iPhone XS/XS Max Camera - Big Improvement? By Justin Tse

What's going on everyone, its Justin here and today, I've got a video testing out the camera of the iPhone 10s and 10s max. Where Apple made some improvements this year, both in terms of the photo quality on the main sensor, and portrait mode, if you guys didn't know already I'm giving away an iPhone 10s on the channel, so I'm going to leave a link to that down below, but today I've got a special guest, Sam Elkins here who was a great photographer, and I'm gonna. Let him introduce himself what's going on everyone? My name is Sam Elkins I'm, a commercial and portrait photographer based in Los Angeles California super excited apartment with Justin on this video he's going to be explaining a bit more of the tech side of things. Well, I'm going to be doing it more of a real-world kind of photographer. Take on this beautiful iPhone camera, but I'm really excited to see kind of what we're going to be doing here and what kind of features we're going to be testing out yeah. So this year, Apple made some improvements in terms of the sensor size, the portrait mode.

So today, we're going to take any kind of everyday use cases and even as a photographer, who has a Canon 1dx, to which I virtually love as well. This is something that still travels with us every single day, no matter what so, on the tech side of things, the iPhone, tennis and tennis max has some improvements, both in terms of the processor which helps with the AI, but our portrait mode put the camera itself in terms of hardware, which I believe is the most important part has also been improved. The sensor is now 33 percent larger, letting in 50 percent, more light, which is very important huge, especially coming from like a DSLR camera. You know, like people usually use those because of the large sensor and their ability to read, highlights and shadows, but with this camera Justin's telling me that the highlights the shadows and the dynamic range is just incredible and there's a really nice color palette to all the photos and really excited to kind of test. Those out and I mean, even with the iPhone 10, having a perfect camera when it compared it.

Side-By-Side I noticed his dynamic range was definitely a big boost and when it comes to editing photos, that's something that you just can't have enough of its just kind of a great base to start off, especially with your dynamic range. You know, you've all the colors available to you, nothing's written, the blacks, don't crush the shadows, aren't crushed, but how I? Don't you Brian, there's just like a nice palette to edit? Like anything you want, you know. Some photos also turn out much better. Obviously, thanks to the smart, HDR and portrait mode also has the ability to change the aperture, which is a feature that is really cool, being able to switch from f1 point forward, f-14, not exactly the same as a DSLR, of course, that costs thousands and thousands of dollars well, I think. As far as the phone goes, it's a pretty accurate rendition of what aperture actually looks like if you were to shoot between 1.4 and f-16. It really does show you kind of like the differences between the different apertures.

If you want to show more of your background or more of your subject, you can do that now, which is I, think it's pretty awesome on the phone, and a lot of that is thanks to the processor which is more powerful and the fact that it's able to distinguish different elements such as hair and separate the foreground with the background, is things that Apple has done to kind of bring everything together. To give you a better overall image, make sure you guys stick around to the end of this video, because Sam and I are actually going to take a photo on this phone and edit the exact same photo, and we're gonna. Let you guys pick three things: did a better job at editing that photo I, think Sam's going to win this, but I'm going to try my best one of the first things. I noticed right off the bat with the 10s is the dynamic range phones. These days already have a pretty good dynamic range, but with the 10s it stands out above anything else that I've tested as a photographer, even shadows and highlights, are imperative to an image and the 10s knocks this out of the park.

The colors are accurate, not too saturated. It looks so good on that vivid display. Secondly, the portrait mode is pretty incredible as well. The ability to adjust aperture after the fact is not only amazing in itself but, in my opinion, a pretty accurate representation of how aperture actually works. I found the sweet spot for portrait mode to be around f/4 25.6. To give a more realistic look to image when it comes to the front facing camera, the seven megapixel resolution might make it come across as there weren't any changes this year, but this year you have a 27 millimeter focal length versus 30 millimeters and, most importantly, there's contrast and phase detection autofocus.

The aperture is f 2.2, which is the same as the iPhone 10, but you can tell in video, especially that the camera is better, detecting highlights similar to the rear facing camera. The changes are definitely minor, though, when it comes to photo, and it would have been nice to have seen a higher resolution more. The improvements in the front-facing camera are found in video, where you will find a stabilization for the very first time in addition to the iPhone Tennis, doing a better job at exposing the highlights once again when compared to the 10 the side by side. Video of the front-facing camera held with the same hand, shows a huge improvement when it comes to stabilization. So for anyone who does a lot of smartphone vlogging or shoots video on Instagram that this is definitely a good improvement.

The front-facing camera also does have true depth in portrait mode, and it overall does a pretty good job, unlike the rear facing camera. Similar issues that are noticed are in the hair, as well as glasses and accessories, especially even in contrasting scenarios when it comes to the front-facing camera. A lot of people have been talking about the issue where the camera actually over smoothen skin I, think the biggest issue is that there isn't really an option to turn it off, but I'm pretty sure. Apple will fix that in an update for now the problem has kind of been pinpointed to the automatic noise reduction, especially in scenarios where it's a little darker, because in regular scenarios, I really didn't notice. The issue that much unless I zoomed in a lot on the image.

That's her video. A lot of the improvements are going to find are similar to the ones that you're going to find in photo. The larger sensor is able to capture more light, giving you better dynamic range and for people will grade their smartphone videos. This is going to once again be a good improvement over all the video experience on iPhones from what I've seen have always been pretty good, whether it's stabilization, exposing the white balance and this year's ability to record stereo audio is going to be more important to others than some personally I. Don't really care too much about stereo audio.

But if you do a lot of landscape stuff like in this scene, then you might find the benefits of stereo audio and trying to reread the scenario. Additionally, the iPhone tennis does have an auto low-light option for frames per. Second, in the event that you're shooting around 30 frames per second- and you enter an area that might be a little darker. The camera has the ability to automatically switch a 24 frames per second to let in more light all right. So it's now 15 minutes after sunset and something that phone's really aren't usually known for is their low-light capability.

But, as Justin said, because of the larger sensor now it reads those shadows, especially in low light, when it's not a little there's, not a lot of light left. It reads them really nice. So the shadows have a nice detail to them. They still have actually the color of the widget I. Think it's pretty incredible, especially this far after sunset.

It just looks so nice. You know like the ability to see those shadows and really pick them out without any grain is awesome, I mean as much as phones nowadays tried to do this, the processing and post with noise reduction and everything it really does all come down to the hardware and I think with a larger sensor. You just never can have a large enough sensor, especially in a phone where everything is just so tightly packed, and this year Apple did make the bump, on the back of the camera a little larger, but for a better image and if you're using a case, it's really something. That's not that noticeable. What we're going to do is we're going to do a test here between the 10 and the 10s is, which is what Justin's holding now one thing: you're going to notice right away.

We're going to hold our phones right at the beach right here, then we're gonna slowly pan up to the sky and, as you can notice, right away on the 10, the bright is pointing the image right here on the far right. You can't tell like what's going on, because it's so bright, it doesn't know how to read it properly, but with the 10s is perfectly lit. The dynamic range is amazing, and also the details and the shadows on the ways there's still color, left, and I mean seminars. You take a lot of photos, and we know that you can manually just press where you want the highlights to go, but if you're just trying to get that shot if you're in a moving car or something you want to be able to just turn on your phone's camera and get that perfect photo and I. Think in this case, we're able to do that as soon as we flash it at the brightest boy.

That figures out where the highlight is and exposes the image for that, while still retaining some details in the shadows and for those who are wondering this picture was taken half an hour past sunset and honestly, it is pretty dark. But you see if this phone here still does a great job of capturing the sunset over there is the color of the waters and everything, so I think it's something that I was actually pretty surprised about and didn't really expect when compared to like the iPhone 10, which is a phone that is still very, very good as of last week and still costs a lot of money. So, thank you guys so much for watching this video, where I tested out the camera of the iPhone, 10s and 10s max with Sam Elkins had a great time in LA. I'm going to leave her like the hiss stuff down below, but to conclude, I think Apple has done a decent job in making the camera better in this year's iPhone, with the main camera having a 32 percent increase in the sensor size, letting in more light. The dynamic range was perfect and as someone who likes to edit their photos in post a lot of the times, I think having a flat image that has good dynamic range is something that I prefer.

But if you compared to other smartphones on the market, such as a googol pixel, for example, where the photo might look a little better when unedited, that's something that the user has to decide, and I'm going to be. Comparing this phone with many others that are coming out this year. But if you guys enjoyed it, make sure you drop a like and subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you all in the next one.

Source : Justin Tse