Comparing the Google Pixel and iPhone Camera: A Detailed Analysis

The Google Pixel has been touted as one of the best smartphone cameras on the market, but how does it stack up against the Apple iPhone? In this article, we'll delve into a detailed comparison of the two devices, exploring their camera capabilities, image quality, and overall performance.

One of the first things that struck us when comparing the Pixel and iPhone was the color accuracy. The Pixel's colors are more vivid and true-to-life, with the clouds in our outdoor shot looking less white and blown out compared to the iPhone. On the other hand, the iPhone's colors can sometimes be a bit too washed out, particularly in bright lighting conditions.

Zooming in on the images also revealed some notable differences between the two devices. In particular, the Pixel's sharpening is more subtle and nuanced than the iPhone's, which can sometimes lead to an over-sharpened look. Additionally, the Pixel tends to retain more definition and details in its images, particularly when it comes to textures and fine features like leaves or hair.

This was particularly evident in our self-portrait shots, where the Pixel performed noticeably better than the iPhone. The Pixel's image has a sharper, more defined quality, with less blowout on the subject's features like her helmet or hair. In contrast, the iPhone's image can sometimes look softer and more washed out, particularly around the edges.

In terms of color accuracy, both devices delivered strong results. However, the Pixel's colors were slightly more accurate, with the orange tones in our pumpkin shot looking more vibrant and natural. The iPhone, on the other hand, can sometimes push the orange tone a bit too far, resulting in an overly saturated look.

We also conducted some comparisons of the two devices using different camera settings. When we used telephoto mode on both devices, the results were surprisingly similar, with neither device exhibiting any significant advantages over the other. However, when we switched to 3x and 2x telephoto modes, the Pixel's image quality took a slight edge.

One notable exception was our landscape shot, where the iPhone's 1x setting delivered a slightly more pleasing result than the Pixel's equivalent setting. The iPhone's image had a stronger sense of depth and dimensionality, with the mountains in the background looking more defined and separated from the foreground.

Another key difference between the two devices is their handling of light. In low-light conditions, both devices can struggle to deliver the best results, but the Pixel tends to perform slightly better. However, this comes at the cost of increased noise and graininess, which can be a trade-off some users are willing to make for improved image quality.

Overall, our comparison of the Google Pixel and iPhone camera has highlighted some key strengths and weaknesses of each device. While neither camera is perfect, the Pixel's superior image quality and more nuanced color accuracy make it a compelling choice for photography enthusiasts. However, for those who prioritize ease of use and convenience, the iPhone's user-friendly interface and robust camera app may be more appealing.

In conclusion, the Google Pixel and iPhone both offer impressive camera capabilities, but in different ways. The Pixel excels when it comes to image quality, color accuracy, and fine details, while the iPhone shines in terms of ease of use and convenience. Whether you're a seasoned photographer or just looking for a reliable smartphone camera, it's worth considering both options before making a decision.

In the end, we can't deny that the Pixel has won us over with its superior image quality and more nuanced color accuracy. While the iPhone is still a great device, the Pixel's strengths make it a compelling choice for those who care deeply about their smartphone camera.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello galaxy i'm chris pirillo and you're watching the locker gnome daily report or tl dr for short i am going to show you photos taken with the iphone 13 pro max comparing them against a two-year-old device that i still have the pixel 4xl since i didn't get the five it wasn't that interesting to me i will be getting the pixel 6 pro and of course doing comparisons with that as well the thing i really wanted to illustrate to you today and hopefully in a brief time compared to the other photo comparison video i did that was 50 minutes long almost an hour comparing photos taken with the iphone 13 pro max and the samsung galaxy ultra s21 pro premium platinum uh i want to tell you that you should not write off the pixel even an older generation pixel because i do believe it takes demonstrably better photos than apple's current flagship that was released a week or so ago and it's always been that way despite any kind of software tweaks the pixel has always done an amazing job with the camera it's the reason pretty much the only reason i think you should absolutely consider a pixel at any point in the future i'm not on team pixel though i'm currently not carrying a pixel just fyi let's go ahead and jump right into it with the first selfie video photo that i took i'm doing a video i'm actually streaming this live on twitch you can join me there every night join the community uh link is in the uh the profile uh decided to give it a shot to see how well the iphone was doing in low light selfie because it it always didn't do a great job and lo and behold the iphone did not do a great job look at that look at that blur look at look at the look at the lack of definition in this this selfie shot oh yeah now i'm going to scroll over just to show you i wasn't the only subject in the frame jedi was also there we see some blur the iphone in my uh experience has never done a great job with motion you know with with any brightness the blur has always driven me nuts but this is the thing this this photo right here as i scroll around i'm whipping around i whip my hair back and forth i whip my hair back and forth uh this is the thing that pushed me to try the pixel like there's no way the iphone 13 pro max tops the pixel 4 xl no way so i immediately got on uh on on the pixel and took this photo oh i'm sorry no no no i took this photo iphone 13 pro max pixel 4xl so this camera from two years ago took this shot the camera just released took this shot i know you're saying ah chris they can fix in the software that's possible but the problem is i keep hearing from iphone users that the iphone 12 has a similar issue so i i don't know what's going on all i'm doing is i'm just snapping photos i'm sitting here saying and showing you shang i guess showing and saying uh there's a difference this is what keeps happening the iphone keeps blowing out highlights it can't trigger hdr you can't even manually toggle smart hdr on the 13 pro max as opposed to uh the pixel which nails it it nails it out of the park here i am of course getting ready to watch an amazing series star wars visions just zooming in there's the iphone night mode i maxed out the settings because you have to do that on ios which i'm fine with um but yeah there's iphone 13 pro max and the pixel 4xl and if you can't see a difference between these two look at the hallway i mean this is there's no way so i posted this to twitter and of course everyone's like i'm like don't get mad at me i'm not what you have the same if you have the same device do it yourself set up a similar stage it doesn't take that much but i'm going to continue and show you other examples where the same issues keep cropping up here we go this is the iphone 13 pro max and the pixel 4 xl for the most part i would say both of them are really decent shots i like the color pickup for the most part on the iphone 13 pro max which i've said before but unfortunately the details get blown out there i'm gonna zoom in on the pixel 4 xl and the iphone 13 pro max still got details on the stormtrooper armor pixel and not so much on the iphone uh except you know it is a bolder and sharpened the iphone shot versus something that isn't on the pixel you may have a preference in terms of which shot you like but in my humble opinion once you've lost the details you cannot get them back so uh my eye definitely has a preference uh i took another shot of a battle droid right here in this room uh the uh it's a uh what's the series not galaxy's edge um mission fleet battle droid uh i took this shot with the iphone and this shot with the iphone and this shot with the pixel and the reason i took two shots of this battle droid is because i was trying to get a 1x shot without it tripping the macro lens and this is the 3x telephoto this is the 1x shot on the pixel 4xl so i'm just going to go ahead and zoom in on the pixel 4 xl 1x shot without tripping the macro on the the the iphone not bad a little blown out telephoto what the heck is going on here iphone pixel iphone pixel i found the red in the curtain to be a little more accurate on the pixel i found the color to be far more accurate on the pixel compared to the iphone same shot different lenses this time but this is just it's this is it's a motif these are not one-offs this is not me taking a bad shot this is not me cherry-picking ah just uh just keeps happening keeps happening we got a skeleton went out and found a skeleton a living skeleton maybe not living skeleton uh between the two i would say both of them are very workable images we've got the iphone and we've got a pixel iphone is a bit warmer tends to be the case uh and then the pixel no of photographic styles in this iphone i'm gonna go ahead and punch in on the nose never punch a skeleton in the nose though because the skeleton doesn't have the nose i want you to see the difference between the iphone with this strand whatever this was it disappears right here and we lose a lot of detail on this part of the skeleton it disappears the strand disappears but then it comes back on the iphone but on the pixel you can see that strand all the way through detail once again preserved by the pixel 4xl in the skeleton whatever this hair is maybe it's a skeleton i don't know uh there are other minor differences but to me the details are still here versus not so much maybe you like warmer skeletons maybe that's a win for you me i prefer the more neutral and uh the ones where i still get to keep all the skeletony details you know me love star wars take star wars figures with me wherever i go love toy photography took this shot with a 3x telephoto to compare it against a 2x telephoto on the pixel 4 xl so iphone pixel because the pixel has a 2x telephoto the iphone has a 3x uh telephoto uh both good shots uh decent by bunny and measurement but uh let's go ahead and zoom in on that stormtrooper helmet and you're gonna see some pretty big differences despite this being a 2x and this being a 3x well it's 3x so therefore it's better is it oh those blacks are definitely black they're inky black can't get as much detail as you can on the pixel but you know they're very black on the iphone and and look at these little the blue lines there on the helmet on the iphone and then the pixel they're very clearly defined everything is very clearly defined on the pixel shot versus a very i don't know what's going on with the iphone 13. flowers who doesn't love flowers i don't uh because i'm allergic uh but there's a shot a very workable usable shot on the iphone and then the pixel iphone 13 pro max pixel 4 xl again for some reason i seem to like personally the reds they feel closer to true to life on the pixel shots that i've taken compared to the iphone the iphone tended to be a bit more purpley uh but of course the the image on from the iphone it's got color no doubt about if you love color if that's all you love in your photos if you love color i i think you probably like the iphone more me i tend to like a more defined shot which is one of the reasons why my preference personally uh is is pixel 4 xl i mean i'll go one step further we're going to zoom in on to these flowers in the upper left hand corner there's the iphone you can't tell where one flower ends and the other begins and then you got a little bit of a blowout if you're able to see that i may have to scroll over a tiny bit yeah scroll over a tiny bit no blowout on the pixel and you can see two two clearly defined flowers pixel iphone 4xl 13 pro max very defined very sharp in in a situation where i may want more sharpness but unfortunately it still feels like i got far more details on the pixel 4 xl iphone pixel all right here's a good indoor shot it's one of my standard shots iphone pixel all right you probably have a preference that's fine just going to point out a couple things darks are dark and the brights are bright gonna zoom in on the stormtrooper's chest oops not back to the flowers flipped the wrong way stormtrooper chest uh there we go clearly defined stormtroopers and very blown out stormtroopers what's your preference uh d do you like defined ones or blown out let's go ahead and zoom over a tiny bit oh look at all those blown out store they're they're blown out troopers admittedly i i i didn't tell you that there's the pixel there's the iphone pixel iphone 1x no night mode because it doesn't trigger that way on the iphone i could even scroll up and show you on uh the iphone the shelf kind of got blown out versus the pixel iphone pixel again this kind of stuff keeps happening over and over and over again here's a pumpkin in a very i guess difficult shot i didn't realize it was going to be difficult but this is where i took a picture of jedi in the the samsung s21 ultra comparison against the iphone 13 pro max um and the iphone didn't do a very good job in that shot i thought it did okay here because the hdr actually triggered from the blinds behind but here's the shot from the pixel 4 xl you can actually tell what it is i'm holding with the pixel 4 xl iphone pixel iphone pixel clearly defined not so much not clearly defined as you can't tell what you're looking at here so uh you tell me which which images is is more salvageable the iphone shot or the pixel shot forget hdr for a second just kept happening over and over and over and over again uh needed to take a picture of another star wars figure because you know it's me uh chief chirp is standing in a vintage ewok village we've got the uh the iphone and the pixel oh iphone pixel yes i i would agree the iphone definitely has vibrant colors they're very chocolatey uh far more tantalizing i would say uh than the pixel image for sure but uh let's go ahead and zoom in on chief chirpa's teeth you can't even tell where chief chirping's teeth begin and his fur ends or vice versa iphone pixel iphone pixel this kind of stuff keeps happening over and over and over again i couldn't use this shot i wouldn't use this shot i don't know if i would even share this shot this one i would i would potentially tweak the color a bit the pixel 4 xl definitely needs help in that department no doubt not perfect but in terms of a more perfect image you can tell this this ewok has teeth this ewok doesn't iphone pixel atari cartridges because i love retro video games now this is an instance where i felt both of them did a fair job the darks are definitely darker in the iphone shot versus the pixel but when i zoom in let's say let's go to the the left of casino there's the iphone and there's the pixel and i feel between the two the details the cartridge texture gets lost uh just a bit on the iphone versus the pixel iphone pixel the texture seems to be a bit muddy if you look at concentrations a bit slightly by not much the difference between these two was not as dramatic but still uh there's a definite difference color again over and over and over again is probably going to be better on the iphone but color is not the only thing that i might look for in a quality image i also look for star wars there's the iphone at 3x telephoto this is this is how the the iphone handles telephoto images this is 2x telephoto but i ca i went 2x at a different distance different lenses completely different lenses completely different cameras 2x same shot crop i didn't crop it digitally or manually i'm saying that from 3x i had to stand further away 2x i was a little closer i just i wanted to try this is a little different than the way i had it from the same position that each camera in the same position when i took the stormtrooper photo earlier there's the iphone and there's the pixel i don't even have to zoom in or i shouldn't have to just you should see just the glaring differences uh a very muddy okay i'm gonna zoom in uh salacious crumb versus defined color in in this case i feel that the color was better on the pixel than it was the iphone none of these have been digitally altered iphone outside today pixel 4 xl iphone pixel so with the iphone you got the darks or dark but at least with the pixel i can tell these these leaves here were were red and green and maybe a little yellow the iphone i can't tell i can i can kind of tell they're dark but it's or kind of tell the red but it's very very dark the iphone may flatten things out a bit but at least the colors have a chance to pop a bit more than they do on the iphone pixel iphone clouds are very very very very very very white clouds are a little closer to what they are in real life not as white and certainly not blown out so let's go ahead and zoom in there i also feel that the pixel took a sharper a sharper in the right way photo so the iphone tends to over sharpen if anything it skews to over sharpening and i feel the the sharpening on the pixel is better iphone pixel like you just look at the definition of the leaves like he over sharpened and just by by a hair versus a good sharpen or good sharpening i should say went back to the selfie indoors uh lower light uh or indoor light really we got light coming in from the outside no artificial light sunlight from the outside iphone did a decent job and the pixel also did a decent job iphone pixel so because they say that you know it it it's supposed to do well with with color and i feel that the iphone does do well with color but this is where i started to get a little more concerned there's the pixel shot because i always feel that the pixel can take a better uh selfie uh than the iphone uh jedi's details are a bit softened she's got a little bit of a blowout on her helmet this is the iphone there's the pixel she's a bit more defined uh if you have any blowout it's just on the the brim not the top sharper details on the pixel selfie uh versus the iphone so between these two this one just seems to be over contrasty uh too softened and this one seems to be closer to what i would appreciate in a photo that i was trying to take i was seeing if i could get any of that that classic quote-unquote classic iphone iphone blur and i wouldn't say i got any blur but i just got a lack of definition uh you can actually tell diana has separate strands of hair in the pixel shot versus the iphone shot just kind of they get lost over here i went back to some pumpkins iphone really orange pixel definitely orange but not overly orange so it's a question do you like orange or do you like orange iphone orange or orange completely up to you i will say that there was a little bit of a blowout on the uh uh the uh mcboo over here or one of the the buckets that nah i'm sorry this was miku or the other one was uh i feel we got far more definition and retaining of details on the pixel shot compared to the iphone shot just just fyi and the rest of it holds true as well so i don't know this is just i i i want this i want this to be different and it isn't i went for a landscape shot this is a 1x on the iphone and the 1x on the pixel uh because i feel that was a fair comparison to make between the two so it's almost comic page looking on the iphone the the cyan here in in in the sky uh on the iphone versus the pixel uh but what really jumped out at me when i zoomed in on the clouds was that again you got some blowout in the clouds here on the iphone versus the pixel iphone pixel all right sorry this wasn't 1x this was a 3x telephoto and a 2x telephoto i don't think this is well now i'm okay i can't remember if it was or not but the comparison was made one for one meaning if i used telephoto on one i used it on the other uh and uh it's difficult to tell uh in this shot in this landscape shot because it looks like the mountain is slightly closer in the iphone but i like the detail more in the uh uh i feel the details are less muddy on the pixel yeah that was a it was a 3x versus a 2x so anyway um i i you know i did my best to whip through this faster than i've done on other ones jedi baby i'm i'm doing something right now thank you appreciate it uh so that was jedi's hand she was trying to help unfortunately we already went to your shot uh now we're back on mine thank you for paying attention i i tried to keep this as quick as i could in as detailed as i could sorry if i fudged any of my details again i made each comparison one to one so even if i couldn't remember exactly which which shot i was taking at the time uh they were always done fairly they were done at the same time and they were done with the same settings if those same settings provided on each particular device uh i'm just saying don't ignore the pixel at your own peril if you say that you enjoy photos you owe it to yourself to look beyond a single device because there may be something betterhello galaxy i'm chris pirillo and you're watching the locker gnome daily report or tl dr for short i am going to show you photos taken with the iphone 13 pro max comparing them against a two-year-old device that i still have the pixel 4xl since i didn't get the five it wasn't that interesting to me i will be getting the pixel 6 pro and of course doing comparisons with that as well the thing i really wanted to illustrate to you today and hopefully in a brief time compared to the other photo comparison video i did that was 50 minutes long almost an hour comparing photos taken with the iphone 13 pro max and the samsung galaxy ultra s21 pro premium platinum uh i want to tell you that you should not write off the pixel even an older generation pixel because i do believe it takes demonstrably better photos than apple's current flagship that was released a week or so ago and it's always been that way despite any kind of software tweaks the pixel has always done an amazing job with the camera it's the reason pretty much the only reason i think you should absolutely consider a pixel at any point in the future i'm not on team pixel though i'm currently not carrying a pixel just fyi let's go ahead and jump right into it with the first selfie video photo that i took i'm doing a video i'm actually streaming this live on twitch you can join me there every night join the community uh link is in the uh the profile uh decided to give it a shot to see how well the iphone was doing in low light selfie because it it always didn't do a great job and lo and behold the iphone did not do a great job look at that look at that blur look at look at the look at the lack of definition in this this selfie shot oh yeah now i'm going to scroll over just to show you i wasn't the only subject in the frame jedi was also there we see some blur the iphone in my uh experience has never done a great job with motion you know with with any brightness the blur has always driven me nuts but this is the thing this this photo right here as i scroll around i'm whipping around i whip my hair back and forth i whip my hair back and forth uh this is the thing that pushed me to try the pixel like there's no way the iphone 13 pro max tops the pixel 4 xl no way so i immediately got on uh on on the pixel and took this photo oh i'm sorry no no no i took this photo iphone 13 pro max pixel 4xl so this camera from two years ago took this shot the camera just released took this shot i know you're saying ah chris they can fix in the software that's possible but the problem is i keep hearing from iphone users that the iphone 12 has a similar issue so i i don't know what's going on all i'm doing is i'm just snapping photos i'm sitting here saying and showing you shang i guess showing and saying uh there's a difference this is what keeps happening the iphone keeps blowing out highlights it can't trigger hdr you can't even manually toggle smart hdr on the 13 pro max as opposed to uh the pixel which nails it it nails it out of the park here i am of course getting ready to watch an amazing series star wars visions just zooming in there's the iphone night mode i maxed out the settings because you have to do that on ios which i'm fine with um but yeah there's iphone 13 pro max and the pixel 4xl and if you can't see a difference between these two look at the hallway i mean this is there's no way so i posted this to twitter and of course everyone's like i'm like don't get mad at me i'm not what you have the same if you have the same device do it yourself set up a similar stage it doesn't take that much but i'm going to continue and show you other examples where the same issues keep cropping up here we go this is the iphone 13 pro max and the pixel 4 xl for the most part i would say both of them are really decent shots i like the color pickup for the most part on the iphone 13 pro max which i've said before but unfortunately the details get blown out there i'm gonna zoom in on the pixel 4 xl and the iphone 13 pro max still got details on the stormtrooper armor pixel and not so much on the iphone uh except you know it is a bolder and sharpened the iphone shot versus something that isn't on the pixel you may have a preference in terms of which shot you like but in my humble opinion once you've lost the details you cannot get them back so uh my eye definitely has a preference uh i took another shot of a battle droid right here in this room uh the uh it's a uh what's the series not galaxy's edge um mission fleet battle droid uh i took this shot with the iphone and this shot with the iphone and this shot with the pixel and the reason i took two shots of this battle droid is because i was trying to get a 1x shot without it tripping the macro lens and this is the 3x telephoto this is the 1x shot on the pixel 4xl so i'm just going to go ahead and zoom in on the pixel 4 xl 1x shot without tripping the macro on the the the iphone not bad a little blown out telephoto what the heck is going on here iphone pixel iphone pixel i found the red in the curtain to be a little more accurate on the pixel i found the color to be far more accurate on the pixel compared to the iphone same shot different lenses this time but this is just it's this is it's a motif these are not one-offs this is not me taking a bad shot this is not me cherry-picking ah just uh just keeps happening keeps happening we got a skeleton went out and found a skeleton a living skeleton maybe not living skeleton uh between the two i would say both of them are very workable images we've got the iphone and we've got a pixel iphone is a bit warmer tends to be the case uh and then the pixel no of photographic styles in this iphone i'm gonna go ahead and punch in on the nose never punch a skeleton in the nose though because the skeleton doesn't have the nose i want you to see the difference between the iphone with this strand whatever this was it disappears right here and we lose a lot of detail on this part of the skeleton it disappears the strand disappears but then it comes back on the iphone but on the pixel you can see that strand all the way through detail once again preserved by the pixel 4xl in the skeleton whatever this hair is maybe it's a skeleton i don't know uh there are other minor differences but to me the details are still here versus not so much maybe you like warmer skeletons maybe that's a win for you me i prefer the more neutral and uh the ones where i still get to keep all the skeletony details you know me love star wars take star wars figures with me wherever i go love toy photography took this shot with a 3x telephoto to compare it against a 2x telephoto on the pixel 4 xl so iphone pixel because the pixel has a 2x telephoto the iphone has a 3x uh telephoto uh both good shots uh decent by bunny and measurement but uh let's go ahead and zoom in on that stormtrooper helmet and you're gonna see some pretty big differences despite this being a 2x and this being a 3x well it's 3x so therefore it's better is it oh those blacks are definitely black they're inky black can't get as much detail as you can on the pixel but you know they're very black on the iphone and and look at these little the blue lines there on the helmet on the iphone and then the pixel they're very clearly defined everything is very clearly defined on the pixel shot versus a very i don't know what's going on with the iphone 13. flowers who doesn't love flowers i don't uh because i'm allergic uh but there's a shot a very workable usable shot on the iphone and then the pixel iphone 13 pro max pixel 4 xl again for some reason i seem to like personally the reds they feel closer to true to life on the pixel shots that i've taken compared to the iphone the iphone tended to be a bit more purpley uh but of course the the image on from the iphone it's got color no doubt about if you love color if that's all you love in your photos if you love color i i think you probably like the iphone more me i tend to like a more defined shot which is one of the reasons why my preference personally uh is is pixel 4 xl i mean i'll go one step further we're going to zoom in on to these flowers in the upper left hand corner there's the iphone you can't tell where one flower ends and the other begins and then you got a little bit of a blowout if you're able to see that i may have to scroll over a tiny bit yeah scroll over a tiny bit no blowout on the pixel and you can see two two clearly defined flowers pixel iphone 4xl 13 pro max very defined very sharp in in a situation where i may want more sharpness but unfortunately it still feels like i got far more details on the pixel 4 xl iphone pixel all right here's a good indoor shot it's one of my standard shots iphone pixel all right you probably have a preference that's fine just going to point out a couple things darks are dark and the brights are bright gonna zoom in on the stormtrooper's chest oops not back to the flowers flipped the wrong way stormtrooper chest uh there we go clearly defined stormtroopers and very blown out stormtroopers what's your preference uh d do you like defined ones or blown out let's go ahead and zoom over a tiny bit oh look at all those blown out store they're they're blown out troopers admittedly i i i didn't tell you that there's the pixel there's the iphone pixel iphone 1x no night mode because it doesn't trigger that way on the iphone i could even scroll up and show you on uh the iphone the shelf kind of got blown out versus the pixel iphone pixel again this kind of stuff keeps happening over and over and over again here's a pumpkin in a very i guess difficult shot i didn't realize it was going to be difficult but this is where i took a picture of jedi in the the samsung s21 ultra comparison against the iphone 13 pro max um and the iphone didn't do a very good job in that shot i thought it did okay here because the hdr actually triggered from the blinds behind but here's the shot from the pixel 4 xl you can actually tell what it is i'm holding with the pixel 4 xl iphone pixel iphone pixel clearly defined not so much not clearly defined as you can't tell what you're looking at here so uh you tell me which which images is is more salvageable the iphone shot or the pixel shot forget hdr for a second just kept happening over and over and over and over again uh needed to take a picture of another star wars figure because you know it's me uh chief chirp is standing in a vintage ewok village we've got the uh the iphone and the pixel oh iphone pixel yes i i would agree the iphone definitely has vibrant colors they're very chocolatey uh far more tantalizing i would say uh than the pixel image for sure but uh let's go ahead and zoom in on chief chirpa's teeth you can't even tell where chief chirping's teeth begin and his fur ends or vice versa iphone pixel iphone pixel this kind of stuff keeps happening over and over and over again i couldn't use this shot i wouldn't use this shot i don't know if i would even share this shot this one i would i would potentially tweak the color a bit the pixel 4 xl definitely needs help in that department no doubt not perfect but in terms of a more perfect image you can tell this this ewok has teeth this ewok doesn't iphone pixel atari cartridges because i love retro video games now this is an instance where i felt both of them did a fair job the darks are definitely darker in the iphone shot versus the pixel but when i zoom in let's say let's go to the the left of casino there's the iphone and there's the pixel and i feel between the two the details the cartridge texture gets lost uh just a bit on the iphone versus the pixel iphone pixel the texture seems to be a bit muddy if you look at concentrations a bit slightly by not much the difference between these two was not as dramatic but still uh there's a definite difference color again over and over and over again is probably going to be better on the iphone but color is not the only thing that i might look for in a quality image i also look for star wars there's the iphone at 3x telephoto this is this is how the the iphone handles telephoto images this is 2x telephoto but i ca i went 2x at a different distance different lenses completely different lenses completely different cameras 2x same shot crop i didn't crop it digitally or manually i'm saying that from 3x i had to stand further away 2x i was a little closer i just i wanted to try this is a little different than the way i had it from the same position that each camera in the same position when i took the stormtrooper photo earlier there's the iphone and there's the pixel i don't even have to zoom in or i shouldn't have to just you should see just the glaring differences uh a very muddy okay i'm gonna zoom in uh salacious crumb versus defined color in in this case i feel that the color was better on the pixel than it was the iphone none of these have been digitally altered iphone outside today pixel 4 xl iphone pixel so with the iphone you got the darks or dark but at least with the pixel i can tell these these leaves here were were red and green and maybe a little yellow the iphone i can't tell i can i can kind of tell they're dark but it's or kind of tell the red but it's very very dark the iphone may flatten things out a bit but at least the colors have a chance to pop a bit more than they do on the iphone pixel iphone clouds are very very very very very very white clouds are a little closer to what they are in real life not as white and certainly not blown out so let's go ahead and zoom in there i also feel that the pixel took a sharper a sharper in the right way photo so the iphone tends to over sharpen if anything it skews to over sharpening and i feel the the sharpening on the pixel is better iphone pixel like you just look at the definition of the leaves like he over sharpened and just by by a hair versus a good sharpen or good sharpening i should say went back to the selfie indoors uh lower light uh or indoor light really we got light coming in from the outside no artificial light sunlight from the outside iphone did a decent job and the pixel also did a decent job iphone pixel so because they say that you know it it it's supposed to do well with with color and i feel that the iphone does do well with color but this is where i started to get a little more concerned there's the pixel shot because i always feel that the pixel can take a better uh selfie uh than the iphone uh jedi's details are a bit softened she's got a little bit of a blowout on her helmet this is the iphone there's the pixel she's a bit more defined uh if you have any blowout it's just on the the brim not the top sharper details on the pixel selfie uh versus the iphone so between these two this one just seems to be over contrasty uh too softened and this one seems to be closer to what i would appreciate in a photo that i was trying to take i was seeing if i could get any of that that classic quote-unquote classic iphone iphone blur and i wouldn't say i got any blur but i just got a lack of definition uh you can actually tell diana has separate strands of hair in the pixel shot versus the iphone shot just kind of they get lost over here i went back to some pumpkins iphone really orange pixel definitely orange but not overly orange so it's a question do you like orange or do you like orange iphone orange or orange completely up to you i will say that there was a little bit of a blowout on the uh uh the uh mcboo over here or one of the the buckets that nah i'm sorry this was miku or the other one was uh i feel we got far more definition and retaining of details on the pixel shot compared to the iphone shot just just fyi and the rest of it holds true as well so i don't know this is just i i i want this i want this to be different and it isn't i went for a landscape shot this is a 1x on the iphone and the 1x on the pixel uh because i feel that was a fair comparison to make between the two so it's almost comic page looking on the iphone the the cyan here in in in the sky uh on the iphone versus the pixel uh but what really jumped out at me when i zoomed in on the clouds was that again you got some blowout in the clouds here on the iphone versus the pixel iphone pixel all right sorry this wasn't 1x this was a 3x telephoto and a 2x telephoto i don't think this is well now i'm okay i can't remember if it was or not but the comparison was made one for one meaning if i used telephoto on one i used it on the other uh and uh it's difficult to tell uh in this shot in this landscape shot because it looks like the mountain is slightly closer in the iphone but i like the detail more in the uh uh i feel the details are less muddy on the pixel yeah that was a it was a 3x versus a 2x so anyway um i i you know i did my best to whip through this faster than i've done on other ones jedi baby i'm i'm doing something right now thank you appreciate it uh so that was jedi's hand she was trying to help unfortunately we already went to your shot uh now we're back on mine thank you for paying attention i i tried to keep this as quick as i could in as detailed as i could sorry if i fudged any of my details again i made each comparison one to one so even if i couldn't remember exactly which which shot i was taking at the time uh they were always done fairly they were done at the same time and they were done with the same settings if those same settings provided on each particular device uh i'm just saying don't ignore the pixel at your own peril if you say that you enjoy photos you owe it to yourself to look beyond a single device because there may be something better\n"