Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs iPhone 11 Pro Max Camera Test Comparison

Alright, here we go, this is the

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you've been waiting for for the new Samsung Galaxy S 20 Altra versus the iPhone 11 Pro Mac, so you're watching the front-facing video in 4K right now. Let me know which one. one looks better, let me know which microphone sounds better and then today what I'm going to do is go out and take pictures and videos in all possible conditions to see which one is the best and which one should be in your pocket in 2020. let's see if that 108 megapixel

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which is crazy on the s20

ultra

really makes a difference, let's see who will be the camera king in 2020, let's do it before we start, let's talk about the

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ing process, all these photos were taken in automatic mode with no there are edits directly from the camera.

I feel like this better represents the average consumer - the iPhone has smart HDR and deep fusion enabled and the s20

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has scene detection turned on since it's optimized to take the best photos in automatic mode, but the best thing is that the s20 ultra has A pro mode built into the camera software, so if you have time to get that perfect shot, you can do it with the manual controls. Let's start with the day. They are both great and you can't go wrong. They both have a fantastic dynamic. range nice colors and captures a lot of details this

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is a little different because Samsung has a giant 108 megapixel sensor so let's talk about that first: you can take straight 108 megapixel photos by choosing this mode or you can choose a pixel bin shot in 12 megapixels combining 9 pixels into one giving you the best balanced shot, so here are the differences in these two modes.

When you take a one hundred and eight megapixel photo, it generally results in a brighter overall image with more natural colors, but it lends itself to more highlight clipping sometimes suffers, dynamic range suffers, and HDR simply doesn't kick in when It should, so you'll generally find that the 180 megapixels provide a brighter shot and are easier to edit than the 12 megapixel version. The advantage of one hundred and eight megapixels is pure. The resolution here is at 1000% scale, look how much detail there is still in the castle and at 400% scale, the iPhone actually holds up very well. It's amazing how much detail the iPhone is capable of capturing, but let's go crazy and do two thousand. percentage scale look how much detail there is still with Mickey it's crazy and on a three thousand percent scale you can still make out the details just fine on the s20 ultra and the iPhone is now just a blurry mess so I hope this shows you With the power of one hundred and eight megapixels, you can take a super wide shot on anything you want with lots of detail.

Its next level when making this comparison. I was very surprised by the spread of the iPhone. It's really great for capturing details. Here are a few hundred examples. eight megapixels versus the iPhone at four hundred percent scale, a crop level that most people would use and I'm really surprised to see how well it held up; When you go beyond 1000% is where you really see the difference. both impressive in one hundred and eight megapixel mode, you can't access any of the other focal links or zooms, but in 12 megapixel mode you have access to that incredible 100 times zoom that the iPhone can bring up to X with the telephoto lens where the ultra which drops to 5x, the iPhone goes up to 10x digital zoom, but the ultra has a 10x hybrid zoom so you can see how much detail there is even at 10x.

You'll probably never use this 100x zoom, but it's impressive that it's enabled. a smartphone can be used 10x and 30x, but once you get to a hundred times it looks pretty bad overall, the

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s 20 ultra has a shot II with more contrast, almost giving it a stylistic look, the best way to explain it is If you add a slight highlight filter it doesn't look bad, but from a technical point of view, Apple Smart HDR produces a more balanced shot in most cases, in my opinion, with a more balanced approach to preserving highlights. lights and general dynamic range, this is a preference.

This is for sure, so I don't blame you if you like the S20 Ultra shots better, but from a technical point of view, I'm sure that, when analyzing all these images, you will agree that it doesn't happen in all shots, of course, but in general this. is what I noticed, the 40 megapixel selfie camera is impressive from Samsung this year, great detail. I think they have improved the skin tones and exposures of the face, so the skin softening is not aggressive, it is still nice and sharp and even on the front. Compared to portrait mode, I think it does a better job, so props to Samsung on this, they have a new selfie tone feature where you can preset the color temperature.

It's not a huge difference, but this is nice to have when it comes to portrait mode on human subjects. It will be based on preferences. Samsung's processing tends to brighten the skin, which I think some people will like as the iPhone balances the shot completely across the entire image. When it comes to objects, they both do a very good job, as well as good edge detection and natural background separation in this more challenging shot, the iPhone did a better job with basically perfect edge detection around the hands and the Sharpness is maintained around the subject, but the exposure is much better in the s20 ultra shot even without portrait mode, the s20 ultra has the best depth of field I have seen on a mobile sensor, the iPhone is no slouch either, but the larger sensor size on the ultra really shows through even in daylight, look at that natural blurred background, the separation is fantastic.

Impressed with this kind of fine without any special mode, it really has DSLR like properties with a very narrow focal point, but that's where I feel the s20 ultra needs some work on a software update, the focus could be sharper on the subjects and throughout the frame. By excluding landscape shots, you can add sharpening in posts, so it's not a deal breaker, but many shots end up softer than I'd like. Just look at Ariel's face here in much more detail on the iPhone and after looking at over 300 side-by-side images. On the opposite side you can clearly see a difference in details in some shots.

This macro shot shows the same thing; In fact, the closer you get, the softer the shot becomes, so I just wanted to point out that I had some focusing issues where sometimes it just won't focus. No matter where you tap to focus, but this is the final software release in the March security patch, it can definitely fix a software update and if you know Samsung, they will be releasing a bigger camera update in the coming months as well I will visit it again. This comparison when that happens because I think it will make a big difference in terms of 4k video.

Both phones can record up to 60 frames per second, which is great. Here's a walking stabilization

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, both very natural with optical image stabilization. Let me which one. you think it looks better the s20 ultra has an improved super stable mode that drops to 1080p but is mind blowing with stabilization. This is me running as fast as I could. It looks like it's on a gimbal. I'll leave that link complete. video here if you want to see that comparison, it's pretty crazy, the Galaxy S 20 ultra has an amazing video feature where you can record 8k resolution, it's crazy that we can do this on a mobile phone, it's limited to 24 frames per second .

So I didn't include it here, but I'll leave a link to my 8k video samples so you can watch them in slow motion in 1080p here, 240 frames per second, which is what most people would use. They both look good and are almost the same. What you want to go crazy about is the 960 frames per second super slow motion, if you want that you'll have to go with the

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s 20 ultra, there's a lot to cover here. I didn't take many ultra wide shots, they both have Great ultra wide cameras during the day, both are nice and having that ultra wide and 4k video is great, with stabilization on both you can capture a lot more like this and yet it's one of the most useful angles to have on a smartphone at night.

It's a different story so stay tuned, let's move on and get to what you were waiting for and that is low light performance. The same applies here with the 108 megapixel shots vs the 12 megapixel binary shots, even at night, highlight preservation and overall balance is better with the 12 megapixel shot, so I'll shoot 12 megapixel at night . I thought there would be more noise with the one hundred and eight megapixel shots, but I'm impressed. The noise level is very comparable overall. The largest sensor is shown in the galaxy. 20 Ultra generally produces the brightest image, sometimes it goes back and forth, where the iPhone takes the brightest image, but both produce images with great contrast and sharpness.

The s20 ultra generally deepens blacks with more contrast for a more dramatic look, usually with more saturation. but, again, it comes and goes. Both phones have a night mode, so I took one normal photo and one with the night mode they will appear in, which is which under incredible amounts of detail on both cameras, the sharpness is truly incredible. Mobile sensors have come a long way. I would say that the s20 ultra leans towards the warmer side of the white balance when night mode is activated and the ultra is slightly over-sharpened, which I would like Samsung to tone down a bit, but I think the average user would find will lean towards the ultra because it really does look incredibly sharp, the clarity is a really tangible result, people will notice it, especially with the ultra wide, it's much sharper on the s20 ultra, there's no competition at all and then you add night mode to the ultra-wide shots that the iPhone 11 pro max doesn't have and looks embarrassing.

I really hope Apple adds night mode to its ultra wide camera soon and a software update is needed, sure red is still one of the hardest colors to replicate at night for a mobile sensor and I still think the iPhone He does it better. The red still looks faded on this Coca-Cola building. It's a little better with night mode, but it still doesn't match the iPhone here. Sure it has less shadow detail, but I think it's the nicest shot overall in night mode. Here is an example of Samsung's oversharpening where it creates a halo effect on the sign with oversaturation. 4k night video is really no contest. s20 ultra again shows the sensor size flexing by letting in more light, the potential is there but the amount of noise is something they need to work on the iPhone, the video stays sharper with more details in these lighting conditions and then when you start walking around you can really see how the s20 Ultra is struggling, there are a lot of smudges and don't get me wrong the iPhones don't look phenomenal either but there is definitely a clear difference.

Here's an example of the different lighting scenario a band was playing in if you crop. In the sky you can see a clear difference in noise reduction, so Samsung, if you're seeing this, fix this as quickly as you can. Microns are only 0.8 on this sensor, so it could be a hardware limitation, but I would like to see better noise reduction applied here. I saw focus issues at night as well as during the day, but the depth of field is again super impressive on the s20 ultra. I'm surprised to see that the zoom actually works in low light, it's not that bad. like I thought it would be, but that hunter time zoom looks like an oil painting.

All you selfie takers will love this big upgrade here at night. Normal selfies look fantastic, especially in container mode, they can take 40 megapixel photos if wanting night mode for the front camera of the ultra makes this unfair just look at the details of the s20 ultra you can't deny the winner here the sharpness is impressive determining a winner is really difficult right now because I feel like there are a lot of These things I'm pointing out with Samsung's processing can be fixed with a software update, but I want to know from you which of these phones won this round.

Daytime shots are more balanced with the iPhone, but there's no denying that. Stunning depth of field and absolute resolution of 108 megapixels, so during the day I could give it to the Samsung, but at night I feel they both do very well, but the Samsung has the advantage of the white angle night mode and details sharper than the iPhone. Sure it makes better night videos with less noise but the selfies are much better on the galaxy s xx ultra so you could argue either way if I had to choose just one camera, that's really hard to do but I want to break it down. so i think if you're mainly taking pictures you should probably look at the galaxy s 20 ultra, but if you're looking at videos i would probably go with the

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because even though you have acave recording on the s20 ultra before k is definitely better, even better dynamic range.

I think overall it's a better video with less noise especially at night but honestly no matter what you choose here it will all be a personal preference and the comments will reflect that both are very good it doesn't really matter so let me know in the comments below let's have a discussion down there let's put aside the fanboy and fangirl ism and just look at the pictures it doesn't matter who you like better let the pictures and video speak for you thank you for watching this there is much more coverage on the channel, so make you subscribe, hit the like button if you liked it and see you in the next comparison.