Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro vs Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra - NIGHT MODE CAMERA COMPARISON By TechZG

It is fascinating to see how these two phones approach night mode, because there are some huge differences between them in how they try and expose the scene. The Xiaomi always tends to brighten things up, whereas the galaxy s 20 Ultra, leaves a lot of things. Dark, I think both of the phones, as you see in the test, are capable of producing fantastic night mode images, but they certainly are very, very different from each other. The Xiaomi uses a low light mode automatically when you are in dark scenes rose on the s20 ultra, it takes normal photos, and you have to go specifically into night mode. If you want to use that feature. This picture is normal mode on both of the phones and just have a look.

How different on the s20 ultra it is when you do switch to that night mode. The scene has changed dramatically on the s20, but on the Xiaomi between night mode and normal mode is pretty similar. The building color here did change. It isn't a difference in the phones. Look how the s20 ultra keeps the foreground buildings dark, whereas the 10 tries to brighten that building up a little more.

That is the theme of this video and the difference between them. The s20 keeps things dark. The 10 brightens everything up notice again how dark the foreground is on the s20 in normal photo mode, but it's much brighter on the Xiaomi and switching into night mode. The s20 brightens the foreground up just like the Xiaomi does, and the difference is much more noticeable here as well. You can see the Xiaomi brightens up.

Those shadows and I think exposes the image a little better here. There is no right or wrong in how these phones are doing it, and actually you can change the exposure of these a little after you take the photo. But when it comes to the front camera I think there is a clear winner in video. Actually they are kind of more or less the same, not very good, but considering there was literally no light whatsoever. It's actually not that bad.

The s20 ultra actually does have a dark mode on the selfie camera and when you are taking selfies pictures, that is, it definitely shows, and it is a big advantage for that phone. If we compare a couple of selfies side-by-side again in awful lighting, the normal mode, both isn't that great, but you can switch to night mode on the s20, and it makes a huge difference, night mode versus shimmies, normal front selfie mode and the s20 just benefits from that night mode, giving it a much crisper image. Overall. This is a back camera test on both and those colors just seem a little richer on the s20 ultra, but coming to the back cameras, look at the incredible difference between how these two phones are exposing this scene. This is an absolutely fascinating difference between how the two phones handle low-light scenes.

This is the s20 ultra. You can see it's just so dark moving to the chamois, and it brightens up the entire scene. On first inspection, you may think: well, the chamois is doing a much better job if we compare them and look closely you'll notice, the amount of noise in the shimmies video, the s20 ultra, has realized there isn't enough light, and so is just happy to keep the scene dark whilst reducing the amount of noise in the image. The chamois, however, just wants to brighten the scene at all costs, so you get a much brighter image that you can actually see, but you can see it adds a ton of noise in there the s20 ultra by contrast, does have far less noise in the scene, but it's just so dark. Obviously, the s20 ultra is more representative of what it was really like and has less noise in the video, but normal people.

Just shooting videos in these low-light situations would want a naturally brighter image, so they can actually see what they're shooting, in any case, a fascinating difference between how the two phones handle that situation. Another good example of how these two phones can really turn dark into light. There was no light, it was really, really low light and both of these phones brighten up the image the s20 for me stands out. It looks really contrast and crisp, and this is a situation where those contrasts- the blacks really play to the s20 ultras advantage, and again you'll see a big difference here between the s2000 mode and switching into night mode changes the exposure of the image completely. It's slightly annoying on the s20 that the night mode is in this more section.

Then you have to specifically choose night mode, but it's good that you can choose night mode on the ultra-wide and into zoom cameras as well. That's really useful I'd, like Samsung to put the night mode down near the capture button Xiaomi for me anyway, put it in a better spot. You just have to scroll right a couple of times to get to the night mode, and then you can easily shoot your images from there, but its no night mode on the ultra wired on this camera. Video during low-light situations, especially for smartphones, is almost impossible. There just isn't enough light pictures.

However, they do a much better job and the s20 can go up to a 13-second exposure, which is what I got on this shot. There are still limitations to smartphone cameras in night mode. They definitely don't have the magic wand to make everything look good when there literally is no light, but throughout the test it is definitely noticeable. Xiaomi just want to brighten up the image at all costs everything that start they want to brighten up, even if they do add a little of noise, whereas on the Samsung they're happy to leave dark areas dark if they think they cannot lighten it up enough. There are some advantages and disadvantages to this.

I think it works in the s 20s favored here, creating a more punchy image, that's more pleasing on the eye, but if we switch to this video, you can see how much detail is left out of this image as compared to the 10. Sometimes you do want the image brightened up, so you can actually see something rather than that really dark image that the s20 shot there. Overall, though, night mode is incredibly difficult cameras without any light, don't function very well and I. Think overall, these phones, even though they have different approaches, can produce perfect images at night, especially for photo subscribe for all the latest tech news and videos. That's it for now, but I'll see you in the next one.

Source : TechZG