Vivo X60 Pro+ VS S21 Ultra Camera Comparison (Photography) By The Tech Phenomena

Ladies, gentlemen, buckler big as this, this is going to be one hell of a ride, hey the people, how doing, and it's time for the camera comparison between the VIVO x60 pro plus and the s21 ultra now. These are both respective flagships from their companies, and it's time to see which one of these will be basically crowned as camera king, because at least in photography. Well, there are some crazy and intensely exciting results, if I may say so, but hey I won't spoil anything. So, let's get started right away. I think we can all agree that the St pro plus is doing a better job, even though the conditions are fairly harsh. These are by the way, not the harshest conditions, there's way more to come.

So, as I was saying well, the x60 has better shadows, better colors, even better detail in certain areas. So, overall the x60 is taking a win. Yes, the highlight control isn't as good as the s21, but the rest of the image is just amazing now similar conditions, but with the ultra white cameras, I think the only place the s21 ultra is doing. A better job is in having a slightly wider field of view, and that's it. Everything else about the image is better.

On the x60 pro plus I mean yeah, we have a higher quality 48 megapixel sensor, so details are better, but the dynamic range just look at how many shadows are visible, and the color accuracy is beyond incredible. Now, here's another ultrawide, the conditions aren't as harsh as before, but I took this photo because it was just about sunset and I want to see which one would represent the colors right. I think we can all agree. The ext is doing the job right you can see, especially in the buildings. In the background right there, the warmth is present, the leaves have the typical sunset warmth in there.

The sky, in my opinion, looks a bit too blue on the x60, but that's about the only flaw in the colors. The rest of the image is amazing. X60 is once again a little more detailed, not a huge difference, but a difference nonetheless. So yeah I like the colors on the x60 a lot here and since that was the objective of taking this photograph. I think the x60 is taking a hat trick for the win now for high resolution.

Well, there's a lot of options on the x60 pro plus, but it's its not that good. If I were to put it in a nutshell because, yes, we get a lot of details, especially in these 50 megapixel shot here and compared to the 100 megapixel. I mean it's, it's not as good. Samsung really nailed it home with their 108 megapixel images right here, amazingly detailed, but the dynamic range is where Samsung really pulls ahead. A lot more shadow detail- and it just looks so much better now.

The x60 can also take 100 megapixel shots, which is very weird because the sensor is just 50 megapixels. So it's probably doing some kind of processing to you know ramp up the detail level, and it does help. I mean we can get slightly more detail compared to the 50 megapixel shot before, but as you'd expect, these 100 megapixel shot from the x60, isn't as detailed as Samsung's 108 megapixel shot because that's kind of native resolution, but nonetheless the problem with the HDR is still present, and I really hope that VIVO can fix this issue here, and I say so because if you were to take a normal trauma, pixel image on the Vito, you can see how good the dynamic range can be. So I'm really hoping that VIVO can just implement a software update that just fixes this entire high resolution dynamic range problem. Now we can also take 48 megapixel images from the x60 pro pluses ultrawide camera, and it makes a massive difference.

In my opinion, it's really detailed and given the lighting conditions, it's fairly good, but once again the same problem with the shadows being kind of crushed and the dynamic range being not perfect enough. Now, let's try out some zoom shall we. This is a pretty harsh condition, and it's two times zoom on the x60 versus three times: optical zoom, on the Samsung and well. To be honest, I think the x60 is definitely doing a better job. Now I do like the colors on the Samsung a little.

It looks a little more natural, maybe but nonetheless the shadow detail and everything it's tremendous on the x60 pro plus, as you can see now, because the two times zoom camera is a 32 megapixel one. Well, you can take a high risk shot here as well, but yeah. Clearly the same problem exists with the higher resolution modes. Now, let's try out five times here now. This is where the x60 pro plus is actually gonna.

Take an upper hand, because, although I do think that the sensor on the periscope zoom here, isn't that good on the x60, but it's still optical zoom, so compared to the hybrid digital zoom that we have on the Samsung for five time zoom, it's definitely doing a better job, not to mention the colors look insanely good on the x60, so accurate, like you can see. There is a slight blue cast on the Samsung's image, especially in the leaves and everything it looks a little unnatural, 10 times. Zoom, however, is something that Samsung nails as anyone would expect. Even the colors. Well, I would say neither is nailing it.

The x60 is kind of warm a little too much. The Samsung is a bit too cold with the white balance, so yeah not great with the colors from either but man 10 times optical zoom is really something to behold right. The same goes for 30 times zoom, because, as you can see, the x60 is entirely unusable. Here, s21 is doing a fairly good job, except for the colors. I think it's really messing it up the yellows or greens.

Neither of them look really natural if you want the natural colors well, the x60 is doing a better job in that regard, but other than that, it's its really not usable. Now for the hottest damage in this entire camera comparison. Well, I did not expect this man. Do you think that the s21 ultra would be beaten by the x60 pro plus in such a harsh, dynamic range condition? Wow, like just take a look at how much color we have in the shadows and how much better the highlights are controlled by the x60. Compared to the Samsung I mean yeah.

The Samsung looks a little more natural in terms of valentine's feathers, but that's about the only good thing there, the overall shadow detail, the amount of saturation you can get in the shadows. Without you know getting artifacts or grain. It looks incredible on the x60, not to mention the highlight. Control is just bonkers, amazing on the x60, so yeah suffice to say I like the x60 here. It's definitely taken a win kind of similar story with the ultrawide camera, and here I think the x60 looks very natural, like you can see, valentine looks very nice and natural with the feather color and everything and the highlights.

Well, once again, the x60 is doing a slightly better job, it's not as good as the main camera shot before, but it's its still better, like it's handling the highlights a little more, it's compressing it and I really like what the x60 is doing here and honestly. I did not expect the Samsung to be beaten in this condition. I thought that wouldn't exactly be possible. Also, if you noticed in the background. Well, there's a lot of artifacts going on the s21 ultra x60, on the other hand, is handling that way better, so yeah suffice to say the x60 takes another win here.

Macro mode, however, is a place where the s21 ultra kind of pulls ahead. I mean the x60 pro plus is still pretty damn incredible. It also uses the archived camera to take insanely high quality shots, as you can see, but it cannot focus close enough, like the s21. Ultra probably has one of the closest focusing macro modes that I've seen so far in any smartphone. Anyhow, let's move on to portraits- and this is where things get fascinating now this shot here, I had really thought that the x60 would blow things out or crush the shadows too much, but it would appear that both of these phones are doing essentially an identical job with the dynamic range, even the colors, like the skin tones and everything very, very similar on both maybe a little more yellow on the Samsung versus a little, more leaning towards a red on the x60.

But that's it that's about the only real difference here. Suffice to say, I'm gonna call this one. A tie here, zoomed in portraits, are also something that both of these phones can do really. Well. We have two time zoom on the x60 versus three times optical zoom, again on the Samsung, the three times optical zoom.

However, just came with the latest software update. It wasn't available at launch for some weird reason: I'm not entirely sure why, but nonetheless, we have optical zoom on both and they both look pretty much incredible. The details are great. The overall edge detection is very similar on both not perfect but very similar. As for the skin tones.

Well, I think the x60 looks kinda washed out a little desaturated if I may, versus the Samsung looking a little more natural, in my opinion, so yeah, I think that's the only place where Samsung kind of takes a win in this image. Otherwise, it's its really great on both now how about selfies well, this is once again a very harsh high contrast situation where dynamic range really takes a hit, or it would have because apparently there's once again minimal differences. I would say the x60 is slightly brighter, which is why it is kind of blowing out a few highlights on my face, but it's its a very smooth roll off. If you know what I mean, the shadows, however, are much, much better exposed, and I really like the x60s image here. Well, the Samsung isn't doing a bad job.

It is controlling the highlights better, but the skin tones are definitely a lot more accurate and the white balance is also better on the x60 pro plus so yeah, I'm going with the x60 here. Portrait selfie is a place where, once again, the x60 is doing a better job. You can see the white balance on the s21 isn't quite right. The whites, especially in the background it looks a little more yellowish compared to the x60, which is quite impressive, like it's maintaining proper white balance along with giving us really nice skin tones. It's its perfect on the AXD pro plus here now.

Here's a portrait selfie in medium light and once again very similar on both. Maybe the only difference is with the skin tones. Neither are perfectly accurate, a little more red and little desaturated on the x60 versus a bit too warm on the Samsung. So yeah, you know skin tones here aren't exactly perfect on either. So overall, I'm gonna call this one a tie.

I think both are doing pretty good, but pretty damn impressed with how well the x60 is holding up against the s21 ultra here. As for night mode, selfie- well yeah, it's its there on the x60, but clearly it's not perfect. I mean I'm not sure why, because all the other night modes are incredible on the x60 pro plus, so I think selfie night mode is one place where a little improvement could help. Selfie portrait night mode, however, is something that's present on the s21 ultra, but the x60. To be honest, given how low the light was, it's not doing a pretty bad job like it's got a lot of detail not as much as the s1 ultra.

It has really nice colors and a lot of brightness as well. Noise reduction is pretty good. There is some artifacts on my t-shirt on both to be honest, so yeah, I mean without having night mode, it's doing a pretty damn good job on the rear camera. However, we do have portrait night mode on both and well, I would say the x60 is kind of overexposed like it's really brightening up my face and everything. It is maintaining a lot of detail and I do like the skin tones on the x60 a little more compared to the s21 ultra and I have to say there is a lot of both in the background.

For some reason I mean well, I don't mind both balls, I mean I really like him so yeah. Overall, I think I like the x60 here, especially because we noticed the way the x60 is blurring the photo. Well, it's kind of blurring out the shoulders, and you know it's got a very natural roll-off. It looks very dslr-esque in terms of how it's happening so yeah, I'm really liking the way the x60 does portraits. Now, here's a rear, camera night mode and all the conditions weren't exactly harsh, so both are doing essentially the same job but yeah.

If I had to pick a difference well, it would be like the colors. Maybe the St looks a little more natural, but it's such a minimal difference to be honest, as for outdoors night mode here. Well, I am fairly surprised as to how good the x60 looks, because this time, if you didn't know already, we don't have the gimbals stabilization system in the main camera, it has been shifted to the ultrawide camera and well. That has its own advantages, but you know, in my opinion, it looks better than the Samsung's, because not only do we get a little better colors in my opinion, but also look at the shadows, just how much more detail and overall exposure is present, the sky as well looking a lot more natural and a lot less artifact as compared to the s21 ultra, the x60 is taking win after win, it's either, just as good, if not sometimes better, like it's its getting crazy. As for the ultra white night mode.

Well, this here is actually pretty similar. Now it was fairly windy that day when I took this photograph, so you know the leaves and everything might not be perfectly tack shop or anything like that, and the smudging is kind of present on both a little more on the x60, because probably it took a longer exposure, but nonetheless, overall, both images are plenty nice. The x60 does have a little more saturation like you can see in the streetlights and everything it doesn't look bad, but it doesn't look as natural as the s21 either. So that's, basically the only real difference. Also, the sky.

It looks a lot more dramatic on the x60, while more natural once again on the s21 ultra zooming in, however, we have two times optical zoom, on the x60, and this is where I think optical zoom looks best the s21. It goes for three times zoom, but clearly it's not zooming in its just cropping in with the main sensor, and you can see the loss in detail and the over sharpening that's going on here, going over to the maximum optical zoom on both neither are particularly good, and I'm sorry. I messed up the horizon there, it's kind of tilted, but nonetheless I would say like going all the way. You're going to get all right results like considering 10 times optical zoom night mode photos on any smartphone. Really it's quite something same goes for the five time zoom here neither are gonna, be particularly great, but it's usable slightly, but now let's go on to the harsher conditions with night mode.

This is very low light and well initially, I thought the s21 was doing a better job, but it turns out that the x60 pro plus is just having a lower contrast, which does have its advantages, because it's not crushing shadows. There are a lot more textures and details visible in the darker parts of my painting, as you can see, but the s21 ultra does have a little more detail that just pops out from the texture, as you can see in the magenta and stuff, it looks very nice. To be honest, both are amazing in their own regards. So you know what I'm gonna call this one a tie overall, because both are just incredible at ultra low light situations. However, in a similar lighting condition, if you were to use the ultrawide camera well, this is where the x60 really shines.

Not only do we have a much larger sensor, but because of gimbals stabilization system, that's built into the camera there, the ultrawide camera, that is, you can take like six to seven seconds of exposure without breaking a sweat and as you'd expect, the x60 is definitely doing a better job. Not only do we have a lot more detail present in the shadows, but the overall details of the image itself. It's incredible on the x60, the s21 ultra is doing a fairly good job, given it's got a smaller sensor and no gimbals stabilization, but it doesn't really come close. Now, here's a little of extra stuff you can get with the x60 pro plus that I personally haven't seen in any other device. So these are called styles with the night mode, and it's really impressive because you can use it with all the details and amazing picture quality you can get with night mode.

Now. This is a blue ice filter that I've used here and as you'd expect, it keeps a blue and desaturates everything. There's also black and orange preset here that does the exact opposite desaturating, the blue, while keeping all the other colors- and this here was my personal favorite. This is a teal and orange preset here looks just incredible, especially like in this picture here. It turns the blue into a very beautiful teal, giving us some warmth in the leaves and everything it's its very stylized.

Obviously not a natural look as you'd expect. That's not why it's there and here's my favorite. This is called the dark red, and it looks so damn nice, like wow, I'm really impressed with how nice this image looks here. It's obviously a stylist and personally, if you don't enjoy this look, you don't have to use it, but I really like the amount of options and the fact that it's built in with the night mode once again, it's what makes these images look so very good. There you go.

That is the end of the camera comparison and man. It's a long one, but I have to say some of the more interesting conclusions came about here. Apparently the x60 pro plus in normal images, just not considering the high-res problem that we have right now. Well, the x60 has better dynamic range. It has more natural colors, more pleasing colors, even in certain cases like who wrote.

I personally didn't think that this would be the result. I had high hopes from the x60 pro plus, but, to be honest, I think the x60 is, as I said before, just as good, if not slightly better in certain cases than the s21 ultra. Even obviously, there are places that the s21 has clear winds, like you know, in selfie night mode or having 10 times optical zoom. Obviously it's going to be able to zoom in further and retain much higher quality, but I have to say the x60 is cameras in the places where hardware is pretty similar. You know it.

It racks up right there with the s21 ultra which, by the way in India, costs almost 300 to 400 dollars more than the x60 pro plus, which kind of goes to show that you are getting better cameras for your buck compared to the s21 ultra here. In certain cases, the s21 still does a better job. Like you know, sometimes the skin tones in portraits are better, but not always so I have to say the x60 this time around, given how consistent the cameras are that wasn't the case last year. By the way, I think that's a major improvement, and overall, I'm really impressed by what the St was able to achieve here. In my opinion, anyways, that's it for today.

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