Unbiased Pixel 4a vs iPhone SE Camera Comparison: BLIND! By Max Tech

Hey guys its max and Vadim, and today I am doing an unbiased blind camera comparison. We're gonna finally find out does Vadim truly love his iPhone photos, or is he actually an underground pixel fan? Let's see these things are a ton of fun. Please get a piece of paper in a pen or your phone out with the notes he's going to be choosing which photo he likes better he'll. Let you guys know why, as well. I've seen some of these not side by side, so I'm going to choose which one I prefer, even though I might know for some of them. It's going to get interesting, and I have no idea- and we want to hear you guys, opinions both of these are budget phones, 350 bucks for the pixel, 4a and 400 for the iPhone SC and they both use older cameras with older sensors.

But the software is newer on these phones. So, let's see which software is better, and I took a wide variety of shots. Selfie uh, regular photos, even some videos in panorama, so we're going to have a really nice scope of images and video for this first photo. I'd say that I definitely like the one on the left better because it looks more bright and not only that I, like the color balance better, and I see more detail, especially on the moose, like a bunch of fine details over there, 4a no right off the bat all right. It's warm we're, not we're not biased.

At least this far we'll see what happens. Oh wow, that's by the way, if you guys, like max tech, go check out our merch shelf down below check out the masks. Those are very popular. Let's move to number two! This is a very tough call right here, because they're so similar. But, to be honest, I think I like the one on the left, because it does very well with the high dynamic range, but on the right everything looks a little washed out or gray like in those dark.

They seem like they should be darker, but they're not, and that one is the iPhone s e good job apple. Next, one is this: I don't know why she put it. I don't know why she put it up so close here. Well, obviously, the one on the left looks better. I mean you got the both on the back.

Do you agree, though? Maybe you like this one better? No, maybe you want to see all that's too much stuff in the background. Well, this one, you guys, may have guessed. If you didn't already know the iPhone can only do portrait with people, and this is a situation where it's great to have that portrait mode and the pixel does it for this one. I'm definitely going to go with the one on the left, because if you look through the window, you have much more detail on that house. The car everything and everything on the inside looks better yep.

The sky is not blowing out either. So definitely the left four yeah. It's interesting. The iPhone actually made all this brighter than it actually was. It was darker.

Try too hard, okay, the next one, and this is zooming in all the way um. So I try to zoom in and take a shot with both, and neither of these have telephoto cameras so well for this photo. I definitely go with the one on the left because the goal is to zoom in more. It seems like on this photo, and you can read that text that meter better on the left, so that one and the camera on the left zoomed in a lot more than the one on the right it's also sharper, and that is the 4a. Even though the sensor is, I think, two or three years old now from the pixel 3.

The sensor is impressive, quite old, and then this is another zoom image, but instead of a lower light situation, it is similar lighting and I zoomed in the same amount for both this time around. I'm seeing a lot more detail on the right, like especially in the water and in the building, but I am seeing noise in the sky, which is a little. It's actually not noise, its compression artifacts is it frozen. I think I'd still go with the one on the right overall on the right four. I actually thought that the iPhone was that one, because that usually the iPhone has artifacts and stuff in it yeah.

But I guess not. This is a macro shot right here. It took me a while to try to get these because it's so hard to capture them on these phones. Well, it's definitely the one on the right. The left is too blurry everywhere.

Absolutely it was easier. It was definitely easier to take the image. I actually did three, I think, on these wow, and this is a portrait shot, um same situation using the portrait mode. Honestly, I think the one on the left still looks better because uh, the one on the right is very flat: there's not much dynamic range and yeah. It's just brought up too high.

The mid are 4a Vadim you're, a pixel boy. I, like my iPhone, it's a pixel, oh man. This is just a little too cool. I like the warmth on this side yeah, but it was in the shade. So I guess it's more accurate to what it was yeah.

It seems like so, and here we have a shot of some delicious food, which one is more appetizing, which one do you want to eat the one on the left. Of course, I mean it has more color and the plate on the right is too cool. It's blue. It was not a blue plate iPhone for the win on white balance for this one, and we have a low light shot here. Furthermore, it was darker inside yeah on the right for sure.

The one on the left is blurry motion yeah and I actually took a couple of these two iPhones. So iPhone is known from all the tests we've done to have really quick, shutter speeds, even if that means a little more noise definitely helped out in this situation, and we have our first video here. Okay, I know the shots. Last wasn't just ugly. So let's watch this video back all right, so right off the bat the one on the left is super blown out, and even now it looks like the one on the right has better HDR, better dynamic range and at times the one on the left, your beard becomes fully black out and that's the iPhone.

What that's the iPhone honestly, I was surprised. I saw this a little earlier. I was surprised at the 4a dynamic range. It's a little flatter at times like this, because it's pushing the HDR a lot more. But look at this pause right here.

I can't believe if it's hard to watch when you're, just watching but too bright and his beard suit, dark, pixel, 4a for sure, and I'm surprised, pixel usually had issues with this but yeah. They, I guess, improve the video software for this shot, I'm seeing better dynamic range in the sky, seeing more blue and in this texture of all this stone work. Masonry work, I'm seeing more detail there as well, so left 4a. I actually forgot to vote a couple of times and which one is my favorite, so I'm going to skip that yeah, okay uh, but you're you're, the important person right now and so far the pixel is doing perfect. So this is a wide shot here, with a ton of detail, lots of light and the late I'm going to crop in to see the close-up detail without using the super zoom algorithms, they have uh.

What do you think so far in this one? All right, so it looks like there's better dynamic range on the right. There's this little sign here, that's very white and bright, and it's better on the right side, and you see more texture in the sand. Yeah, it pops more contrast. And then this is the crop. Okay, yep! Definitely the one on the right for sure get a little more detail out of it too.

So four, four! Ah oh wow, it seems like when you need a little more contrast: yeah it's there, but then, when you need a little more dynamic range, it's also there, google, impressive, they're doing a good job, and now we have a selfie with the sun. In the background nice sunset, what looks better? Which one would you want on your phone? If this was okay? You not me this one is shocking because you're getting much better dynamic range in the sky, yes, but the trees are so much more sharp in the background, yep everything's, more sharp and the foreground, and look at this flaring I wanted to flare, and I cleaned these off perfectly less no smudge like yeah a lot better. Wow. Oh, come on Google: how is this 350? That's insane with double the ram double the storage and cameras like these all right. Let's, let's move on, and here we have two panoramas.

These are white, so I'm going to go back and forth. Take a look at this one. Let me know when you want me to switch, go ahead, there's the other one. Oh yeah, the other one, the first one, the first one's better. First one looks better.

Why is it better? I don't know it just looks better brighter. Overall, just I don't know yeah better contrast, the first one's the SE is it the second one is the pixel. This looks flat and colorless and detail loss. It looks weird they have. I wanted to test this because Google Pixel phones have had issues with panoramas.

It's like three megabytes, whereas the apple one is 20 megabytes, so they really compress. It looks like they still haven't fixed that issue. Now, a nice sunset right after sunset, shot here, yeah this one's obvious, left the left. Why do you like the left? One better? I mean like the one on the right like the one right: it's killed like the delicious here's, the trees everything's crushed 4a. No, how much do you have for the iPhone four okay? Well, yeah yeah, we'll wait to count and uh another nice sunset, different location here, wow, the one on the left.

Kills it so much more detail, 48 yep all right, and then this is already after sunset. It's a nice night shot here and I rested the phones on a railing here for this one I mean the one on the left is definitely nicer brighter. I don't really like how this becomes so red near the bottom of the trail, like the one on the right looks more natural, but to be honest, I still like the one on the left because it just brings out more detail. It pops like crazy and the trees, aren't crushed on the left. Either.

Here's one thing: you didn't notice, look at all these compression artifacts over here, okay on the sky, yep, and look how clean this one is: yeah left, 4a wow! This is going to get interesting right now. Oh, we have an inside shot of my dog. I didn't expect that all right, where's, my puppy, look better the one on the right. I think I like that one better 4a again I Oregon, I didn't think the iPhone shots. Were this bad.

When we tested it, I thought it was good what okay, so next one uh nighttime selfie. Just with my streetlamp on from my house, this giant lights. Do you look mad? I was very tired. This was late, the one on the left. Yes, um left 4a, so the 48 could do night mode shots on the rear camera on their front camera, but which it's a massive difference.

And then my truck here, yep left again 4a, don't forget to write it down a compression, artifacts noise detail and then a close-up grille. I guess we could have got rid of this one, but the one on the right. It didn't use night mode, but the lamp is right here- looks just sharp sharper, it's nice and then that tree the one on the right. Okay, maybe I shouldn't have put as much night shots here, but another one left for an uh look at the stars, and I didn't have a tripod here. I just rested on the grille, which is why it's kind of the angles are off okay, and then it automatically went into astral mode, and I just kind of held it there.

While it did its thing uh, the iPhone doesn't have that, and this wasn't supposed to be here, but yeah write it down for a. I don't know we had two of those, and that is it. That's the last and apple tell says that they don't want to put night mode unless the sensor is capable of being read out fast enough, but this sensor is old. Look at the results. Why won't apple do night mode on these front-facing cameras? That looks like a great photo that you'd want to keep.

This looks like a photo. You would just want to delete. Basically, so you guys check your results if you've been pause, the video pause it checks him out if you kept track. Let us know down in the comments your thoughts and what you got Vadim. What did you get 20 for the pixel, 4a and 5 for the iPhone SC wow? Yes, so basically we have our conclusion um first off, we might want to make a pixel shirt well other than that, if you care about photo quality go for the pixel, I mean check out our comparison between the two after this video.

If you haven't, there's a lot of great things about the pixel photos are way better and even the video seems like it keeps up definitely not with the 11 or 11 pro, but compared to this one. It does uh, that's a great value for 350 bucks, and we'll leave a link down below as well the iPhone you have. The long-term usability software updates, a13 processors, just chip yeah, but photos are okay, yeah in the pixel good job, good job. All right guys. Thank you guys for watching make sure to check out our merch shelf down below check out the masks.

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