Gadgetory

what's up guys Ron pretty here from TechnoBuffalo and this last weekend I got the chance to go up to Lake Arrowhead with three very cool gadgets number one being the razor blade stealth it's their brand new ultra book the Chevy Volt which is a car so it's a bit of a bigger gadget and a Samsung Galaxy s7 edge which we reviewed last week this time around I wanted to take a deeper look at the camera on the samsung galaxy s7 edge and better yet compared to what is called one of the best cameras on the market in terms of phones the iPhone 6s right out the gate we're rocking very similar specs 12 megapixel cameras on the back for both and 5 megapixels on the front however things are a little bit different optically the iPhone has a twenty nine millimeter F 2.2 lens whereas the Samsung has a 26 millimeter F one point seven so a little bit wider focal length on the Samsung and a little bit wider aperture as well we also see this on the front where the iPhone was rocking an F to point 231 millimeter lens and the Samsung is rocking the F 1.7 22 millimeter lens and that 22 millimeters is a huge deal to me it's an ultra wide selfie camera which Samsung has now had for two generations with phones and it's hands-down one of my favorite features of their phones it really changes the way you use snapchat Instagram Twitter any of your selfie taking needs I'm a huge huge huge fan of this ultra wide camera hopping over the back other than the three millimeter focal difference which makes the Samsung lens a little bit wider it's very hard to tell these cameras apart optically and the way the software runs through it looks extremely similar photo to photos you can see side-by-side you really have to nitpick to find the differences something I did notice however is it the iPhone tends to dig a little deeper in the shadows and pull out a little more detail whereas the Samsung might just crush those two black but on the other side the Samsung does tend to do a better job rolling off highlights that have clipped into white where's it's a little more jarring on the iPhone now if we're going to continue nitpicking on optical differences I did notice that the Samsung images were coming out a little bit sharper than the iPhones this was mainly because of the in-camera sharpening that happens via software on the Samsung so it's a bit of a catch-22 the images do look sharper on the phone and on a bigger screen but if you were to print those images or build them up you would most likely begin to see some artifacting the biggest differences you can find here are the UI the shooting mode and how get to the camera with Samsung the double top of the home button to getting into camera is one of my favorite ways to get to a camera of any phone it's super super quick feels very natural feels very intuitive in the camera pops up extremely quickly in addition while iOS is still stuck with their tried-and-true simple as the way to go camera app and I know you can get third-party apps before people start going crazy I do prefer Samsung's app because it is simple but it does give you a ton of shooting modes and best of all is there pro mode now if anybody is trying to replace a DSLR where the portability is key they're going to love that you get full manual control just like you do on a really high-end point-and-shoot or DSLR control ISO white balance shutter speed and anything and everything in between one feature I do love is the selective focus now you have to hold the camera there for a bit and what it does is it analyzes the background and the foreground focusing on both while you're taking picture and then it goes and adds a little bit of extra software blur to the background to create the illusion of a super shallow depth of field the technique works really really well however it does bring me to one of my gripes with the Samsung it is the autofocus while it is fast it is a bit schizophrenic where the iPhone auto focus seems a little more Zen a little more meditative it decides what it wants to do and then does it well the Samsung auto focus is kind of jarring it just skips around a lot you really notice this in video when you're moving from foreground to background items panoramic modes and both phones work well however I did feel worked a little bit better on the s7 edge purely because Samsung allows you to do panoramic photos while the phone is in landscape and portrait Apple still has this really annoying thing but the for state of the phone in portrait to create a panorama I have no clue why they haven't added a horizontal panoramic feature it's beyond me but kudos to Samsung for having in low-light is always an interesting one when it comes to mobile phones because the sensors are so small they can only be so good that being said with a new larger pixel the s7 edge does much better than the s6 and even seems to edge out the iPhone 6s so that is pretty much it those are really my thoughts on both cameras and both phones now of course there are a ton of other more in-depth features on the s7 edge and the iPhone that we didn't really cover of course you can get third-party apps use a camera on the iPhone optically I think they're super super close that beings that I do prefer the SMS because of all the additional features that Samsung packaged with and how well they seem to work I just like having that option there and the fun little bonus feature is because of the waterproofing on the s7 it's practically a GoPro replacement but with that being said click the link down below to see the full res gallery of both phones and give me your thoughts in the comments below I'm very curious to hear give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and hit that subscribe button for more content like this I'll see you guys in the next one thanks for watching