Ultimate Camera Test: iPhone X vs Pixel 2 vs Galaxy S8! By iupdate

What's going on guys, this is Sam, and today we're going to be doing a camera test between three of the hottest phones on the market right now. The Apple iPhone 10, the Google, pixel ? and, of course, the Samsung Galaxy S8, and before we even get started into the nitty-gritty details of what I like about some photos and what I hate about some others and what makes good lighting and bad lighting and how all the lenses work I want to tell you that all of these cameras are perfect. So, whether you pick the Galaxy S8 or the pixel ? or the iPhone 10. At the end of the day, you will be getting a perfect camera, but let's go ahead and get started with these three photos right here, as you can see, you're not supposed to look at the Sun and lenses and cameras generally. Do not do well when you point them at the Sun. But what I was amazed by is how well the Galaxy S8 an iPhone 10 did the pixel 2 has huge lines going across from the rays of sunlight.

Pixel 2 gets a fat L here, but on the galaxy is in the iPhone 10 very impressive. Once again, you can see how the light is distributed. The exposure near the bottom to the middle of the image, the galaxy s 8, shows a little of a darker approach and the iPhone 10 once again took a little of a brighter approach and lit up the grass. So you can see if someone would be sitting there. I think the winner of this one depends on what you're trying to capture personally I was just trying to capture the landscape to see how the lens would do with the Sun and the sky, and the grass, and I'm going to give it to the galaxy s 8, because I like the darker look here, if you were trying to capture someone or something under the trees or below the Sun, you would want to go with the iPhone 10 because it would light that area up.

But for me, Galaxy S8 looks fantastic. This next series of photos was fascinating, got some grass near the top some hay or leaves near the middle and then rocks down at the very bottom. The iPhone 10 shows a really dark approach here, but I like the way that looks a lot, even though realistically, when I was taking the photo of the pixel 2 did the best job of accurately representing when I took a picture of accurately portraying the grass. The galaxy estate looks pretty good in that photo over there on the left, but the grass is a little too bright. The iPhone 10 has the same problem near the very top of the frame there.

The grass is a little too green, now, objectively, I think the pixel 2 has the best image here, because everything is properly exposed. Everything is totally accurate. It's like this is my eye, see in the image and real life, but personally I like the darker look of the colors here in the shadow on the rocks over the pixel ? and the galaxy s AIT's. A personal opinion is that the iPhone 10 wins, but I think the objective opinion is that the pixel ? just did a perfect job of capturing that image in general, the galaxy s, a colors look a little off and a little fake to me. So pixel ? gets the W on that one.

On to this next series of images, pretty much everything that I said about This is gonna, be true for these you can see immediately. The iPhone tends image is so much darker than the galaxy s 8 and the pixel Tunes. But when it comes to realism, the Briggs ? in the galaxy s, 8 did a better job of accurately portraying the photo. I would say. The iPhone 10 actually looks a little too deeply colored in this photo because that's not realistic, it doesn't look.

The best I want to give the winner again into the pixel ? or the galaxy is I'm having a really hard time deciding just because everything else is so similar in the image the pixel to choose a slightly cooler, color approach, the galaxy s 8 took a slightly warmer color approach. You see some more yellows in the galaxy s, 8 some more blue colors and the pixel -. This is again gonna, be personal preference being as objective as I can be I. Think the pixel twos image wins here. The galaxy s 8 just looks a little too, yellow or orange, and a little too warm I like the cooler colors of the pixel -.

But, honestly, all three of these photos are good. Besides the fact that the iPhone tens is just a little too dark, this next set of images is sort of similar to the very first ones. We took a look at where you've got the concrete Street down at the very bottom, some cars in the middle and buildings in the middle up at the very top that beautiful blue sky. Looking at the colors alone. Right now, I like the way the iPhone 10 captured the image because I really like those deep blues in the sky, the pixel ? goes for that completely realistic approach where it's very natural.

It's a beautiful image, I love that the pixel does that and that's a key difference between the pixel and the iPhone 10 in the Galaxy S II. The pixel 2 here also has more detail than the iPhone 8 and the Galaxy S8 -. Take a look at that: let's go ahead and blow up the image and look at these trees a little more closely on the galaxy s 8. It looks okay, but it gets a little fuzzy. You can't see excessive detail when it comes to looking at the tree we head over to the iPhone 10 I.

Think out of these three photos, I see the best amount of detail here, because you can see everything very clearly, even when we zoom in, but if we go over to the pixel ? I, like the Oh all colors on this image better. So it depends on what you're. Looking for honestly, the iPhone 10 in the pixel to are so close here that I'm going to call it a tie. I hope that was a pretty good sample of some outdoor shots. I want to switch over to low-light now, because this is also something very important: it's not going to be optimal golden hour lighting conditions forever.

Let's say we go somewhere like in a parking garage and that's exactly what we did once again. The Galaxy S8 is over on the Left iPhone 10 in the middle pixels 2 over on the rights. None of these images get aid clear W because they didn't really do that great of a job. I mean it looked. Ok, it was good, but they still didn't do fantastic.

There was no phone that I was just blown away by when I came to low-light. If I have to pick a winner here, we have to start taking a closer look at these images, because there's no way you can just look at these without seeing the detail and the noise that's been created because of the lack of light noise just means if they have those little dots present. When you get into a lot of low-light situations, you will see those on a number of different cameras. Let's go ahead and blow each of these images up individually. Again it the galaxy s.8 looks ok here, there's enough light, there's no optimal light, so it's not perfect, but there's enough light where you don't see a lot of grain being added to the photo. Switching over to the iPhone 10 right here takes a little of a warmer color approach than the Galaxy S8, just like it did in the very first photos.

We took a look at I think that the Galaxy S8 did better than the iPhone 10 I, see some more fuzz here than I did on the galaxy s 8. Finally, let's take a look at the Google Pixel -. This took a very cool color approach. I can't remember if that was the actual color when I took the photo, but I would assume it to be because that's how a lot of the other photos have been little I'd. Also, not amazing.

Here on the pixel ? I'm going to have to go with a galaxy s 8, because I like that photo the best again now that we've taken a look at some objects in low-light, let's go ahead and take a look at a person in low-light. This is me standing in the same parking garage, so I took the last photo, not great lighting at all. Let's kick it off with the galaxy s 8 right here it uh. It looks. Ok, there's some smearing of detail on the face.

I feel like you can't see a lot, not very blown away by this image. At all galaxy s, 8 looked a lot better when it came to an object. Let's switch over now to the iPhone 10. This one is decent as well, but I see some smearing of detail in the face again, there's not a lot of clear detail just because there's not the light here to make that happen in the first place, I'm very interested to blow up the Google Pixel -. This one right here took a very cool color approach and there is a little more detail on the face than I was seen and the other photos I'm not once again blown away by the low-light performance in any of these I am gonna, give this one to the Google Pixel ?, because even the rest of the image seems to have more light in it, then the galaxy s 8 and the iPhone 10, and if you're taking a picture of someone you want to see as much light as possible and also retain that detail as well, which is what I feel like the pixel to did here.

If we head back outside, there are a couple of other photos that I want to take a look at when we took this photo again. It's its funny. It was the opposite of the first time we had some sun rays that we were trying to deal with the galaxy s.8 has a lot of sun rays here, where it didn't have a lot, the first time the iPhone tenets and the pixel ? do not. We took these at the same time. So I wasn't manipulating the image to make one look worse over the other.

It just must not have taken as well. For some reason, the pixel 2 looks very accurate when it comes to color. The grass looks sort of fake at the very top, though I feel like the iPhone 10 looks the most natural here. I really like the darker colors in this one did a great job of showing the Bradley University seal here and if I had to pick one galaxy SA takes a clearer L for that ray of sunlight. The pixel ? just looks a little too muted here.

I think that color is really important, sometimes where you want to capture a completely natural lighting and completely natural color, but here just isn't really doing it. For me, I like the iPhone 10 I, like the darker color, it makes the seal, which is the focal point of the photo pop a little more, which is obviously what we are going to be. Looking at. Moving on to this next series of photos, I wanted to see how an object in direct sunlight would look I wanted to see how shadows would be, how exposure and darker areas of the frame would be the galaxy s.8 made the sky look gorgeous in this photo. The pixel ? once again, you're, seeing these muted, colors and I think you're going to keep seeing those again and again, and I'm not saying muted, in a bad way like it's not taking the photos properly.

Just overall, the colors aren't popping in the pixel ? photos they look more accurate and natural, very, very normal I would say. The iPhone 10 took a little of a lighter approach here, because it tried to raise the exposure to include detail in the bushes on the right side of the sign here. I like the pixel, ? and Galaxy S eights photos the best, because I don't need to see detail in those bushes, clearly I'm taking a picture of a sign, but the camera JR overexposed that area just a little, and then it made the rest of the image. Look a little less. Pretty because it was a little more bright than the pixel ? and galaxy s, eights photos I, like the dark shadows in the galaxy s.8's photo here, but overall I'm going to give this one to the pixel ?, because it balances the bright Sun, hitting the house on the left side of the photo in the background, the iPhone 10, because it blew up the exposure overexposed. That area didn't look perfect I, also like the color of the grass and the pixel ?, just natural colors.

Overall, this next photo. We are getting very comfortable with a tree up close and personal of some tree. Bark I wanted to see the detail up-close in this photo, because, even though you're taking a lot of portrait photos or a lot of pictures of buildings or of nature where you are farther away, sometimes you want those good at clean macro shots with some blur around the edges. Yet again, in the series of photos, the galaxy s 8 in the iPhone 10 took deeper and darker color approaches, even though that may have not been the most realistic thing where the pixel 2 took a very clean and natural-looking lighter image of this tree. Bark I can't pick a clear winner here because they all look so similar.

There's no image that just speaks to me on this one and says this is the best I would say: either the galaxy s 8 or the iPhone 10 or my personal favorites. But once again for that natural look, we got the pixel ? we haven't talked about selfies. Yet let's talk about some selfies. The pixel 2 here is my favorite image. There is something about the detail that you can see on my face.

That is better than the iPhone 10 in the galaxy s, 8 I have continually roasted the s 8 for making your face. Look too baby like and too smooth and too clear. If you like that, you will love the essay, because I have never taken a selfie that has looked realistic in my life with that phone on the iPhone 10. It's a mix of the both you've got a lot of detail here, but it sort of looks a little smoother than I'd, like with the pixel ? I feel like you, just get a really accurate, detailed image. Colors in the background, look perfectly on point.

My backpack straps are super black. You can see a little of the YouTube logo. My face just has detail in it, and it looks incredible you can see on my face. There's just more stuff there than I could see on the iPhone 10 or on the Galaxy SA the galaxy s 8 you just smooth everything out, and I'm, not a fan of that at all. The iPhone 10 looks like it somewhere in between the pixel 2 and the galaxy is, but 100% for selfies.

If that is the main camera you will be using on a phone, the pixels 2 continues to impress me whenever I take a selfie. So overall I was really impressed by the photos that each of these phones were capturing, but it is 2017. Most major smartphone manufacturers have that nailed down by now, but video is an entirely different beast. Let's kick things off with the Samsung Galaxy and s8 first thing I want to notice here is the motion is pretty good, but all of a sudden, just a few seconds later, you'll notice that it tries to refocus really awkwardly sometimes and when you move the camera around. The stabilization produces this warping and bending of the frame that I am NOT.

A fan of at all I've been shooting video for five or six for seven years instantaneously. This camera is a no-go for me when it comes to video, because you can't have video look like that when you shoot it, it's not good, and I think you deserve more from a six or $700 phone there's not a lot of detail on the trees. You can see a little of detail in the blue sky, but it's more of a very faded blue here lots of white coming in there as well. The motion on the actual video is good. It captures things really well, but I'm not blown away by this, let's head over now to the iPhone at 10:00.

At first, it doesn't look very good as I move the camera up just a little. It's able to finally capture the blue color of the sky. You can see detail of the clouds and the trees. In the background, look really great. The motion of the car is pretty much identical to the Samsung Galaxy S8, but once again the stabilization is really weird here.

It's something that I've never seen from an iPhone before. Usually it's pretty good, a pretty natural-looking, but it keeps popping in and out of focus, and it's not able to adjust the slight shaking of my hand, which is kind of an issue for me with the iPhone once again, is something that I've never seen before and something that I did not anticipate to see until I watched this back in post. Now, let's go over to the Google Pixel to much darker image. You can see it properly exposed everything in the middle of the frame I like that lighting. The trees have a good amount of detail, but if you go up to the sky, let me know down below in the comments what you see, because it is not clouds.

It is just a very, very, very faded blue. It looks very white I, don't like that at all. The motion here is perfect, where the Google Pixel 2 shines without question is stability. Can you tell that this one isn't on and try pod, because this is being handheld right now it doesn't look like one of those fake Gimbals where it's not natural? This is handheld stability, and it is absolutely incredible blows. The iPhone 10 and the Galaxy S8 out of the water very impressive there, because the results of this initial video test were so much different from what I expected I thought that it could have been something on my end that was causing the problem.

So I wanted to run the exact same test again in different lighting conditions. The day after so I did that as I was editing. This video first up is the Samsung Galaxy S8 immediately. The stability is okay here, but there's still those same weird warping and bending issues and the motion of the cars and the clouds and the trees is good. Colors seem to be pretty solid as well.

This was all shot in 4k, 30fps, across-the-board on the galaxy s, 8, the iPhone 10 and the pixel 2, but still not the best experience heading over to the iPhone 10, it's a brighter shot, but the stability here is definitely better than it was yesterday as I'm watching this video, it's not going in and out as much. But it's not perfect. It doesn't seem as good as video on iPhones in the past, or at least stability wise. It doesn't seem as good. The colors are really nice.

You can see a little more detail in the sky I like the motion of everything in the video, and finally we're gonna head over to the pixel to once again. Stability here is rock solid. It's a much darker image like the Samsung Galaxy S8 when compared to the iPhone 10, but I like this one. The best the weird thing with the pixel 2 here is that the detail seems more smoothed together, I feel like with the iPhone 10. You see the most in the image, even though the stability isn't perfect, but with the pixel -.

The stability is just on parallel. That does not look like someone is holding this. It's absolutely insane and Google has killed it this time around when it comes to video stability. There's not a lot happening across the board in these three videos, but where things get crazy is when you start walking it, as you are recording once again, 4k 30 frames per second, but look at the video here on the Samsung Galaxy s 8. It is practically unwatchable, it's warping and bending it looks so unnatural, and it takes away from actually watching the video, because I'm personally so distracted by that bend and warping.

If we head over to the iPhone 10 now it's better it's watchable, but it still is not that great. It looks more natural as you're walking, but there still is some slight warping and bending of the frame. It is definitely better than the Samsung Galaxy S8 I think the iPhone 10 does a better job with the stability, but once again, where things shine is on the Google Pixel to look at this stability, you can see that I'm walking and there is some weird artifacts happening with some things in the video. The colors are sort of like glitchy sheen around I. Don't want to describe that I hope you can see it.

It's like things, get fuzzy for a second, and then they go back to normal, because the phone is trying to process everything at the same time, along with taking the stability into account, and it looks weird again I'm not happy with the video on any three of these phones. If I had to pick one, the Google Pixel 2 looks the best for stability, but when it comes to the actual quality of the image, I think the iPhone 10 looks the best and the Samsung Galaxy S8 honestly does not make the list it's just too bad in every single category. That I'm, looking at I, really hope that in some respect, this video influenced your buying decision, whether it was for the Google Pixel 2 or the Samsung Galaxy S 8, or the Apple iPhone 10 when it comes to the final results. My final verdict, the best camera for taking photos I think, is the Google Pixel to not like hands down or buy so much but I. Think overall, when everything is considered, detail exposure noise, I, like the Google Pixel to the best, the iPhone 10, is a very, very close second, but the galaxy s 8 for me just fell somewhere short in between.

It shines in some case scenarios, but in others the colors are too exposed, and they look too bright and I. Don't like that. Look now personally, unless objectively I, like the darker look of a lot of the photos that are taken on the iPhone 10 I, like the way that looks, but you might like the much more natural look of the Google Pixel too, and overall I think that it is the best camera of these three. When it came to video I would objectively say that the iPhone 10 was the best it did struggle with stabilization I think that was because the lighting was really strange. That was why the galaxy s 8 struggled a lot I.

Think that's why we saw the artifacts on the pixel too, but for overall video quality. All things considered personally I like the iPhone 10, the best, that's one that I would go with, and I would objectively say that the iPhone 10 does shoot the best video, still Google Pixel, two very close behind the Galaxy S8 come on Samsung we paid seven or eight hundred dollars for that phone, and the warping and bending of the frames is completely unacceptable. I really hope that over the past year, Samsung has spent time investing in their video division so that on the Samsung, Galaxy S nine, we do not see that warping and bending, because for me that is a serious issue. If you guys enjoyed this video, it does help me out if you drop a like down below and of course, hit subscribe for more videos like this in the future, I've been Sam, I hope you are doing great, and I will talk to you in the next one.

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