iPhone 11 Pro vs. iPhone XS camera comparison
The iPhone 11 Pro has several camera improvements over its predecessor, the iPhone 10S. One of the most noticeable changes is the introduction of night mode, which uses a combination of larger pixels, improved low-light processing, and advanced machine learning algorithms to capture images in low light conditions.
For example, let's take a look at a photo from the iPhone 11 Pro taken with its telephoto camera. As you can see, the lines in the bottom right corner of the image are caused by an airplane flying over during the capture process. However, the viewfinder dims and slowly brightens as the capture sequence goes on, resulting in a final photo that always looks better than the live preview.
The iPhone 11 Pro's camera also features improved color accuracy and reduced noise, making it ideal for capturing portraits and landscapes. The ultra-wide-angle camera, which is one of the most subtle changes from the iPhone 10S, now has a new feature called "wide-angle lens" that allows for more dramatic movements when panning across a scene.
In terms of video capture, the iPhone 11 Pro refines the features introduced in the iPhone 10S, including extended dynamic range and slow-motion recording. The camera can also shoot videos at higher frame rates and resolutions, such as 4K at 60 frames per second, making it ideal for capturing fast-paced action.
One of the most exciting new features of the iPhone 11 Pro is its ability to capture high-key "studio" photos with a single shot, thanks to a feature called "high key mode". This allows for crisp, bright images taken against a white background. The camera also has improved portrait mode capabilities, including better edge blending and more accurate skin tones.
The selfie camera on the iPhone 11 Pro is also an improvement over the previous model, with better colors, sharper image quality, and the ability to record 4K video and slow-motion footage. However, it's worth noting that the feature dubbed "slow fees" (a clear typo) is probably just a joke.
Overall, the camera system on the iPhone 11 Pro is the best yet, thanks to small but significant improvements in low-light performance, color accuracy, and overall image quality. If you're an avid photographer or videographer and already have an iPhone 10S, it's worth considering upgrading to the iPhone 11 Pro for the latest and greatest camera technology.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe iPhone 11 Pro has triple rear cameras night mode and a brand-new selfie camera but how much better is it at taking photos and videos than last year's iPhone 10s let's find out now this isn't your regular camera shootout largely because the iPhone 11 pro has features that are well just not found on the iPhone 10 s the first thing you'll notice when you pick up the iPhone 11 Pro is that there are three cameras on the back instead of the two cameras found on the iPhone 10 s the newest camera is an ultra wide 13 millimeter lens equivalent and it's just a damn blast to use now if the regular wide-angle camera on the iPhone is like a business suit and the telephoto lens is kind of like a sports blazer then the ultra wide lens is the equivalent of a Hawaiian shirt it's obviously different from the other cameras and it will definitely change the way you shoot now this won't be your go-to everyday lens but it can be both handy for small spaces as well as well make you feel a little artistic kind of changing the drama of a mundane scene Apple did a great job at balancing the distortion on the lips there's a little which you want because well it's an ultra wide lens but it's not horrible I found myself finding different lines and angles to make my subjects look larger than life it best of all you can use the ultra wide angle to film video I mean just here take a look at these fitting trees in fact during recording you can switch lenses seriously try zooming in with the two x telephoto lens and then tapping the 0.5 ultra wide button and it just zoomed you're right back out pretty amazing I should mention that you'd have to find a place for your fingers when you're using the ultra wide camera several times my fingers make cameos on the edges and sides of my photos so you don't want to do that obviously the iPhone 10 s does not have an ultra wide camera so there's really nothing to compare it to the other phone and to be honest if the only update this year was the addition of an ultra-wide camera I don't think it would be worth upgrading from an iPhone 10s to an iPhone 11 pro and that brings me to my second favorite feature on the iPhone 11 pro night mode now as strong as the iPhone has been in photography and shooting videos of the years one weakness has always been low light photography so if I was out with friends at a bar nice and cozy dim lighting and I went to take a photo the iPhones noise reduction would help a photo as much as it would hurt it phota took from the iPhone 10s which sometimes look almost like a painting especially if it cropped in but night mode changes everything it can brighten photos reduce image noise and best of all it does it all automatically the way it works is when you open up the default camera app the iPhone will determine if it's dark enough to go into night mode at this time there's not a manual way to trigger the mode night mode uses adaptive bracketing it takes a series of photos some with longer shutter speeds and others are shorter ones the iPhone 11 pro then fuses all the photos together to reduce motion blur and brighten shadows when I handheld the iPhone 4 night mode shots the secrets would take about 3 to 5 seconds when I put the iPhone on a tripod I got a 10 second time and I was even able to override that manually for a 28 second night mode shot I took photos of a tree in my backyard that was in complete darkness now here's the one I took with the iPhone 10 s which does not have night mode and here's the one from the iPhone 11 Pro with night mode oh yeah and the lines you see in the bottom right yeah that was when an airplane flew over during the capture process while the iPhone is taking photos in night mode the viewfinder dims and slowly brightens as the capture sequence goes on the final photo always looks better than the live preview now as exciting as night mode or the ultra wide camera is the biggest change for the iPhone 11 pro's camera is also one of the most subtle the iPhone 10s use a smart HDR to make photos look better however in a lot of situations coloreds and white balance were not accurate blue skies would just look off and sometimes smart HDR reduce the contrast so much the images looked flat the iPhone 11 pro has a new version which seems less aggressive notice the difference in the yellow paint on the keep the photo from the 10s reduces the highlights on the truck and makes the yellow paint look almost like a matte finish in this photo of the donut you can see how the iPhone 10s image looks well a little flat xi pro has a bit more pop now notice that natural bokeh of each of the lenses on the wide-angle cameras the bokeh with the blurred out background on the 11pro is buttery and smooth while on the 10s it's a bit more crunchy another change on the 11pro is the telephoto camera it's 52 millimeter equivalent lens now has an f-stop of f2 which lets in a little bit more light this compared to the 52 millimeter equivalent f 2.4 camera on the iPhone 10s like the changes to smart HDR these are not always the most obvious notice the shadows in the picture from the iPhone 10s and how they are darker than those on the 11pro next look at the colors of the sky the smarting 2dr and the 10s makes the sky this weird shade of blue while a smart HDR on the iphone 11 pro renders the sky more true to life in terms of portrait mode on both iPhones they're about equal portrait mode photos from the iPhone 10s seem to pull off the cutout and edge blending better than the iPhone 11 Pro but a new feature that I'm enamored about is called high key motto which stimulates a black and white studio photo taken against a white background what's crazy is you'd never know I was in my living room when I took these photos video from the iPhone 11 Pro doesn't look drastically different than that from the iPhone 10s if anything the colors are a little less punchy and more true to life and I like that however the iPhone 10s introduced extended dynamic range which helped keep highlights from blowing out to white and shadows from turning black it worked in all resolutions and frame rates except 4k 60 frames per second the iPhone 11 pro now includes extended dynamic range for 4k 60 frames per second I shot videos at that frame rate and resolution from both phones on a sunny day and the video from the iPhone 10s the Sun is blown out too white and there's basically a large white blob where the Sun would be the iPhone 11 pros video handle the Sun much better and like photos my favorite new thing is that you can shoot videos with that ultra-wide lens movements become much more dramatic when you pan across a bunch of trees in the Presidio the iPhone 10s had the best video capture on any phone and the iPhone 11 Pro just refines that further and then there's the selfie camera the iPhone 11 Pro marks the first time that all the cameras on the front and back are at the same level they all have 12 megapixel sensors and can record 4k video and slow motion check out the selfies I took the one from the iPhone 11 Pro has better colors that are more true to life while the one from the iPhone 10 s looks a bit dull selfie videos are improved to video from the iPhone 11 pro selfie camera is sharper with better colors than the iPhone 10 s and yes I did try the horribly named feature slow fees ok they were fun but I can't imagine actually using this feature ever again unless it was like a 12 year at the end of the day I really enjoy the iPhone 11 pros ultra wide camera but it's actually the small improvements to smart HDR the new selfie camera and night mode that I think make this the best camera system ever on an iPhone now if you already have an iPhone 10 s and you're really into photos and videos I do think you should consider upgrading to the iPhone 11 Prothe iPhone 11 Pro has triple rear cameras night mode and a brand-new selfie camera but how much better is it at taking photos and videos than last year's iPhone 10s let's find out now this isn't your regular camera shootout largely because the iPhone 11 pro has features that are well just not found on the iPhone 10 s the first thing you'll notice when you pick up the iPhone 11 Pro is that there are three cameras on the back instead of the two cameras found on the iPhone 10 s the newest camera is an ultra wide 13 millimeter lens equivalent and it's just a damn blast to use now if the regular wide-angle camera on the iPhone is like a business suit and the telephoto lens is kind of like a sports blazer then the ultra wide lens is the equivalent of a Hawaiian shirt it's obviously different from the other cameras and it will definitely change the way you shoot now this won't be your go-to everyday lens but it can be both handy for small spaces as well as well make you feel a little artistic kind of changing the drama of a mundane scene Apple did a great job at balancing the distortion on the lips there's a little which you want because well it's an ultra wide lens but it's not horrible I found myself finding different lines and angles to make my subjects look larger than life it best of all you can use the ultra wide angle to film video I mean just here take a look at these fitting trees in fact during recording you can switch lenses seriously try zooming in with the two x telephoto lens and then tapping the 0.5 ultra wide button and it just zoomed you're right back out pretty amazing I should mention that you'd have to find a place for your fingers when you're using the ultra wide camera several times my fingers make cameos on the edges and sides of my photos so you don't want to do that obviously the iPhone 10 s does not have an ultra wide camera so there's really nothing to compare it to the other phone and to be honest if the only update this year was the addition of an ultra-wide camera I don't think it would be worth upgrading from an iPhone 10s to an iPhone 11 pro and that brings me to my second favorite feature on the iPhone 11 pro night mode now as strong as the iPhone has been in photography and shooting videos of the years one weakness has always been low light photography so if I was out with friends at a bar nice and cozy dim lighting and I went to take a photo the iPhones noise reduction would help a photo as much as it would hurt it phota took from the iPhone 10s which sometimes look almost like a painting especially if it cropped in but night mode changes everything it can brighten photos reduce image noise and best of all it does it all automatically the way it works is when you open up the default camera app the iPhone will determine if it's dark enough to go into night mode at this time there's not a manual way to trigger the mode night mode uses adaptive bracketing it takes a series of photos some with longer shutter speeds and others are shorter ones the iPhone 11 pro then fuses all the photos together to reduce motion blur and brighten shadows when I handheld the iPhone 4 night mode shots the secrets would take about 3 to 5 seconds when I put the iPhone on a tripod I got a 10 second time and I was even able to override that manually for a 28 second night mode shot I took photos of a tree in my backyard that was in complete darkness now here's the one I took with the iPhone 10 s which does not have night mode and here's the one from the iPhone 11 Pro with night mode oh yeah and the lines you see in the bottom right yeah that was when an airplane flew over during the capture process while the iPhone is taking photos in night mode the viewfinder dims and slowly brightens as the capture sequence goes on the final photo always looks better than the live preview now as exciting as night mode or the ultra wide camera is the biggest change for the iPhone 11 pro's camera is also one of the most subtle the iPhone 10s use a smart HDR to make photos look better however in a lot of situations coloreds and white balance were not accurate blue skies would just look off and sometimes smart HDR reduce the contrast so much the images looked flat the iPhone 11 pro has a new version which seems less aggressive notice the difference in the yellow paint on the keep the photo from the 10s reduces the highlights on the truck and makes the yellow paint look almost like a matte finish in this photo of the donut you can see how the iPhone 10s image looks well a little flat xi pro has a bit more pop now notice that natural bokeh of each of the lenses on the wide-angle cameras the bokeh with the blurred out background on the 11pro is buttery and smooth while on the 10s it's a bit more crunchy another change on the 11pro is the telephoto camera it's 52 millimeter equivalent lens now has an f-stop of f2 which lets in a little bit more light this compared to the 52 millimeter equivalent f 2.4 camera on the iPhone 10s like the changes to smart HDR these are not always the most obvious notice the shadows in the picture from the iPhone 10s and how they are darker than those on the 11pro next look at the colors of the sky the smarting 2dr and the 10s makes the sky this weird shade of blue while a smart HDR on the iphone 11 pro renders the sky more true to life in terms of portrait mode on both iPhones they're about equal portrait mode photos from the iPhone 10s seem to pull off the cutout and edge blending better than the iPhone 11 Pro but a new feature that I'm enamored about is called high key motto which stimulates a black and white studio photo taken against a white background what's crazy is you'd never know I was in my living room when I took these photos video from the iPhone 11 Pro doesn't look drastically different than that from the iPhone 10s if anything the colors are a little less punchy and more true to life and I like that however the iPhone 10s introduced extended dynamic range which helped keep highlights from blowing out to white and shadows from turning black it worked in all resolutions and frame rates except 4k 60 frames per second the iPhone 11 pro now includes extended dynamic range for 4k 60 frames per second I shot videos at that frame rate and resolution from both phones on a sunny day and the video from the iPhone 10s the Sun is blown out too white and there's basically a large white blob where the Sun would be the iPhone 11 pros video handle the Sun much better and like photos my favorite new thing is that you can shoot videos with that ultra-wide lens movements become much more dramatic when you pan across a bunch of trees in the Presidio the iPhone 10s had the best video capture on any phone and the iPhone 11 Pro just refines that further and then there's the selfie camera the iPhone 11 Pro marks the first time that all the cameras on the front and back are at the same level they all have 12 megapixel sensors and can record 4k video and slow motion check out the selfies I took the one from the iPhone 11 Pro has better colors that are more true to life while the one from the iPhone 10 s looks a bit dull selfie videos are improved to video from the iPhone 11 pro selfie camera is sharper with better colors than the iPhone 10 s and yes I did try the horribly named feature slow fees ok they were fun but I can't imagine actually using this feature ever again unless it was like a 12 year at the end of the day I really enjoy the iPhone 11 pros ultra wide camera but it's actually the small improvements to smart HDR the new selfie camera and night mode that I think make this the best camera system ever on an iPhone now if you already have an iPhone 10 s and you're really into photos and videos I do think you should consider upgrading to the iPhone 11 Pro\n"