Samsung Galaxy A52 5G vs Pixel 4a 5G Camera Comparison | Best smartphone cameras for $500? By Grant Likes Tech

How's it going here welcome back to another camera comparison. Video today I have the Samsung Galaxy a52 5g up against the pixel 4 a5g. Now, both these smartphones are delivering a lot of value at their retail price of 499. Here in the US, of course, you can find them through some other deals which make them even less expensive and deliver even more value, but we do know that the pixel 4 a5g has the same cameras as the pixel 5. So we know it delivers, perfect photos and videos. I've done a bunch of camera comparisons with it, but can the galaxy a52 5g do the same? Let's go ahead and take a look at a lot of photos and videos.

I'm going to show you them in both good and low light conditions to help you decide which of these two camera systems might be best for you. So go ahead and take a look at all the samples and leave a comment at the end, and let me know which one you thought did better, which one do you prefer. So let's go ahead and take a look, so everyone, I'm in my usual testing spot here in the park, trying out the video on the galaxy a325g and Pixel 4a 5g, starting out with the ultra-wide angle, cameras on each I'm just panning around to give you a feel for what that looks like here on each of these ultra-wide angle: cameras, differences in color, differences in field of view and again, what's nice on these phones, you can switch between the lenses while recording moving into the main lens on the a52 5g and on the pixel 4 a5g right there, I'll pan around a little. So you can see the differences here in these main wide lenses both seem to be doing a pretty good job on the shadows in those trees and let's go ahead and pan over to the right, and we'll test zoom here on that cell tower. So go to the two times telephoto on the a52 5g two times digital there on the pixel 4a5g and, let's see us, go all the way in to a max 10 times, digital on the a52, a little shaky.

A little grainy five times max zoom on the pixel, but very stable, and I'll back it up to about five times zoom here on the a52 to see what that looks like compared to the five times on the pixel. So pixel looks clear, at least in the viewfinder, much more pixelated and grainy on the 852. So let's move out to one times here on each phone and test that autofocus around the post. First, with the a52 focused up, refocus away and let's see focused up, so focus is a little slow, but there you go and one more time all right and let's try with the pixel 4 a5g focus up really quickly here immediately. So autofocus seems to be a little better here on the pixel and let's go ahead and try stabilization as I walk down the stairs, and I'll expect both of these to be doing pretty well as far as stabilization here and 1080p, but I'll pull up here and pan up into the sky and into that bright sun to see how the cameras handle exposure and everything everyone, so we're back with the same test.

This time at 4k, 30 frames per second again, starting out with the ultra-wide angle lens on each, and again I'll pan around. So you can see what that looks like here on each of these ultra-wide angle, cameras, the galaxy a52 has a slightly wider field of view, as you can see, and we can go ahead and switch into the main lens on each so a 52 pixel, 485 g I'll pan around a bit. So you can see what the difference is on this lens a bit here, and we can go ahead and pan over here to the right, and we'll test zoom again on the post. So two times there on the a52 two times here on the pixel, and we'll move into, let's go to five times on the a52, and we'll go to the max five times, zoom on the pixel. So that's how they compare there, both looking pretty stable.

The pixel is looking a little less grainy though, and I go into full ten times: digital zoom on the a52 and also not too bad, but definitely a bit grainy, and we'll move back out to one times on each and last test. Autofocus here on the post with the a52 first, there you go focused up and away takes a little, but you can see it focus and there you go and now with the pixel focuses immediately so a little faster here on the pixel again, and we'll go ahead and test stabilization as we walk down the stairs. There's no stabilization here in 4k on the a525g. So that's going to be pretty obvious here, as I walk down the stairs, and we'll go ahead and pull up here at the end again up into the sky and see how these cameras handle that changing light everyone. So we're testing out the super, steady mode, stabilization on the a52 against the active stabilization on the pixel 4 a5g.

So I'm just walking with the phones in front of me, and these bullets should be doing perfect care. But let's go ahead and run a little to stress them out and see how the stabilization holds up on each. So that's just a quick test of those stabilization modes on each phone, hi, everyone! So here's some video from the front facing cameras on the galaxy a52 5g and the pixel 4a5 g, I'm outdoors, obviously in some afternoon sunlight, but it's not too harsh, and it's coming off my left and so the picture quality, at least in the viewfinder. I'm both looking pretty good, although I'm noticing, on the pixel, it's making my skin tone, look a little reddish and that's been going on for the last few camera comparisons. I'm not really sure.

What's up with that, but let's go ahead and pan around, so you can see how these cameras handle and what the image quality looks like into some changing light here. So as I pan this way, the sun is directly in front of me, and you can see what that looks like as far as the sky and how the exposure is looking their, looking pretty good actually and as we pan around it's going to get more difficult, because obviously the sun's going to be directly behind me. Camera's going to be working hard to properly expose me, and you can see what that does to the sky there, which is pretty typical, and we'll go ahead and pan around one more time and test stabilization here. So this is just a feel for what the video quality on the front-facing cameras look like here, outdoors and 1080p, which again is the max resolution on the pixel foreign uh, hey everyone! So here's a low light, video test between the galaxy a52 5g and the pixel 4 a5g, starting out with the ultra-wide angle lens on each give a feel for what it looks like here on each of these phones. In this situation, and already you can see that the a52 is flaring out that bright light a little more than the pixel.

But again what's nice? Is that you can switch between the lenses while recording so let's go into the main lens here on the a52 and the main lens on the pixel, and I'll pat around here? So you can see what that looks like here on each of these main lenses, and we'll pan back this way and go up into that really bright streetlight again and both of them are flaring it out and that's going to be pretty normal. It's a really intense light, and actually it's not looking as bad on the a32 here in this main lens, and it did in the ultrawide. So let's go ahead and pan over here this way, and we'll start testing out the stabilization on each of these phones here in 1080p- and this is my usual low-light test. So if you're familiar with my camera tests, you know I like to test different lighting situations, so that was pretty much as good as it's going to get. If you're going to film in low light I'll start walking to a much darker area here around the corner and see how each of these phones handle that light transition and at least in the viewfinder, the pixel is looking brighter at the expense of more noise in the a52 5g.

But we'll see once we offload these onto the computer, and we'll stop here, and we'll pan up into the pretty dark night sky there and again the pixel is much brighter and much noisier at least what I'm seeing here directly it'll pan over here to the left, where there's a little more light. So you can see what that starts to look like here in that kind of situation down this alley, and so there's a quick test and full HD 1080p 30 frames per second there ever, so we're back again with the same test this time at 4k, 30 frames per second, but again, starting out with the ultra-wide angle lens on each phone here. So you can see what that looks like in 4k and again. The a525g is definitely flaring out that bright light in the ultra-wide language lens that much more than the Pixel 4a is. But again the 8525g definitely has a wider field of view.

You can fit much more in the frame there, but I'll go ahead and move into the main lens on each. Let's go to the main lens on the a52 and the main lens on the pixel, and I'll pan around and see what it looks like here on this camera, and again we'll move over into the really bright streetlight and see how it handles it pretty much about the same. Maybe the a52 is playing that a little more than the pixel. Let's go ahead and pan over this way, and we'll test stabilization again in 4k, and again we'll walk from that pretty well lit area to a much darker area and the 4k footage should be looking darker than the 1080p footage. That's pretty normal, but do let me know what you're seeing and what you think, and again the pixel seems to be brightening up the scene a little more than the a52, but again at the expense of a little more noise there, and so let's walk over here, and we'll pull up again right here, and we'll pan up again into the dark night sky.

Maybe a couple of stars are out here: we don't get too many of those again brighter on the pixel, and we'll move over here to where there's a little more light down this dark alley to give you a feel for what that looks like here and 4k everyone, so here's some low light, video on the front facing cameras on the galaxy a52 5g and the pixel 4 a5g again we're starting out in some pretty ideal light conditions. This is at 1080p, 30 frames per second, that is the max resolution and frame rate on the pixel. The a52 5g can record up to 4k 30 frames per second, but I want to keep these apples to apples at the same resolution here and again, like I said, it's a pretty ideal lighting situation, lots of lights around me, as you can see here, you can see how these front-facing cameras handle those bright lights as they pan around now, go ahead and start walking to test stabilization, and again we'll test how they handle this light. So we'll go from this really bright light over to a much darker area here to see how these cameras look in different lighting situations here and as I walk over here, we'll have a water fountain to my right, so also see how the mics handle that noise compared to the sound of my voice. As you can see here, it's much darker, but we'll go ahead and pan around this way.

So you can see what each of these cameras look like into those really bright streetlights behind me and how they handle that, of course, they're flying them out a bit more than other front facing cameras. But that's going to happen. Those are really bright lights, and we'll pan around this way, and we'll end the video here in this lighting situation here to compare them directly against each other, so hope you enjoyed all the photos and videos do. Let me know what you think about each of these phones, which one did you like for photos or videos which one did you like in general. Leave me a comment down below.

Let's continue our conversation down there, and as always, thanks for watching you.

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