Xperia 1 II Vs Xperia 5 II Camera Comparison - What's the difference? By WhatGear

Welcome to what gear reviews, tech reviews from the UK and if you're a Sony, Xperia fan, you should definitely consider subscribing to what gear reviews, because I make tons of experience, videos and I think you guys, might really dig them, and today, I'm doing a camera comparison between two phones from Sony, opera, 1, mark 2 versus opera, 5 mark ii. Now, there's one significant difference between these two devices, and you should be able to see it right here. So that is a 3d eye, timer flight sensor. Essentially what that does be it fires a beam out as a feeler, and it gets data from how far away things are from the camera, and essentially it can map every pixel with a bit of information, a bit of depth information within a scene now, realistically, this will only work within a certain amount of distance and also if the conditions are very bright, it can confuse the 3d timer flight sensor. So what we're going to see in this comparison is that time of flight sensor, inexpert, 1 2 an advantage or a disadvantage overall, and I haven't really seen any good comparisons on these two cameras side by side, and that is exactly why I'm making this video for you guys. Are you ready? Let's go okay, so I'm going to be testing out a new set of tools to do this camera comparison, because all the editing that I normally do and all the transitions and all this kind of stuff is very time-consuming.

I just want to get this video out quickly for you guys before the mark, 3 devices are launched. So what I've done here is I've taken a few pictures on both of the phones, and we're just going to look for differences between the two and what impact that 3d eye timer flight sensor actually has so this first photo here is to compare the color balance between the two one thing to keep in mind. Guys is on the left. We have the Xperia one mark ii on the right, we'll always have the experience five mark ii and the Xperia one mark 2 actually has the android 11 software and the 5 mark ii is still running on 10. , so, whether that's impacting the image processing, maybe Sony threw in an update for the camera on the newer, android 11 software updates.

I don't know, but we'll see the differences here, this one's really to compare the colors and, to be honest, when I was looking at this earlier, the colors are pretty much identical. There is basically no difference between the shades of colors on the two devices. If we scroll over here to john wick himself, we can see pretty much. It's identical. You can even see the dust there on the gun because I haven't dusted this little figurine for ages.

So in terms of color, balance between the two devices is pretty much like for, like. Let's have a look at another photo here all right, so this one is where we're going to start to see some differences, and this is a portrait shot on this ninja star, which I have in a sort of medium, artificial light condition, and this is where the 3d time of flight sensor is really going to come into play, and I think the timer flight sensor only really works when you're within a certain range- and this is within that one-meter range. So you can really see here on the ninja staff we zoom in on this. Let's go in here. We go right on the ninja star, and you can see the details here.

Even the reflections on the ninja star here on the Xperia one mark t photo is much better than the five mark ii. We can even see the sort of brush strokes of where they've sort of sanded this down. You can't really see that there on the Xperia 5 mark ii, so the timer flight sensor does have an impact within that range. Also, you'll notice, the sort of general sharpness and detail all over the picture here in the foreground is much better on the Xperia one mark two, I even feel like the colors are better, and you can even see it's handling that dynamic range a bit better there in the background as well. So this one's a clear win for the Xperia one mark ii, but what's going to be interesting later on, is to see whether that time of flight sensor actually detracts from the image quality, because if there's too much light, it can actually confuse the time of flight sensor, so we'll see if that happens anyway.

So far looks like the experience. One's time of flight sensor really helps in this kind of scenario. So this was a macro shot taken from exactly the same spot yeah. It was a little lower on the experiment, one more two bites higher there on the five mark ii. Apologies for that, but you get an idea what's happening here within that really close range, we're talking less than 15 centimeters here on this one.

The timer flight sensor is mapping all the details when it comes to distances and that's why you're getting this really nice amount of natural background blur here, but a great amount of sharpness here in the foreground. If we zoom in you'll see exactly how much better that is, you can see all of those little strands there on the mushroom here completely lost on its spirit, 5 mark ii. Let's have a little look around this photo in a bit more depth foreground. You can see a bit better here, let's be at one mark ii around the top of the mushroom. It starts to get a bit blurry a little soft on the one mark ii and keep in mind the one mark ii doesn't actually have a macro lens, it's using the primary sensor, but it's doing a pretty good job of it.

So the 3d timer flight sensor does impact very close range photos, that's very clear to see in terms of colors pretty much the same. Let me know what you think so far about what you've seen now. Let's look at another one, okay, so this one's quite interesting, because the lighting condition was very different. All the photos we looked at so far have been in artificial light or in quite low light. I was in the middle of a forest in that last photo.

This one is a much brighter condition, there's a lot more light in the scene in the background, and this is where the time of flight could get a bit mixed up and let's take a closer look at this at the fine details here. We're really focused on this area here. So let's have a look in a bit closer, so we zoomed in 150 percent here on the leaves- and you can see the little strands here off- of the blades of grass and here in the foreground, and actually, I think, maybe in this kind of condition that 3d eye timer flight sensor actually doesn't have much of an effect and in fact you see there's a little bug here. Let me even go in a bit closer on that there's a little bug crawling up the blade of grass right here, and you could make a case that the Xperia 5 2 here on the right is actually picking up that detail better, and you know the great thing about doing the comparison this way is. Actually.

This is the first time just like it's your first time, seeing them side by side. So I'm giving you my very authentic opinions. Normally, when I do a comparison, I write the script and I put the photos into the editing and then record the script and put it all together at the end. This is like real time on the fly. I'm telling you actually what I think of the two photos.

I noticed the highlights are much brighter here on Xperia one mark ii. Furthermore, I'm not sure why that is, it might be a software difference between the two. It could be the timer flight sensor, but it's pretty interesting. I have to say I do think the five mark ii is sharper here, though, in this one, all right so now this is an ultra-wide and, to be honest, it's quite unclear whether the item flight sensor actually even works with this ultra-wide lens. I'm not sure about that, but judging from this photo is almost identical, and I would guess that actually, the time of flight sensor only works with the primary sensor.

Uh and again, if we go in, you can have a look at the details. There's not much of a difference. If we go into this, let's just zoom in here on the wheel, the caliper. Here you can see it's pretty much identical. If we look at the grille here, it's almost identical as well.

Basically I think the ultra wide are exactly the same, the software behind them and the way they work with the timer flight sensor um. I don't think the timer flight sensor works with this at all. In my opinion, there's no sort of extra depth information going on here. It looks pretty much the same all right, so this photo slightly brighter condition of the dog, and it's taken from a bit further away as well. So what we're seeing here actually is the difference in color, and I don't know why this is happening, whether it's the software difference between android, 11 and 10.

But one thing I noticed on the left hand, side we've got more magenta hues and let's bring up the histogram, we should be able to see that actually there, so you can see the blues up here, a bit stronger. If we look at the other one, we click on that one. You can see how it kind of dips off a bit. It almost looks like it's got a bit of a greener hue to it. If we zoom in on the dog's face as well.

Let's have a look at this right here on the eyes we're going a bit closer, we can see in terms of detail, it's almost identical. I think the main difference here is the color actually around the collar. Here you can see there's a bit more texture to it on the Xperia one mark. Two, a bit more blur here on the five mark two, so maybe that time of flight sensor within that range is still returning some depth information and allowing it to map a bit more detail. But I think this might be the edge of that range and the next photo should give you a better idea of how much of an impact and how far that time of flight sensor is capable of reaching.

So let's have a look at that now: okay, so this one, I took to kind of demonstrate how far that time of flight sensor picks up detail the kind of range that it has and what point it drops off compared to the exact same hardware, but without the time of flight sensor. So if we start zoomed in here at the front of the tree, you'll have a look at both you can see. The detail is quite comparable. In fact, I think the one mark ii is actually a bit nicer here in the foreground. Let's go in a bit closer, so you can see actually there's a bit more sharpness here on the one mark, two a bit more detail there on the wood, let's zoom back out, so the point where it feels like the five mark ii loses details around here you can see the one mark ii is still got that detail so that timer flight sensor, that's probably about a meter and a half away from the camera lens.

This part here it's still got detail here: it's lost it completely there on the five mark ii. So we're getting that extra detail in the depth, we're getting about 75 percent detail here, and we're getting about 50 detail on the right hand, side on the spear 5 mark ii. So hopefully you got an idea now of what that time of flight sensors actually doing because up until this point I wasn't sure myself and that's why I wanted to make this video for you guys because genuinely I was very interested to know, and now we know anyway, let's check the selfie cameras and honestly, I don't think, there's going to be that much of a difference. If there's any it's just going to be a software difference, I think the hardware is pretty much identical, so this is me with my Darth Vader mask taking the ROG for a walk. So if we zoom in on my eye here, there is actually a difference.

Funny enough. The highlights in the back are pretty much the same, but you can see the skin tones are actually better on the one mark two than the five mark ii, and one really important thing here guys, please remind me to cut that really long, eyebrow hair and stick it up there. Bloody! Oh, look at that anyway, in terms of colors better on the Walmart too, slightly more washed out here on the five mark ii, which is really strange. It's just like I said before it must be a software thing, but at this point with the update, it does seem like the one mark ii has a better selfie camera and that's a little of a surprise. I did think they would be exactly the same even here on my jacket on the zip here.

You can see actually there's a bit more detail on the one mark, two, a lot of softness here on the five marker, so maybe Sony did make some improvements to their software uh in the latest update when it comes to the selfie camera. I know this is probably the most criticized camera of the bunch when it comes to the Xperia devices, so maybe they have heard some complaints and worked on it, and it does look like it actually and look at those eye bags there. That is the eye bags of a full-time, employee and YouTuber working two jobs all right now, let's move into some slightly harsher conditions, so this photo here was to demonstrate the HDR functionality, so I used the photo pro app with HDR, auto HDR on to take these two photos. This was fairly close, probably just outside that two-meter range to be honest, but let's have a look at this sign here. I think in terms of the HDR, the auto HDR, it's controlling the highlights.

The same, I wouldn't say it's doing a fantastic job, but that sign is actually very bright at night that lights up the entire street, and you can see they're pretty much the same when it comes to HDR capabilities. One thing you'll notice here, though, when you look at this sign around the lettering here on the spirit five mark ii is more blurry and maybe the time of flight sensor is helping here in the foreground right on the edge of that two-meter range, because all the letters seem a bit sharper here on Xperia one mark two, the other thing, you'll notice. If we look at the brickwork just here next to the sign, the Xperia 5 mark ii actually seems to be holding more detail than the Xperia one mark ii. So better details here on the one mark ii in the foreground slightly better here on the five mark ii, HDR, pretty much identical and just looking at this burger menus making me hungry. So let's switch to the next photo.

So this is a night photo on the two devices, and literally I was walking the ROG I stopped. I pulled the phones out my pocket snapped the photos, and I know the five mark ii photo looks pretty bad and, to be honest, when I took the photo, I didn't really look at it after I took it. I literally just used the camera shutter button on the side of the devices just to snap them really quickly like a normal person would- and this is quite interesting because I think Sony have made a big improvement to their camera software when it comes to night photos, because you can see, on the left hand, side the sort of sharp edges down the side of the building. A much better look at that. You can see all the bricks all the cement between the bricks.

Here, we've lost it completely. The dynamic range is better here now on experience. One mark two is controlling those lights a lot. I think it's doing a bit of computational photography when it comes to balancing out the image and sort of stabilizing it a bit better. It's not perfect, but it's a hundred percent better than the five mark ii.

That's running on android 10. , so it does seem, like Sony might be listening to what people are saying about their cameras. Look at this up here, even that window up there. You can see so much detail that you can't see, and it's completely lost, look at that on the five mark ii, and you've got all the sort of details there on the one mark ii, and this is nothing to do with that time of flight says. I doubt it very much.

This is all about the AI and the camera software. Look at the detail, that's lost here! Look. We still got some of those edges around the lettering there. I've seen better night modes, but one of the things I really do like about Sony the way it stays really true to the colors and the fact that you have the photo pro app. If you really want to go in and manually set up a tripod and the shutter speeds and the SOS and the white balance, you can really get into all that, and if you want to learn how to do all that stuff, I made a video about how to use the photo pro app.

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