Speaker 1: Flagship cameras shoot out Samsung Galaxy S nine versus iPhone
Speaker 1: ten versus Pixel two, Amrich damiro and this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech Daily.
Speaker 2: Okay, see, you can't see the pictures.
Speaker 1: That I took, but at least I can describe to
Speaker 1: you how each camera performed. Recently, I had the Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S nine in hand along with the iPhone ten
Speaker 1: and the Pixel two.
Speaker 2: I took a bunch of pictures in.
Speaker 1: A variety of situations to see how these smartphone cameras perform.
Speaker 2: And let's start with low light.
Speaker 1: This is really the big differentiator between all the smartphones
Speaker 1: that I test. Those low light situations like being out
Speaker 1: at a restaurant or in a dimly lit room, that's
Speaker 1: when these cameras struggled to take good pictures. I feel
Speaker 1: like the Google Pixel does the best job, so I
Speaker 1: want to see how the S nine does.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you that the iPhone kind.
Speaker 1: Of took the most washed out picture of the bunch.
Speaker 1: It even looks a little grainy. Pixel did much better
Speaker 1: with the photo with the clarity, but it kind of
Speaker 1: has this unnatural hue to it, where the S nine
Speaker 1: struck a really nice balance between the colors and also
Speaker 1: the graininess of the picture.
Speaker 2: So I think that one kind of won it all. Right. Now,
Speaker 2: low light selfies, we moved on to.
Speaker 1: I took a bunch of pictures in the studio here
Speaker 1: at KTLA, and these are really tricky because on the
Speaker 1: iPhone you notice that the low light selfies kind of
Speaker 1: looked like a water color painting. And the first one
Speaker 1: we looked at is the iPhone. It had a lot
Speaker 1: of contrast to the color and if you look there's
Speaker 1: a lot of hot spots and a lot of dark spots.
Speaker 1: Don't think it did very well. The S nine did
Speaker 1: much better on the color.
Speaker 2: Of the photo.
Speaker 1: But I thought that the selfie was kind of blurry,
Speaker 1: something I see over and over. I think Samsung needs
Speaker 1: to improve on that. But the pixel really nailed this one.
Speaker 1: If you're familiar with the Google Pixel, it does a
Speaker 1: really nice job on selfies. They are like the sharpest
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Next up, I moved outside to take
Speaker 1: that all important flower close up picture. All the cameras
Speaker 1: took a really nice picture of the flowers. The pixel
Speaker 1: was kind of the darkest, the S nine was the brightest.
Speaker 1: The iPhone seemed to strike the nicest balance. Then we
Speaker 1: moved onto a blurry style portrait background photo. Now here's
Speaker 1: the deal. The iPhone ten is the only one out
Speaker 1: of the bunch that actually has two lenses to accomplish this.
Speaker 2: So this is not.
Speaker 1: Necessarily necessarily a fair comparison because the pixel is doing
Speaker 1: it with one lens and the S nine plus is
Speaker 1: or the S nine is doing it with one lens.
Speaker 1: You'd have to get the S nine plus to get
Speaker 1: the dual lens set up. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: all three of the cameras took amazing portrait photos. The
Speaker 1: iPhone kind of applied the most contrasts, but it looked
Speaker 1: really nice. Pixel two had a more muted approach to
Speaker 1: the skin tone, while the S nine of course had
Speaker 1: that vibrant look that Samsung is known for, but it
Speaker 1: kind of blurred out the body of our subject. Got
Speaker 1: our face in focus, but the body was a little blurred.
Speaker 1: That's probably because it was doing it with all software.
Speaker 1: All right, Now we move to landscape, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that the landscape pictures from all three looked really
Speaker 1: really good. Lots of detail in them, lots of contrast.
Speaker 1: Of course, the grass was much more vibrant in Samsung
Speaker 1: S nine picture panoramic shots. They were all fantastic. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit different for the pixel because it kind
Speaker 1: of makes you follow a bunch of blue dots on
Speaker 1: the screen to take your picture, versus the S nine
Speaker 1: and the iPhone you just move your camera left to right.
Speaker 1: I think they all looked fantastic. The only thing is
Speaker 1: I noticed a little bit of the stitching visible in
Speaker 1: the iPhone picture. Finally, let's see what else do we
Speaker 1: have here. We've got outdoor selfie. So the selfies were interesting.
Speaker 1: I think the S nine provided the best overall looking photo,
Speaker 1: but I think the iPhone it's a little contrasting, and
Speaker 1: it's also a bit more close up than the others.
Speaker 1: I think the iPhone has a little work to do
Speaker 1: on the selfies as well. All Right, Finally is the
Speaker 1: indoor group shot. And this one's really tough to get
Speaker 1: because most of the time with the indoor group shots,
Speaker 1: it's someone's blinking or someone's not looking at the camera.
Speaker 1: In our case, I think that let's see here, the
Speaker 1: S nine totally blew it. It took a blurry picture altogether,
Speaker 1: but the colors are really nice. The iPhone shot looks
Speaker 1: really nice from a far but if you zoom in,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of details that's sort of lost in
Speaker 1: the faces. But the skin is much more warmer than
Speaker 1: the other two photos. I think that the pixel got
Speaker 1: the clearest shot, but again, the colors are kind of cold.
Speaker 1: You notice that over and over with the pixel, very
Speaker 1: cool looking colors on the pixel, and that's a preference
Speaker 1: if you like that or not. All right, So my conclusion,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be very happy with any of
Speaker 1: these cameras. The iPhone ten definitely loses detail in those
Speaker 1: low light situations, and the pictures looked a little more
Speaker 1: washed out, but it's a very nice shooter.
Speaker 2: Ninety nine percent of the time. Pixel two this takes.
Speaker 1: The clearest shots of the bunch, but the photos almost
Speaker 1: have like a clinical look to them. They're like two
Speaker 1: perfect sometimes, and the shots always have a cool tone.
Speaker 2: To them, which not everyone might prefer.
Speaker 1: They S nine, I gotta say, I think this thing
Speaker 1: is performing really nice in almost every situation. Samsung last
Speaker 1: year made a big deal about the auto focus on
Speaker 1: their front facing camera, but I'm not sure that that
Speaker 1: works all the time. I do find over and over
Speaker 1: with the Samsung devices that the front facing selfies are
Speaker 1: a little blurrier than the other phones that I test,
Speaker 1: so maybe they need to look into that all right.
Speaker 1: If you want to see all these pictures side by side,
Speaker 1: now that you heard me describe every single one of them,
Speaker 1: just go to the website. It's rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: Look for the camera comparison. And thanks so much for
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