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hey what is up guys I'm TV HD here and I've done some smartphone roundups some camera comparisons in the past I've done these very objective very numerical evaluations of how good the camera performance was and what these things are capable of but that was back in 2014 now that is 2017 smartphone cameras have gotten so good that the difference between the top size best smartphone cameras meaning the ones that you buy because you take a lot of photos and videos the difference is so small it's gotten so small that the difference is way less about like objective differences in performance like better or less dynamic range or more or less megapixels and it's more just about personal preference which one you think looks a little bit better maybe want to have some software features you like or maybe one has a little bit of a different hue it just looks a little better in the color so to prove that I have the top 5 best smartphone cameras out here and I've taken identical photos with all of them a bunch of them from the exact same angles and you decide the one you're supposed to be honest with yourself I don't get to the end of the video start right here and we're going to go through a B C D and E and you can see if you can pick one of them that you like better than the others you can look at what you like about sharpness and detail or dynamic range or just colors or maybe just just look at it and pick the one you like that looks better so pro tip go ahead and watch this in as high resolution as you can go ahead and click down here in the bottom corner and if you can watch in 1440p do that if you can watch it in 4k do that that will give you the best look at these photos let's take a look alright so this first one is a backpack and it's outdoors on a bench and the biggest thing you're going to notice between these is actually the color temperature and contrast so just looking at that black pocket that's underscore is supposed to be black but you can notice in each of the pictures there's a little bit of a different color cast bit of a different hue and the sharpness and the detail levels are about the same in and out of focus and the background is about the same but you'll notice the color temperature is the biggest differentiator so here's your side-by-side in case that helps posit if you need to look at it and moving on so this is another outdoor picture and there's a little bit less colors but the same effect you'll see a little bit more this is a gray car but as you can see in each of the individual shots the car and the round which is the asphalt varies again with the color the yellow lines get a little bit warmer or cooler on each shot but for the most part the exposure and the sharpness are about the same again the plants on the front the colors on the back UV to judge here's a side-by-side again for those who want to see it positive you need it and moving on now this is a portrait so a lot of people when you're looking at portraits you can look at again colors and things like skin tones my skin tones are different in every single one of these so you can check that out and I'm also wearing a pretty vibrant shirt so you can see how the cameras and the image processing helps with that but for the most part it's an InFocus foreground a slightly out of focus background and just a little bit of a focus on the colors for the portrait a little bit softer and some a little bit sharper and others here's the side by side for those who want it pause if you need it and moving on now this one's a pretty distinct foreground and background shot so I'm taking a portrait here so you guys can see how blurred out the backgrounds get and smartphones these days have really wide aperture is f 1.9 1.8 1.7 even so a lot of these are doing a really good job that you can see to the extent and the degree that they blow out the background and of course you get a sense of white balance as well with the different colors and shades of the white of the table so again you can take a look at this side by side pause it if you need it and next now here's another portrait and we're outdoors it's a little bit contrast here but again the bigger differences you notice here is the difference in color on the white wall the black asphalt and then just the color of the jacket it kind of changes with coolness or warmness based on the color temperature again but yeah overall a pretty similar shot in each one as far as sharpness goes because again everything's in focus but you can notice the difference is an image processing just based on the way the colors look so again here's your side by side of each single one pause if you need it moving on notice a bit of a lower light photo and this is where the best smartphone cameras or cameras in general can actually Excel and separate themselves from the lower end so for this one you're looking at the tones in groups little face and you want to look at noise reduction you can look at his eyes and the black shelf that he's sitting on the rest of it is a little bit of the cast in the hues and there's a backlight behind him on a white wall but you can see to the extent that they blow up group space or don't and also if you want the side-by-side here is that again you can see the tone differences and moving on now this one's a landscape to the extent that I could do a landscape on such a dreary day like this but you can see the Empire State Building there in the background and for landscapes you really want to focus on just detail so if you're counting windows on the Empire State Building you have a pretty good idea that this one gets sharpen as well but again the color differences is what I notice is the biggest difference here as well so look at the colors of the cement on each one and then we'll get this side-by-side and moving on so last but not least I think this is the the tell-all or the most revealing photo you want to keep an eye on two things on this one the top tones of the steering wheel it's an all black interior and over on the left in the rear view mirror the amount that you can see that American flag in the mirror in some it's a little bit overexposed in others it's perfectly visible so you can see which ones have the most dynamic range or which ones have the most pleasing image but again here is the side by side of the center point which was a steering wheel which is the part that I tap to focus on when I took the photo and that is it so now that you've seen all the comparisons you've made your pick by now which one is your top choice maybe leave it in the comments section below with it a b c d or e and this is the phone you picked that is your top choice for a smartphone camera so does your winner surprise you at all probably not because these are among the best smartphone cameras the reason why they were chosen was because they have good cameras and they're all very similar in that regard but a lot of times people just have a little bit of a bias they don't want to take one and up taking I think what happens when we go into a lot of these head-to-head comparisons is we go in knowing which one we want to win so we see a side-by-side of phone a and phone B and we know we like phone a and we want to justify it being better in our heart so every little difference that looks better about phone aise picture than phone B's we will say to ourself okay that makes it better and we just ignore everything that's good about phone B it's a basic confirmation bias and we just kind of assume the new one is better even if we don't know that for sure we might actually like a different phone than we thought we did a lot of people go into it saying oh I hate the iPhone I'd never pick it but a lot of you pick the iPhone so hopefully this sheds a little bit of light on the fact that they're all really damn good and there's other things that of course go into picking a smart phone even just for the camera I've gone over them in the past just autofocus speed software features time-lapse features stabilization all these things when taking a video even the selfie camera is important all I went over and this one is just a back facing camera performance anyway let me know what you think thank you for watching and I'll talk to guys the next one Hey