Google Pixel 5 vs OnePlus 8T vs Galaxy S20 FE Camera Test Comparison! By Danny Winget

All right, what's up everybody, this is Danny, and today I have a very exciting camera comparison between the brand new Google Pixel 5, the OnePlus 8t and the Samsung Galaxy s20 Fe. So what I want to do is I want to test these cameras out in every condition because price, wise they're about the same, and they pack a lot of punch for the money. So let me know what video looks better, what sounds better and then what we'll do is we'll test these cameras out and see which camera is the best, and we'll see. Who is the bang for buck king in 2020? Let's do it first, let's quickly talk about the testing process. All of these images were taken on auto mode using their stock camera apps. This makes things fair across the board.

No edits were made whatsoever to these images. They are straight out of the camera automatic scene. Detection was left on for the OnePlus, 8t and scene. Optimizer was also enabled on the s20fe. This allows all the phones to shine on their approach to computational, photography and processing the s20 Fe and the OnePlus 8t have built-in pro modes to dial in that perfect shot.

If you have the time, but the pixel 5 does not at this time, let's start with the daytime shots, as you would expect. All of them do a great job in good lighting. Pretty much all flagship phones have this down packed. They are all sharp, have fantastic dynamic range, and I think this is going to be a preference thing for sure. There are a few differences, though, and here is what I noticed after looking at a ton of images side by side.

First, you will notice the color and saturation differences. The pixel 5 leverages more on the natural colors. You can see it in the sky rendition. It is the most accurate in terms of what I was seeing. You can turn off the scene detection modes on the other two cameras.

Sometimes it does make a difference, especially when you're taking pictures of flowers and food, but as proven by most blind camera test comparisons. Most average consumers love the punchy and more saturated colors. So let me know which one that you, like best the galaxy s20 Fe, usually creates the brighter picture, because Samsung likes to slightly overexpose on their images. Dynamic range is usually on par, but once in a while, the s20 few ill suffer from some highlight clipping. This isn't new to Samsung processing, though it just depends on the scenario.

The biggest difference is the white balance. Sometimes the 8t just goes left field like here. I'm not sure what happened, but that could make the renditions of the scene look different. You can see this closer in shots of people. The OnePlus 8t is picking up all kinds of green while the pixel and the s20fe did great in terms of skin tones, though I think the pixel 5 has the best rendition.

I think it has the best balance of color and exposure. So I'm glad to see improvements from Google here, but if you're a fan of your skin looking brighter and slightly overexposed, the Samsung will be the way to go. It's all about personal preference. The OnePlus 8t does have the highest resolution sensor with 48 megapixels. If you shoot in this full res mode, you can pull out some extra detail.

I love this on photos like this one, because when you crop in heavily, you can still see the detail clearly, most of the time you're better off just using the 12 megapixel mode, because when you punch into the shadows and mixed lighting conditions, it can actually make the photo a little worse. But it's nice to have this type of resolution on your phone. Most people won't be pixel peeping this hard, but getting more detail isn't a bad thing so good on OnePlus for including a higher res sensor. They all have portrait mode, but the s20 Fe uses the wide angle camera only for this mode at this time. So you don't have the choice to switch like you do on the 8t and the pixel 5.

The extra depth sensor on the 8t makes a difference. The roll off is a lot more natural in a lot of shots, and the edge detection was actually worse on the pixel 5. In most of my shots, which is astounding, take a look at these areas, jacket on the pixel 5 and the s20 Fe, but smooth on the OnePlus 8t hair is one of the toughest things to nail when it comes to portrait mode and when you crop in look here, the OnePlus did the best with the hair, looks great actually so kudos to OnePlus. Here also look here where the chain was cut off on all the shots. Besides, the OnePlus really impressed with this one, and I hope that OnePlus can improve the edge sharpness, though in a future camera update.

That's the only problem that I see with it. All three have an ultra-wide camera, but the galaxy s20 Fe is the widest out of the bunch where the pixel has the smallest field of view, not a huge deal, but just glad to see an ultra-wide on a pixel phone. All of them have great quality in daylight, but when you do some pixel peeping, it looks like the galaxy s20 Fe has the sharper image out of the three. The s20 Fe is the only phone to have a true telephoto lens and has a 3x optical zoom and the other phones are doing a 2x crop. This results in a sharper telephoto shot in more detail.

Plus I really like that 3x zoom just enough to make a difference in everyday shooting. Having that little of extra reach can get you a little closer, and I like having that flexibility. You can also see the sharpness and detail translates to shots in low light. Just take a look at the windows and brick detail on the building. All three of these phones can shoot.4K 60 frames per second so nice to see that on the pixel 5 as well, they all look good in daylight and have slight differences to the color. The pixel picks up more of the magenta cast, but if I had to call a winner, I think the s20 Fe has the sharpest video out of the three in daylight.

Here is a walking stabilization test. All of them are doing a pretty good job here. Let me know which one that you think looks better, but there is a super stabilization mode on all three of these cameras. This is a first for the pixel and I think it's actually doing the worst job. You can see the shake everywhere and surprisingly, the Samsung is doing a lot of the same with both of them losing a ton of quality.

The OnePlus, 8ts mode looks the best in this scenario, there's also a lock-on mode to the pixel 5, where it crops in heavily to stabilize the footage, if you're locking onto a subject. This is on a bumpy train ride, and it seems to be doing a decent job, not sure how useful this is, though, with that heavy crop all right. So, let's move on to the low light performance, everybody's favorite and these three tend to perform similar with the main lens when just shooting in auto mode. If I had to call a winner without any special modes on, I think the OnePlus 8t is slightly sharper with better noise reduction. But surprisingly, the pixel 5 has the most noise when just snapping without any modes, but I don't want to concentrate on this because when you kick it into night mode, everything changes on these phones.

They all do a great job of picking up more detail, making the image, sharper and brightening the overall picture and reducing noise. If you are shooting with the pixel 5, I highly recommend just leaving the auto night mode on, because the regular image is so noisy, but the night mode cleans up nicely. The OnePlus 8t likes to run warm on white balance where the pixel and Samsung like to land on the colder side of white balance. It's not like this every time, but I think it will be personal preference when it comes to the best night mode. I think it's between the pixel and the s20 Fe I find the night mode shots on the OnePlus, less overall, dynamic range, and also the colors, in my opinion, are the least pleasing out of the three.

But the pixel is sometimes too drastic with changes between the regular shot and the night mode. They look like two different pictures to me shoot I don't know some of you might actually like this. This is a super low light test. It was really dark here, and you can see that the OnePlus has the biggest sensor, letting the most light in and while the night mode looks way more natural on the 8t, the Fe and the pixel captured more light in the overall scene. The game changes for me are the different modes.

If you're an macrophotography fan, it's no contest the pixel 5 crushes the other two with the longest exposure times. These were taken on a tiny mobile tripod and I think it exposed for about two and a half minutes. Look at how noisy the OnePlus is, but you can use pro mode on the OnePlus to do long. Exposure, it's just not built into the auto mode. This shot right here is so impressive.

Just look at how sharp the tree is with all of that star detail. The noise is cleaned up nicely too. So big win for the pixel on macrophotography. Another major win for the pixel is the nighttime portrait mode. Regular shots aren't super great on any of these cameras.

You can kick on the night mode, and you can see a clear difference and too bad. That OnePlus does not have this feature for the front-facing camera, but night mode portrait is awesome on the pixel 5. Just look at the skin exposure and sharpness. With that background separation, it is fantastic. I tested this in various lighting conditions in super dark areas to just inside my house with one light source, and this is a game changer.

It does take a little while for the shot to be taken like a normal night mode shot. So that's the issue. So if you have movement, it will for sure mess up your outcome, but I'm sure that this will improve over time glad to see this here by the way it works on both front facing and rear cameras, which is nice. You can see how good this pixel shot looks, but I do have to say that the Fe also looks damn good too nighttime. Video is fairly an easy one to call all three of these cameras are noisy, which you would expect in dark areas like this, but the OnePlus 8t has the best nighttime video.

It remains the sharpest and has the best dynamic range out of the three just look inside the building and the glass. You can still see the detail here when you move to the ultra-wide camera, though the pixel goes, nuts with the ISO and the video is super noisy. The OnePlus is going super Taiwan on the contrast, just crushing out all the noise, so it looks super dark and the Samsung is in the middle, which I prefer, but the video is extra noisy, so not so good for all three of them wide angle. Photos at night can be a little rough as well for all of them, but kick in that night mode, and now we're talking this regular shot, doesn't look so bad, but all three of these cameras went funky on this, not sure what happened here in night mode. The pixel really does a great job of lighting up the scene with the wide angle night mode, but the image is really noisy in the sky.

You can really tell when you compare it to the other two, so I hope google can get this fixed in the future. Software updates. The pixel 5, I feel, has the best balance when it comes to the night mode. It's a little too cool toned for my liking most of the time, but the sharpness and shadow detail is well-balanced. It does go back and forth, though, because here the s20 Fe did the best job with less noise and better detail, and here look at how amazing the 8t shot looks of spaceship earth.

Furthermore, it might be a little over saturated, but it really makes that picture pop. In my testing, the s20 Fe is the most consistent, but once google gets that noise under control in night mode, it would be easier to call a winner. So the conclusion is that all of these cameras are a major win at the 700 is price point. Yes, they do certain things better than each other, but I think no matter which one you pick up. You'll have a solid experience.

I'm really impressed with all of them. The pixel 5 finally got an ultra-wide camera and has that killer night mode portrait feature. This is probably going to be the android phone that I carry with me from now on. The OnePlus 8t has some better portrait mode accuracy that I've seen and roll off and better nighttime video and the s20 Fe is just an overall incredible package with a consistent camera experience in daytime in nighttime. So I think it's a personal preference thing at this point.

Let me know which one that you would choose to be the winner. Thank you for watching hit that like button. If you enjoyed this subscribes for a lot more camera comparisons coming up, and I will see you in the next one.

Source : Danny Winget