Xperia 1 III vs Galaxy S21 Ultra vs iPhone 12 Pro Max Full Camera Comparison | Stay away from Sony By Golden Reviewer

Guys welcome back to golden reviewer. Here we have the iPhone 12 Pro max the Sony PR one mac 3 and the s21 ultra, and today we are going to do a camera comparison, a very comprehensive one between these three devices. Just to answer some questions my subscriber raised in my previous videos, I'm not going to use the manual mode at all in this comparison, I'll keep them on full, auto as for low light shots I'll turn on the night mode on Samsung and as for iPhone 12 Pro max and Sony Xperia 1 mark 3 they'll, auto, detect the low light scene and switch on the night mode as well. So that means night mode for all these smartphones in low light situations, and I'll not do any post editing of the photos. So these are all photos straight up from the camera and the reason I'm doing that is because I believe 99 of the customers are going to use their smartphone cameras this way. So if you are so professional that you should draw, and then you do all the editing in Lightroom or photoshop um, then maybe this review is not for you, okay, so I guess that's clear and let's go to the comparisons.

Okay, let's look at the first set of samples from the mainland at a bright light condition and the Sony is in the middle. I feel the exposure is a little dark right. The iPhone and Samsung are more balanced and if you zoom in you can see that the Sony is a little. Uh blurry, while the Samsung and Apple are a bit sharper, but the difference is not huge here. Let's move on to next set of photos in this set, the Sony become the brightest.

So you see there is a little of inconsistency about the auto exposure here and then zooming in this time. The Sony is very blurry. I don't know why and the Samsung apple are quite consistently sharp, and then we move on to the mid-range zoom. So it's 3x on Samsung and 2.9x on Sony and 2.5x on iPhone. The exposure is a little different.

iPhone and Samsung are very similar, while the Sony is a little darker and zooming. In for details, it seems that the Sony is still not as sharp as Samsung and apple. This next set of samples are from the 10x lens. At first glance, they look quite similar, but zooming in you see that the Samsung is super sharp. You can even read the plate number on that motorcycle.

While the Sony is a little blurry, it's not as sharp as Samsung and the iPhone is the worst. In this case. Another set of 10x zoom samples, Samsung, is still the sharpest and Sony follows, and the iPhone is the worst in this case, and I think that's expected, because Samsung has the best periscope zoom lens and Sony can only go up to 4.4 times while iPhone stops at 2.5, then moving on to slightly more challenging indoor situations, I think in this photo they all look quite similar to each other. It's just a matter of preference for the different colors and zooming in. We don't see much difference either.

Then, moving on to this next set of high contrasting from the main lens, I feel the Samsung and Apple are a little more balanced here. If you check the highlight and the shadow, they can maintain the exposure a little better and then zooming in you can see that the Samsung is slightly sharper than the apple. So I think, in this case, Samsung is the best followed by apple and Sony lacks a little of balance in the exposure here. Okay next set is of a dusk scene, so the light is not it's not so-called low light, but the light is not that ideal. In this case, I personally prefer the way that Samsung handles this scene.

It feels brighter and the colors are more pronounced and zooming in. We see that the Sony still lacks a little of sharpness in this shot. Okay in the next set of shots, there isn't much difference in terms of details and the exposure, but I guess the white balance differs a little here, and I prefer the approach of Samsung and Sony here, and I feel that apple make the white balance a little too cool for my liking and then in this next shot. The iPhone is showing a little of issue here. I feel this time is too warm right and for Sony.

It's a little cool and I feel that Samsung is striking the right balance here, it's not too warm or too cool. So it looks quite comfortable to me and then zooming in for the details. Sony again is being a little softer than the other two, and here is another set of 3x zoom shot in indoor lighting setup, and I feel that Samsung and Apple are sharp, while the Sony is a little soft. I also tried a couple of portrait shots from these cameras and I think, in terms of the accuracy, none of them are perfect. You can see some imperfections in the shots, especially at the branches and leaves where things are very complex, but one thing I noticed is that the Samsung and Apple are able to handle the expo very well, even in portrait mode, while the Sony cannot seem to do so.

So you can see that the sky are all blown out in both of these sets of portrait shots. Then, in this next set of photos of my dog, I feel the iPhone is really lacking here. It makes my ROG look very dirty and messy. I don't know how to describe well. The Sony and Samsung are doing quite well here and then in this next two sets of ultra-wide angle, shots in bright daylight.

I think they are all pretty similar. Okay, there are some difference in terms of the color balance the exposure, but I think it's pure personal preference, there's no real winner or loser in this case, except the fact that the apple and Samsung are slightly wider than Sony and then there's one nice thing about Samsung that Sony and Apple cannot do is micro, so the ultra-wide angle on Samsung s21 ultra, can do very, very close micro shots like in this case you can see how close Samsung can get to the flower. Well, the best Sony apple can do is just like the ones on the right is. There is just no competition, and here is another example uh just to show you how close Samsung can get to the subject, and of course you can zoom in on Sony and iPhone to do sort of a fake Microsoft right. But then the detailed preservation just cannot compare with Samsung, so a good thumb up for Samsung for giving us this very nice macro, ultra-wide angle lens and lastly, let's see a few foot shots, and in this case the Sony actually gave me a pleasant surprise.

So the PR one mark iii can actually take some very decent foot shots. Just look at all these shots. I think the exposure, the color everything is quite well maintained, and I will say that this foot look quite attracting from the photos of the Sony and personally, I feel the Samsung shots are quite good as well, while the iPhone shots are lacking a little of attractiveness, it seems that the iPhone doesn't know how to handle the colors on foot and yeah. So that's apple for you all right now. Let's move on to low light scenarios, and this is where Sony falls behind.

As you can see from this first set of shots from mainland, the Sony is just like two steps darker than the Samsung and apple. The whole photo is just too dark right. It's almost unusable at all. Well, the shot from Samsung is quite sharp and bright, and the highlight detail. Preservation is also great, and the one on iPhone is also pretty good, although not as sharp as Samsung and Sony is just doing a very, very bad job.

Here then, in this next shot you can see there is a very strange reddish hue from the Sony in the sky and also the details are just very smudgy and then in this next set of shots, you can see that the Sony is darker and there is more overexposure in the highlight area, and also you can see a little of blurriness. So it's just not as sharp, not as good as Samsung and apple and moving on. We see that Samsung is really doing a fantastic job about the highlight preservation. So you see the signboard. So there is just no overexposure on Samsung at all, while the Sony and iPhone struggles to keep any detail in place, and then in this next shot, the Sony again is too dark and there is just no detail and I think Samsung preserved the colors pretty nicely iPhone exceeds in between is okay, but it's not great move on to next set of shots.

Samsung is again doing a wonderful drop of highlight preservation. You see the highlights. There is plenty of detail and Sony is just doing a very bad job here. The there's no detail in the darker areas: there is no detail in the highlights, so everything is either underexposed or overexposed and Apple again is somewhere in between and then in this next shot. Uh Sony again really cannot make if it's just too dark.

I think it did activate the night mode, but this is maybe the best it can do right so yeah that that's only for you and then let's move on to 3x, zoom and low light, and I feel that sometimes apple still takes the lead over Sony in this use case. So usually the Sony is either underexposed or has some strange hue or the detailed preservation is not good like it's just not sharp enough. So all these are quite clear in this set of samples. These are all from the 3x zoom lens. I mean 2.9x on the Sony and 2.5x on the apple and when we move on to higher zoom levels like 10x in this case, Samsung clearly takes the lead because it has a 10x periscope lens Sony is actually a little better than apple here, because after all, it has the 4.4 x right. Well, Apple can only do 2.5x, and I feel when you, you are doing a zoom shots right. The Samsung just is miles ahead.

The other two competitors, the 10x periscope zoom lens- really do magic here, so it basically is sharper. The colors are better, and the exposures are more balanced in almost every shot. If you go to high zoom levels and moving on to ultra-wide angle like the low light scenes, this is where Samsung really takes the lead. You can see that the Samsung is just brighter. It has more uh details, the colors are richer, so it's just an overall better photo from Samsung apple.

Is it doesn't have much detail and the exposure looks a little dark and the color is dull well from Sony. Usually you can just get a completely useless image if you are doing ultrawide at low light scenarios. Unless the scene is not as dark. It's properly lead by, say all these streetlights, then you can get a very useful image from Sony. But if you pick the details, it's still behind apple and Samsung, and one last thing I want to mention sony- is that in low light scenarios the viewfinder experience is pretty bad.

As you can see from this example, the viewfinder from Samsung apple are pretty clear and sharp, and has nice colors well, the one on Sony is clearly not as good, so this is just something I noticed all right guys. So, basically, that's all I want to show you. It took a lot of time and effort to make this comprehensive camera comparison, and I hope this video helps you in one way or another, and I think at this point the conclusion is quite clear: if you are just an average smartphone customer, and who cares about photos right who take sometimes take some casual shots from your smartphone, and you come and ask me hi golden reviewer, should I buy the per one mark iii? My answer is a clear. No, it's very, very apparent that this device cannot provide this same level of camera. Quality or experience as Samsung apple gives you, and it doesn't help either to consider that this device cost 1200 at that price.

You might as well just get a s21 ultra or iPhone 12 Pro max. Well, I'm not saying that there is nothing good about this device at all right, so the form factor is nice. The display is also quite nice and sometimes the camera. It can produce some good results as well, but most of the time it's just a hit-and-miss so maybe one or two times out of turn you'll get some decent or amazing shots, but for eight or nine times out of ten your shot will just be underwhelming and just not as good as your friends who are using a Samsung or apple. So why do you waste money on this right, and then I think there has to be these uh comments down below who says? Oh, this is a device for the pros.

You are just not good at taking photos, you don't you don't know anything about photography, so you are just a noob, so don't review this phone, that's fine! I can accept such claims, and I mean my review is just for the average consumer right. So if you are going to spend half an hour to adjust all the parameters and put your phone onto a tripod and take the raw shot and then later go back home to tweak in photoshop or Lightroom, I don't. I think you don't have to watch my review. You have your own ideas. You know photography good well enough, so you don't need to listen to me.

Just go ahead and buy whatever you like right, but for the average consumer who do not want to waste your hard-earned money on this rubbish. I have to say that stay away from this device. Listen to me and thank me later, or you can choose not to listen to me and throw your money into this thing and regret later. Remember: I'm not taking sponsorship from any manufacturer, I'm just trying to help you to pick the correct smartphone for you and not waste money. Okay! So that's all for this video uh thanks for watching.

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