Sony Xperia 1 ii vs Google Pixel 4 XL Camera Comparison By Grant Likes Tech

How's it run grant here, welcome to my camera comparison, video between the Sony Xperia 1 mark 2 and the Google Pixel 4 XL. So this will be a camera comparison and some good lighting conditions. So, if you're looking for a low lighting person, I'll be doing a separate video on that so stay tuned to the channel. For that video also, please note that all the photos I took on the Xperia 1 mark 2 or with Sony's photo Pro app in auto mode and I know they're marketing this towards more, the pro camera user and all of its manual features. But there are a lot of videos showing off the manual capabilities on the Xperia 1 mark 2, far better than I can, and I really want to showcase this as a what you can get from a point-and-shoot experience, especially up against the point-and-shoot King right now the Google Pixel for Excel, and so I'll show you a bunch of photos and videos and stay tuned to the end because I'll, let you know what my observations are as well as which camera is probably best for you and why so, let's go ahead and take a look at all the photos and videos everyone. So here we are in the park with the normal tests that I do in these comparisons.

Well, if you do it here, because there's a lot of blue and a lot of green, so you should be able to see how these phones reproduce these colors, and I've got HDR turned off on the Sony to keep it more real to life here on the colors and there's active noise wind filtering on the Sony, that's on! So, let's see, if that makes a difference in the audio between these two and last thing. I'll know is that you cannot switch between the cameras once you start recording on either these phones so on the Sony. You've got the ultra-wide the wide in the telephoto once you start recording you're locked into that lens. So these are both on the standard wide lens right now, and we go ahead and pan over to the right and do the usual zoom test on the cell phone tower so two times they're on the pixel and let's go up to about two times on the Sony and so on. The pixel for Excel I can go up to eight times digital and on V Sony I can go up to three times zoom.

Now, if you want to get closer with the Sony, you would have to go and switch the lenses, so you can go three times zoom on each lens. So if I want to go to an equivalent of about eight times, zoom, like you're, saying on the pixel for Excel I'll have to shoot in a telephoto lens and then zoom in three times, but since I can't switch me to the lenses, that's pretty much. All you're going to get here, and I'll zoom back out on both phones, and we'll do some autofocus tester on the post. So the pixels focusing up and refocusing away pretty click quickly here, and we can go ahead and test the Sony here focus away. Let's see there, we go, so I think it's about the focal focusing distance that you have to get right.

I noticed that the minimum focusing distance isn't the best on it on the Opera, but once you get to the right, focusing distance it'll focus up pretty quickly there. We go so nice. What about this distance? It's okay, but if I want to get a little closer, it makes a little tougher, I think so get to the right distance, and I'll get to the right focus there you go! So, let's go ahead and test stabilization as I walk down these stairs. There is video stabilization both on both these phones, especially at 1080p. So let's see how these perform here, and we'll pan back up into the sky, just to see all handles that exposure all right here.

You go same test this time at TP, 60 frames per second set on both the pixels able to do explicit, 60 frames per second now and give you an idea. Here's some bushes blowing in the wind. There see a little more moving here at 60 frames per second, and we'll test the zoom so two times there on the pixel and well two times there on the Sony, and we'll go all the way up six times, Digital here compared to eight times at 30 frames per second on the pixel and though you're three times on the Sony. So if you zoom out on both there, you go, we can do some autofocus again at 60 frames per second on the pixel first pixels, still real nice and quick at pretty much whatever distance I pick will try up with the Sony now Xperia one marked two, and it's not focusing right. I mean look a little farther there.

It is so elected this distance, so if I refocus away and then come back in it locks in away and booming locks in so minimum focusing distance again, not that great now stabilization at 60 frames per second here, let's see how both of this performance 60 frames and one last panel on the park up into the afternoon sky. Okay, one last test: 4k 30 frames per second. Neither of these phones can do 4k, 60 or the Sony should be able to do it, but I don't see a setting for that. So, if you know, let me know also do some more playing around but anyway, because the pixel can't do it anyway. We're just going to do apples to apples, 4k, 30 frames per second here, and please note the colors, because at 4k sometimes these phones can get really off and their color reproduction.

And so let's go over here and test the zoom at 4k. So again, two times room on the pixel and two times zoom there on the Xperia one mark two, and you should get back at eight times, Digital there on the pixel. What you do pretty clear and steady in the viewfinder and let's go three times there on the Sony again, if you want to get in further you're going to have to go and use a telephoto lens, then zoom in on the Sony. But three times is all you're getting here on the mean lens. So let's back that out and autofocus at 4k.

So again on the pixel first and this pixel autofocus is really nice. Locks in on the post really quickly and refocus is really quickly and so again, let's get a distance right with the Sony there you go locks in focus and refocuses there. You go so again get the right focusing distance, and these Sony will focus up pretty quickly right stabilization test down the stairs at 4k. This should also be doing okay with the stabilization on both these phones and while last panorama park, everyone. So here's a quick clip from the front-facing cameras from the Sony Xperia 1, Mach 2 and the Pixel 4 XL.

Now both of these can record up to 1080p 30 frames per second, and I really would expect too much from performance from these front-facing cameras, especially in video recording like this, but if you're in a pinch, and you have to use them. This is about the video quality. You would expect it's in pretty good shape, so not a lot of harsh lighting. This is about as good as these cameras can probably do an outdoor setting. So I'll go ahead and walk, so you can see the stabilization and how these front-facing counts perform.

But hopefully that gives you a better idea of how these front facing cameras, compare hey everyone so now, you've seen all the photos and videos for itself I'll, let you know what my observations are and who I think each of these cameras are probably best suited for so first off the details in these Sony photos were a lot more comparable to the details, retained and the pixel photos, even after cropping all the way in, and I really thought that would have been a run away by the pixel. But these Sony details and their photos were actually very good, so really nice job by Sony there. Secondly, I really thought the Blues in the skies or the colors in general would have been more natural on the Sony. But as far as the blue skies are concerned, the pixel actually had the more natural blues, while the Sony had a lot more aggressive, coloring there, and my last major observation for the photos is that the Sony bouquet, not even in portrait mode, just natural close-up macrophotography, creating a natural background blur. The stoning is much more aggressive and just blurs out the whole background, while the pixel actually does a more natural-looking bouquet or background blur, where it's low, more layered and not just completely blurred out.

So for me, personal preference there, but I like the pixel. Because of that- and that's just an observation, I noticed the song is a lot more aggressive in that natural bouquet and as far as videos I think it was a product toss up. I think you can pick which one you like more. Neither the cameras really wowed me as far as the video performance, where and if you're wanting where the colors were I, think it's somewhere in between I thought. The pixel was a little washed out, while the Sony was just a tad bit too saturated or a little too hyped, but I think the natural color was somewhere in between there I think audio on both were fairly good.

I thought the wind canceling did okay on the Sony, it wasn't anything overly impressive, and the stabilization was fairly decent on both. So as far as video performance, I could probably go either way. It's not which one did you actually prefer the pixel or the Sony and I think the answer is gonna, be depending on which approach to photography you like, because they pretty much take complete opposite approaches here. The pixel will obviously appeal to more of the point-and-shoot person like me, where there's just an auto mode. There is no pro or manual mode and the pixel is going to use its computational photography and its own algorithms to give you the best possible photo without you having to manipulate it.

So you just point shoot it's going to give you the best possible photo that it thinks it can give you, and it's not going to leave you with a lot of control in that manner, but because of that, it is capable of giving you a lot more of those wow moments. So when you snap a photo, sometimes it's processing and once it finishes it just looks like wow. It applies that HDR effect, and it just comes out to be something that you never really expected, and so for a lot of people that can be very good or not so good for a lot of control freaks who want absolute control over how their photos look, maybe not so much, but for people who just want to point shoot and have a really good-looking photo. It has a lot more of those wild moments and I think that's what people liked about it, and it's going to be a lot more instantly, shareable and so moving over to Sony and their approach to photography, definitely much more geared towards the prosumer or the pro camera user. Their emphasis on bringing and their Sony camera Alpha Team to design a photo Pro app to go along with their cinema.

Pro app really shows that the want you to use these custom Pro apps and not so much the stock camera, and it's auto mode. That's really evident because they really had made no real improvements in the stock camera app. The portrait mode in the stock camera app hasn't really been improved, and it was never very good in previous models. They actually took away the 960 frames per second super slow motion from it. They even omitted a night mode in the stock camera app and there are rumors that it's coming, but the fact that it's not there on launch shows you where the parties were, and they also don't have a dedicated macro mode, which has been very popular on cameras this year.

And, lastly, their usability on Zoom isn't very good. You can see that they're really geared towards the pro user, because there is no slider that takes you from zoomed all the way out to zoomed all the way in you have a three time, zoom per lens. So if you're on the main lens, you can zoom in three times, if you want to zoom in farther than that, you have to switch over to the telephoto lens, then zoom in an additional three times for probably what's equivalent to about a normal, eight times, digital zoom. So it's not like an iPhone where you can actually zoom all the way out slide it all the way to zoom all the way in, and it automatically switches between the lenses for a really nice usability. You actually have to know what you're doing and switch between the lenses and get to the right zoom level that you want, and so because of all that, the auto mode, or they stock camera app, isn't really what Sony's focus was they want you to use that photo Pro that cinema Pro, or they built in all the manual controls, to give you full control over the cameras on this phone, and if you know what you're doing you're going to get some really nice results, but for the rest of us who just like to point and shoot Sony is probably not going to be the route for you.

You'll probably be happier with the pics before excel, so with all that, all the way I personally prefer the pixel for Excel, because I am more of a point-and-shoot person. I, like the results that the pixel four tends to get me. I do really like those wild moments that it provides, but I must say that I am impressed with how the Sony Xperia 1 mark 2 performed here, and it kept up with the pixel for Excel much more than I thought. It would, I do think. The photography is much more improved here on the mark 2 than previous Sony phones and I do like how it gives you more flexibility.

So it gives you a much more neutral photo and gives you a lot of room to play with and edit after the fact. So, if you do like to play there, photos I do think. You're gonna, like the Sony, Xperia 1, mark 2. Now, of course, that's just what I think about how each of these times performed. Let me know in the comments which one you preferred and why any other questions or comments leave them down below and as always, thanks for watching.

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