OnePlus 9 Pro vs Samsung S21 Ultra Camera Test Comparison.

OnePlus 9 Pro vs Samsung S21 Ultra Camera Test Comparison.

• This phone the galaxy s21 ultra
• is my current camera champion it's well
• ahead of samsung's last phone
• it beat out the iphone 12 pro max but
• now we've got a new contender
• the hasselblad branded camera centric
• oneplus 9 pro
• we've got 12 short categories leading up
• to one winner
• the best phone camera ever so when i
• compared this samsung to the iphone
• a few months ago the simple fact that
• samsung's camera had so many features
• just gave it a slightly higher starting
• point but
• that's not the case here for almost
• every interesting thing that samsung can
• do
• like hyperlapses or portrait mode video
• oneplus can do them too
• sometimes better so in terms of software
• features
• they're pretty neck and neck but the
• secret source of what makes samsung's
• camera so fun
• is that it's not just software the
• entire hardware every lens that's picked
• here
• are built around trying to give you
• options like how the ultrawide camera is
• made to double
• as a super close-up macro camera good
• news for one plus fans
• this has that too it's just
• not as good the quality of close-ups is
• comparable as you can probably tell
• but samsung's phone can get like twice
• as close which
• is the entire objective of a macro
• camera this applies to zoom as well
• both can do it the oneplus 9 pro has a
• pretty good 3.3x optical zoom camera
• but the samsung is built to zoom at
• extreme levels
• with both a three times and a 10 time
• zoom camera
• so it shouldn't surprise you that
• samsung can go further
• if you put both phones side by side and
• slowly zoom in then
• as soon as you pass 10 times and
• samsung's main telephoto camera kicks in
• it's in a completely different league
• yes samsung's footage does start to look
• a bit like a watercolor painting when
• you get to 30x
• but by the time you get to 30x on
• oneplus you can
• count the pixels but i am curious about
• something when you take zoom shots on
• your phone
• how often do you find that you actually
• want to go past 10 times
• like i'd imagine if i had to guess that
• the majority of people when they're
• zooming in
• they'd probably go closer to 5x 6x or 7x
• but yeah i mean the samsung still looks
• better
• it takes better selfies too there is an
• element of personal preference here but
• i can't help but feel like oneplus is
• inventing colors that weren't
• there and even selfie video for some
• bizarre reason
• the oneplus 9 pro maxes out at 1080p of
• pretty mixed quality footage on the
• front camera which means that
• if all you wanted it for was instagram
• it's it's serviceable
• but it straightaway means that unless 4k
• gets added in a software update
• i pretty much can't recommend this phone
• to anyone who's planning on doing any
• kind of vlogging
• if you're buying a flagship phone now in
• 2021 you'll probably be using it till
• 2024 and i think by then 1080p footage
• is gonna
• it's gonna feel like a relic and this is
• an audio
• test so right now you're listening to
• the oneplus microphone
• this is what that sounds like and now
• you're listening to the samsung
• they're both very good to be honest i
• don't think i don't think the
• microphones on any one of these phones
• is a reason to pick one over the other
• okay this is oneplus big chance to come
• back general photography
• in all of the teasers and promotional
• material for this phone the overarching
• message was this
• we heard you didn't like our past
• cameras we fixed them
• oh and
• did we tell you that we partnered up
• with hasselblad
• so so far we've looked a zoom we've
• looked at selfies and
• a couple of other things but the only
• two cameras that hasselblad has had any
• involvement
• in are the main two cameras the wide and
• the ultrawide
• so given that hasselblad is almost
• regarded as an authority on photography
• are they any good well when i first
• started pulling up side by sides of
• these two phones
• i had a couple of moments of wait have i
• just pulled open the same photo twice
• both phones are stylistically aiming for
• the same kind of finish
• but then i started noticing things first
• of all oneplus tends to crush darker
• areas
• like if you look at my trousers in this
• shot here it almost looks like someone's
• just doodled a black silhouette on top
• it's not always a bad thing to
• underexpose subjects but
• more often than not when you put the
• oneplus in a challenging situation
• its photos just look a little bit too
• dark yes
• i realize i'm basically having a wedding
• photo shoot for one but
• hey if i'm having 200 photos taken i
• might as well look good in them
• and if you are enjoying this video then
• a sub to the channel would be
• smooth secondly oneplus adds a lot of
• sharpening you notice it a lot in
• backgrounds while samsung is perfectly
• happy to let
• trees behind you sort of blur away a
• little bit
• oneplus wants to keep everything in the
• frame sharp mind you
• it's not necessarily a bad thing this
• extra sharpness i think it does come in
• handy when you're in those lower light
• indoor situations
• where a photo starts to look a little
• soft otherwise and
• to oneplus credit this is a much faster
• camera when you tap that shutter button
• you're literally capturing a photo in
• half the time
• and it almost makes us feel like i'm
• using two phones from different weight
• classes
• a middleweight versus a heavyweight the
• main problem though that i'm having with
• this oneplus camera
• is that i can't trust it like
• this is me trying to very literally
• monkey around
• and in all three shots while the samsung
• retains a fairly consistent look
• the oneplus just completely flips the
• way the image comes out depending on
• where you're standing
• it's better than their past phones but
• it's still not quite at a stage where i
• can just snap a photo
• and be confident in the fact that it's
• come out okay and
• this applies to the ultrawide camera too
• it's fairly accepted that as you move
• between different camera lenses
• you're going to experience some color
• shift but this is an enormous shift
• especially for a phone that's branded as
• being calibrated to an exact color
• science
• also oneplus did talk a fair bit about
• how their new ultrawide
• removes distortion around the edges but
• honestly compared to the samsung they're
• pretty comparable these are both good
• cameras for photos
• but if someone said to me that i could
• only use one phone for photos for the
• rest of my life
• it would be the samsung and at the risk
• of this sounding like
• oneplus has just showed up to the wrong
• tournament this applies to portrait mode
• too
• like this photo here was our third
• attempt on the oneplus
• it took two other photos that looked
• more like this before we got to that
• and oneplus edge detection is almost
• always worse or here
• not only does oneplus color profile
• shift yet again between
• shots but on one of them it just decided
• that i was meant to be the background
• ouch to be clear i'm not saying that
• samsung is particularly good at portrait
• mode
• it's actually one of this phone's main
• weaknesses too it's just that
• i'm finding that the oneplus is even
• less consistent however
• there's one thing that that we've got to
• give it it's the fact that
• because it's capturing faster its
• portraits are much more likely to be
• crisp
• even if they do have more irregularities
• it still blows my mind though that we've
• got two phones here
• which both have telephoto cameras and
• yet for portrait mode they insist on
• using the main camera
• and then digitally zooming in
• we'll call this category a draw before
• we can crown either of these king
• we've got to talk about video and you
• actually find that a lot of the traits
• we saw with photos
• kind of come through here both very
• capable
• but even though oneplus has a bunch of
• new features like dole hdr
• it still crushes the darker areas and
• sometimes overexposes the brighter areas
• it's not that oneplus is doing a bad job
• this phone would hold its own in video
• against most 2021 smartphones
• but it's just that right now we're
• comparing it against what's probably the
• second best phone camera for video
• apart from the iphone and at that level
• it is behind
• it doesn't seem to focus quite as well
• like in this situation we were trying to
• set up a shot
• and it took like a full minute to get
• the oneplus to actually lock focus on it
• whereas it was done within five seconds
• on the samsung and whilst with the
• samsung you can use your telephoto
• cameras
• to take video so you can record it three
• times zoom and ten times zoom
• at 4k oneplus doesn't let you which
• means that as soon as you apply even
• minor levels of zoom in video
• it looks bad it does have one
• interesting feature though when you get
• to low light you can turn on something
• called
• nightscape video which does mean
• brighter cleaner nighttime footage
• but i'm a little torn about it on one
• hand it can make things look prettier
• but on the other hand it seems to make
• the camera very averse to motion
• which can make the footage look a little
• jumpy and
• you see the same traits echoing in slow
• motion too
• it looks like oneplus is almost trying
• to compensate for the lack of resolution
• by dialing up the contrast but again
• it's crushing the blacks
• if samsung does take this a little
• further it gives you the option to
• record short bursts of super slow-mo
• but to be honest given that we're now in
• 2021 and
• given that this feature hasn't
• dramatically improved in quality since
• the galaxy s9
• it's starting to look a little rough i'm
• sure with the power of this phone that
• 1080p footage at that frame rate is
• possible it just
• it feels like they don't care about
• slow-mo anymore
• anyways two final things one
• they're both stable phones i tried
• walking while both phones were following
• me
• and i even tried lagging it apologies to
• the bride
• but both phones seem to be similarly
• affected by motion
• and two you might be wondering is there
• anything that the oneplus actually wins
• at
• well yes there is and it's probably my
• favorite category
• nighttime photos there's just something
• very satisfying about seeing a really
• dark grainy scene
• and then watching as your phone slowly
• pieces it together into something bright
• and cohesive
• samsung goes for extreme smoothness like
• it's trying to make sure there's not a
• single bit of grain in sight
• but the result of that is that you do
• lose texture on objects and so
• oneplus overtakes it in detail at night
• plus i think the cooler tones
• on both the main camera and the
• ultrawide as well as the phone's ability
• to
• better control the bright spots lends
• its photos a cleaner look
• but this is personal preference i think
• samsung's photos look more accurate
• but i think oneplus is look better so on
• one hand
• this has been a bit of a whitewash
• samsung has just beaten oneplus by
• almost every single metric but there's
• something we need to bear in mind
• that yes whilst the oneplus 9 pro is the
• highest end phone that oneplus makes
• it's still significantly cheaper than
• the highest end phone that samsung makes
• and so even though there's very little
• that i could point to and say that oh
• oneplus does this better
• there is some credit to be had in the
• fact that in a lot of situations it is
• as good
• or not much worse so the message to take
• away from this video is that a
• the galaxy s21 ultra still definitely
• has the throne
• but also that b the oneplus 9 pro is not
• a bad camera system
• it's just it's about what you would
• expect for its price
• if samsung was an a plus then this would
• be a b plus
• maybe even an a minus and so for the
• sake of a 200
• gap that might be worth it for you
• okay thank you so much for watching i'm
• trying to improve on this whole camera
• comparison concept
• let me know if it worked my name is
• aaron this is mr who's the boss and i'll
• catch you in the next one
• you