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the brand new Galaxy Note nine and the eleven month old iPhone 10 have a lot in common especially when it comes to photography both have dual rear cameras portrait mode dual optical stabilization and cost $1000 in the u.s. photos and videos from both phones are fantastic he had with so many similarities I was interested in the differences so I took them around in San Francisco to see how they stacked up to each other essentially the galaxy note 9 has the same cameras found on the galaxy s 9 plus including that nifty dual aperture but the note 9 adds scene capture software that optimizes photos for 20 different subject categories for example when I framed this photo the camera detected a person notice the tiny icon of a person the bottom of the screen and the galaxy note 9 optimized its settings accordingly the results are good though a bit confounding the scene optimizations are not obvious like Instagram filters sometimes there are very little noticeable differences when the scene optimization is on or off take a look at these pictures I took up a course on the first one had it turned off and here's the same croissant taken with it enabled the galaxy note 9 identified the croissant as food which it is notice the one taken with the scene optimizer has richer looking colors and is better exposed the iPhone 10 does its own optimizations for textures patterns colors but unlike the galaxy note 9 you can't turn it off here's a shot from the galaxy note 9 of Salesforce tower on the left and Fremont tower on the right the iPhone 10 adds a lot of contrast and chooses a color temperature that seems a bit off making the windows of the building on the right look aqua green the note 9 gives a much more faithful representation of the scene and even holds the highlights and the clouds better than the iPhone something I noticed during this comparison is how photos from the Samsung devices like the s9 the s9 plus and in this case of the note 9 look on the phone screen versus my computer screen so here's a picture some cares that took at the Transbay terminal I would say the picture looks a little too bright almost like it was a little overexposed however when I go back to the note 9 screen it looks perfectly exposed and the colors look saturated and the temperature looks accurate to the way it was in real life the iPhone 10 on the other hand seems to be optimizing the colors to make them more vibrant and those chairs it's kind of pop out but that's not the way they looked in real life and it to my eyes they look a little off especially compared to the note 9 as far as low-light goes the Galaxy Note 9 with its dual aperture opening to super wide F 1.5 has the edge over the iPhone 10 take a look at these photos taken inside a dark bar with red lighting the iPhone tends photo has noise in the walls and is starting to look a bit painterly with all that noise reduction while the shadows are crushed the iPhone 10 handles the bar lighting pretty well now here's the same scene taken with a Galaxy Note 9 it looks brighter has less noise but is also much softer notice how the bar lights become white blobs so let's talk portrait mode or live focus as Samson calls it it basically blurs out the background making your shot look more like a DSLR neither phone is absolutely perfect but both can yield some killer results the iPhone 10 has portrait lighting mode which allows you to change lighting looks for your photos before or after you take it when the iPhone 10 nails a portrait like it did here you see wonderful sharpness in the face and eyes and a nice focus fall-off from around the head and shoulders the live focused shot from the galaxy note 9 does a good job separating the foreground in the background and you can even adjust the amount of background blur before after you take the photo I should note that beauty mode was turned on for this portrait video quality from both phones is good I'd be happy filming with either one of these in most situations as far as video stabilization whether it's 4k or 1080p the iPhone tends video stabilization just looks better also I still can't believe that both of these phones can record slow-motion video at 240 frames per second at 1080p resolution slo-mo video from the iPhone 10 has better colors and dynamic range than the Galaxy Note 9 but the Galaxy Note 9 also has super slow motion which allows you to film at a whopping 960 frames per second I'll be it at 720p resolution selfies on both phones are ok I prefer the ones from the galaxy note 9 over the iPhone 10 but as far as portraits the iPhone 10 offers portrait lighting mode for its front-facing camera and the results look pretty good especially compared to the selfie focus mode on the galaxy note 9 however if you're a fan of beauty mode smoothing your skin out the Galaxy Note 9 is the way to go also in the galaxy note 9 you could just hold up your hand to take a selfie as far as selfie video the galaxy note 9 looks sharper it has better colors but it crops in a lot and I do mean a lot the iPhone 10 looks okay a little flat sometimes then there's that S Pen on the galaxy note 9 which can double as a remote control to take a photo this was such a hit with the people I showed it off to but fret dot iPhone 10 fans you can do the same thing using the ear pod that came to their phone it just need to be within the length of the cable so to wrap everything up it seems to me when the Galaxy Note 9 was announced that people were disappointed that Samsung hadn't radically changed up the cameras but the small additions that were made like scene optimization for photos are really nice the iPhone 10 even after almost a year still takes phenomenal photos and videos and has one of the best all-around cameras on any phones but if you're considering an iPhone 10 I would say wait rumor has it Apple might be announcing some new iPhones pretty soon you