Most honest in terms of just comparing images, instead of going into it asking if apple has caught up. I'm jaded because I bought the Xs, but I definitely liked a lot of the pixel images more.
Not really, I honestly think it's bias. I don't believe that he didn't touch the iPhones camera settings to make it look better lol there is way better color saturation, and I've never seen my pixel look that way before. So dry...
@@F82Mitch There's not much you can do with an iPhone's camera settings, unless he applied a filter beforehand, and that would be pretty obvious. If you're accusing him of later editing, I don't think you know Saf's reputation. He wouldn't do that because he's got integrity.
Surprisingly, many fail to appreciate natural colours.The perverted attitude! Perhaps,the pixel 2 & 3 series phones capture the best realistic photos at present. From a blind lover of Nokia!
Pixel 3 was really disappointing. I don't consider the cooler image of pixel's close to reality at all. The grass always look wasted, like it's about to die, leaves are closer to blue than original green. Those things can be corrected with a good editor, but to a brand that always delivered excellent cameras it was under the expectations.
haha, I have the PX2 XL, and was hoping to get the PX3 XL, but can't, the notch is so out of proportion, what the hell were they thinking ... may have to go back to Apple :(
@@erenyeager4413 not everyone have the same issue. I use Samsung and I have this issue once in a while too and it's no big deal. Just unplug and plug it back.
TechFor Life boy it’s fixed and it’s a software issue not everyone is affected by it. Anyway it wasn’t like note7(blastgate). Update yourself. ik you are butt hurt but it’s okay
its because the pixel uses ai to fix a lower quality image, it would be possible to do in video but would take hours to process. just waiting for pixel to put their ai on the p20 camera!
True, other than their too good stabilisation, there’s nothing great about their video capabilities! And also they should make their front facing cams as good as rear.
Video: iphone by far Front camera: pixel by far back camera: subjective. the pixel has more true to life colors while iphone is more aesthetically pleasing due to the saturation.
The Pixel sounds like you're speaking through a tin can while the iPhone sounds like you're being smothered with a pillow when speaking. The're absolutely pure garbage at audio recording. Note 9 is astronomically better at this.
because it's not stereo recording....apple upgraded the mic this year, but pixel 3 didn't....super sad i think apple and google was the only flagship companies that didn't use stereo mic for the longest time....and now only google...it's very very sad
@smileyface100 Here we go again if you like the iPhone you're a fanboy or sheep but if you like the Pixel then you're right. I don't know why people can't pick what they like I mean there are so many options and price ranges. Great video either way there are pros and cons to both looking forward to the 6T review.
I'm shocked!! The iPhone was actually the better camera overall, specially in video mode, the audio recording was awful on the Pixel. I thought the Pixel was the king of camera, guess I was wrong.
The video and audio was not conclusive. The iPhone was unbearable with how loud the wind was. Maybe pixel video is better in other cases like indoors or in a concert.
My preference are the pixel images. They are sharper and more in focus. Many of the iphone images had blown out parts. It's much easier to recover from underexposure than overexposure.
Personally I like that the iPhone has a warmer tone for pictures where as the Pixel has a cooler tone. I have really pale skin so the blue tone that the Pixel gives off makes me look dead.
Yeah, basically if you're taking selfies or lowlight photos then go with the Pixel. If you're taking portrait mode photos, back camera photos or video then go with iPhone.
Yeah, it is. It's also terrible on the iPhone, only a different type of terrible. The Note 9 blows every single phone out of the water at audio recording.
I hate to say this , but overall I do prefer the iPhone , and that’s weird . I was thinking the pixel 3 would blow everything away just like the pixel 2 did . But that wasn’t the case . Did anyone notice how unnatural the selfies looked , I mean way too over sharpened !
The Pixel 3 colors look over-corrected too. Look at how dark it tries to make the shadows in the space center photo. The iPhone also preserves the slight green reflection of the trees onto the white wall on the right... and how it keeps color consistency across the face of the building. I dunno, to me, the Pixel images just look over-processed. Even in low-light, In the photo of the sign, the iPhone looks much more natural. Full disclosure I'm a Pixel 2 XL owner.
Yes agree but thats probably cause the iPhones doing beauty gate, and softening everything. So direct comparison makes the pixel sharpness look overly aggressive. If tested vs note, galaxy or any other good cameras it won't look as aggressive. Plus I'd personally rather have a sharp photo I can soften to my liking than a smudged soft one with no detail. Each to their own.
1) Rear camera-Still images: Tie. 2) Rear camera-Portrait: iphone xs 3) Rear camera-zoom: iphone xs. (The pixel 3 digital zoom is good as well, but the oversharpening is a little bit too much resulting in a noisier image) 4) Rear camera-lowlight: pixel 3 5) Rear camera-video: iphone xs 6) front camera-still images: pixel 3 (but the contrast is a little too much, again. Great details, but oversharpened). 7) front camera-portrait: pixel 3 8) front camera-video: iphone xs 9) front camera-lowlight: pixel 3 10) audio: iphone xs Total: iphone xs-5 wins, pixel 3- 4wins
I entered the video while im 100% sure that the pixel is going to dominate the iphone , but I've never been so surprised from a camera comparison before The iphone won that clearly (except front facing photos )
i would even prefer front camera from iPhone only and I don't know why.... may be it looks like some plastic artificial in my face in pixel ... *overly sharpened* .... doesn't even look like human skin ! only low light where pixel's look a bit better but it still is trash you can't use that pic ...like when did you click your last selfie in low light anyway ?
To be honest. I have taken a lot of pictures on my iPhone X which isn’t even that great as the max and used snapseed to make some changes to look like what Pixel is doing. Basically what google is doing is choosing cooler white balance , adding sharpening and clarity. Effects to work on snapseed would be hdr scape , white balance and details. Enhanced a little bit with these effects the pictures look even better than what Pixel is doing with its hardware. Googles software magic is great but it is technically available to all phones via snapseed.
Snapseed is the a great app for mobile editing. On white balance thing I have noticed is pixel tries to keep the white balance the way it looks to the naked eye. I have a pixel 2 and iPhone X and I use both for my photographs. For the same composition, iPhone makes it more aesthetically pleasing, but pixel is true to what you shoot.
So true. I’ve been using snapseed for a few years. For night sight you can just bump the shadows etc and replicate. It’s not the lens on the google that is better it’s the internal editing.
After looking at this and several other comparisons, I think the opposite is true. The iPhone is *warming* scenes and *smoothing* the skin a lot. There's a noticeable loss in it's detail that goes beyond "not sharpening". It's sort of a smart-beautifying effect, which isn't bad. It's actually more desirable for selfies or photos that you will post straight away.. more beautiful, but it's certainly not "true to life". By doing a little post-processing, or applying a smoothing/warming filter to the Pixel's images, you can produce exactly the same results if you need to. The Pixel is just straight up capturing an impressive amount of detail, and maintaining the image *as is*, like you are physically there (but perhaps a bit 'cooler'). Whereas those iPhone images seem processed, optimized and ready for social media etc.. I'm deciding between these 2 right now, the Pixel seems better for non-human subjects, or capturing detail that I can work with later if I want to edit. Whereas the iPhone seems better for having an already processed image that I can just post if I want to. Also low light goes to the Pixel, no contest there.
Martin Griffith very good insight. I would have to agree. One thing though between the two phones I wouldn’t chose one or the other for pictures alone. There is difference yes but even if your serious about mobile photography your still going to show your work mostly to people having mobile phones and more often it also depends on the display of the picture being viewed etc etc. Choose the phone which is better in all the other factors that’s more important to you. My humble advice.
thought I was the only one who noticed that, those pixel selfies look like they've put an editing filter on them.. it is somewhat a draw but if im to choose a winner, iPhone won this test.
Yes, I'm amazed when he said Pixel photos look sharper, when clearly they are oversharpened artificially. I'm not sure if he just pretended he didn't notice that or not.
I don't really like iPhones but I am truth, so I can say iPhone is better in recording video, most of photos daylight and lowlight. Did Pixel 3 xl have a downgrade?Excellent comparisson man.
Much closer than I thought. I think rear facing camera was better on the iPhone, and front goes to Pixel 3. But the audio, wow, Pixel 3 is not great. And I'm an android fan. Props to Apple
Finally there is your, honest review ! I say finally because all the other RU-vidrs has tweaked the settings and make Iphone XS looks better than professional DSLR which i really don't like to see. We need the truth and you always deliver. I am really grateful man, you are the best !
Very nice video Saf.. Although I have a point near 4:17 you can see the pixel's hdr over processing near your forehead.. thats because its tending to lower the brightness of the sky and in doing it also under exposed your forehead... iPhone XS looks softer cuz of small sensor for front camera and noise reduction makes it softer. but pigmentation iPhone did it uniform compared to pixel... Also in the lowlight photo you showed at 8:54 pixel has more moire which happens when you increase the shadows of under exposed areas aggressively and reduce the black levels and perform noise reduction.. You can see this effect more in the night sky and dark areas like you've shown... Both are incredible cameras in my opinion but that moire makes a photo un-useable if your more into photography...
IMO the HDR+ is too aggressive on this year's Pixels. Hopefully they'll address this in a software update. iPhones HDR implementation is better. Also, Google can't offer 4K 60 (even though the hardware supports it) because of their EIS (can't compensate for shake and maintain 60fps), which is sad because iPhones 4K 60 with OIS, looks amazing.
Great video! Very informative, I switched from the iPhone 6+ to the pixel 3 xl and I was wondering what I was missing from the new iPhone XS and you answered my questions! I'll still be sticking with my pixel, SURPRISINGLY, I thought I was going to go back and get the iPhone after 5 days of trying the pixel out, but I do feel more free with the pixel in other aspects than I did with the iPhone, and I quite enjoy it. Anyway thanks!
Fantastic camera review! After this, it seems that both are excellent choices. I would be very interested to see how the night shot mode ends up on the pixel. Could really be a choice maker for some if it's amazing.
I think the pixel 2 set people hopes too high for the pixel 3, it’s better, but not what people thought it would be. One thing I gotta ask Saf, of course the photo temperatures are a preference but which one was more true to life to you? Based on the lighting in this video I’d say the XS is more accurate , the pixel seems a bit washed out
The pixel photo temperatures were definitely more accurate. Sometimes the colors on the iPhone were just crazy. Look at the shot in front of the fence. (7:50) The iPhone photo seems too saturated and greenish.
Elias Schnetzer yeah I know what you mean, that’s why I can’t say which is entirely more accurate because what if his fence is that colour in real life? Or closer to that, then the pixel is way washed out or vice versa for the iPhone. Overall I prefer the XS because it’s less saturated than most android phones but richer than last iPhones, and I prefer its level of warmth to the Pixels coolness
Hands down. Pixel disappointed. I came as pixel fan. Blueish tone and white images. iPhone much natural and beautiful colors. Even with mic. iPhone lense technology gives them competitive edge then competition. I know night shot would be much better in pixel. But daily pics are during day and colors matter. iPhone does it automatically better
Or Sony which does both. Canon is dead and Nikon is dying. Their mirrorless cameras they released are a fat joke. And Panasonic will probably beat out Sony with their new full frame camera, but it'll be more expensive.
Although it was very close I believe the rear camera on the iPhone was also better than the Pixel. I get that the low light shots were better (and will improve) but that’s it, otherwise the iPhone rear cam shots were better, it was very apparent on that ice cream truck shot with probably the worst lighting to deal with, iPhone took it. Pixel just needs to go dual rear camera and they will rule the picture kingdom, but boy their video NEEDS work!
I actually thought the low-light shot of the sign looked more natural on the iPhone, and I'm a Pixel 2 owner. I feel like the Pixel 3 over-brightens night images. And their demonstration of the new night mode looks even more absurdly out-of-whack.
People saying iPhone has better pictures is crazy. If you don't like the cool tone that's easy to adjust. Pixel kills in sharpness and low light. And it even has RAW which is amazing. iPhone video is better though from this video in the open sun, but I don't know if pixel would be better in a concert or restaurant or something noisier and darker.
What happened to RU-vid reviewers? You looks like a plastic toy in all the pixel 3 selfies but you didn't criticize that.... Not only you... No one seems to criticize modern phones camera for over over over sharpening and super duper Hdr ish images. I hate that type of look.
Exactly. You're so right. All of the RU-vid viewers have been ignoring that. Why isn't it fair? Why does the Pixel get a pass for things the iPhone or the Note gets criticized for? Cause if that was the Note 9s pictures instead of the Pixel every youtuber and the people in the comments would of been talking about how oversharpened it is.
p p no it's not. It has perfect colors and good dynamic range. The google pixel's colors are too cold and it's too sharp. The iPhone is the clear winner here!
@@caza_ my father has a Huawei mate 10 and the portrait as well as scenic photos taken by it are very colorful and accurate. I am just hoping that they improve upon it with the mate 20. Yes, I agree with u that colours and picture quality is more of a personal preference and I do like the pictures taken by Huawei mate 10 as well as p20 pro
iPhone is DEFINITELY better here: better video dynamic range, better colors, better audio, better edge detection at portraits, more pleasing pictures overall. Pixel's 3 pictures just look fake and TOO oversharpened, it seems like a bad photoshop edit. iPhone just falls behind in low light, but not by much. Google clearly ruined what was already good.
I have a question for you. I have a Samsung Galaxy s7 edge with VR . Which i bought in 2016. But in this time many phones are releasing like IPhone x max, Samsung galaxy note 9, Google pixel 3xl. So should i have to exchange my Samsung galaxy s7 edge with VR or go with it. If i have to exchange my phone so what phone should you recommend is it iPhone x max or note 9 or pixel 3xl. Please reply me.
Thanks, SuperSaf! You're the best! I'm into video. I don't like the strong color of the X, it should be easier to grade the pixel. I love the 24 & 60 fps of the X, and the slomo. It also seemed to have improved the stability to be pretty close to even with the Pixel. Dynamic range is closer but I still give the Pixel the edge. Love yuh, bud! Keep 'em coming!
