The Ultimate Smartphone Camera Comparison.

**Comparing Camera Phones: A Comprehensive Test**

These almost look like stagnant bodies but if we crop in six times you'll notice huawei's p20 Pro does the best job at capturing this very quickly and Sony's Xperia does the worst aside from portrait mode there is one other notable benefit with moving from a single camera to a dual camera and that is zoom and you might be thinking well wait a second the Xperia x2 only has a single camera the Google pixel -only has one camera and then we've got Huawei's p20 Pro over there with three so how did these phones shape up as with a lot of other things on this test Huawei takes this one away with three times optical zoom it beats out the s9 plus and the iPhone 10 which both have two times and the pixel and Xperia which have no zoom and it's not a close competition Huawei is way ahead of the game here but again as with super low lighting conditions is one of those things you've got to ask yourself how much will you use it and therefore is it a deal breaker selfies for some people something you've never taken in your life and for others the entire use of your phone's camera so let's see how these stack up

You'll notice a very similar trend to what we saw with the portrait modes whereby Samsung's s9 and Wally's p20 try to make you look good and pretty successfully the iPhone 10 in pixel to produce more grungy looking photos with a little bit more sharpness and contrast and because they're not dialing the exposure all the way up they also retain more detail in the background behind you and it is totally up to you whether that's something you want loss detail is lost in the background in the foreground the p20 Pro actually has the most detail here

The front camera on this phone is 24 megapixels and on the other end of the spectrum Sony's has a 5 megapixel and as you can tell it is a pretty poor job in high dynamic range scenarios

The first four phones also have the option for selfie focus which is basically portrait mode with the front camera and whilst it's possible you might prefer the way you look in the si and p20 pro the Google pixel 2 is undoubtedly the only front camera here that looks as good as a rear camera

Now something I'm a fan of is macro photography going on right up close to objects and seeing how much detail you can capture and how much you can separate the foreground from the background we mentioned earlier Samsung's dual aperture system which shoots at F 1.5 in dark but then f 2.4 in broad daylight which means that compared to its rivals you're actually getting less light into the sensor in broad daylight and you also get less blur and less bokeh off the background which I think doesn't look as good as say the Google pixel or what Wiz p20 probe with a fixed aperture of F to the Xperia phone also suffers a similar fate but without the flexibility that Samsung's dual aperture system offers

But what about the most obvious question of detail which it would be easy to say well Huawei wins Huawei has a 40 megapixel sensor on their phone but you'll probably find you won't be taking 40 megapixel photos because photos take longer to capture there's a huge space requirement and lack of zoom options and the phone also uses something called pixel binning to take advantage of that 40 megapixel sensor when taking 10 megapixel photos so yeah it's not being wasted and this actually leaves Sony's Xperia exit tube at the highest resolution camera you've got a 19 megapixel sensor there and in a sense even though it's been trailing throughout this entire test that could be the ace of its sleeve when we've zoomed in eight times it is notably sharper than the other four phones which seemed to pretty much trade blows on a photo by photo basis but on average Google's pixel probably has the weakest level of detail here

Wow so you may not have anticipated just how many factors there are to consider here and unfortunately I can't do the easy thing and tell you that one of these phones is the best outright Samsung makes you look great on camera and kill the low-light scene the iPhone 10 is very balanced and the pixel 2 knocks it out the park when it comes to scenic shots and front-facing portrait mode qualities offering is a very forward-thinking camera with a lot of innovative interesting features and sony has super slow motion video that is the best of the bunch but on balance is the only one I can safely say is not as good as the for anyway guys I really hope you enjoyed the video and you found it useful and if you did if you could smash that subscribe button down below I'll really need a lot on here but that being said my name is Aaron this is mr. he's the boss I'll catch you guys next time