iPhone XS Camera Test: How Good Is It? By iupdate

To guys its Sam today we're gonna, be testing the iPhone 10s against the iPhone at 10. Now there are marginal improvements across the board, but especially if you have an older iPhone Apple is boasting a lot of big performance improvements with this year's 12 megapixel sensor, yeah, better portrait mode, better rear and front facing video and something they're calling smart HDR. So we're going to put it all to the test right now, so smart HDR is one of the features I've been most excited to test, because Apple is basically combining a range of images. So super exposed underexposed lots of things in the middle to create this sort of perfect image where everything in the background looks perfectly lit, and then everything in the foreground, like you're, subject to person and object, will also look perfectly lit as well, and while the feature isn't perfect after using it for just a little, I can tell you I noticed the improvements on the iPhone at tennis. Take a look at these photos from the iPhone 10, comparing it to the iPhone at 10s, especially with the detail. When there's a ton of light coming in the background, you see a ton of detail on the object that I have in the foreground, but also a lot of detail is preserved in the background as well, which is something that the iPhone, 10 and iPhones in the past have definitely struggled with, so I've noticed that immediately also just in general being able to properly or better expose things that are super bright in the background and balancing that with what's in front of the camera directly is also better again.

It's not perfect. It's not going to be the best experience, maybe as good as some DSLR son the market, but it's definitely an improvement this year, and it's something that I've picked up on right. Here's a perfect example of where the iPhone 10s really shines, so we're in a relatively dark environment. Right now, it's not crazy bright inside here, but outside this little pavilion, it's really bright, because the sun is shining directly down on the grass on the trees and when I was shooting against this wall. Take a look at these two photos: you'll notice that, while the iPhone 10 us again, it doesn't do the perfect job of exposing the background and the foreground.

It totally destroys the iPhone 10 with the iPhone 10. You really can't see much a detail in the background and with the iPhone 10s you can and that's really cool now, where you're also going to notice the smart HDR improvements on the iPhone 10 S is with video I feel like it's definitely more dramatic, with photos it's not as pronounced, but even in these side-by-side comparison, videos I do notice things being more blown out in general when there's a lot of light. In the background on the iPhone 10 video versus video on the iPhone Anna ass I'm not really trying to shoot anything in particular right now, but the iPhone 10 s has stereo audio. So if you can hear the difference, this is the audio coming directly from the iPhone 10 from 2017. This is my voice speaking.

It sounds good, so you hear this now again: it's not like studio quality. I! Don't want you to expect the greatest audio that you've ever heard, but here on the iPhone 10 s, you can definitely tell a difference. I like the way it sounds. It's good, and I think it's definitely an upgrade from last year. Alright guys, so now we're testing the front-facing, video and stabilization one thing I'm noticing immediately is while the iPhone 10 s is able to keep everything in the background relatively properly exposed like it's still a little blown out, the 10 is absolutely destroying at the background like just look up here.

If I go ahead and turn around like this look at the difference, especially in the sky and the way detail, is preserved, totally different story on the 10 s. It looks really great. Apple also says that front-facing video stabilization is better this year and I mean I'm walking. This is using the built-in iPhone camera audio I've got one arm on the camera one hand free, so it would be relatively shaky normally, and I mean it looks a little better on the 10s, but it's still pretty shaky I'm, just glad that Apple didn't apply. Like a fake motion stabilization because I've always found that Libby really strange, but this year, especially when yeah when I go up towards the sky, look at the loss of detail on the 10, especially because the Sun is like right there.

It's its, a pretty remarkable change and definitely something I think is gonna, make most photos that would have been really blown out. Definitely usable I'm, pretty good, something really cool that we just tested that I didn't think would actually work was motion, while you're taking a photo so at Apple's keynote they had mentioned. You know if you're in the middle of action, if you're jumping if you're riding a bike, and you're moving really quickly, the iPhone 10s will be able to better select that frame to make the key frame rather than just including it all in a jumbled live photo that you have to go through later and take a look at these photos right here. Not only was the iPhone 10s able to take the photos faster than the iPhone 10, that's only a year old, it was able to select that better frame right off the bat. Even though we tried to capture it at the same time, sometimes my legs were blurry.

Sometimes my body was blurry, because the ten just couldn't get it, but I'm blown away by this I didn't think that the iPhone 10s would actually be that big of an upgrade for motion, but like I'm here- and it definitely looks incredible, so I was able to record most of my thoughts about photos and videos on the fly, because I noticed the changes immediately, and they were pretty apparent. But when it came to portrait mode, it just was not that easy. I had to go back to my computer and really pull these images up and take a look at them. Dissect them one by one and I realized. Honestly, the portrait mode upgrades from the iPhone 10 or like the iPhone 8, plus to the iPhone 10s.

Aren't that apparent the biggest change that I've noticed is the fact that it's more of a soft blur around you in some cases and I. Think that looks okay a lot of the times. The problems that I ran into with the iPhone 10 was the fact that, if it missed your head or a part of your head shape, it would totally just like to draw a line almost between blur and non blur this year, it's a little more smooth, but at the same time it's not totally apparent like I can still kind of tell most of these images were shot on an iPhone, and it depends on your lighting and what you're shooting and what people look like, and if we flip over to see a portrait, selfie I still don't think that these are very good at all. I didn't like them with the iPhone 10. The edges never really worked for my face and on the iPhone, 10s I think it's better, but it does that same soft blur effect around you.

If it doesn't know if that's the background or if that's the side of your head, where it needs to stop the blur, it's a work in progress and I. Think for the average person like portrait mode is a big feature that a lot of people like so if you're coming from a phone without portrait mode, know that it's perfect on the iPhone 10s I. Just think it could be better in some regards, especially when it decides and where it decides to add the actual blur or stop it. Here's a unique feature on the new iPhone at 10s that you can't do natively on the iPhone 10. Let's say: I took this image in portrait mode.

You can adjust the f-stop in post to either add less for blur or more blur in the background, so f-16 obviously not going to be that much blurry, but if you go all the way down to something like F 1.4, it's crazy, like it looks a little fake to me. I, don't think portrait mode is perfect, and even in this image you can see around the edges. It's not perfect on this camera like it doesn't know it, but it looks good I think it does look better than the ten, even if it's only a marginal change. Alright. So that is your look at the brand-new camera on the iPhone 10 s.

The 10s max has the exact same version so whether you choose the 10s or the 10s max. These are some results you should expect to see if you enjoyed the video drop a like. Let me know your thoughts down below and, of course, should subscribe for more videos in the future. I've been saying, I hope, you're doing great, and I'll talk to you in my next video.

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