Pixel 4 XL vs iPhone 11 Pro Max Camera Test Comparison feat. MKBHD By SuperSaf

- What's up, guys? Saf here on SuperSaf TV. And we've got a bit of a different camera comparison this time. We've got a collaboration with somebody who I'm sure you recognize, Marcques Brownlee. - Should be fun, should be the ultimate test. - This is gonna be the ultimate. So we should put that in capitals in the title.

- All caps, ULTIMATE test. So what do we have here? - So, we've got lots of pictures from the Google Pixel 4 XL and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. So, this is the one everybody wants to see. - These are the two top dogs, allegedly. - I went out in Brooklyn yesterday and took a bunch of shots, like loads.

So, I've got 'em all lined up for us to have a look at. We're gonna have a look at images first. We've got loads, we've got low light, we've got everything covered, dynamic range. And then we've also got a bit of video which we're gonna have a look at. And then we'll kind of share our opinions.

Some of these I'm not gonna share the labels initially, so you guys can also see which one you prefer before we reveal which one that is. But I'm assuming there's gonna be a bit of a theme that we're gonna be able to tell which is which after a bit, right? - I hope so. - Usually is the case, isn't it? - Usually we can tell. - Yeah, 'cause whenever I post anything on Twitter, like Marques is straightaway, "I know which one that is," and I'm like "Shh, Twitter police. " - I'm pretty good at Twitter policing, but we'll see how it goes.

- So, we're starting off outdoors and we have this from the primary camera of both devices. So, first impressions. - Okay, so we'll start off the bat, they're both really sharp. They both have a good amount of some sky detail. They're about the same focal length.

The one on the left is a little wider. But the main difference, honestly, between them is color temperature. And if I'm remembering correctly, Pixel 3 would always bias a little bit cooler and from what I've tested so far, I mean this is coming out later, but Pixel 4 also has a little bit of a cool hue, typically. So if I'm guessing, I think left is Pixel 4, right is iPhone 11, and both are very good photos. - Pretty much a draw, you'd say, yeah? - Yeah.

- Surprise. - Wow, interesting. So every once in a while, it does flip-flop. So you have a warmer photo from the Pixel. Yeah, interesting.

- So, for me I think both are actually doing really good. I would call it a bit of a draw. So that was interesting. - I've already failed my first one. I don't feel very good about that.

- Well, we'll see, I mean there's lots more to go through. Now here's something that we definitely need to talk about because this is a perfect situation where, boom. - Ultra-wide. - Like, I mean, that just gives you the full bridge. - That shot is, I'm not gonna say impossible on the Pixel because technically you can do a panorama and stitch it together and it's gonna take you a minute, but that's the type of thing you only really get from just snapping that ultra-wide.

- Exactly. That's something unfortunately the Pixel doesn't have, so. All right, so now again, a wide shot. Thoughts? - So I'm looking at a, if I'm not pixel-peeping and zooming in, a little bit of a brighter exposure, a little more HDR happening on the right where you see the rocks are a little bit brighter. But yeah, very similar.

I almost would say on the right, I'm gonna say Pixel's on the right again because it's more contrast-y again, in that fence area and with the buildings in the back, it's got a little bit of sharper contrast. So that's my first instinct. - Okay, and any preference, just overall? - Uh, yeah, they're about the same. These two are similar, yeah. - You're right, you got it, you got it.

Yeah, I think both are doing a really good job and you really can't go wrong. Right, telephoto now. So, we have optical zoom on both of these so I thought it would be a good way to try this out. So this is using 2X optical zoom. - It's weird that the iPhone went cool again.

I'm so used to the iPhone being warm, warm, warm all the time. - Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, they do flip from one to another in terms of the zoom on both of these so far. This is 2X. - 2X, yeah.

They both seem to have a pretty good amount of detail. You see the windows in the buildings and everything on both. No problems here. - Now, one of the other things Google have been talking about is the digital zoom, hybrid zoom should we say. - Beyond 2X.

- Yeah, beyond 2X. So the maximum you can go is around 8X, so that's what I did on both of these. And I thought, let's have a look at something like this. - Okay, so you're looking at super res zoom on Pixel, getting the 8X with the 2X telephoto versus, this is gonna just be straight digital zoom from the 2X on the iPhone. Um, in theory we should see a sharpness difference.

But for me, that's really all in theory. I don't necessarily think one of them's drastically sharper than the other. The Pixel's just brighter at this point. - I'm noticing a little bit more noise in the iPhone image, especially towards like the trees and the buildings. - Okay, that's a good observation, yeah.

- So I think it's, I would say a little bit better on the Pixel here, so that zoom does seem to be going to it, but if I was to pick, I'd always pick an ultra-wide over hybrid zoom, you know what I mean? - Yeah. How many pictures do you take this zoomed in? Like, my typical photo's not gonna be 8X zoom almost ever, so I'm with you on that. - All right, so just another outdoor image. - Hmm, this is a colorful one. I like this one.

Um, yeah, wow. These are super similar. It looks like the right is a little bit cooler. So you see the color temperature in the clouds, if you just look at the color white up in the top, the left is a little warmer. The right is a little bit more blue.

Honestly, sometimes I personally in my own videos will tend to bring highlights a little bit cooler, but when I'm just looking for a straight photo that I want to be accurate, I think I'd pick the left as the slightly warmer more accurate photo. - And do you know, would you say which one's which? - Now I'm pixel-peeping 'cause it's really that similar. I was so thrown off by the Pixel being warmer that I don't know anymore, so I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say left is Pixel and right is iPhone? What is that, four for five or something? Three for four? I've done pretty well since the beginning. - I think this is another thing I wanted to show, the ultra-wide. Boom, like, you know, you just get so much more of that foreground, It just gives you so much more context.

And that's something that I use a lot, an ultra-wide now. I'm so used to it. Right, dynamic range here. We've got David standing right in front of the window. We've got a light coming in from the background, it's quite a dark room.

- Just both of these shots right now, from a smartphone, are incredible versus like five years ago. And you don't realize that, but if you try to shoot this with a normal camera or something that doesn't have this sort of smart HDR, you're either gonna lose the window or you're gonna lose David. But you got both. When I'm looking at the side by side, I think I would look more into the noise levels that you get in the shadows, looks like the left one's a bit noisier. The right one, a little bit cleaner.

A little magenta from the left, not a huge deal. But I think I'd guess Pixel on the right and iPhone on the left, but now I wanna switch that. Yeah, you know why I'm switching? As soon as that left my mouth, I was like, the left is also contrastier than the right. So if you look at the red and black here on the left versus on the right, this little slight faded look that you get a lot from the iPhone because it's less contrast-y, should've also pointed that out. But yeah, they're both really good for light execution.

- Very, very good. I mean, when I was actually looking at these I had to double-check just to make sure I didn't mix them up and I definitely didn't. But I did notice the noise on the Pixel one, whereas it looks like the iPhone's done a really good job. But I think what iPhone, especially from the 10s, when it comes to dynamic range since we've had smart HDR, they've really done well when it comes to dynamic range. So I've been very impressed with the iPhone.

And here, I do prefer it because of that noise that we've got here on the Pixel. It's interesting. Low light now, this is interesting. - So you're gonna try to, I don't know if, are these night mode or-- - Yeah, so all of these night shots have been taken using the night modes, so you know, multiple exposures. - So what I've noticed from night mode from these two cameras is again, Pixel Night Sight, more dramatic and more contrast-y where iPhone at night, especially with subjects, tends to keep it looking more accurate to the scene, like at night.

But some people might like it either way. It's more dramatic with the Pixel here. So looking at the difference between these two, I'm seeing a lot more noise up in the sky here on the right shot and on the left hand side it's a smooth blue gradient. I don't actually know at night which one would do more of that, but I'm gonna guess left is Pixel and right with this less contrast-y look is iPhone. - Okay, this is interesting.

- Huh. - Surprising, isn't it? - More contrast-y from the iPhone this time. - Yeah, and also like the noise level. I was surprised about the amount of noise that you get using Night Sight compared to the iPhone. - That may be a symptom of it trying to being the sky up so much that it's trying to bring it... It can get way more than this, but it'll almost look like a daytime photo at night.

And you will see noise in it, but when you zoom all the way out it's like this dramatic photo. Pixel will do that sometimes. But wow, that's a lot of contrast from the-- - Yeah, so I mean, here I actually preferred the iPhone because just I wasn't a fan of the noise levels. I just thought that was more of a pleasing shot. With a person, so again, David.

So this was interesting, I thought. Low light, let's get a person. - Fascinating lighting situation. - Yeah, 'cause it was like all this blue sort of light coming around, but it was tricky at the same time. - Okay, so this one's easy for me to pick.

Right side is Pixel. And the reason I know that, there's a bunch. The contrast again. So whenever the iPhone sees a face, it's very consistent, they always trend to like lighten up the face a little bit and make sure it's a little brighter. If you have any weird dynamic range, at least you see the face.

That's a little bit of what's happening here, a little more shadows on his face. But again, you get more contrast in this yellow and more saturation, and a little more dramatic shot. So I'd be shocked if the right wasn't the Pixel. All right, it's the Pixel. - You're correct, there you go.

Yeah, I agree with you here. I do prefer the Pixel shot here. I can also see a lot more sort of noise in the foreground compared to the Pixel. Although it has really tried to boost up those shadows, I think, but here I do prefer the Pixel. This is an interesting one.

- I've taken a lot of photos like this. I went to school in Hoboken, took a lot of skyline photos of New York City, like every phone I tested I took a photo like this. And they've gotten a lot better since now they all have night mode. Here, let's see, we have some noise in the sky on the left and a very smooth sky on the right. And maybe a little bit cooler on the left, but that's really the main difference.

- Which do you prefer, and which do you think is which? - Okay, I prefer the right, and I think the right is the iPhone. - You are correct, and I'd agree with you there. All right, so another one. - Ooh, this is a tough one. Wow.

That spire, that blue spire is really glowing pretty hard on each of these. Your dynamic range is also similar, but again I'm seeing a lot more dramatic brightening on the right side photo, and that comes with some noise in the sky. Right side is Pixel again, left side is iPhone. - Which do you prefer? - I think I weirdly prefer the brighter Pixel photo this time, just because sometimes this has more of a wallpaper look. I think I could clean up that noise and it would be pretty cool.

- I would go with the iPhone on this one. It just like, and also with the lights I think they've just like gone a little bit too far. - I think you could drag each of these photos in Lightroom to look like the other one. - Potentially, I think you could. I think with a lot of these.

But the way I find it is like, a lot of people, I think we maybe edit the images to our level, but a lot of people just slap a filter on and then post 'em, right? Right. Portrait. - Portrait mode time. I feel like I should get all of these right. This is the one I'm usually guessing on your Twitter, like which one has the best portrait.

- This one's an easy one. - So this one, left is Pixel. And I'm knowing that because it's interestingly a little bit wider, but again it's more contrast-y, and it's doing a very sharp, very deliberate cutout any way that it can. It makes the misses a little more dramatic and easy to point out, but the iPhone will sort of smooth over, once it find the face it sort of smooths over the rest and doesn't do as sharp of a cutout. And it's typically a little bit warmer on the iPhone, too.

So this is, everything about this is textbook, like what you would expect from portrait mode. - Which would pick, like, would you prefer from these two? - So in this case, because Pixel nailed it, I would pick the Pixel. And I think often when the Pixel gets it right, I would prefer the Pixel photo. But in the cases where Pixel messes it up, and I'm sure it will a couple times, I think that's when I'll start to lean away from it 'cause it's still missing. And this is stuff that software will get better at, but Pixel for this one.

- Yeah, I prefer the Pixel for this one as well. What's quite interesting is that we've noticed that the Pixel when you're shooting portraits is a little bit wider. It looks like it's going around 1.8X rather than 2X, so you're getting a slightly wider angle of view even though you're using a telephoto. However, the iPhone lets you shoot portraits from the primary. So this is standing from the same place and you've got all of me in, whereas you only had that before.

So you do have that option, which you like. - And I'm assuming you also prefer at least the choice of being able to do 1X. - I definitely prefer the choice. When it comes to portraits, I do prefer a telephoto portrait because that's more around the 50 mil mark. - It's more accurate.

- Yeah, it's more accurate. I do prefer that, but then again I like having the option because I like using portrait mode not only for people. I think using the primary camera is really good for giving you that flexibility which the Pixel now no longer has. - I prefer the wide portraits for two reasons. One is the wide-angle shallow depth-of-field look tends to feel a little more nice.

I think that's purely subjective, I just like the look. But also, the main sensor is just a better camera than the telephoto. So any time I have the ability to use the main camera and it'd get less noise and better quality, I will pick that almost every time. So that's, it would've been nice for Pixel to let us do that. - Yeah.

Maybe they can do a software update. Hey Google. (laughs) Without actually activating-- - Without triggering all our phones? - Yeah. Just, uh, sort it out. Now this was actually in low but tricky lighting, so it wasn't the best lit.

Um, thoughts? - Chopped your ear off. Pixel chopped your ear off. So, when you start to get the very sharp, confident cutouts you'll notice the mistakes more. And so in a photo like this, I think I prefer the iPhone. Color's a little more accurate, a little less dramatic.

But yeah, that miss on the side of the sunglasses and the ear is what stands out. - I think it's a really good point. Like, the iPhone will probably soften things around a little bit more, but then it's a little bit more forgiving. If it does miss something a little bit, you can't notice it right away. But when you're going for that sharp, mass cutout, like-- - It looks cool when it works, and it usually works.

But when it doesn't, then you start to see that sort of thing. - Now this is the one that we took just a couple of hours ago. - This is another place where it's very obvious what Apple's doing to your face here. So I've taken a lot of photos, I know my skin tone on camera very well. And you can see Apple identifies my face and gets it a little bit brighter, and you see on my face here.

I don't know if it did it to yours, maybe the sunglasses sort of tricked it a little bit. But you see my face, you just have this like dark shadow area, because that's what it really looked like. Color temperatures are pretty similar, but yeah. I don't think that's anything too drastic, it's just the contrast, I think. - Yeah, and we probably moved a little bit back to kind of match the angle a little bit more here, as well.

Preference? - Preference, I'm gonna say Pixel. I just prefer the punchy look when it gets it right. It doesn't look like it screwed up the edges too bad. - They look pretty good. - Yeah, it gets the hair right.

- So, it looks like the Pixel does do good from what I can see when it comes to people. Not so much when it comes to pets. - Pets, yeah. Yeah, I'll have in my video, we might go live at around the same time. But I think I had some problems with the pets that I didn't expect because you have two cameras now.

You'd think depth detection would do better and it didn't do as well as the single-camera Pixel 3. So I'll talk about that in my video, but I found that fascinating. - That video will be linked below, so definitely go ahead and check it out. Okay now, selfies. You're not much of a selfie guy.

- I don't take a lot of selfies. I should do it more just to mess with the cameras and see what it looks like. I find myself taking pictures of environments and objects more often. Selfie cameras, I loved the Pixel 3 selfie cameras. The plural, two, selfie cameras.

You could go ultra-wide if you wanted to. iPhone went wider. Pixel has a single camera now, it's wider. So you can see the focal length now is about as close as they've ever been. But instantly, instantly you can tell which one is the Pixel, on the left.

And that's because it's punchier, again, it's crisper, it's a little more saturated. I instantly give this one to the Pixel, yeah. - So I of course just take selfies purely for testing purposes. (laughs) But like, it's interesting because I actually like that sharper look of the Pixel. Some people don't want to, you know, kind of amplify their defects, they kind of wanna like... Which I think obviously the Huaweis and the Oppos kind of go a bit overboard in that.

The Samsung still does that. But I actually don't mind the iPhone because I don't think it softens things too much where it looks fake. It's still, you know, just kind of like enough to be still a pleasing shot. - Yeah, I think when you put them next to each other it becomes much more obvious, but if you just gave me the iPhone photo it's obviously not a bad-looking photo at all. It still has a lot of, you know the beard test, the beard detail, shout out to Lew, you get a lot of that.

You get the hair still. There's nothing like, the dynamic range is still excellent. You have cloud detail. So neither of these is drastically better than the other. Just when you put them next to each other, you can see the difference so clearly.

- I mean, I definitely prefer the Pixel here. It just has that more dramatic look, which I do like. But that's not to say that the iPhone's doing a bad job. It's actually doing a good job, and I like that we've got a wider angle of view now. Right, so now one thing you'll notice with the iPhone, however, is that when you switch to portrait mode then it no longer uses the wider angle.

It uses the more punched-in, although both of them do punch in, the iPhone punches in a little bit more. All right, so thoughts on here? - Yeah, so. You see the difference in the way Apple does it versus the way Google does it. Google, again, trying to do a depth cutout of everything, which is like, it's including your jacket but it's missing a little bit of the corner, where Apple sees your face, makes sure it gets the face, and then softens things around it. So it's not really focusing on keeping that collar too much, or the side of the jacket here is a little blurred, where Google tries to keep it.

- Keep it, but then you see that sort of defect around here. - Then some of it starts to mess up. So when you have a complicated edge like that, which most people will have. They'll have hair or they'll have glasses or a jacket or something. And all of that detail is difficult to get it right.

So I think a lot of people will like the way the iPhone does it, so there's no glaring problems. But just zoomed way out for me, I still prefer the punchier detailed photo of the Pixel. I almost want like a hybrid between the two in this case. Yeah, both have their strengths. - Yeah, I totally agree there.

On first glance, I do prefer the Pixel, but I prefer the edges of the iPhone. I think it's done a better job. It's a lot more natural than with that sort of defect, which really stands out. Now this one's really tricky. You'll know which one is which, but this is a good example because we've got a lot going on in the background here.

And now if you look towards this sort of area here on the Pixel compared to the iPhone. - It lost your hair in the background, and it drew an outline around like the forehead basically. Huh. Yeah, these are the tougher situations. So Apple, what'd they do? They basically got your face, your hair, and then just slowly applied the blur to the jacket again.

Makes sense. I think that's where you'd probably take if you were trying to pixel-peep the iPhone photo. - But yeah, it is interesting because both of them take very different approaches when it comes to portraits. And you may prefer one or the other. I think a lot of the times, the Pixel kind of looks more pleasing at first glance, but then when you start looking at the edges it can either do amazing or if it doesn't work then you're gonna see those defects.

Do you find that some mess up the glasses more often than others? 'Cause obviously they're not a normal face direction, so... - Well yeah, I mean this is the thing. I think the iPhone actually does really well in general. - It'll probably do the best. - Yeah, it's the best, generally, from what I've seen.

Right, this was dynamic range, so this was really interesting because I was like, I'm gonna stand in front of this window, it's a dark room, and there you go. - So turns out, Pixel's got a little bit more highlight range. I'm assuming you just went for the face as the exposure. Yeah, now that's a tough photo again for any camera. I don't know exactly what that room looked like, but iPhone really cast green here for some reason.

A little magenta happening with the Pixel. - I think it did struggle a little bit with just how tricky this lighting situation was, completely back-lit. And I think this is where, you know, Pixel's new HDR Plus really is kind of helping here. - It's more accurate. - Okay, this is low-light selfies, all right? So this was quite interesting.

People always ask about low-light selfies. I generally don't take low-light selfies. - Not a ton, yeah. Is there a flash, is the phone lighting up with the flash? - That's what we're gonna look at next. This is the first one without anything, just to kind of see how they handle that low light.

- Yeah, so, interestingly iPhone's a little cropped. I guess you didn't zoom out for it? - Maybe I forgot to do that, actually that's a good point. But yeah. - Yeah, but generally color is pretty close. They're both gonna have a bunch of noise.

You have a little more softness, I guess, with the hat. I'm looking at the text on your hat on the iPhone. But yeah, that's another, that's actually a tough photo. - Yeah, but I do notice a lot more noise on the iPhone compared to the Pixel. - Oh yeah, up in the sky too.

- Now, this is using the front-facing flash. - Wow. No, that gives you a lot more room to mess with getting actual contrast on the face. It looks like you have a flash on on the Pixel. But the iPhone looks sort of like there's something bright in the distance and it's sort of glowing on you.

- Yeah, which do you prefer? - I prefer the Pixel. Yeah, and it's also still a little more confident about that contrast and color, so you're bumping up the yellow and the saturation and everything again, and it worked this time. I feel like there might be times where it gets confident and then it just looks crazy. But yeah, I think Pixel won this one. - All right.

One thing that's interesting is that the Pixel's actually got Night Sight from the front-facing camera as well, something that you don't have on the iPhone and you don't also have on the ultra-wide camera. I'm not gonna do a comparison of that because the Pixel still doesn't have one, so it's better to have one that doesn't have Night Sight than not have one at all. - Look how dramatic that night to day look is. So it looks like you're almost in a daytime environment with a dark sky, weirdly. But yeah, there you go.

Now there's no noise, now there's brighter colors, better white balance, all that. - Okay, so that was a bunch of images. Now I've got a few little video clips that we're gonna have a look at and we'll see. Okay, so this is the initial selfie camera. Let me know in between, so when you're watching it just let me know which one you think is which.

Starting off with a front-facing camera test, we do have 4K on the iPhone. Unfortunately, we only have up to 1080p on the Pixel. Now, just testing out stabilization on both. So, starting off with a walk. Now let's go ahead and run.

- Because you're wider on the left, which I guess is the iPhone, you're getting more stabilization room to play with and it worked better. Yeah, that looked better on the left. So, iPhone takes 4K up to 60 while the front-facing camera on the Pixel's still 1080. - 1080. I also noticed I prefer the dynamic range here as well because like the cloud detail, it seems it's got a bit more.

The fact that it's 4K but it's still wider from the front-facing camera, like you'd think that if it's 1080 then it doesn't need to. But I mean, it's just night and day here for me. - Yeah, I think I would prefer the iPhone of those two videos. - Okay, cool. Now we're just gonna move on to the rear-facing cameras.

Switching on to the rear-facing cameras. We're at 4K, 30 frames a second on both. Just taking a look around. Just a random dude there. Anyway, now let's test out the stabilization.

So I've got a straight path, just walking. Now let's go ahead and run. - Oh, there's the difference. Holy smokes. Okay, so Pixel, they brag a lot about their EIS and that's a perfect use of, you either love it or hate it.

It looks like you're running with a stabilizer, basically. The left one was significantly smoother, you almost couldn't tell you were running. So I would guess that that's EIS, whichever one has EIS, I think that's Pixel. - That is the iPhone. - That is the iPhone looking super smooth like that? - The iPhone stabilization is very good.

To me, when you see the stabilization there's a lot of jitter, like especially if you look here. Can you notice that, right? - Oh, on the bridge? Yeah. - Yeah, I definitely preferred the iPhone here. All right, now let's test out the zoom while we're recording video. So that's 2X on the iPhone, also 2X on the Pixel.

Now we can go further digitally, so let's try that. The maximum we can do on the iPhone is 6X when we're in video, and also 6X on the Pixel. - Yeah, when you pause on the tower, that's when you saw it look like you're on a tripod basically on the Pixel, like it just froze it and it was like, I know what you're trying to take a video of, let's just track to this and if you move around we'll just keep it there. Which is nice sometimes. I remember actually specifically a while ago being on vacation, but taking a photo where I'm just like standing pointing at a door and I was handheld, but it looked like I was on a tripod.

It did not move at all. Some people are gonna like that. It depends on what you're trying to shoot. - As soon as you, this is the thing, though. What I find is as soon as you move, then you kind of see how much things just go because it tries to lock on to something when it can't.

The iPhone's a lot more natural, whereas the Pixel kind of goes blurry and then sharpens up and then blurs again as soon as you're moving. And I deliberately kind of moved around a little bit more just to kind of test that out, so yeah. Okay, and the final thing that I just had a look at was because you can get the ultra-wide. Again, look how much of a dramatic difference that makes. - I had an instance recently where it was pretty painful because I walked in and I had a Pixel and I was trying to take a video of a room, and I couldn't get the whole room in the shot and I was like, if I had my iPhone with me I would just do ultra-wide video right now, and I didn't and I missed it, so.

- So that's all the tests that we've got, there was lot to go through there, right. So in terms of opinion, let's start off with regular shots in good light. - So, yeah, I think it's actually easier to separate them out because in regular light, I often preferred the Pixel. And I think that's because it's confidently just punching up contrast, giving you a confident, you know, saturated a little more but usually pretty accurate photo. So in daylight, I think I still prefer to take pictures with the Pixel as better than the iPhone.

But then you switch to low light, and it starts to sort of switch up a little bit. So that is like a Night Sight versus night mode deep fusion type of thing, where often the iPhone would start winning in night mode, which is impressive because we all looked at Night Sight as like a benchmark. And you got a lot more impressive photos from the iPhone in dark situations. So, it's pretty mixed. - So I think that for the daylight pictures, I think both are really good.

The Pixel gets a little bit of edge because of the zoom, the super zoom, so it does get a little bit of edge, but I don't think the iPhone did bad. But for me, the ultra-wide kind of changes that whole thing because now the iPhone gets a whole-- - A whole new vantage point, yeah. - Yeah, and it just gives it so many more points in my book because now I've got a whole different perspective, right? Which the Pixel just can't do. So then, that's on that side of things. The low light, I did, I'd say overall, there were certain situations where I preferred the Pixel.

But I think overall, I didn't think I would be saying this but I preferred the iPhone in low light. Portraits. - Portraits, from what we were looking at which is portraits of people, it seems like the difference is the same as last year, where you get a very aggressive cutout with the Pixel and it's more dramatic. And when you're zoomed out, I think that looks better. And then as soon as you zoom in and pixel-peep, it is easier on the Pixel to find instances of like it missing a cutout or doing it wrong.

So I'll probably, if I want a good clean no-mistakes photo I'll pick the iPhone, but if I want a more dramatic, more impressive photo, I think I would pick the Pixel. - What about the fact that the iPhone also lets you shoot from the primary camera? - Major difference, yeah. I like shooting wide-angle portrait mode photos. And the Pixel 3 was one of the best wide-angle portrait mode photos. They know they can do it with one lens, which is like shocking to me that they wouldn't let us do that still on the Pixel 4.

But yeah, I wish I could do wide-angle. - Selfies? - Selfies, I'm again gonna give that to Pixel. You can do Night Sight selfies. They both have about the same field of view. But you're getting a little more contrast, a little more sharpness.

- Yeah. So I think for portraits, I do like the Pixel one straight at a first glance, but I do like that we've got the option of having two different options on the iPhone. So this is normal portraits. Selfies, overall I think I'd lean towards the Pixel as well. I think the Pixel does selfies really well.

And although they can be a little bit too sharp, maybe a little too contrast-y, I kind of like that look. I think it might come down to your personal preference. - Yeah, I think you could probably edit a lot of the iPhone photos to look more like the Pixel instead of vice versa. It's hard to take out the contrast that's already baked in. - It is difficult to do that.

Video, thoughts. - Video, I think is an easy iPhone win. You can do 4K 60, which you can't do on the Pixel. - From all cameras. - You get ultra-wide video.

You get front-facing 4K video. You get I think better microphone, which matters a lot for video. So a lot of these things are just gonna tilt it way in the favor of the iPhone, which seems to me like still the best video camera on a smart phone. - So I think we both mutually agree that right now the best video on any smart phone is the iPhone, the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max. So like just all around there, when it comes to video.

Very interesting results here. I think both of them shoot really good pictures. I'm gonna put you on the spot here. You're going away for the weekend, you're gonna be taking lots of pictures. You can only pick one phone.

What is it gonna be? Is it gonna be the Pixel or is it gonna be the iPhone? - I think if I'm being hard-lined, one or the other, I think the iPhone is a better all-around bet for photos right now. - Okay, all right. Now that's interesting 'cause I mean, I generally have two phones. I think we have the luxury of having two phones with us at all times, which I think nobody else really has. We have one Android and one iPhone.

That's something everyone asks me and I'm like, I always have two, right? But not everybody has that luxury right now. So if I was asked that question, I really like the Pixel's cameras and I think they do great for photos, but this year, not having the ultra-wide. In my opinion, there's no excuse. - So has the crown been transferred in best camera from Pixel? - See, the thing for me is whenever I've always talked about cameras, I kind of look at an overall package, right. Because I don't necessarily want to have two phones with me.

Although I have the luxury to have that. But if I'm looking at ultra-wide video, I want everything in one package. I would pick the iPhone. - Yeah, I think I'm still a person that likes the look of a Pixel photo more often than the look of an iPhone photo, but as far as general overall package, you can only pick one, then yeah, iPhone. - So, that's interesting.

What do you guys prefer? Definitely drop us a comment below and let us know which one you preferred overall. This has been fun. We should definitely do it again sometime. Let me know what you guys thought of this collaboration camera comparison, which was a little bit different to what we traditionally have on the channel. If you enjoy the video and you wanna see more stuff like this, then be sure to subscribe and hit that bar like that so you don't miss anything.

And if you're not already subscribed to Marques, which I'm sure a lot of you already are. I actually looked at, this is on Instagram, you can see the people who have the most common followers with you, you're number one. Sixty-four percent of my followers also follow you on Instagram. - Hello. (laughs) That's awesome.

- So I don't know what the other 36 percent are doing, but you definitely want to check out Marques' content. Really awesome content, and there's also gonna be a Pixel review that's gonna be live right now at this moment which is gonna be linked in the description, a link in the cards as well. Check it out, make sure you subscribe to Marques if you haven't already. Dude, thank you so much. - Thank you.

- I really appreciate you taking part in this, and I'm sorry for putting you on the spot so much. - You know what? I got enough of 'em right that I'm not mad. It's all good. - It was good, it was fun, it was fun. All right, guys.

Thanks for watching, see you next time. Dude, that was awesome. That was fun. - Great, yeah. - (laughs) You got a few of 'em right.

- Bang, I did.

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