**Camera Comparison: Poco F1, Samsung Note 9, and Vivo V11**

In this article, we'll delve into a detailed comparison of the camera capabilities of three flagship smartphones: the Poco F1, Samsung Note 9, and Vivo V11. We'll examine their slow-motion features, autofocus performance, color representation, HDR modes, and more.

**Slow-Motion Features**

The Poco F1 and Vivo V11 have significantly improved their slow-motion features compared to last year's models. The Poco F1 can record at 240 frames per second (FPS), while the Vivo V11 can do the same. However, the Samsung Note 9 is not far behind with a respectable 960 FPS. Although the Note 9 can't maintain this high frame rate consistently, it still offers a slower-motion experience compared to its predecessors.

The Poco F1's slow-motion feature is an improvement over last year's model, but it's still not as smooth as some other flagships. On the other hand, the Vivo V11's slow-motion video can be quite smooth and seamless. The Samsung Note 9's slow-motion experience is decent, but it's not as polished as the Poco F1's.

**Autofocusing**

Autofocus performance was pretty fast on all three phones, making it difficult to distinguish which one performed better. However, if you look closely at the images, the Samsung Note 9 handled autofocus much better than its competitors. The transition between focusing on close and distant objects was smoother and more seamless.

**Color Representation**

Notice how blown out the colors are on the Poco F1 in most cases. While the extra saturation adds to the overall visual appeal, it can also make images appear overexposed. In contrast, the Samsung Note 9's color representation is more balanced, with less blowout.

**HDR Modes**

All three phones use their HDR modes in photos and videos, which resulted in some interesting comparisons. The Vivo V11's HDR mode brings shadows up significantly and light areas down to create a neutral-looking photo. While this might not be the most realistic representation of reality, it does keep the detail in the skies while making previously dark areas more visible.

The Samsung Note 9 has the luxury of being a higher-end phone, allowing it to use a telephoto lens with minimal detail loss when zooming in. This is evident when cropping into already zoomed images, showcasing the Note 9's ability to maintain image quality. On the other hand, the Poco F1 and Vivo V11 struggle with noise per pixel, especially when compared to the Note 9.

**Macro Shots**

One interesting comparison was made using a macro shot, where the sky has completely disappeared on both the Poco F1 and Vivo V11. However, the Samsung Note 9 still retains some details in the image. This highlights the difference between the three phones' HDR algorithms, with the Vivo V11 struggling to perform well in certain situations.

The Samsung Note 9's variable aperture function allows it to close up its aperture in broad daylight, reducing light entry and resulting in a more natural look. However, this comes at the cost of less pronounced bokeh effects, as seen in the car number plate in the background. The Poco F1 and Vivo V11 exhibit faded images, while the Vivo V11's color representation remains punchy and contrasty.

**Edge Detection**

Every other image taken with each phone resulted in different edge detection outcomes, making it challenging to declare a clear winner. However, one issue that stood out was the Samsung Note 9's Live Focus mode, which zooms in on the image by default. This means you need to take multiple steps back to capture the same photo, unlike its competitors.

**Low-Light Photography**

In low-light shots, the Poco F1 excels with its primary sensor's F1.8 aperture, outperforming the Vivo V11 and Samsung Note 9. However, when comparing the three phones in extremely dark scenarios, the Samsung Note 9 still holds an advantage due to its ability to open up its aperture to F1.5.

**Detail Comparison**

All three phones have a 12-megapixel primary sensor, which resulted in similar detail outcomes when cropped into. While each phone has its own color profile and image characteristics, the Vivo V11 and Samsung Note 9 exhibit slightly cleaner images with less noise compared to the Poco F1.

**Value for Money**

Considering the prices of these phones, it's essential to determine which one represents the best value for money. The Vivo V11 is available around $400, while the Poco F1 costs between $330 and $350. The Samsung Note 9, on the other hand, is priced at approximately $1000.

Ultimately, the choice of camera depends on individual preferences and priorities. If you're looking for a more affordable option with impressive slow-motion features, the Poco F1 might be the way to go. However, if you prioritize HDR mode capabilities and a more balanced color representation, the Vivo V11 or Samsung Note 9 may be a better fit.

In conclusion, each phone has its strengths and weaknesses in terms of camera performance. The key takeaway is understanding your needs and choosing the device that best aligns with them.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso welcome to probably the most comprehensive camera test I've ever done on this channel we're currently using the selfie cameras on each of the phones and also the respective microphones on whichever one I'm talking on now you'll probably notice that two of the phones on the left-hand side are the pocket for an f1 and the vivo p11 phones aren't really in the same price tag as the galaxy note 9 and the reason for that is that both of those phones have cameras that defy the price tag so we're gonna see just how close they can get and starting off weird video from the front camera you'll notice that all three phones have a slightly different color profile the V 11 and the note 9 I'd say are both a step above the Paco f1 here mind you even the f1 footage is pretty good but it's just a little bright and if you compare the white t-shirt on all three phones you'll notice that the V 11 and the note 9 managed to keep it from over exposing when we move to front-facing photos though the story gets more interesting in my full review I talked about how I don't think I've tried a phone which can take better selfies than the V 11 and you can probably tell here whereas the Paco f1 and the note 9 have severely overexposed the t-shirt with the V 11 you can still see the stitches the V 11 also wins in dynamic range it manages to properly represent both the really bright areas of the image for example the t-shirt and the really dark areas for example a black door in the background then we've got selfie focus aka front-facing portrait mode and you can probably tell the pocke phone f1 is by no means subtle I think the V 11 and the note 9 have a slightly more realistic bokeh effect but if you look at my hair on the note 9 it's pretty much treated as background yet again the note 9 doesn't do a particularly good job realising that the car behind me is actually part of the background so that remains in focus and something that I thought was pretty cool the V 11 is that when you're taking selfie focus photos like this you can add a rainbow effect or alternatively monochrome background as the light starts to fade I'd say the PACU f1 has the sharpest front-facing camera if you look at the V 11 you can see noticeable grain starting to creep in and if you look at the note 9 it's just a little soft and for fun really I took it a step further and went to super low light and the trend is pretty consistent in terms of front-facing photos the note 9 doesn't keep up very well the V 11 also has a brightness compensation mode which does a better job than the other two phones flush is at lighting up your face but unfortunately doesn't remove the green from the background and now we're at it this is probably as good as we're gonna get for a microphone test so we're gonna flick between the audio of all three phones and you tell me which one you think sounds better so now we're testing the audio from the poco phone f1 so what do you think is that better or worse than the last one and now at the Galaxy Note 9 which you would expect given he immense price difference between these phones to of course have the best audio quality and the lowest background noise alright we've spent enough time talking about the front-facing cameras so onto the rear and for this the V 11 for some strange reason only caps out at 1080p video which is poor considering phones with an equivalent chipset can do 4k it does make up for it in terms of photos which we'll get to in a minute but if we look at video in isolation the V 11 is generally a disappointment so with the phone set to 4k apart from the V 11 you can see that when it comes to stabilization the Galaxy Note 9 has a massive advantage compared to the shaky mess that is the V 11 or the Paco f1 the note 9 almost looks like you've got your phone on a slider and it's just gliding through the environment something else worth pointing out though is that the dynamic range on the Paco F Wan's video is amazing and actually I'd say better than the Galaxy Note nines if we put all three phones at 1080p video then I'd say the Galaxy Note 9 is still winning it but the gap between this and the pocket phone f1 has definitely narrowed in terms of slow motion the note 9 wins this comparison should give you a pretty good idea of how much difference there is between those other two phones 240 FPS and the note 9s 960 now the note 9 can't record at this super high frame rate consistently it can only do it for a short period of time but if you prefer to have slow motion like the other two phones continuously then the no 9 can do that too autofocusing was pretty fast on all three actually tough to distinguish which does it foster but if you look at the note nine it's definitely handled better the transition between focusing on this close and thus far object is much smoother than the slightly jerky V 11 and Paco f1 also notice how blown out the colors are on the f1 in most cases I do prefer the extra saturation ads but obviously in cases like this it has gone a little overboard okay photos and for this next little section all the phones are gonna be using their HDR modes and while you can probably tell the note 9 in the F one's photos look pretty similar the V 11s look completely different that phone's HDR mode works by bringing the shadows up significantly and bringing the light areas down to almost create a neutral looking photo but it's not in a bad way you could argue it's the least realistic of the three but at the same time it keeps the detail in the skies whilst also making the details in the previously dark areas really rather visible so some people would argue it looks better now the note 9 has the luxury of being a higher-end phone which gives it the option for a telephoto lens which means you can zoom in two times and pretty much suffer minimal detail loss so if we now crop into the already zoomed image you can see the fact that the note 9 has lossless zoom like this is playing to its advantage and in this specific case scenario the V 11 has less noise per pixel than the f1 now one image that I think makes a really interesting comparison is this macro shot here while the sky has completely disappeared on the V 11 and the f1 you can pretty clearly see the details on the note 9 and you might be thinking wait a sec that's the exact opposite of what was happening before the V 11 was meant to be doing better at keeping the sky under control and not over exposing well what seems to be happening is this the vive V 11 has a really amazing HDR algorithm for both the front and the rear cameras but in those cases where you can't use this HDR mode for example in macro photos like this or in terms of video then the V 11 seems to suffer meanwhile the note 9 has a variable aperture function which means the in broad daylight it can close up its aperture so it doesn't let too much light in but this also comes with disadvantage of getting less of that lovely bokeh effect so if you look at the car number plate in the background it's much less blurred out on the note nine portrait mode and here the V 11 is back on top whereas the F 1 and the note nine have a real faded look to them doovy 11 remains punchy and contrasty I wouldn't say there's any clear winner for edge detection literally every other image I took there was a different result but one thing that is clear and very annoying is that with the note nines live focus mode it zooms in to the image which basically means you have to take three or four steps back to actually take the same photo because the V 11s primary sensor has an F 1.8 aperture versus the F 1.9 of the pocke for an f1 low-light shots tend to favor that device but let's not forget that when things get really really dim the note 9 is still in a different league altogether being able to open up its aperture to F 1.5 it can make some really dark scenarios almost look like a completely different time of the day and now to answer for some people the most important question detail well all three phones have a 12 megapixel primary sensor and cropping into them they're pretty much the same each of course has its own color profile and I would say the V 11 and the note 9 have a slightly cleaner slightly less noisy image than the pocke phone f1 but detail is pretty much the same ok so which one do you think represents the best value for money when it comes to camera bear in mind the V 11 is around the $400 mark the poco f1 about the 330 to 350 dollar mark and the note 9 about $1,000 thanks a lot watching guys my name is Aaron this is mister who's the boss and I'll catch you guys next timeso welcome to probably the most comprehensive camera test I've ever done on this channel we're currently using the selfie cameras on each of the phones and also the respective microphones on whichever one I'm talking on now you'll probably notice that two of the phones on the left-hand side are the pocket for an f1 and the vivo p11 phones aren't really in the same price tag as the galaxy note 9 and the reason for that is that both of those phones have cameras that defy the price tag so we're gonna see just how close they can get and starting off weird video from the front camera you'll notice that all three phones have a slightly different color profile the V 11 and the note 9 I'd say are both a step above the Paco f1 here mind you even the f1 footage is pretty good but it's just a little bright and if you compare the white t-shirt on all three phones you'll notice that the V 11 and the note 9 managed to keep it from over exposing when we move to front-facing photos though the story gets more interesting in my full review I talked about how I don't think I've tried a phone which can take better selfies than the V 11 and you can probably tell here whereas the Paco f1 and the note 9 have severely overexposed the t-shirt with the V 11 you can still see the stitches the V 11 also wins in dynamic range it manages to properly represent both the really bright areas of the image for example the t-shirt and the really dark areas for example a black door in the background then we've got selfie focus aka front-facing portrait mode and you can probably tell the pocke phone f1 is by no means subtle I think the V 11 and the note 9 have a slightly more realistic bokeh effect but if you look at my hair on the note 9 it's pretty much treated as background yet again the note 9 doesn't do a particularly good job realising that the car behind me is actually part of the background so that remains in focus and something that I thought was pretty cool the V 11 is that when you're taking selfie focus photos like this you can add a rainbow effect or alternatively monochrome background as the light starts to fade I'd say the PACU f1 has the sharpest front-facing camera if you look at the V 11 you can see noticeable grain starting to creep in and if you look at the note 9 it's just a little soft and for fun really I took it a step further and went to super low light and the trend is pretty consistent in terms of front-facing photos the note 9 doesn't keep up very well the V 11 also has a brightness compensation mode which does a better job than the other two phones flush is at lighting up your face but unfortunately doesn't remove the green from the background and now we're at it this is probably as good as we're gonna get for a microphone test so we're gonna flick between the audio of all three phones and you tell me which one you think sounds better so now we're testing the audio from the poco phone f1 so what do you think is that better or worse than the last one and now at the Galaxy Note 9 which you would expect given he immense price difference between these phones to of course have the best audio quality and the lowest background noise alright we've spent enough time talking about the front-facing cameras so onto the rear and for this the V 11 for some strange reason only caps out at 1080p video which is poor considering phones with an equivalent chipset can do 4k it does make up for it in terms of photos which we'll get to in a minute but if we look at video in isolation the V 11 is generally a disappointment so with the phone set to 4k apart from the V 11 you can see that when it comes to stabilization the Galaxy Note 9 has a massive advantage compared to the shaky mess that is the V 11 or the Paco f1 the note 9 almost looks like you've got your phone on a slider and it's just gliding through the environment something else worth pointing out though is that the dynamic range on the Paco F Wan's video is amazing and actually I'd say better than the Galaxy Note nines if we put all three phones at 1080p video then I'd say the Galaxy Note 9 is still winning it but the gap between this and the pocket phone f1 has definitely narrowed in terms of slow motion the note 9 wins this comparison should give you a pretty good idea of how much difference there is between those other two phones 240 FPS and the note 9s 960 now the note 9 can't record at this super high frame rate consistently it can only do it for a short period of time but if you prefer to have slow motion like the other two phones continuously then the no 9 can do that too autofocusing was pretty fast on all three actually tough to distinguish which does it foster but if you look at the note nine it's definitely handled better the transition between focusing on this close and thus far object is much smoother than the slightly jerky V 11 and Paco f1 also notice how blown out the colors are on the f1 in most cases I do prefer the extra saturation ads but obviously in cases like this it has gone a little overboard okay photos and for this next little section all the phones are gonna be using their HDR modes and while you can probably tell the note 9 in the F one's photos look pretty similar the V 11s look completely different that phone's HDR mode works by bringing the shadows up significantly and bringing the light areas down to almost create a neutral looking photo but it's not in a bad way you could argue it's the least realistic of the three but at the same time it keeps the detail in the skies whilst also making the details in the previously dark areas really rather visible so some people would argue it looks better now the note 9 has the luxury of being a higher-end phone which gives it the option for a telephoto lens which means you can zoom in two times and pretty much suffer minimal detail loss so if we now crop into the already zoomed image you can see the fact that the note 9 has lossless zoom like this is playing to its advantage and in this specific case scenario the V 11 has less noise per pixel than the f1 now one image that I think makes a really interesting comparison is this macro shot here while the sky has completely disappeared on the V 11 and the f1 you can pretty clearly see the details on the note 9 and you might be thinking wait a sec that's the exact opposite of what was happening before the V 11 was meant to be doing better at keeping the sky under control and not over exposing well what seems to be happening is this the vive V 11 has a really amazing HDR algorithm for both the front and the rear cameras but in those cases where you can't use this HDR mode for example in macro photos like this or in terms of video then the V 11 seems to suffer meanwhile the note 9 has a variable aperture function which means the in broad daylight it can close up its aperture so it doesn't let too much light in but this also comes with disadvantage of getting less of that lovely bokeh effect so if you look at the car number plate in the background it's much less blurred out on the note nine portrait mode and here the V 11 is back on top whereas the F 1 and the note nine have a real faded look to them doovy 11 remains punchy and contrasty I wouldn't say there's any clear winner for edge detection literally every other image I took there was a different result but one thing that is clear and very annoying is that with the note nines live focus mode it zooms in to the image which basically means you have to take three or four steps back to actually take the same photo because the V 11s primary sensor has an F 1.8 aperture versus the F 1.9 of the pocke for an f1 low-light shots tend to favor that device but let's not forget that when things get really really dim the note 9 is still in a different league altogether being able to open up its aperture to F 1.5 it can make some really dark scenarios almost look like a completely different time of the day and now to answer for some people the most important question detail well all three phones have a 12 megapixel primary sensor and cropping into them they're pretty much the same each of course has its own color profile and I would say the V 11 and the note 9 have a slightly cleaner slightly less noisy image than the pocke phone f1 but detail is pretty much the same ok so which one do you think represents the best value for money when it comes to camera bear in mind the V 11 is around the $400 mark the poco f1 about the 330 to 350 dollar mark and the note 9 about $1,000 thanks a lot watching guys my name is Aaron this is mister who's the boss and I'll catch you guys next time\n"