Xiaomi Mi 11 Real World Camera Test By Joshua Vergara

Hey it's Joshua verger. What's going on everybody, I have the Xiaomi mi 11 in hands and welcome to your real world camera test, a lot of the photos and videos pretty much everything you're going to see in this video is taken on this particular phone. I know you guys, like these railroad camera tests, so make sure you do hit that like button. So I know that and then subscribe to my channel for even more from this phone, but also more real camera tests and general reviews, okay, so kind of special day uh. You know that I like to go to my sort of like paid garden, arboretums and stuff like that, but uh as things are slowly starting to open up with full social distancing guidelines, uh and also limited capacities, and the latest place to open which I'm really excited to go to, and I think will be a good showcase of what this phone can do with its cameras. Is the la zoo? That's right, we're talking about this right here.

This is the Xiaomi me 11. , a beautiful, looking device that I did cover up with this fabric case. For the majority of this day, when I went to the la zoo, that's mainly because I wanted to make sure I had a lot of grip on it. It does provide a lot of that, but it is, of course covering up the beautiful shine of the mi 11 itself. Now, as you are probably aware, this is the next phone to have the snapdragon 888 powering it.

So this is yet another high-powered device with the latest Qualcomm chipset. The other specifications that are pertinent to this video, though, are of course, the camera specs. You have the 108 megapixel main sensor. You have a 13 megapixel ultra-wide and a 5 megapixel macro lens, which can be used for both photo and video capture and then on the front. Furthermore, you have a 20 megapixel, front-facing shooter.

That was pretty funny. I asked somebody here given the new guidelines and the new setup of the zoo right now. What's like the best thing that I should check out, the basic basically said the gorillas, also the elephants. What I found so funny was that her frame of reference was make sure you go left or right or past the churro stand now. I just want churros now clearly at the zoo, I'm going to have a lot of desire to actually zoom in to all the animals that might be in their enclosures.

The thing is, this phone does not have an actual zoom on it. There's no telescopic lens on here, there's not even a two times telephoto lens on here. Instead, you're going to be using that 108 megapixel sensor and cropping into that high resolution capture, the thing is that digital zoom will end up having some diminishing returns, you're going to see sharpness kind of drop off once I get to two times and then definitely at five times, which is what I used a lot in this video, so I can get actual good photos of the animals at the zoo. The ultra white sensor is fine. There's really nothing wrong with it.

It is something that you can use in order to get that more dramatic, look and fit more into the frame in photos. Its dynamic ranges helped along by an auto HDR that I have on at all times and then, of course, in videos, I'm happy to use it, so I can get even more. That is in front of me in the video. Obviously, I'm not going to be complaining about what we can and can't see. I'm only pointing out that there's a lot that you can't see a lot of the areas are blocked off a lot of signs up like this one that tells you to stay back and then, in those cases something like a zoom lens.

That would be pretty nice. But that's not what you get on this phone 4k video recording is available on the main sensor and the ultra-wide, with 8k recording available. If you just use the 108 megapixel sensor and as I mentioned in the unboxing of this phone, I was already a little disappointed, knowing that the front-facing camera does not do anything above 1080. So clearly, the focus of this camera phone is going to be that main sensor, Xiaomi put all of their software features and modes into that particular sensor, so that you have a lot of capabilities, even if you don't really have the optical reach that something like zoom provides, but as you'll notice in this video. A lot of the things that might be really fun to use on this phone are relegated to 1080p resolution, which brought me to a thought that I feel like is the norm when it comes to our smartphones.

These days that don't have 4k across the board.4K is simply not a setting yet in smartphones. It is not something you can turn on and then use for all the different things that you might want to use the phone for. Instead, it's better to think about 4k in this device as a mode in and of itself something you turn on when you need it, but it's not something you can rely on in every single other mode. So yeah, it's something! That's a bit of a disappointment, but it's what I've had to come to terms with on this and plenty of other phones that don't have 4k in the extra modes like, for example, the vlog mode and, of course the cinema affects which Xiaomi is touting in this new phone. Fundamentally, the camera experience is just fine as long as you're, not zooming.

In too far into those 108 megapixel sensor photos you're not going to see too much of a loss in quality, but it is noticeable. That's just the nature of digital zoom in the ultra-wide is fine. It is not an extraordinary performer by any means, but it is there if you need it and because we don't get to do it too often. I do have to give a little of credit to the macro lens for actually being not too shabby, but for everything that Xiaomi is saying that their phone can do and there's a lot of modes right here uh. The thing is this feels like just another iteration on top of what we know, Xiaomi is capable of already different things like their night mode and their vlog mode, and the dual video modes are all things that we've seen in previous devices.

The cinema effects do show some capabilities of the 108 megapixel sensor sure, but the results may not translate to more than just fun novelty things that you can put on your social media once in a while for anybody looking for some raw quality, you basically have to keep to the fundamentals of this phone shoot at one x, whether it's photo or video or shoot, with the ultra-wide sensor, get on the front-facing camera and mostly focus on selfies, but anything beyond all of this, and you start to go into territories that are not quite as high in quality, as we would hope. Yes got to the elephants got to see them too uh too often. Whenever I go to the Ali zoo or the San, Diego zoo, you get to the elephants, and they're like way way way far away. I love elephants, elephants might be one of my favorite animals, but yeah really awesome to be able to see one uh almost pretty much mission accomplished. I guess like whenever you go to one of the zoos the elephants are usually like so far away.

It's always a big bummer. It's not to say that this camera package is not good. Furthermore, it is a good performer. You can get some good photos out of it. It's just that Xiaomi decided to dial back in certain places and push forward with their software to a result.

That might be a little mixed granted. It was a beautiful day out, in Los Angeles, of course, in the la zoo, so this phone was put in an environment that would probably make its camera perform as well as it can for a phone that does undercut many of its competitors in price. There is a lot here to really like you get all the performance that you would want out of a snapdragon 888 processors, on top of all the different features that Xiaomi was able to pack in while keeping the phone quite smelt and the camera package, while maybe not the best that I have seen, is more than enough for people at that price point. It's probably going to be enough for a lot of casual users out there who look to Xiaomi to have a little of extra fun that is available when they decide to have it. Let me know what you thought of everything you saw in the comments down below for more on the Xiaomi me 11 make sure you subscribe to my channel if you haven't already with all of that said, I'm going to call it on this one.

Thank you so much for watching take care of yourselves and each other and enjoy your tea. Everybody.

Source : Joshua Vergara