Samsung Galaxy Note 8 vs. Pixel 2 XL Camera Comparison By Grant Likes Tech

Positive on Grind and welcome back to another camera comparison video this time, I've got the Samsung Galaxy, Note, 8 and Google Pixel to excel and, like I, normally do I'm going to show you a bunch of photos and videos in all kinds of line conditions, and as it always is. This is just intended to help you make a purchase decision, or maybe it just curious as to how these to compare, and you're not able to compare them yourself. So I think I'll make a little of prediction this time, just because I've been using each of these phones and their cameras independently for a while now I think the Google Pixel to Excel will probably take it and still photos just because of the detail and dynamic range that it produces. I. Just like that better and the note 8 I think still takes fantastic photos, but they tend to come out a little softer. So my prediction there for Stills will be the pixel to excel I.

Think for a video, though I think this is where the note 8 will shine and come out on top just because in previous usage of the pixel to excel camera, the color reproduction hasn't been that great. It's had some audio issues, although they have improved, but Samsung has historically had some great audio recording capabilities, so I think for a video the note it will probably take that, but let's go ahead and take a look at all the photos and video, and I'll come back at the end, and I'll. Let you know what I think after reviewing all the results, hey guys. So here we are in the park. Just shooting a quick 1080p, 30 frames per second clip here, give an idea what the video quality looks like on each I'll.

Just leave it still here. So you can see what the quality looks like before. I start panning around and right now, in the viewfinder at least a note 8 looks like it has some better colors, but you never know until you get it off the phone and onto the computer. We can test some zoom here. So here's a pixel to excel zoomed in all the way, pretty steady, but maybe a little grainy there back it out.

Tessa zooms on the note h2 times, zoom there, and we'll go in all the way. Ten times digital zoom now, and that's actually pretty clear and very steady for ten times. Digital zoom. That's actually looking pretty good, don't back it out, and we can try to test some focus here, so I'll. Do it one at a time because getting them both the focus on the object is kind of hard.

So there we go with to notate, focusing really quickly back onto the post locks in real quick, so nice focus speeds here from the node eight and now, with the pixel to excel focus in back away back onto the post, and it locked in right away too, so both very good, providing some really nice shallow depth-of-field here and some quick focus. So you can do a quick stabilization test, so I'll walk down the stairs. Give you an idea of how these are stabilizing here in 1080p. Both should be perfect. They both have stabilization here, especially at 1080p.30 frames per second, so hopefully this gives a good idea of what equality as well as stabilization, looks like at 1080p 30 frames per second on each camera. Everyone and we're back here at 1080p, 60 frames per second this time.

So I'll do the same kind of test here. I'll just hold the camera out here, so you can see what it looks like stabilized and not moving around will pan around a little here, move over to the famous cell tower, and we can test a zoom here in 60 frames per second see if it's any different here, so I think we have a little shorter zoom here on the pixel to excel, and it's looking even more green. It's still very stable, zoom back out and I, don't know D. We don't have two times optical zoom here in 60 frames per second, but we'll zoom in all the way, and it looks like we still have our 10 times: digital zoom, there looks a little more grainy. I think in 60 frames per second here back it out.

We try focusing again here on the note 8. So there we go locked in focused pretty fast back in on the post, so focus speed still seem to be pretty good, maybe a little slower, I think it so yeah there we go focus back out, and now it's focused, so focus speeds her in 60 frames per second, it will focus, but it's a little slower there we go now we'll try the pixel to excel that focused in pretty quickly. Let's move it away, so focus beats here on the pixel to excel seems to be a lot faster at 60 frames per second than the note 8, all right, and we'll go ahead and do stabilization test at 60 frames per second. This is where things usually get a little more shaky. So we'll see how this looks walking around here at 60 frames, so hopefully that to give you a good idea of the quality of the video here, as well as stabilization at KP 60 frames per second in each camera, all right.

And lastly, here we go with the same test in the park at 4k, UHD equality. So again, I'll just leave the steady here. Give you an idea for the quality just standing still, and now we'll pan around a little and move over to the cell tower and what test to zoom in 4k here so again. First with the pixel to excel, this actually looks not bad. The colors are looking kind of off here on the pixel to excel, but that's just in the viewfinder we'll see what it looks like when we get it into the computer and out onto YouTube, and now we'll go to the focus or the zoom here on a node 8.

We do have our 2 times zoom here in 4k back. We do not have it at 60 frames per second, and we'll zoom in 10 times digitally in 4k I'm, a node 8, so that looks like still pretty stable at 10 times zoom in 4k. There zooming back out and again, let's check out the focus speeds here in 4k. So, first, with the no dates on the post locked in pretty well and locked in immediately when I took it away back in on the post locked in immediately and again away so a lot better focus speeds than it was in 60 frames per second 1080p. So here's the pixel to excel again focus then really quickly and focused and quickly and when I move it away, one more time on the post and move it away.

So both are focusing in really nicely here and providing great shallow depth of field. So we'll go ahead and move on to stabilization test as I walk down the stairs and 4k, so the pixel should do really well here. It's got probably some. The best stabilization, if not be the best stabilization at 4k, see how the note competes with that pixel stabilization. The pixel looks like it's on the gimbals, usually even at 4k.

So that's pretty incredible. So it's a good test to see how the note 8 can handle stabilization compared to the pixel here at 4k. So now, let's test out the front-facing cameras here outside both at MEP I, know the note it can do.2K we're going to go apples to apples here at 1080p, well start walking, so it gives you a better idea about stabilization. So here's some image quality with some bright Sun behind me, so this guy might be a little blown out, see how each the cameras are handling that as well as the stabilization now that I'm walking. So if you like to film outside you like to vlog I'd like to move around with your fun facing camera, hopefully this gives you a better idea of what like not only the quality, looks like what do you expect as far as stabilization, okay, Robson Harrison low-light footage from the rear facing cameras on each phone and 1080p 30 frames per second August 40 here pillar wall.

So you can kind of see all the footage is looking while I'm stable or not moving around I'll just go ahead and pan around a little here, and then I'll do a little walking, so we'll test the stabilization and low light on each of these phones here, sometimes in low light. The stabilization get thrown off so see how that looks here and when I get to the end here. I'll just do one quick pan around again, and then we'll test the zoom here so pixel to excel zoom pull zoom looking a little grainy recent. If you find there here, we got pretty stable I'll pour it back out, and this is zoom here on the notes so two times zoom on the note there, and we can go full ten times digital zoom here and that's also pretty grainy here in low-light, but that is 10 times, digital zoom and then cutting around. But it is stable as well.

So that is just a quick test of the rear-facing cameras here and 1080p and some low-light, and we're back again here with another low-light sample test this time at 60 frames per second in 1080p also note that there's a lot of background noise with the running water there so check out how the audio sounds against that loud background, noise, eh phone, and I'll go ahead and walk around, and we get tested stabilization at 60 frames per second see if you see any difference from 30 frames and what the overall quality here looks like as we move around and then again, we've tested zoom using 60, frames-per-second hair, so a pixel to excel actually not as grainy, because I don't think it Tunes in as much that's it,, thanks. I could be wrong, but it's Tough not looking as draining now you go ahead and test out no date again, no two times optical zoom here at 60 frames, but you still do have ten times digital soon and that's the just as green as it was in 30 frames per second, at least from what I can see it's still fairly stable. Here. Some focus, hunting and will pen out on one last time, but that is again 60 frames per second here on each camera in low-light, there's one last little light test in 4k another facing cameras on each phone. Give you a look at what that looks like here in 4k, and again we can do a stabilization test and just walk around again.

The pixel two should be doing better, as it generally has better stabilization, even at 4k, but we'll see how the note holds up here and competes with the pixels image stabilization. Here and again, we test out the zoom in 4k. That's the pixel to excel not looking too grainy. Actually, here that's pretty good, and you know dates sometimes optical zoom there, and we can zoom all the way in ten times digitally and of course, that's still going to be pretty grainy ten times digital zoom and lowlights. To expect that back that out a little.

So that's half zoom, and it definitely clears up some of that noise. But it's still kind of there he's going back out. So there you go for K sample video here from the rear facing cameras on each phone, and here are some front-facing footage at 1080p from each phone and the note 8 can do. Quad HD I'll get a sample view of that in low light here, but pan around just to see how the cameras do expose it and whatnot here in low light. Sometimes I can really throw a camera off sudden changes of light.

There looks like both are how many pres well, though, and I'll go ahead and actually do a little of walking here, so we'll press the stabilization and low light. I tell you to key in the front-facing cameras just to give an idea what that looks like here and one last pan at the lights in the background there. So that's just a quick sample footage in the front-facing cameras and 1080p everyone. So I just wanted to end this video with some low-light camera footage from the front-facing cameras, with the note 8 in its highest quad HD resolution up against the pixel to excel and its highest 1080p resolution, as well as give you my thoughts and opinions on which cameras, I thought performed better and I. Don't know about you, but it was pretty close, especially for the still photos.

I really thought that pixel to Excel would wipe the floor with a note 8, but, to my surprise, I actually liked some note 8 photos better than the pixel to excel, and a lot of them were ties to me where I could have gone either way, but overall I liked a few more photos from the pixel 2xl more than the note 8. So I would have to give the still photo when to the pixel to excel, but not by as much as I thought and especially in portrait mode up against a notated. Selective focus, I. Think the pixel to excels portrait mode performance. Much more consistently has much better dynamic range in details up against the softer look of a note.

Its selective focus- and this is where I think Samsung- has a lot of room for improvement- is that selective focus or portrait mode here and 2018, and so hopefully see that with the upcoming release of the galaxy s 9, and so as far as video recording cuts. The first start with video image quality in this is another area that I thought was very surprising. I really thought the note.8 would easily win in video image. Quality here and I actually prefer the pixel to excels image, quality for video recording and Andy P, for the same reasons that I liked. It's still photos.

It just has better dynamic range, a lot more detail, but I think a lot of folks would prefer. You know, Tate's still photos and Pinault image quality, because it's brighter, but to me, is just a little too soft, especially in app video recording now for K. That's where Google really has improved the color reproduction on the pixel to excelled in 4k is awful. I, don't know, what's going on there, but I'm really hoping they can provide a software update to improve that. Just like how they've improved the audio quality, and so as far as audio quality goes while the pixel 2 excels, audio quality has improved, especially with the Android 8.1 update. I do believe that Google has a little ways to go and denote.

It clearly sounded better to me and that's not really a big surprise. I think Samsung has historically had perfect audio recording and so are they recording leads to my heirs, being notated won hands down. So those are just my opinions on what I think, but I'm really more interested to hear what you think so leave a comment down below with which cameras you preferred and why or just general questions and comments are always welcome, and as always thanks for watching you.

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