Galaxy A52 5G vs TCL 20 Pro 5G Camera Comparison | Best cameras for $499? By Grant Likes Tech

The tcl20 pro is the latest snapdragon 750 powered phone retailing for about 500, but so is the Samsung Galaxy a525g, which has the better cameras. Let's find out how's it green here and welcome to. I guess this mid-range phone camera battle. You've got the tcl20 pro and the Samsung Galaxy a525g both are powered by the snapdragon 750 g chipset and are both retailing for about 500 here in the US. They also both have similar quad camera setups on the back. You've got the tcl20 pro with its 48 megapixel main sensor with optical image.

Stabilization. The a525g also has a 64 megapixel main sensor, also with is. They both have ultra-wide angle cameras and macro cameras and a depth sensor, so very similar camera setups very similar price points. I think this is going to be a very good match up here. So, like I usually do I'm going to show you a bunch of photos and videos in both good and low light conditions to help you decide which of these two camera systems might be best for you, so go ahead and check out all the photos and videos, and I'll wrap this up with my thoughts.

Do alright, so we're in the park testing the video on the tcl20 pro and the galaxy a52 5g. This is the ultra-wide angle lens on each to start out with here. So just pan around to give you a feel for what these ultra-wide angle lenses look like, and we actually have some clouds here. We don't usually also cloud, so you get a little of a test of some of that dynamic range here on both of these phones also check out the greens and the blues for color reproduction. Any differences you've seen between the two.

So again, this is the ultra-wide angle to start out with on each of the phones, and we're back with the main wide angle lens on each. I had to stop the video because the tcl20 pro doesn't allow me to switch lenses while recording between ultrawide and the normal standard wide angle lens. So again, here is the main lens on each of the two phones I'll pan around. To give you a feel for what that looks like here on each, and we'll pan over here to the right, and we'll test zoom here out on that cell tower. So let's go into maybe two times digital there on the tcl20 pro and likewise on the a52 5g, and we can move all the way up to 10 times, digital zoom on the TCL 20 pro, and we can move all the way to 10 times.

Digital as well. On the a52, 5g looks a little clearer on the a52, at least in the viewfinder, looks a little more grainy on the tcl20 pro, and we'll go ahead and back this out to the one times on each and let's go ahead and test zoom here on the post, with the t-cell 20 pro first and there you go focused up and away refocused. So pretty snappy autofocus here on the tcl20 pro actually locks in pretty good and refocuses away as well. So let's try the a525g and one more time there we go and again, so now it's locked into focus and refocusing away pretty well as well. I think the 20 pro might be a little snappier there.

Now, let's go ahead and test stabilization, which there is no stabilization at 4k here on the a525g. The tcl20 pro does have as, so you should see some stabilization there right now, and I'll pull up here, and we'll pan up into the sky to see how these phones handle that changing afternoon light all right, so we're back in full HD 1080p, because I want to do a stabilization test here on each because the a525g does have stabilization at 1080p and so does the tcl20 pro still has as, just like it did at 4k. So there's a quick stabilization test here on each of the two phones at 1080p. Okay, both phones have a super steady mode. So we're going to test that out.

Obviously, I'm just walking right now I'll start jogging, so we can test the stabilization and really stress it out here: let's try it out, so there's a quick test of the super steady mode on each of the phones. Let's go so everyone, so here's some front-facing video from the tcl20 pro and a525g. This is at 4k 30 frames per second and the a525g is not stabilizing 4k on the front just like it is not on the rear. The tcl20 pro does have as on the front. If you turned on, I got it turned off because it puts a crop on the image.

So right now you can see that they're both about the same field of view here on each of the two phones. So let's go ahead and pan around, so you can see the difference here and the image quality as the lighting conditions change. You already saw what it looked like with the sun. In the background there pretty much any phone is going to blow that out because really wants to focus on the subject, which is right now me, and we'll keep panning around. So you can kind of see what that does.

You can see some lens flares come in from the changing sun, but we're going to start walking. So you can see there is no stabilization and this is probably looking a little shaky, but you can fit more in the frame. So this is probably a good option to keep as off on the tcl20 pro if you want to more frame, and you're doing more kind of stationary filming all right, so we're back at 1080p full HD, because the a525g is stabilized at full HD 1080p here from the front-facing camera just like it is on the rear and the cl20 pro can stabilize even at 4k. But I want to keep the resolution the same, and they turned as on so they both have the same crop on it, and I'll start to see that they're both fully stabilized here at 1080p but, like I said the tcl20 pro can stabilize. If you turn on as at 4k as well, the a52 cannot do that at 4k, only at full, HD or below.

So there's a quick sample of the stabilization on the front facing camera on both of these phones- hey everyone, so here's some low light, video at 4k 30 frames per second starting out with the ultra-wide angle camera on each. So I'm just going to pan around to give a feel for what this looks like here, and you can see the light that really bright streetlight is not being flared out too much, because this dunce wide angle lens is not bringing as much light, and so it's not going to flare out things. But it's also going to be a little darker than when I switch the main angle lens in just a little, and here is now the main wide angle lens on each. So this is the primary lens on each of the cameras. Here you can see it's a little brighter, letting in a lot more light.

You can actually see the trees a little more against that skyline, where they're blended in with the ultra-wide angle lens before and at least in the viewfinder. The a52 is really flaring out these lights a lot, and so I'm not sure if it was any better in post, at least in the viewfinder. It's almost a little too intense there, but let's go ahead and pan around this way, and we'll walk here. As you can see, the a525g is not stabilized here at 4k, so this is probably looking pretty shaky, while the pcl20 pro does have stabilization at 4k, and so that should be looking a lot more stable, but maybe a little darker and as you round the corner, you're going to get a lot darker here and at least the viewfinder what I'm seeing their, both looking about the same as far as brightness, and then we'll pull up here, and we'll pan up into the sky. That's kind of dark, but there's a little of light pollution.

So it's not pitch black. If you're wondering what it really looks like out here, I'll pan around this way to the left, where there's a little mixture of a dark alley with a little light, so maybe more of a mixed light situation here. So that's what low light video looks like here in 4k on both phones- and here we go with some 1080p full HD footage. Now the a52 does have stabilization and the TCL 1020 pro is still stabilized here at 1080p. I also want to show you this, because 1080p footage tends to be a little brighter, so I'm not only test stabilization but see if you notice any kind of difference in the brightness of the video we're not pan up into the sky again, at least through the viewfinder.

Surprisingly, it doesn't look any brighter than it did at 4k. It usually looks a little brighter at full, HD 1080p, but we'll pen on this way, maybe a little but not wanting to review finder, could be changed a bit in post, but there's some quick, 1080p footage, and so you can see some stabilization on that a52. So heaven so. Here's some low light, video at 4k 30 frames per second, the tcl20 pro has stabilization on. So it's going to have a bit more crop than the a525g, which has no stabilization at 4k and there's no option to turn that on or off you just don't have any stabilization of 4k at all on the a52 and so obviously I'm in some ideal light conditions out here.

I want to show you what these cameras can do in the most optimal light conditions in a bit of low light. Here you can see the lights all around me as well in the back of me and how they're handling that, if they're flaring them out at all. So let me start walking to test stabilization, so I can see what it looks like here in 4k on the tcl20 pro. Obviously, the 8525g is probably looking a little jumpy, so we'll test some 1080p coming up with stabilization, ONS and kind of see what that looks like in the light. But I didn't want to test this out, because the tcl20 pro does have stabilization at 4k.

So it's only fair to test that out here up against the natural state of the a325g, which has no stabilization. I do have a founding to my right, so we'll test out the microphones and how that cancels out that sound or not against the sound of my voice and as we found this way, the lights are much better behind me: lots of bright streetlights over there and the a52 is putting them out a little more, at least what I'm seeing in the viewfinder, and we'll walk over here into the darker area. So we have a side-by-side view of what this looks like here in 4k on each of these phones, and we're going to switch into some 1080p. So you can see what it looks like in low light, and here we are in 1080p full HD on both phones and notice. They both have about the same amount of craft.

Stabilization is on both of these, and so you can see how this looks like here in this darker area. It looks a little brighter or not than the 4k footage that you just saw, but I'll go ahead and walk a little just to show you the stabilization on the a325g and how that compares to the tcl20 pro here in full HD. But let me know what you think about how these cameras performed all the photos and videos which ones you preferred a quick summary for me. I actually like the TCL 20 pro for daytime photos and for video stabilization, because you can stabilize all the up to 4k but pretty much everything else. I preferred on the a52 5g um.

Furthermore, I think the video quality looks better and the fact that it has nights cape or night mode on all the lenses. The tcl20 pro only has night mode on the main lens. You can't use night mode on the front facing camera or the ultra-wide angle, camera at night. So low light definitely goes to the a325g. But, like I said, daytime photos, I was actually surprised.

Tc20 pro much improved a lot less saturated than the tcl10 pro from last year, even with AI mode on, and it's a lot more true to life colors than the a52 had and actually pretty sharp with a good amount of detail. So that's just what I think in my quick thoughts here between the two phones. So do let me know what you think, which one you prefer then we'll continue our conversation down there. As always, thanks for watching you.

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