Sony Xperia 1 ii vs iPhone 11 Pro Max vs Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus Low Light Camera Comparison By Grant Likes Tech

How's everybody here and welcome to my very first triple camera comparison. So, like the title suggests, I've got the Sony, Xperia 1 mark ii, the iPhone 11 Pro max and the Samsung Galaxy note 10 plus now this will be a comparison in low light conditions. So, if you're looking for comparison in good lighting additions, I'll leave links to the comparison videos somewhere in the description or in the cards, if you want to go ahead and check those videos out for yourself now, as I always do, this will be a comparison in full, auto mode. The images were taken on the Xperia watermark twos camera pro app and the stock camera apps on both the note, 10 plus and the iPhone 11 Pro max and so like. I always do I'll, take a bunch of photos and videos. Of course, it's going to be in low light conditions here, and hopefully you can judge for yourself whether these phones are gonna, be right for you and which one, you think is probably going to be best for your needs.

So, stick around to the end I'll come back and let you know how I thought each of these phones were formed, but meantime, let's get to the photos and videos um, so um, so hey everyone. So here's some quick sample footage here at night with all three phones Xperia one mark ii, note, 10, plus and iPhone loan pro max, and so again I apologize it's nothing exciting but again, given the current pandemic, I'm not really straying too far here. So again. This is a pretty decently lit situation. You can see all the lights here.

You can see how they each do into that light. There looks like in the viewfinder at least you know.10 plus is flaring the most, but the Xperia well, not the brightest. It is hanging that light the best so that mass lens coating seems to be doing its job there, and so we'll walk this way to test stabilization, but also go into a darker environment here. So you see proper forms going from a little more light to very little light here. So you kind of test the low light performance of each of these phones.

At the same time, and also pay attention to any kind of jittering, usually in low light, when you're walking around the stabilization tends to jitter around a bit so pay attention to that. As you can see here, I've just got these walkway lights. There's a pan. This way I've got some lights coming off the building, but otherwise it is very dark. So, if you're ever in a situation where you need good low light performance, you know practical use cases again.

You know some. You go out with your friends and family, a lot, I'm sure dimly lit restaurants, nightlife bar scene, whatever you may need a phone that can perform well in low light, so again, just a quick sample here in low light from all the three of these phones. Here, all right- and here we go with the front-facing cameras, just giving you a sample of what each of these look like here in some low light, and all these phones are flagship phones, and they should really perform well. They do perform well in good lighting situations, but low light is a key low light tends to separate good from great. So I think it's important to show you guys samples of how each of these phones perform not just photos, but also video here and some low light situations.

So hopefully, this gives a good idea of not just the video performance, but also a lot of stabilization here as well, and even some audio since I just passed by a water fountain here. So that's interfering with the noise, we'll see how each of these mics do, and I'll pan around one last time I kind of see how they perform into some of these really bright lights behind me. But there you go. That's just a quick sample from the front facing camera on all three phones. Okay, so now that you've seen all the photos and videos for yourself from all three of these phones, which do you think, did the best- which one do you think will work best for you, leave a comment down below, and we'll continue with the conversation down there.

But to conclude this video I'll, let you know how I thought each of these three phones performed, let's start out with the Xperia one mark ii and from the rear facing cameras actually in pretty decent lighting. I thought this did pretty well. I actually like the results coming out of the camera pro app in auto mode other than pitch black. The photos are coming out pretty well, it actually has seen detection, so it's detecting a night scene, and so it will actually take a long exposure shot, giving you a fairly well-balanced, low light photo and so again other than extreme low light. I think it balances out the photo pretty well, and by that I mean it, keeps the dark skies pretty dark without introducing too much noise and controlling a lot of the bright lights so other than extreme bright lighting conditions which pretty much no phone can control.

It's actually doing a pretty good job, and I think above average from most other phones and really reducing that lens flare, and so I think the mass optics and that lens coating here is doing its job now. That being said, I think Sony still needs to add a dedicated computational night mode, because that's just a standard feature, that's being expected on smartphone cameras these days, and it'll really come in handy for folks who actually like that feature and actually really want to not just brighten up the overall photo but use computational algorithms to actually control the shadows and really just tighten up the overall photo. And so I think Sony really needs to go ahead and add that dedicated night mode for people who want that. But for people who are purists, I think you can actually like the results coming out of the camera pro app and especially, if you take the time to tweak the manual settings, it gives you a very natural photo, and it can give you a really balanced shot. But if you want a much more dynamic shot, you want a brighter shot.

I really think the night mode addition here, if so you can come up with that in an update, will be a very nice addition for most people. As far as video on the Xperia one are two. I think everything I pretty much said about. The still photos apply to the video performance. So again, I think you're going to get a fairly well-balanced, shot in decent a lot of conditions, fairly well controlled lights, with minimum lens flare unless you're in extreme light conditions, and if you move into really darker scenes, it's going to look like how your eye sees it.

It's going to be very dark. So if you don't care about illuminating your subject in that respect, you don't want it bumping up the ISO, and you want to actually look dark and look like night and actually look like what you're seeing the Xperia one mark ii will do that for both photos and video. Now, of course, where the expert one mark ii falls short still here is in its front-facing camera performance, it's not too bad. Actually, it didn't do as bad as I thought it would do in low-light, but comparatively to the three I thought it probably performed the worst now moving on to the iPhone 11 Pro max again for still photo photography and low light. This probably did the best and actually gives you a lot of flexibility in auto mode.

Its night mode turns on automatically, and it automatically determines the length of exposure it needs to take, and it actually turns out pretty well for all these shots with no night mode. I obviously turned it off, so it looks a bit darker, but when I enable night mode and let it actually calculate out the exposure length, the photos are pretty well controlled and probably the best of a bunch, maybe not in every single photo but more consistently across majority of those photos. So I think for low light performance for still photos and even video. I think everything I just said about the still photo performance on the 11 pro max applies to its video as well. I think it has the most well-balanced, because if you move into really extreme dark light, like you saw in that video, I started to adjust the ISO and brighten up the scene enough, so you can actually see now.

Yes, that's at the risk of some noise, but at least you're able to see what you're filming without having to turn the flash it just pretty much ruins all video quality or picture quality. And that being said, the thing to note here is that the 11 pro max does not have night mode in its ultra-wide camera, or it's front facing camera. So from a main camera perspective, I think it did the best of the three from an ultra-wide. It was just too dark, and it's not too usable in most low-light conditions same goes for the front-facing camera. It does not fare very well in low-light and hopefully, apple adds night mode to both those lenses going forward.

Now. Moving on to the Galaxy Note, 10, plus, as far as still photos without night mode, I think this probably performed about the worst of the three and that's personal preference. To me. I think if you like, a brighter photo you're going to like the note 10 plus the best, but even in auto mode without night mode, it gets way too bright. For my tastes, the dark areas of the photo are just too bright a little too noisy, and it doesn't control lens flaring nearly as well as the other two phones, in my opinion, turning on night mode on the rear facing camera, brightens up even further and introduces even more noise, and I just don't really like the results from the rear facing main camera.

Now, turning to the ultra-wide camera and the front facing camera on the note, 10, plus it's a different story, they're the only two lenses out of these three that actually have night mode for the ultra-wide and the front-facing camera, and so that really helps. If you want usable, low-light, photography or video out of your ultra-wide camera. The note 10 plus is gonna, be your best bet with its night mode. Now, where night mode really shines is on the front facing camera, because without it the front-facing camera is probably the worst of a bunch, but as soon as night mode turns on its like literally night and day, it has perfect results. It becomes the best front facing camera of the three in low light with night mode on the lens flares are minimized.

The photos brightened up without too much noise, unlike the rear facing camera, and it gives you a lot better dynamic range. So it's a very much more controlled and overall pleasing low light photo with night mode turned on the front-facing camera. So there you go. That's what I think about how each of these three phones performed here in low light. None of them are gonna, be best for everything, so I think you're going to have to really pick and choose as to what's most important to you from low light photos and videos and go with the one that best suits your needs here.

So again, that's just what I have to think, and I'm really always interested in what you have to think. So please go ahead and leave a comment down below. Let me know which one you preferred and why, and we'll continue our discussion down there and as always, thanks for watching.

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