Pixel 3a vs Pixel 4 vs Pixel 4a Camera Comparison By Grant Likes Tech

How's, everyone grants here welcome back to another camera comparison video. Today, I've got the battle of the pixels. I've got the Pixel 3a, the pixel 4 and the Pixel 4a. So if you're wondering if you have a Pixel 3a, should you upgrade to the pixel 4 or the 4a just for camera performance? Well, I hope to show you this video and help you out with that decision, like I always do I'll show you a bunch of photos and videos in both good and low light conditions, and I'll show you the auto mode, portrait mode, different video resolutions and try to give you as many samples as possible to help you decide if it's really worth your hard-earned money to upgrade from the Pixel 3a to the 4 or the 4a, just based on its count performance. I think a lot of people are wondering does that telephoto lens in the pixel 4 give it an edge over the series devices, and it's cost more money, and so it must be better. But I think the pixels have been very consistent as far as photos, and I think people are also wondering.

Should you upgrade because maybe I wasn't happy with the video performance in the 3a so today, I'm going to show you I'm going to compare them all side by side, so you can see for yourself how much more advanced. Is there any more differences in the pixel 4 series than the 3a? Should you upgrade, or should you just hold on to that Pixel 3a, if you're, just looking for camera performance gains? So with that being said, let's go ahead, take a look at the photos and videos, and I'll come back at the end and let you know what I think so here we are in the park testing out the video on the Pixel 3a pixel 4 and the Pixel 4a. So there's usually a lot of green and blue skies out here, but today that's not haze that some smoke from the California wildfires, and so it's a lot better than it has been before. But it's still a bit smoky the Napa county region. They have some huge fires going on right now, so that's not haze! That is smoke and that's just the color that it is right now.

That's why there's no really blue skies? It's not the video capabilities of these cameras at all. So let's go over here and pan over to the right at the cell tower, and we'll test the zoom on each. So, let's start with two times zoom on all three phones here. So that's what that looks like, and we can go zoom in all the way. Five times on the Pixel 3a eight times digitally here on the pixel 4 and five times again on the 4a.

So that's what it looked like at full zoom, pretty fairly clear and stable, at least in the viewfinder on each. So if I back all these out, we can go ahead and test some autofocus here, we'll move over to the post. So first with the 3a, pretty quick, autofocus there and refocus and one more time there you go and pixel 4, quick autofocus from the pixel 4 and refocus and one more time: okay, Pixel 4a. There we go there. You go also pretty quick, autofocus and refocusing here on the Pixel 4a.

So let's go ahead and test some stabilization as we walk down the stairs. So video stabilization is on all three and at 1080p. They all should be doing pretty good here, but take a look- and let me know I'll- do one more count around the park here, so you kind of see how it handles into the changing afternoon light and up into that sun there. Okay, let's do one more test here, this time at 4k, 30 frames per second on each phone, so again, 4k testing here we'll run through the same test, we'll pan over to the right, and we'll go two times zoom on each phone. There we go and zoom in all the way, five times on the 3a eight times on the four and five times here on the 4a, we can zoom back out and autofocus again here in 4k with the Pixel 3a, first again, pretty quick autofocus here on the 3a and some decent depth of field there.

So here we go on the four. I think the 3a almost has a little more of a depth of field a little more blurry background, at least in my eyes, but all three are pretty quick to focus and refocus. Here we go with the 4a one more time and last time with the 4a, so really quick to focus and refocus there on all three, and we'll test stabilization here at 4k, again walk down the stairs and see how all these are holding up as far as stabilization here in 4k. So again, one more pattern on the park check out how it handles that changing light and directly up into that sun. There hey everyone, so here's some front-facing footage from the Pixel 3a pixel, 4 and Pixel 4a.

So maybe not the exact angle, but it's kind of hard to get them all facing exactly at me. But here's some footage outdoors with the front-facing camera on all three phones I'll pan around. So you can see how it handles some different changing lighting conditions here. So I'm under a bit of shade, but you can see sun's in that direction. So you can see what that does to the image quality there, and we'll actually go ahead and do some stabilization I'll just walk forward here and so for at least when I can see in the viewfinder all three of these phones don't seem to be doing too bad to me.

But you take a look. Let me know what you think about the quality. What do you think about the audio- and I know the audio's a little muffled, because I've got a face mask on here outside, but hopefully at least gives you an idea of the differences between the video quality here on the front facing camera on all three of these phones and so here's a low light test between the Pixel 3a, the pixel 4 and the Pixel 4a? So, of course, this is nighttime you can see the moon up there a pan over here to the right, so we can see how they do into this light here, once we got any lens flaring that we might see between the three different phones- and obviously this is a pretty decently- actually fairly well lit area. So I'm gonna pan over here and start walking this way, and we'll test some stabilization, but we'll also see how it starts to handle into some changing lighting conditions here. So it's going to go from a pretty well-lit situation over to a much darker area here, and we'll see how it does in that transition and how well it picks up any kind of light here and a pretty mostly dark area and so also pay attention.

There might be some micro jitters here as we walk this way because, as it gets darker, you start to see more jitters in the stabilization on phones, so pay attention, if you see any of that, but it's pretty dark out here. All you see here are these lamps lighting up the sidewalk I'll pan up? You can see the night sky over there, no real lights out that way, and I'll pan over here. So this alleyway is pretty dark and in the viewfinder the Pixel 3a probably looks the darkest, and it really depends on what you're looking for, but in situations that are this dark. I know people want night to look like night, but once this dark, you really can't see much. You probably do want a phone.

That's actually gonna at least show your subject that you're trying to film. So it's better to see something than not at least that's my preference. But let me know what you think about the quality here on the three of these phones and let me know which one you prefer all right. So here we are again we'll do the same test this time at 4k, 30 frames per second, so you can see the moon again up there, I'll still pan out this way. You can see how it does into those and that light up there again, and we'll go ahead and do stabilization test, as well as the more darkness test, so going from some good light to some dark light and usually 4k, sometimes on some phones will end up being a little darker than 1080p.

So let me know how this compares to the 1080p footage you just saw and again, as you move into a darker area, we'll see how these phones perform. The pixel is usually pretty good at bumping up that ISO and providing a much brighter image than what you'll actually see here. So actually again, it's really dark out this way, and I'll stop and pan up into the night sky. So again it looks to be pretty much similar to 10p, at least in the viewfinder, but there's a quick test between the Pixel 3a pixel 4 and pixel 4 a and some low light here. So let me know what you think about the audio how's, the image quality between the three of these phones here and some pretty tough lighting conditions.

So so so all right, so here are with some front-facing footage from all three of these phones and again, the front-facing cameras tap out at 1080p, and you can see there's some pretty decent amount of light around me, I'll start walking here. So you can see the stabilization from the front-facing camera at night as well again, sometimes there's a bit of jittering that goes on in the stabilization in low light situations. So we can pay attention to that, and I'll walk over into a little more dimly lit area here around the fountain and, of course, that fountain is going so that'll provide some audio distraction. So you can see how well the audio is still performing and picking my voice versus that background noise there. But, as you can see here, it's a little darker back in this area, so kind of see how it did in that lighting transition and how well or not so well, it might be doing here in a little darker area so again, just some quick footage here from the front facing cameras on the pixel, 3a, pixel, 4 and Pixel 4a.

Let me know what you think about how each of these phones are performing and which ones you personally prefer hey everyone. So now that you've seen all the photos and videos for yourself, let me know in the comments which phone you thought did best, which one did you prefer? Was it the 3a, the 4 or the 4a? So as far as my thoughts here for the front facing cameras first, I thought all three phones produced very similar results in all scenarios, so whether it was good light, low light portrait mode, I think all three phones produce very similar results, even in video, so front facing camera is pretty much the same to me on all three phones. Now, moving on to the rear facing cameras, let's start with photos, I think in ideal light conditions, and I mean outdoors pretty much even lighting conditions. I think all three phones produce very similar results. Where I started to see.

Differences was when there was less negative light conditions, so maybe a mixture of afternoon sun with a little shade, the 4 and the 4a produce very similar results, leading towards cooler, color temperatures, while the 3a looks significantly different and leaning towards warmer color temperatures in those scenarios and also in rear facing portrait mode. I saw some differences. This is where the series phones look the same. So the 3a and the 4a look very much the same. The pixel 4.

You could see a clear difference. It wasn't significantly better, but it just looked different, and I'm going to guess that's because of the telephoto lens there I didn't think edge. Detection was that much better or worse on the four, but you could tell that that telephoto lens is producing a little different results there than the series phones for rear-facing portraits, and the other thing that I noticed was for low-light situations on the rear-facing camera for both photos and videos. They all pretty much produce the same results and what I can probably attribute that to is probably the lighting was all very similar. There wasn't like a lot of bright light, so any lighting that was coming down was all very consistent, and so I think, in good or low light situations.

If you got very consistent lighting, they seem to produce the same results there, and, so should you really upgrade from the Pixel 3a to the 4 or 4a solely for counting performance? My answer would be no. I don't think they produce any significantly different results that are any worse than the 4 or the 4a. So if you got a 3a, and you're thinking, you're missing out on the camera performance and the 4 or the 4a, I wouldn't worry about it to me: it's not a significant difference to upgrade now, if you want to upgrade because of performance or anything else, then fine, but if it's just because of the cameras, I would still hold on to that Pixel 3a. The results just don't seem to be that much more different to justify uh change. So that's just what I think.

Let me know in the comments what you think: let's discuss and have a good conversation down there, as always, thanks for watching.

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