Samsung S20 Ultra Camera VS. iPhone 11 Pro VS. Pixel 4! By NothingButTech

The s20 ultra is one of the most promising camera setups on the market, with HK video recording a hundred times zoom capability and a massive camera bump. So when I got my hands on this I was beyond damned to immediately go out and actually test the camera. So that's what I did welcome to part one of this MBT style camera comparison featuring the s20 ultra, so you're, probably asking yourself: why are there multiple parts to this camera comparison, video Jacqueline normally just does one video for the camera, comparisons, and you're right to ask that, and there are three reasons: why first reason is that the s20 ultra is one of the most feature packed smartphones in terms of its camera. So it didn't make sense to put all these features into one video and not cover any of them thoroughly enough I feel like they each me like a spotlight on them. So that's one reason. The second reason is that the s20 ultra shoots 8k, video and I did not want to make this entire video a Kay and up skillet and then the last reason I said.

I know that pre-orders are starting and I know. A lot of people are kind of basing it they're gonna, pre-order or not based on the camera. So I wanted to get you like footage out right away if some of the things that you can expect from this camera final note before we jump into image number one, the s20 ultra has 108 megapixel mode, which is crazy, and you can definitely see a difference in detail when you zoom in between the 180 megapixel photos and the regular photos, so I'm definitely going to test that in an upcoming video, but for the photos in this video they were just taken in the regular megapixel mode. Now that we've cleared that up, let's dive into image number one, a portrait test, the pixel four has a regular lens and then a telephoto lens. But when it takes portrait photos, it takes it with the regular lens, and then it crops in a little, so you're going to notice that the framing on that camera is gonna, be different from the 11pro and ultra the ultra and the 11pro both have a telephoto and a regular, and it actually gives you the choice between shooting in telephoto, portraits, which looks like similar to a DSLR and then a wider portrait which looks like more smartphone.

Ask it's really nice to have that option. A bum that the pics afford does not have it in terms of the shot the pixel for in the iPhone 11. Pro look pretty bad here in terms of skin tone like I'm, a greenish yellow on both, whereas the Espa?ol trick is my skin tone, a cooler look. It looks a little too purple for my taste, but I like it much better than the other two, which kind of just the skin tone looks awful, and then I'm not gonna lie in terms of sharpness. My face definitely looks the sharpest in the pics of for, and it also looks like the most contrast, II, but almost to a detriment, because my eyes look kind of black on the pixel for, whereas on the ultra and the 11pro, you can actually see like that.

My eyes are brand, so I love a contrast image, but sometimes it's taken too far to the extreme, and it seems like the pics for did that here terms of edge detection, the ultra and the pixel for killed it. They did a perfect job. Davis 11pro also almost killed it, but it lost it at the top of my head and on the right side near my hair. The s20 ultra has the best of both worlds in terms of like a good cut, but also a realistic blur. So it's my favorite image out of this sample popping out to the water lens and I, just want to note I'm looking here, because I'm doing a live analysis for you.

The pixel 4 is kind of outclassed in the hardware department, as I said, because it can't go to the water lens, but it still tends to be one of the best images or even be the best image in certain cases, because the software image processing is amazing. Alright, next image, how good does this breakfast burrito? Look? It's not a fire which phone captured at the best, though as well I should be answering, so I'm going to answer that right now, the pixel for the iPhone 11 Pro, the s20 ultra missed the primary area. Focus would be to an image that isn't really that pleasing to look at yikes, the pixel and the 11pro hover nailed the focus. So your eye directly goes to like the focal point of the image. The pixel 4 definitely went to a cooler tone here, which I think looks good sometimes, but I do not like cooler tone of photos when you're photographing food or when you're photographing people, because it's just not as flattering to the subject.

I, do definitely like the contrast that the pixel 4 does adhere. The iPhone tends to produce a flatter image, which means that there's a lot of room to edit, but someone in the last video pointed out in the comments that a lot of general consumers do not edit their photos and I grew that so, if you're, just looking at like post a photo, sometimes it's nice to have that added contrast and not have to worry about adding it and post. So if your plenty are not editing- and you like the contrast, you look the pixel for pretty much delivers on that contrast, you look every single time. Alright, next image is a picture of a tree and I have to, say I'm a sucker for perspective images like this, and they all did a pretty good job, which made me really happy. The exposure on the ultra of the sky is much better than when you compare it to the 11pro, and it's before it's not.

Those two phones are terrible, but they're disguise a little more blown out in comparison again, though, the Ultra did not do the most pleasing focus, in my opinion. So, like the front, part of the image is really out of focus we're on the 11pro and the before they both also did not focus on the front part of the image, but the roll-off of the focus from like the mid-part of the image to the front. It's just more satisfying to look at, whereas s20 just feels a lot harsher. The pixel four did not get the right, color tone on this, so it looks super off. The ultra went to a much more cool color tone, which was not really that accurate, but it looks pretty nice, and I think it kind of suits this image.

But in terms of accuracy, the 11pro has the most accurate color tone for this picture. Did someone say a portrait mode test? Yeah? You know I love those, so I'm testing it. The pixel fours mentioned before is a little more punched out in the tube. Just something to note in terms of other aspects of the image skin smoothing is here again on the Samsung Galaxy device. The ultra has it even with Beauty mode turned off.

It's still like smoothed out my skin to the point where I was like: oh no did I miss focus in the shot and I zoomed in, and I didn't it's just that they've really smoothed out my skin because of that in comparison, the 11pro and the pixel for look a lot sharper. The Ultra is probably the most flattering image, but if you're paying $1,400 for a phone I think you want detail, it would be really nice to have the option to turn off skin smoothing entirely, as you texture looks pretty good across the board, but I got to give it to the pixel for and nailed it around my hair, even when the wind was blowing. That's impressive! All right! The next image is a dynamic range test. You know how much I like those- and this actually was kind of interesting, because the 11pro and the s20 ultra did a perfect job, but the pixel 4 looks like kind of desaturated like the sky lost its blue colors. So it's my least favorite image here so alters image, though kind of lost some detail in the pavement because it made it.

So contrast to you, whereas the fix before and the 11pro retain that detail, but I think that the s20 ultras image is still better than the pixel for, because the skies that you're going to see first and the pixel format, it looks like it was a cloudy day when it just was not then I punched down in the same scene to see what the ultra rabbit looked like and the pics of 4 does not have an ultra-wide lens. So again, this is like a hardware limitation. It's kind of a bummer that Google has limited their phone in this way like so much because it's really hard to compete with the 11pro and the s20 ultra like if you're trying to give a consumer recommendation for a camera, and they want a lot of value. You can't really recommend the pixel for because they can get a lot more of a diverse selection of photos with the ultra and the 11pro because of the wide angle lens. But wide-angle lenses did a perfect job capturing this image.

I like the 11pro a little better here, because the detail in the car is nicer. Like you can see that the car is Navy on the 11pro, whereas on the s20 ultra added, so much contrast that you really cannot. Okay, this next image set is to show off the zoom feature on the ultra, so I'm, not sure if you can see it, but on the bottom of this it says a hundred times space zoom, and that's because this phone has a hundred times zoom capability, it's basically ten times optical and ten times digital, and it's really impressive. So in terms of practicality, I, haven't fully discovered it. Yet if it's like completely practical or something that I'll be using like three weeks down the line, but today, actually there was one use case where I found it really helpful.

There was a sign that I needed to read, and it was too far away and the text was too small, and it was important that I read it and I did not want to like to have to walk all the way up to the sign and I just used. This camera and I assumed in, and I was able to read the text on it. So that's pretty clutch in this scenario. This is just a writing. There photo from far away I'm not perfect to talk about the properties of it much, except for the fact that the pics of four blew out the sky, and it also looks so desaturation like there's, really not a lot of color here, which is kind of a bummer.

But what I do want to talk about is the zoom, so this is 100 times some on the s20 ultra, and it's pretty crisp for a hundred times. Zoom like look at that actual writing on the side. Now it took a couple, tries to get this framing because a hundred times zoom, any like handshake at all, will completely change the frame of the image and the s20 ultra tries to help you with that by providing this a little viewfinder in the top right. So you can see what you're looking at, which is really helpful, but it's hard because you have to have really stable hands or a tripod to get the exact shot. You want what I found to be helpful if you do have a s2000.

If you go to ten times, zoom, first and then kind of get like the general framing there and then zoom in the rest of the way, and then it's easier to frame, but in terms of sharpness, I was really impressed like this a hundred times zoom photo is really solid, and the other phones just can't compete with ten times zoom and eight time zoom. Alright. This next photo is another example of that. So this is another street shot and quickly just to address the primary photo, the s20 ultra and that I love look really nice here, the pixel for organics a little too saturated. It seems like it is a lot of trouble, saturating for a sky and the like subject of the photo, which is kind of a bummer, and it's been kind of prevalent, where a lot of the photos look a little sure did to me.

Otherwise, the sharpness was pretty good in the pics of board, but I would have loved to see a little more of a saturation. You could add that in post, but if we're talking about the consumer that just uploads right away, it's kind of a bummer not to have it. The more impressive thing, though here for me, is the actual zoom range. So again, I zoomed it in 100 times and I could read the sign that was way off in the distance, which is super nice, and you could read. It really clearly says trucks over 18 feet.

I, just think, that's incredible! You can actually get that much detail. It's not like you'd wanna, like post this photo, but I see the hundred times being really useful to like to read something or see something from really far away, so we've seen a hundred times zoom, but the next comparison is ten times zoom on the s20 ultra, because I think that that's like a fair comparison with the 11pro. The pixel four only goes to eight times zoom. So it's a little wider. But when we look at ten times zoom on the 11pro and ten times, zoom on the ultra and then eight on the pizza form, we compare that the 11pro actually looks really, really similar to the s20 ultra, like you, don't necessarily reap the benefits of having extreme zoom range when you're on 10 times zoom like the 11pro can hold its own and so can the pixel four in terms of a time zoom.

It's really when you get to like thirty times zoom or a hundred times, zoom you're going to see like that bigger impact, because the 11pro and the pixel board just can't do it, but a 10 times zoom on the 11pro and on the ultra and then eight times zoom on the pics. Before these all look pretty decently, sharp to me, okay in terms of selfies I, just think of general selfie and all of them the pixel fours selfie, is a lot wider than the other. It's like it's great for group selfies, but it looks like I'm holding the film like extremely far away from myself, even though I'm not, and I also just feel like it's like the most distorted least flattering image. I think that the iPhone 11 Pro is the most flattering image, and this one also the s20 ultra, is a flipped image of the iPhone 11 Pro. So you could always like to flip the image, if you like that, yes, certain perspective better than the other, but out of the box, this is the flip.

They're going to get on all the phones the pics before, and they love them over the same flip and the older is not in terms of the background. They all did blow out the sky behind me, but I'm in focus, and I'm pretty sharp on all of them. The skin smoothing is still very prevalent on the s20 ultra as you'll see. In this example, then I took a portrait mode selfie and in terms of edge detection, they all did a pretty solid job. Although the bottom of my hair and the 11pro is a little out of focus, whereas on the pic four and the s20 ultra, it's not out-of-focus.

The pixel for skin tone looks a little too yellowish and greenest to me again as we sound like the first example in this video. If I had to pick one image out of these, that I, like the best it probably the 11pro, because the s20 ultra and the pixel four kinds of gave me like unflattering skin tone, with the pixel for being absolutely the worst, but in terms of education, which this test, it's kind of for, they all did a pretty decent job with the portrait mode. Alright, we're getting through these this annex image, it's just like a top-down quick snap like if you wanted to just get an interesting color I like the yellow in this one, the iPhone 11 Pro, made like the most saturated, yellow, which I think pops the most and was also the most accurate, whereas the s20 ultra and the pixel for both look like a d, saturated yellow which isn't as nice, but the sharpness on the pixel. Four and the contrast are really nice and the sharpness across the board on all three of these images is pretty good. Okay, another port remote test, but this time it's not of me.

This is just a standard meter test, and this is where we see like the pixels for software being great, it's limited in the hardware department, but it, and sometimes it just nails a photo, and this is one of those times the edge detection on here. It's just fabulous. The 11pro and s20 ultra messed up the far part of the meter, whereas the misinform just got it. It looks perfect. It would be nice to lower the background blur a little.

This is just a standard background blur. So obviously, I would like to tone that down a little, but in terms of edge detection, I just nailed it and contrast, it nailed it. So this is my favorite image out of these pixel four takes the cake on this one, alright and then the last image. This was a long one to shoot, and probably a really long one to edit. My future self right now is probably like freaking out with this edit, but it was a fun one to make as well.

So this last image I tried to do a portrait mode test, but this wall was really difficult for the phone so on the Estonian took like a lot of time before it realized that I was like the subject and that the background should be blurred and on the iPhone, 11 probes just didn't realize. So it's still in focus, but I still think this is cool to look at for, like color and contrast and in terms of these actual photos. Skin smoothing again is here. That's a theme contrast, it's probably the most contrast image on the pixel for and in terms of skin tone. I would say that the iPhone 11 prone for look pretty similar, but the aphid 11pro look slightly more saturated to me.

What do you think of this image, I'm kind of like city, so I, don't know which one I'd prefer the most out of these? So let me know in a comment below I: don't have a lot of other coverage on the s20 ultra camera and the phone as a whole like look at this beautiful display. How could you not make a video on this so full of you coming camera comparisons, the works, if you enjoyed this video I, did put a lot of time into it so alike, and a subscription would mean a lot if you want to see future content as well. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll catch you in the next one bye.

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