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today we're going to be testing the video cameras on the iPhone se and the Nexus 5x seems like everyone has their own vlog these days and the easiest way to vlog is with a cell phone camera so I've both these cameras mounted up to a little rig that will stabilize them both equally and let's test the camera quality so right now I'm shooting in 4k it is a little bit windy so if you can't hear me turn on the subtitles you'll be able to read what I'm saying neither of these cameras have internal image stabilizing so both qualities are going to be a little bit shaky as I walk around right now I'm focusing on the end of the picnic table and then I'm going to switch to the fire pit over there on the side picnic table fire pit everything is stock on these cameras right now as well as the apps all the stock settings so the iPhone se you can only shoot in 720p for the front-facing camera well the LG Nexus 5x can shoot in 1080p so if you're looking for a front facing camera the LG Nexus 5x is probably the way to go normally on the type of guy who likes to sit down and plan out a script before I get on camera and start to talk about stuff but we're just going to wing it today you know the weather is rather nice so now I'm recording in 1080p on both phones the iPhone se has something called cinematic video stabilization that kicks in at this resolution and at 720p but looking at the video quality from the 4k footage it looks like it helps out there as well it's kind of an electronic image stabilization but without the warp effect that we saw during my Nexus 6p camera test video the Nexus 5x does not have any image stabilization there are workarounds for that but it does not come installed stock on the device so it's not included with this test the cinematic image stabilization is actually really really impressive look what happens when I shake the camera up and down quickly remember they are both attached to the same camera rig now let's look at that slow motion both of these phones do their highest frame rate at 720p the iPhone se can do 240 frames per second and the 5x does 120 frames per second the iPhone se has twice the frames to work with so when we max it out the slow motion will go for twice as long and look twice as cool keep in mind that both these devices are mid-range devices the iPhone se is about $400 brand new and the Nexus 5x is 350 dollars you might also have noticed that I've included the bit rate of each camera in the corner as well that just tells you how much information is allowed in each second of footage so for this image while shooting in 4k the iPhone se is allowing 20% more information to go to each of its 30 frames every second the file size will take up more room but the frames will be more detailed which is a good thing now I'm personally an Android guy but when specifically talking about camera quality for these mid-range phones factoring in the higher bitrate the cinematic image stabilization and the better slow-motion I think that the iPhone might win this round let me know what you think down in the comments also check out my Nexus 6p vs. Galaxy s7 edge camera comparison I talked about some of the high-end video stabilizing hit that subscribe button for more videos like this in the future and head over to my Instagram and Twitter for behind the scenes stuff with other tech tips thanks for watching hope see you around