of the galaxy s, 9, plus personally I'd, go with the pixel to excel there. Now on this photo, you can see that the clouds are actually in detail on the left versus the right, which kind of blew out the sky once again on the galaxy s, 9 plus I would take the Google Pixel to excel photo here, just because it made things, look a little more realistic and natural. Now this shot right here, I actually prefer the s9 plus on the right due to the fact that it just looks more vibrant, and it did about the same job at picking up all the details.

Now here at the sidewalk post, you can see the s9 plus on the left, with a very punchy blue sky and on the right. We have a more warm tone about. Even here it comes down to whether you want a warm or more punchy cold photo now on this one I do think the pixel 2xl did better and on this one right here, I also think the pixel to Excel did better than the s9 plus now on the selfie. This is a little overexposed on the s9 plus so all day to the pixel to excel. When it comes to the selfie camera.

Now, taking a look at this landscape shot, you can see that while a little dark look at the sky, look at the clouds look at the detail in my buildings. This is a perfect shot now over here on the s9, plus it's a little brighter again than the pixel to excel, but it's softer in the details. So the buildings don't look quite as detailed and overall I think the pixel to Excel did a better job. Now really close up here on this macro, you can see the pixel to excel. Did a good job on making things look natural on the s9 plus it's a little cool and a little too bright.

I! Think for this situation, so the processing is doing a better job so far on to excel a stream close up. You can see that very good detail here for the to excel again and over here on the s9 plus very good detail again just a little cold and bright for my Vikings. Now, let's go into nighttime here and see how the s9 plus does versus the pixel to excel. Here, it's a little reddish on the s9 plus. For some reason, the pixel to excel definitely looked a little more realistic, but the s 9 +, F, 1.5 aperture, brought in more detail here when we got closer in on this signpost, now take a look at this one way signpost. You can see that the two Excel kind of had a little more green than the s9 +, so the s9 + is the better photo here and zooming in you could see that city of Chicago on the s9 + or you cannot see it on a to excel so the to excel, doesn't do a great job in really low light conditions compared to the s9.

But it does do a good job here when you have a decent amount of light in low light. Now we're going to zoom in a little here on these windows, you could see the s9 + wall brighter a little more details in those windows. You can see the lines you can see. That's a light inside the window on the two Excel. Now here are some pictures of sushi, and you can see that the 2 X I was a little more saturated than the s9 +, which looked a little more detailed than the pixel to excel.

Here is a front-facing photo where the s9 plus again brighter, but better detail. I will pick the two excel here now, let's go ahead and look at these buildings, and we're going to take a look at this building on the left. The brown building we're gonna, look at the bricks to see which one actually pulled in more detail, and you can see it was the s9 + that lost more detail here. Look at the bricks are clearly defined on the pixel to exile, even if they're a bit grainy, it's the better photo here. So let's take a look at this parking meter, and you could see that the galaxy s 9 plus, is a little orange versus a more natural and detailed look on a pixel 2 X L.

Now both of them are pretty sharp, though so I do appreciate that but zooming in on the sine you could see that processing in HDR does really help the pixel to excel lift things. In the background, you can clearly read that a little better. Now, let's take a look at this shot. I took of these buildings in this tower, and you can see that there's a perfect detail in the bricks on pretty much everything that has bricks here. Let's take a look at these windows and bricks, and you could see that detail.

I can clearly make out those are windows and bricks, and I can clearly define that those are bricks on that tower where it does say home goods. Let's take a look at the s9 plus now I do command Samsung for having an extremely bright photo at night. That F 1.5 is a game changer for the brightness, but it's a little soft at nighttime. So the photos, while bright you can see not as clearly defined as the pics with 2x are a little softer here, but still very good for a smartphone. Taking a look at the tower much softer than what we've seen on the pixel to exhale.

The bricks are not clearly defined, but it's a very nice bright photo so overall, the pixel to excel versus the s9 plus, which has the better camera for my money. It's the pixel to excel due to the processing. It's artificial intelligence. Furthermore, it really just knows what it's doing without you having to know what you're doing and the s9 plus has great bright photos at night and in daytime they're, both just gonna, be down to personal preference. That's it here subscribe.

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Source : Nick Ackerman