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in this video I will put the 4k camera of the Google pixel up against the 4k video camera on the iPhone 7 plus both of these flagships have top-of-the-line cameras so no matter what phone you buy it's going to look pretty darn good but there are strengths and weaknesses with each one I'll be highlighting those throughout the video at the end of this video it's your job to tell me which camera you like best in the comments since the best camera really boils down to personal preference this extreme low-light shot is taken from the World Trade Center Memorial each image looks pretty identical until I finish panning up to the top of the building and the pixel decides to up the sensor sensitivity brightening the sky while the iPhone keeps the sky completely black so the sky looks better on the iPhone but the darkness also gives the building a little less detail looking at the same shot during daylight I feel like the colors are true-to-life and nearly identical on both phones in each corner of this video you'll see that I have the resolution and the bit rate of each camera the higher the bitrate number is the more detail and information the camera image will have the display so it's important to know I'll do a front camera test really quick on both phones are filming in 1080p right now the bitrate is also still listed in the corner with the front camera the pixels doing a much better job of keeping the sky black and maintaining detail in the building I'm really glad that Apple finally decided to upgrade their front camera resolution from 720 to 1080p it really was a joke that we had to wait this long to finally get some real resolution with that front camera neither phone appears to have any stabilization on the front camera but that's mostly typical across all smart phones the pixel does appear to do a slightly better job of maintaining detail in the shadows but like I said before for the most part the cameras are pretty identical during daylight the low-light shots where we start to see some major differentiation between the cameras the iPhone has that true black sky which I really like but the pixel does have a bit more detail even if there is a little extra noise in the image the water and the Brooklyn Bridge stand out really well this particular daylight shot looks a little more colorful on the iPhone side of things the color of the bridge stands out just a bit more the pixel image is a little more flat remember that this is the dead of night the dancing green dot you see on both cameras as either aliens or just a light reflection off the inner lenses of the camera the next big differentiation between the cameras is the rear image stabilization during video the pixel has electronic image stabilization or EIS the iPhone has Hardware stabilization or oh is in this shot the pixel is trying to use software to stabilize all the little lights you see in the buildings while I walk and it's not working out too well the EIS is enabled at 4k but the lights are still pretty jittery for this segment I changed both of my camera settings to 1080p to see if the stabilization would get any better on the pixel and I still prefer the image coming from the iPhone 7 plus as far as stabilization goes at night anyway Hardware stabilization will usually always win over electronic stabilization it is incredibly difficult for the pixel to stabilize all of those little lights at night but when I switch to this four-story tall little ripped alien Hulk baby the pixel image appears to be even more stabilized than the iPhone so EIS has its strengths and weaknesses but I still prefer the hardware stabilization that is OIS but luckily everyone gets to decide for themselves what their personal preference is one feature that the iPhone 7 plus has is an extra camera on the back for zooming in on stuff I'll be testing this out on the Statue of Liberty that you can see from lower Manhattan zooming in all the way on both cellphones it takes a minute to focus during the night but you can see that the iPhone can get a lot closer than the pixel does with that extra lens during the day you can see a little better how well the image detail is preserved during the zoom look at the water clarity and that little sailboat next to the statue and then the people on jet skis that zoom is a really cool feature just a reference I'll zoom back out again so you can get a perspective of what the phones are really capable of 4k footage with that kind of zoom is incredible here is the last day and night comparison in Times Square before I jump into the close-up shots and slow motion like before the camera image is almost identical on both phones until I start panning up the iPhone can't decide what to do with the bright sky so it darkens the whole image it does this twice on me it's not just a one-time fluke the pixel completely washes out the sky as I pan up this is a difficult situation for any camera so it's interesting to see how they both behave the nighttime shot does equally well on both phones there is enough light here so both phones are able to preserve the blackness of the sky the pixel does glitch a bit during the pan down and this is probably due to the software stabilization trying to figure out what I'm doing with the phone here's a quick close-up shot of the metal grate on the Brooklyn Bridge the wires are in focus and the street below is pretty well blurred on both phones after you watch the slow-motion footage I'll be leaving a poll question in the upper corner of the video that you can answer and tell me which phone you think is best then you can tell me why you thought the phone is best in the comments below this video so here's the slow-motion footage each phone can do 240 frames per second at 720p you can see that the pixel does have a slightly higher bitrate than the iPhone 7 which is a good thing but let's see if that actually matters in this case the detail is pretty similar between both the images but if we pause the video and zoom in on this random person in blue we can see that the pixel is capturing sharper frames than the iPhone look at the face and the reflection of the bars inside this window so now tell me what you think which cameras best let me know in the comments I post more camera image comparisons on my Twitter and Instagram and I have a whole playlist of videos like this comparing every other major smartphone that's come out in the past year thanks ton for watching I'll see you around