Redmi Note 8 Pro vs iPhone 11 Detailed Camera Comparison By TecworkZ

"Music" Redmi Note 8 Pro vs iPhone 11 Detailed Camera Comparison, I know a lot you have been waiting for this video. Hey guys its Sagar from Tecworkz, and let us get straight to this comparison. If you guys saw my Redmi Note 8 Pro Camera Review, you know it has the best set of cameras in under Rs.20,000. And we know that the iPhone 11 is also packing the best set of cameras for its price range. Let me make this very clear at the beginning, none of these phones compete directly or even in directly with one another. And there is a huge price difference between the two.

In fact, you can buy 4 Redmi Note 8 Pro smartphones for the price of 1 iPhone 11. And someone who was going to get the iPhone 11, wont change his or her mind and get the Note 8 Pro instead. Or someone who is planning on getting the Note 8 Pro is not going to extend their budget 4 times and get the iPhone 11. There are many other reasons, for why there is such a huge price gap between these phones. But the point of this video is to show you guys, how far the cameras on the budget smartphones have come, and you don’t need to spend a ton of money on a flagship smartphone just to get amazing looking images.

We have over 75 image and video samples to to go through, but first, let us check the specs of the cameras on both these phones. If you already know the camera specs, and you don’t find this part useful, you are free to skip ahead straight to the image and video samples. Redmi Note 8 Pro comes with a quad camera setup at the back, and just like the Note 7 Pro, it continues to play the numbers game, by including a 64 megapixel primary sensor. Now the higher megapixel count doesn’t always translate to better images, but that is what most people believe, so some smartphone companies try to capitalise on that. This 64 megapixel primary sensor is coupled with F/1.9 aperture and a 26mm lens. Next, it gets a 8 megapixel camera with F/2.2 aperture and a 13 mm ultra wide angle lens. Then there is a 2 megapixel camera with F/2.4 aperture and it gets dedicated macro lens. And finally, there is another 2 megapixel depth sensor with F/2.4 aperture, for sensing depth information while taking portrait shots. This phone can shoot 4k un-stabilised videos at 30fps, 1080p videos at 30, 60 or 120fps, and 960fps super slow motion videos at 720p resolution.

iPhone 11 comes with just 2 cameras at the back. primary one has a 12 megapixel sensor with F/1.8 aperture, 26mm lens, and it gets Optical image Stabilisation. Secondary camera also gets a 12 megapixel sensor with F/2.4 aperture, and this one is coupled with a 13mm ultra wide lens. On the iPhone 11, you can shoot 4k videos at 24, 30 and 60fps, and 1080p videos at 30, 60, 120 and 240fps. At the front, Note 8 Pro gets a 20 megapixel camera with F/2.0 aperture. While the iPhone 11 has a 12 megapixel camera with F/2.2 aperture. Now before we start with the image and video samples, if you are new to this channel, please make sure to hit the subscribe button and the bell icon next to it.

That way, you wont miss out on any of the amazing videos coming up on this channel. Starting with the daylight images. You can straight away tell that images from the Note 8 Pro show saturated colours, and have much more contrast compared to the iPhone 11. There is no shortage of detail in images from either of these phones. When we zoom in, we see a bit more noise in the darker areas in the images from the Note 8 Pro, but it still holds on to most of the details.

Images from iPhone 11 are a tad sharper, but the difference is barely visible, and most people won’t even notice it, unless they compare these images side by side. Starting at about 65,000Rs, we expect to get very good images from the iPhone 11, but despite of coming in at 1/4th the cost, the Note 8 Pro is holding pretty well in these lighting situations. Colours from the Note 8 Pro are a bit inconsistent. It uses AI scene detection to optimise the colours according to the scene, and it doesn’t always do the best job. In some cases it saturates the colours way to much, and in others it just makes the images look dull.

iPhone 11 on the other hand is much more consistent with colours. I won’t say it is showing exact colours of the scene as they were. But it is more accurate with white balance and colour temperature of the overall image, and gives us a better idea of how the scene looked. in the end, colour is a personal choice, and which one of the two you choose depends on your colour preference. Coming to high dynamic range situations, I think the Note 8 Pro is doing an excellent job in some of these shots.

Its colours are a bit on the warmer side, but it does a good job of bringing up the shadows and preserving the highlights. Of course the smartHDR on the iPhone 11 does an even better job, like we see in the shadows of the leaves and the sky in this image. But in this next one, Note 8 Pro did a better job with the highlights outside the windows. As we zoom in, we see it captured much more noise in the whole process, while iPhone 11’s image is very clean. In this image, iPhone 11 again did a much better job of preserving the highlights of the bright background, and bringing up the details on the leaves.

While the Note 8 Pro didn’t do a good job at all. That’s the case with the Note 8 Pro, sometimes it can pull out an amazing shot, but the performance is not consistent. Whereas the iPhone 11 gives you good looking images one after the other consistently. Note 8 Pro has 4 cameras at the back, but just like the iPhone 11, it can shoot just shoot in 2 different focal lengths. Primary camera on both these phones have 26mm lens, so you can take normal images like this.

And the secondary camera has a 13mm lens, so you can take ultra wide shots like this, by standing at the same spot. This wide lens is great to get more of the scene in your shot, without having to move back. These wide cameras are not as good as the primary cameras on either of these phones, so these images don’t have lot of details in them. But the ones from the iPhone, still have more details compared to the ones from the Note 8 Pro. There is a 64 megapixel sensor on the Note 8 Pro, but by default it captures 16 megapixel images.

If you want, you can switch to the 64 megapixel mode to have more details in your shots. These images are huge in file size, so I suggest using this mode only while you are trying to take images of landscapes or architecture in bright lighting conditions. And this mode does not use pixel binning, so there is a lot of noise if you try to capture images in lower light. Both are quick at switching the focus from far to near object, but iPhone actually latched on to the focus quicker for all of these close up shots. Once the focus is set, subject is very sharp in all the shots, and since both have a wide aperture, background in each of these images get a very nice optical blur.

Close up shots is one area, where Note 8 Pro matches up to the iPhone 11 perfectly. Actually it goes even a step ahead of the iPhone, because there is a dedicated macro lens, which lets you get extremely close to your subject, to click amazing images like this. iPhone 11 can’t even set the focus while being so close to the subject. So for taking close up and macro shots, Note 8 Pro is actually better than the iPhone 11. But this macro camera has a tiny 2 megapixel sensor, so its quality quickly falls apart and there is a lot of noise in these images, if the light is anything less than ideal.

So just be aware of this, while taking macro shots. Coming to the portrait shots. This is one segment, where which one takes better images, completely depends on the type of portraits you perceive to be good. Note 8 Pro takes the approach that most smartphones take. It separates the subject from the background, without actually creating a depth map.

Which means if you have multiple people in the portrait shot, standing one behind the other, Note 8 Pro will keep both in focus, and blur rest of the background. iPhone on the other hand create actual depth data of the scene, and depending on which part you choose to keep in focus, blurs everything else gradually which is not on the plane of focus. This is how the portrait shots in actual DSLR cameras work, and I prefer this method over the one that Note 8 Pro uses. Both phones do a very good job of detecting the edges, but the subjects are sharper and have more details in the portraits of the iPhone 11. It is also the one that handles the skin tones, overall colours, and dynamic range in a much better way in these portrait shots.

I love taking these portrait shots, and 95% of times iPhone is my go to phone for taking these shots, because overall images are very pleasing to look at. And if the edge detection is not perfect, you can use apps like FOCOS to edit the depth data and get the desired results. Both can take portraits of objects. iPhone 11 was not very good at detecting the edges of complex objects. But I guess it has improved a lot with software updates, because the edge detection is now near perfect.

Note 8 Pro has been doing this perfectly ever since the launch, so I have no complains there. Overall images are still better from the iPhone, because of the overall pleasing looking colours, and much better dynamic range in these situations. As we start getting into slightly lower lighting situations, difference between the images starts to get a bit obvious. In this image, we can clearly see the iPhone 11 doing much better, in terms of dynamic range of the background, and overall clarity and detail levels of the scene. Its images are much cleaner, which means there is less noise to begin with, and it doesn’t need to be very aggressive with the noise reduction, which can sometimes result in loss of details.

Note 8 Pro can do well, when there is some light around, but just make sure that you are not using the 64 megapixel mode in these situations. As it will end up capturing too much noise, which ruins the overall look and feel of an image. In some of the images, it is very hard to say which one did a better job, unless you zoom in very deep and try to peep in individual pixels. Which I feel is a huge win for the Note 8 Pro. iPhone handles the exposure from light or the brighter areas of the images better.

And it manages to evenly lit the scene or the subject that you are trying to capture, without adding too much of noise. Both the phones get Night mode, so they can take much better images when the Light gets even lower. Night mode on the iPhone 11 is clearly doing a much better job. it ends up capturing much more light and details, while introducing a minimal amount of noise or grains in the shot. Which is completely opposite to what the Note 8 Pro does.

Its night mode images are definitely brighter than the auto mode ones. But it adds in a lot of noise, and barely retains any of the details, which is apparent as we zoom in on any part of its images. It is nice to see the iPhone 11 finally managing to beat the android phones in lower light. Because it was very disappointing to see that even the Note 7 Pro could beat last years iPhone XS Max in very lower lighting situations. So the iPhone 11 is a clear winner when it comes to low light photography.

That brings us to the front facing cameras. iPhone 11 has a wider selfie mode, which i feel you should shoot in most of the times, as it uses the complete 12 megapixels that the front sensor offers. Note 8 Pro has a higher resolution front facing camera, but we see more details in the selfies from the iPhone 11. It also shows much better skin tones and overall colours. There is some heavy post processing taking place on the Note 8 Pro, which make it loose out on some of the details.

iPhone 11 is taking better and detailed selfies, I am actually as surprised as you guys probably are while watching these results. For the portrait shots, again the actual face is sharper in the selfies from the iPhone 11. But the edge detection on the Note 8 Pro seems to be far better, while the iPhone 11 consistently blurs out my hair. This year it is doing a better job with my glasses, but I still prefer the overall portrait selfie from the Redmi Note 8 Pro. Here is a video from the front facing camera of the iPhone 11 and the Redmi Note 8 Pro.

You can see how both these phones are handling the overall colours of the scene, exposure and stabilisation when I am walking around with them. There is also lot of noise over here, so you can let me know in the comments, which one is picking up my voice better. You can also take 1080p slow motion videos with the front facing camera on the iPhone 11. I don’t think I am ever going to use it. But I can see these kind of posts getting very popular on some social media channels.

Note 8 Pro can capture un stabilised 4k videos at 30fps, and these videos are no match to the extremely detailed and stable 4k videos from the iPhone 11. iPhone can even shoot amazingly stable 4k 60fps videos with extended dynamic range, and these videos are a treat to watch.1080p videos are stabilised on the Note 8 Pro and they look a lot better than its 4k videos. But it is still no match for the detailed higher bitrate videos from the iPhone 11, which is the best smartphone for shooting videos in the market right now. So with over 75 image and video samples, what do you think the conclusion is? If you have been keeping score, iPhone 11 captures sharper and more detailed images in bright daylight, despite the Note 8 Pro having a much higher resolution sensor. Colours are also more natural from the iPhone 11.

Dynamic range is good from the Note 8 Pro, but it is not consistent in all situations. Thanks to the extra macro mode, close up shots are better from the Note 8 Pro. iPhone 11 gets ahead in the Portrait mode shots, with better detail levels, dynamic range and overall colours. And it is again much better in lower light, both with and without the Night mode. But the overall performance of the Note 8 Pro is not too far behind.

And many of these differences are only visible if you know a lot about photography, or if zoom in too deep and compare these images side by side. Otherwise, on their own most of the images from the Note 8 Pro look good, and I feel majority of the average users will be very happy with its camera performance. So that beings me back to the point which I mentioned towards the starting of this video. iPhone 11 obviously has a very good set of cameras, and rightly so because you are paying a fortune for it. But despite of coming in at 1/4th the price, cameras on the Redmi Note 8 Pro are also really good.

And these images are a proof, that cameras on budget smartphones are getting so good, that they can go head to head with some of the flagships smartphones. If you are someone who has an iPhone 11 or if you are planning to get one, don’t worry, your phone is still technically better at all the aspects. But if you are someone who has the Redmi Note 8 Pro or if you are planning to get it, you should know that the cameras on your phone are capable of taking really good images, so don’t let the fact that you don’t have flagship smartphone limit you from taking amazing shots. These have been my thoughts and views about the cameras on these 2 phones. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments.

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This has been Sagar, and I will catch you guys in the next video. Take Care.

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