Sony Xperia 1 ii vs Google Pixel 4 XL Camera Comparison (Low Light) By Grant Likes Tech

How's, everyone grants here welcome back to another camera comparison video. This time I've got the Sony Xperia one mark ii up against the Google Pixel 4 XL in a low light camera comparison. Now, if you want to see the camera comparison between these two phones in some good lighting conditions, I'll leave the link in the description in case, you want to go ahead and check that out for yourself now, like I said this is a low light, camera comparison, and these are probably situations you want to use your phones. You want to take pictures of your friends or family in a dimly lit restaurant, a bowling alley, a bar whatever it may be, and they're quick moments, and so you probably want to shoot them in auto mode. So I shot all this in auto mode and on the Xperia one r2. I use the photo pro app in auto mode as well as p mode or program mode.

So you can kind of see the difference between those two modes and what you can get and expect in low light situations. So go ahead. Take a look at all the photos and videos for yourself think about which ones you like, but stick around to the end I'll. Let you know how I thought each of these phones performed, and we'll have a discussion there, but first, let's just get on with the photos and videos. Let's go you're welcome, so.

You're welcome everyone. So here is a low light test between the Sony, Xperia 1 mark ii and the Google Pixel 2 XL at 1080p 30 frames per second. This is probably as good as it's going to get in the light.1080P 30 frames per second is as bright as most pictures get on a smartphone pan around and shoot up into that bright streetlight. You can see how the phones handle lens flare and up into the moonlight there as well, not too bad. These are really bright lights and I think it's handling them pretty decently and the viewfinder the Sony looks like it's a little more focused it's not as grainy in the night sky, but you tell me how it looks off the phone we'll go up to this light here, which is closest to me.

This is gonna, be the harshest lighting conditions, you're gonna, see, and we'll go over into some lower light. So, as I walk this way, it's going to get darker, and you'll see how both these phones handle the changing lighting conditions here, as it goes from pretty decently, lit, so you're, probably really dark here. But again, you can also see stabilization in low light, which generally is not good. You should see a lot more shakiness a lot more grain as far as stabilization, and I'll pan over here, and it looks pretty dark in the Sony pretty decently lit on the pixel but pretty noisy. But you tell me what it looks like here once it's offloaded, and you're, seeing this here on YouTube all right.

Here we go with the same scene, this time at 4k, 30 frames per second. This is typically darker at 4k, but you, let me know what you're seeing here the pixel looks a little brighter, but grainier, and again we'll pan over here into the streetlight and up into moonlight and back around here up into this really bright streetlight here in front of me, and we'll do again, the lighting test we'll walk from some pretty good light conditions over into some much lower lighting conditions, and this is a good opportunity to check out the stabilization at 4k here, especially in low light, where it tends to degrade, and now we're in some pretty very dimly lit conditions here. All you can see is those lights on the pathway we'll pan over this way into the dark alleyway, and you let me know how this looks in 4k, so hey everyone. So here is some front-facing video from the Sony Xperia 1 mark ii and the Google Pixel 2 XL. They both can record up to a 1080p 30 frames per second, and so these are probably some of the harshest lighting conditions you're going to see in low light, but again we're in quarantine.

I don't have many options, so hopefully this still gives you a pretty good idea of what you can expect if you want to shoot outside in some pretty low lighting conditions here with either these phones as a kind of round. You can see how they react into some of these uh different lights here, and I even walk around here. So you actually see some stabilization, which is going to struggle in low light, especially from a front-facing camera, and I've got the fountain behind me. So, let's see if the wind dampening is working on the Sony here for audio, but let me know what you think about the front facing cameras here on the Xperia one mark ii and the pixel 2 XL. Okay, so now you've seen all the photos and videos for yourself I'll wrap up this video by letting you know how I thought each of these phones performed and so starting off with still photos.

I actually thought that the Xperia one mark ii in some decent low light conditions actually did a better job than the Pixel 4 XL. The photos were brighter and more visible in pure auto mode, but once you kicked in the pixel's night sight, it really wasn't much of a challenge, and I know people want- or at least I know, some people want. The night photos to look like night, but in extreme low light conditions where you can't see too much, and you're going to want to be able to focus in on your subject. Regardless of how bright the scene gets. I think you're going to want the Pixel 4 XL's night sight there and the Sony spear one mark ii is true.

You could probably mess with the manual settings and get it to a better result, but there's a lot of situations where you don't have that kind of time, and you just have to point and shoot and using the program mode on Xperia one mark ii in the camera pro app or the photo pro app did seem to make a difference and helped brighten up the photo a little. So if you're in a little lower lighting conditions, and you're not satisfied with pure auto on the Sony that p mode or program mode can help out a little, but it's still no challenge for the pixel 4xl's night sight, and so I know night mode is supposed to be coming to the Xperia 1 mark ii. That's the rumor, so hopefully Sony does add it, because it does add that extra convenience and utility to the Xperia one mark ii and then looking at the video results for both of these phones. It's pretty much the same as the still photos to me. I thought that the auto mode was actually better on the Xperia 1 mark ii for good enough lighting conditions, because it's bright enough, while keeping the integrity of the scene where it still looks like night.

The dark sky is still very dark. It looks like it how it looks to the eye and the Pixel 4 XL brightens, that up a little introduces some noise and the color of the sky. Just is not quite the same, but when you do get to the really low lighting extreme low light conditions, even the video on the Xperia 1 mark ii falls apart. Yes, it keeps the integrity of the scene, but if you can't see what you're shooting it kind of defeats the point and that's we're going to want the Pixel 4 XL for extreme low light conditions, the video at least you can see what you're shooting it'll brighten up the video enough, so that you can see your subject, whereas the Pixel 4 XL is still a little too dark. But again, that's just what I think about how each of these phones performed my own personal opinion.

I want to know what you have to think, which did you prefer for photos which do you think did better in video and why leave your comment down below any other questions or comments, leave them below as well, and as always, thanks for watching.

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