TCL 10 Pro vs TCL 10L Unboxing and Camera Test By Jonathan Casey

Hey, what's up everybody, my name is Jonathan Casey. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new here welcome today, we're going to be talking about the 10 L and the 10 pro, both of which are just two of the new phones recently released by TCL, starting with the 10 L. Let's take a look at what comes inside the box. Well, I'm opening this up. It's probably a good time to let you know the price the 10 L starts at $249, which, in my opinion, is really, really competitive.

Inside the box we have a SIM card removal tool right on top. It's always great when companies include these, the SIM card removal tool is attached to like a small cardboard box inside this little box is some basic literature and paperwork. You also get a clear case inside this little box. So if I said all the paperwork inside and have a look, you can see. It's like a silicone or CPU style case.

Nothing fancy, but it's definitely cool that they, you know included it inside the box. So next up we have the 10 L itself, which I will come back to for now. I'm just going to go ahead and set it to the side and one of the bottom compartments. There is a USB cable for charging and syncing. Lastly, in the other compartment, we have a small charging brick.

The 1000 has a 16 megapixel front facing camera. On the back, there's a quad camera array. The main sensor is 48 megapixels, and it has an aperture F 1.8. Next up, the 10 yellow has an 8 megapixel ultra-wide, followed by a 2 megapixel macro and lastly, a 2 megapixel depth camera in terms of video specs. The front camera can shoot up to 1080p at 30 frames per second and on the back, it could record up to 4k at 30 frames per second.

It can also record slow-motion video at 1080p up to 120 frames per second in 720p, up to 240 frames per second in terms of auto, focusing its using contrast, detection as well as phase detection. Now, let's go ahead and set this to the side and take a look at the ten probe. It has a starting price of four hundred and fifty bucks. If you want to find out what that extra $200 really gets, you, let me know, and I'll do a full comparison between these two phones. First thing we see inside 10 Pro box is well the 10 pro, so we actually have a little phone tray inside a 10 pro box mix for a little nicer of an unboxing experience.

I guess, then we have a SIM card attached to the same tray or box set up as a 10 L inside the small box is some paperwork same as the 10 L basic literature, Quick Start Guide. That kind of stuff The Temper also has a clear silicone case packaged inside, which is definitely nice to see them include in the first bottom compartment we have the same USB style, cable and in the second compartment there is a much bigger charging brick versus the 10 L. In fact, the 10 pro comes with an 18 watt charger versus the 5 watt charger. That's included with the 10 L. The 10 Pro has a 24 megapixel front facing camera.

On the back. There is another quad camera array. The main sensor is 64 megapixels, and it has an aperture of f-18 next up, there's a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera, followed by a five megapixel macro and, lastly, a 2 megapixel little light camera. This new low-light camera has a sensor size of 1 over 2 point 8 inches and a pixel size at 2.9 microns, which is kind of crazy for a smartphone for video, the front camera records 1080p at 30 frames per second on the back. It could record video up to 4k at 30 frames per second for slow motion.

There's 1080p at 120 frames per second 720p at 240 frames per second and 720p at 960 frames per second. Lastly, it's using a combination of contrast, detection phase detection and laser detection for autofocus I mean I have to, admit on paper. These camera specs seem pretty good, but ultimately it comes down to image, quality and performance. All the pictures just seeing were shot by simply taking and selecting the mode I wanted to shoot in and then snapping a photo. No focus or exposure.

Adjustments were made prior to taking the picture and, while both phones do have a pro mode for this, video I've relied on the phone's. Auto features for everything no Corrections or adjustments were made after the fact. So what you see is what you're getting straight from the camera. The first thing, I noticed, was the dynamic range for the most part. The tint Pro has more shadow and highlight details.

It also tends to make colors much more vibrancy and punchier. The Linnell is extremely inconsistent. Sometimes the image is overexposed. Sometimes it's underexposed, and sometimes it's nearly perfect beating out the 10 pro like you see here. One thing I noticed about the 10l is that it tends to produce more realistic and natural colors in most cases versus the 10 pro.

However, like I said it's in most instances, so taking a look here, you can see the cards been reversed, plus there were several cases where the 10l just added a blue cast to the image. It's like I said the 10 L is a mess when it comes to producing consistent results. Both cameras are similar when it comes to sharpness, but if I had to pick one, it would be the 10 pro looking at the macro capabilities of each foam, the Tenn has a crazy, sharp image that is possibly over sharpened. Despite it having a dedicated macro mode. The 10 probe, while not as sharp, seems to have a much more shareable image.

I would say this was pretty consistent across the board. So it makes me wonder what the dedicated macro camera on the 10 L is actually good for portrait mode on both phones are hit-and-miss the 10 Pro is the more consistent of the two for sure, but honestly, neither are very impressive. Hopefully, subject, detection can be improved with various firmware updates moving forward when it comes to the ultra-wide cameras. The 10 Pro is better in nearly every way. The 10 L is constantly giving me a blue cast, making the image freezing.

It also tends to have more distortion and flare. Control is one of the worst I have seen on a smartphone in the past few years. Images on both phones are not the sharpest by any means, but the 10 L just comes out muddy. Sometimes this brings me to night mode and the low-light capabilities of each phone. The 10 Pro has a dedicated low-light camera that is honest-to-god more inconsistent than Ferris Bueller when it works.

It does a decent job of reducing noise increasing sharpness, but it also makes the image bright AF when it doesn't work so good it over exposes the image like crazy, washes out colors, and it accentuates s', any flares that might be present well, the 10 L is it by any means a little light capable camera. At least it retains some type of normalcy to the imaging colors. When taking an image. When you know it's dark out, the good news is that 4k, video on 10 Pro looks perfect. Even a 10 L doesn't look bad whatsoever, however, on close inspection, you're gonna notice, some things like the over sharpening that's happening on the 10 L.

Also, the colors are noticeably different once again to now leaning, more towards high contrast and color tones I'm, not sure if this is a sensor related issue or if it's something that TCL can fix, because I have to say the colder tones that I'm getting from the 10 L or the most consistent part about the camera. Front-Facing video also looks decent on both maxing out at 1080p. I think the quality is acceptable for things like Instagram stories and other social media things. Both phones offer some type of stabilization on the backside. That seems to work pretty good.

So no complaints from me when it comes to that aspect. Both phones can capture slow-motion video at 120 and 240 frames per second. However, the 10 pro can also capture 960 frames per second, while the quality isn't crazy. Slow motion is always fun and the fact that the 10 pro can do 960 is pretty cool, so low-light video is horrible. The 10 Pro automatically defaults to using a low-light camera for video and 4k no longer is selectable.

At least this was my experience, feel free to. Let me know down below if I'm, just an idiot, and I'll make sure I delete your comment regardless when the lights go down, so does the video quality just keep that in mind in the end, if cameras are your main concern, I would skip the 10 L and 10 Pro altogether at the time of this video. Well, it's a no is crazy, affordable. There are several used and refurbished phones out there with similar prices that will deliver better quality. For example, I've seen the pixel 3 XL for as low as 280 bucks in excellent condition.

The 10 Pro is definitely a better choice, but again at its price point you can get a 20/20 iPhone SE or a gently used pixel for Excel and both have better cameras than the 10 Pro look I know cameras. Aren't everything, so I'll be looking at each of these phones more in future videos. Let me know what you think of the camera quality when it comes to the TCO 10 L and the TCL 10 Pro. Have you enjoyed the video make sure to you know, give it a thumbs up subscribe for more videos, just like this, and I will see you beautiful people and the next one.

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