Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra vs iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Comparison By Grant Likes Tech

How's it going grant here welcome back to yet another camera comparison video. Today we got the very best of Samsung, with the galaxy s21 ultra up against the very best of apple with the iPhone 12 Pro max, and in this comparison, we're going to find out if apple's tried and true formula of using that 12 megapixel sensor and refining that year after year is enough to stay ahead of what Samsung has to offer here, with the s21 ultra and all its megapixels. With that 108 megapixel rear main sensor, the 40 megapixel selfie camera. Is that enough to finally close the gap with the iPhone and maybe even leapfrog it. So that's where we're going to find out here. I've got a bunch of photos and videos to show you in both good and low light conditions, so you can judge for yourself, which has the better camera system here, apple or Samsung.

So let's go ahead and take a look at all the photos and videos and stick around, and I'll. Let you know what I think, how each of these cameras performed, so everyone, so we're testing the video in the park on the Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra and the iPhone 12 Pro max, starting out with the ultra-wide angle lens on each. This is 1080p 30 frames per second, and I can kind of pan down to test exposure. So watch the sky there see if it goes a little white there you go and as you pan back up, you can see it readjust, and I can switch between the wide angle lens and the main lens and all the telephone lenses while recording, which is nice. So I can go to the main lens on the Samsung main on the iPhone and that's what that looks like there.

So I'll go ahead and pan over here to the right, and we'll test the zoom out on both of these phones, and we can go to a three times optical on the Samsung and a two and a half times optical here on the iPhone, and we can go all the way up to a 10 times optical here on the galaxy s, 21 ultra and max zoom here will be a seven times digital on the iPhone, so digital zoom still looks pretty good on the iPhone and that ten times optical looks clearer on the galaxy. Listen to viewfinder a little shaky, though you can actually go all the way up to 20 times. Digital zoom here on the ultra, so go ahead and back it out on both the main lens. First on the galaxy and now on the iPhone, and we'll test the autofocus on each here. First with the Samsung, so there's the s21 ultra looks really nice really quick, autofocus, really nice, really shallow depth of field blurred out background there, one more time and one last time on the s21 really nice so iPhone now iPhone.

Also, really quick and snappy autofocus, not quite as a blurred out background, because it's a smaller sensor, but still very nice there on the iPhone well test stabilization as we walk down the stairs here, which should definitely be good here in 1080p on both. But do let me know what you're seeing and if you see any differences in the quality of the video or the stabilization here between these phones, and we'll stop here, and we'll pan up into the sky and see how it handles the exposure here. Hey everyone here is the same test in the park again with the s1 ultra and the iPhone 12 Pro max this time at 4k, 30 frames per second again, starting with the ultra-wide angle lens on each as I pan up, and we'll pan down again to see what the exposure in the sky looks like and back up and see it readjust. So I'll go ahead and move into the main angle lens on the s21 here and on the iPhone. You can see what that lens looks like here in 4k, and we'll go ahead and pan up and pan over here to the right and test zoom again here this time in 4k, so still three times optical lens there on the iPhone or sorry on the galaxy two and a half times optical there on the iPhone, and we'll test the ten times optical lens there on the s21 ultra and still max seven times digital there on the iPhone, and we can go all the way up into 20 times.

Digital still on the s21. Compare those, and we'll move out to the main lens on each so on the iPhone and on the s21. So we'll test autofocus here, starting with the s21 and still very nice and fast here on the s21, so really correcting a lot of those autofocus issues that we're seeing on last year's model and a really nice blurred out background. There we'll go with the iPhone now. So still really.

Nice and snappy focus here from the iPhone looks really nice. So let's go ahead and do stabilization test here in 4k, again: walk down the stairs, and we'll walk through this path. Here, just so, you can see what the stabilization looks like here in 4k, and again we'll pull up here and point back up at the sky and see how that exposure adjusts again. So so so everyone. So here's some footage from the front facing cameras on the s21 ultra and the iPhone 12 Pro max now.

This is at 4k 30 frames per second on each and, as you can see, the iPhone has a wider field of view, and I'm sure the s1 ultra would have a wider field of view of stabilization wasn't on, but the iPhone is doing stabilization, and it's producing this kind of wider field of view or more that can fit in the frame. So just point that out here and again, I'm outdoors and a bit of even lighting. So you can kind of see what that looks like here in this situation, but, as I kind of pan around, you can see what that does with the changing lighting conditions. So the sun is not in front of me and lighting me up and keeping the background pretty much well exposed if I pan around this way with the sun behind me, the image kind of shifts a little. So you can see what that looks like here, as I point up into the sky, so I'll go ahead and pan back this way, and we'll start walking to test stabilization to give you a feel for what it looks like here on both phones.

So let me know what you think of the s21 ultra and the iPhone 12 Pro max front facing cameras here: hey everyone! So here's the low light test of the s21 ultra and the iPhone 12 Pro max, starting out with the ultra-wide angle lens on each at 1080p. Here the s21 at least looks brighter, at least from what I'm seeing in the viewfinder, but we'll see once we offload this footage, and I'll go ahead and point up at the sky and up at that bright street, light to see how they're both handling that lens flare- and I can zoom in to the main angle lens on each, so there's the s21 and the iPhone. So you can see the iPhone got a bit brighter in the main angle versus the ultra-wide there, and I'll pan around this way, and we can test stabilization as well as seeing how these cameras handle the transition from that pretty well lit area here to this much darker area that we're going to be walking over to and also as it gets darker pay attention to any kind of micro jitters that you might see. That will tend to happen in low light and still, at least in the viewfinder. The s21 is looking a bit brighter here, but again that might be at expense of some noise.

So it just really depends on what kind of look you're going for here in low light, video, and I'll pull up here you can see I've just got these lights on the sidewalk, and if I pan up, you can see the night sky there. We got some pretty good cloud cover tonight, which is unusual, and I'll pan over here to the left, where there's a bit more light, so you can see what that looks like here in 1080p, hey everyone, so we're back with the standard low light test this time in 4k, 30 frames per second still, with the ultra-wide angle lens on needs to start with, as a panel. This way I'll pan back up to the sky again and into that bright streetlight. So you can see what that looks like here, and I'll move into the main lens on each so the s21 and on the iPhone and the s21 does flare out those bright lights a bit more than I would like, and yes they're very bright, and most phones will do that, but the s21 ultra, for some reason, is doing it more than most other phones. Just point that out, and again we'll do our stabilization test as well as seeing how it looks in a much darker area.

So in 4k the footage should look a bit darker than what you're seeing in 1080p. That's pretty normal and again as you walk around the corner will start to get darker and again the viewfinder. The s21 is looking brighter, but the iPhone is maintaining that more. I guess you could say true to life darker. Look as you pull up here again, we'll pan up into the darker night sky, but into those clouds.

You can see the detail in the clouds on each of these phones and what that looks like here, and I'll pan over to the left, where there's a little more light again and see what that looks like here in 4k, hi everyone. So here are the front facing cameras on the s20 ultra and the iPhone 12 Pro max in my usual low light test here, we're starting out with some pretty decent lighting around this, as you can see here, and that bright streetlight behind me. As you can see right there, you can see how that looks into these front-facing cameras, but I'll go ahead and start walking. So we can test the stabilization, and you can compare them side by side here and take notice we're going to walk from this fairly well lit area and move into a much little darker area. Here I could say so.

There's also me a fountain here to my right, so we'll have that noise competing with the sound of my voice, so we test the audio on each of these phones and how that does with that. As you can see here, it's a bit darker in this area, but I'll go ahead and pan around here. So you can see a lot of the bright streetlights behind me and how each of these phones are doing and the iPhone seems to be handling that a little better. Although the s201 ultra is not too bad, not flaring them out all that bad, and I'll go ahead, and back up here, you can see what it looks like again in this little darker area here. So let me know what you think about the front-facing cameras here in this low-light test.

Heaven so here are with the same low-light test this time at 4k, 30 frames per second on each of these front-facing cameras, again pretty good lighting around me. So you can see what that looks like here, and the bright lights again are behind me, and we'll go ahead and start walking. So we can test stabilization in 4k here, and these both should be doing pretty well they're fully stabilized in 4k. But let me know what you're seeing here, and again we'll walk into this slightly darker area. So you can see how it handles that lighting transition, as well as how the audio was handling this fountain to my right here, as I walk around it and so again we're in a bit of a darker spot here, but I'll go ahead and pan around.

So we can see how those bright lights behind me look in 4k on the front facing cameras here, and I'll pan back around, and I'll end. This and the darker lighting take a good look at what that looks like here in 4k on each of these front-facing cameras haven't so now, you've seen all the photos and videos for yourself. You know the drill, leave a comment down below and let me know which one you thought did better and which one you personally preferred now is this finally year that Samsung overtakes apple in the camera department, and for me my personal opinion, is, I think it is, and we'll break that down a little here, starting with the rear facing camera and those photos, and I think this is going to come down to personal preference. They both go back and forth, especially in the day shots, and this is pretty much true of these high-end cameras nowadays. But in my personal opinion, I think the iPhone is still boosting and saturating those colors a bit more and that's a bit surprising, because Samsung is really known for that.

But I think this year in the s21 ultra they've dialed that back just a bit, it's still boosted. It is still saturated, but not quite as much as what the iPhone is doing so. Overall, I think for the rear facing photos. I personally prefer what the s101 ultra is putting out, especially when it comes down to zoom with zoom. There's really no contest.

The s500 ultra has those two telephoto cameras for both a three and ten times optical zoom, and we compare that to the iPhone zoomed in photos. It's really no context. The s1 ultra comes out much clearer, much sharper compared to the iPhone. You can really see that digital sharpening going on so overall rear rear-facing cameras. For me personally, I'd go with the s21 ultra and as far as video is concerned, I think the iPhone has a slight edge here.

I do like what's coming out of the iPhone as far as video a bit more than Samsung, I think the s1 ultra has a little of over sharpening going on, but that's kind of splitting the hairs a little. I think they're both pretty good, and I'm not sure that you're really going to go wrong, picking either for video, but I still think the iPhone has a slight edge there. Now as for low light, I think they both go back and forth for photos and videos here as well, even in its night mode. It's some it's a toss up in a lot of those photos, but in some of those photos I think the iPhone does a better job of maintaining the darker colors, especially in the night sky. So for night mode and night photos I would give the slight edge to the iPhone there and as far as front-facing camera, I think overall, it's the s-20 ultra for me.

I personally prefer the look. I don't like the skin tones as much and the really boosted colors that are coming out that front-facing camera of the iPhone. Also, the field of view is much more narrow on the iPhone versus the s1 ultra, so just from a photos, videos and everything. What I've seen coming out of the front facing camera of the s21. I like that, much more than I do the iPhone 12 Pro max's selfie camera.

So that's just what I have to think really quickly here about each of these cameras and how they performed and which one is my personal preference. I do think that the s11 ultra has much improved set of cameras for Samsung overall this year. It's very noticeable, and I think they have finally overtaken the iPhone in my personal opinion. Now I think it really depends on how you use these phones, maybe if you use apple's pro raw and all that, and you really like the color science coming out of the iPhone you're going to prefer the iPhone still. But for me personally, I like what I'm seeing from the s20 ultra cameras, and I'll pick it over the iPhone 12 Pro max right now, but that's just what I think so leave a comment again down below with what you think and let's continue our conversation down there, and as always, thanks for watching you.

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