B has better resolution.
A sometimes has better colour saturation, but sometimes it is even excessive.
A sometimes has better colour saturation, but sometimes it is even excessive.
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Camera Comparison: iPhone 16 Pro Max vs. Galaxy S25 Ultra
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Portrait mode is so aggressive in the latest models.
It looks like the person was badly Photoshopped-in.
It looks like the person was badly Photoshopped-in.
Worth pointing out that the iPhone 16 Pro main sensor is 48MP. The ultrawide is 48MP as well. They're listed as 50/12 in this article.
Apple is always better at scenery, pictures of random objects, buildings.
Pixel/Android wins at people indoors every year. I get the new iPhone every September. I have relatives who get new Samsungs and Pixels and keep them 2-3 years and every year we share our collective photos from the holidays. The iPhone stuff is always last place. My biggest gripe with the ecosystem.
When am I taking a picture of a cup of coffee or my bank? Who cares about this stuff?
Pixel/Android wins at people indoors every year. I get the new iPhone every September. I have relatives who get new Samsungs and Pixels and keep them 2-3 years and every year we share our collective photos from the holidays. The iPhone stuff is always last place. My biggest gripe with the ecosystem.
When am I taking a picture of a cup of coffee or my bank? Who cares about this stuff?
i think the OP was referring to the sound, which was bad for the iPhone.
nothing beats samsungs zoom. i waz in korea and the comparison made me have to show my apple for clout. Otherwise the hardware side of samsung is sick. If you look they have it years before the iphone does. Its so sick that they trust them to design and build all the best componets of the phone
Yeah, the sound in the beginning with the front cameras. Much warmer sound and less tinny on the Samsung. Was surprised it was such a difference to Samsung's advantage there.
And why don't Apple work on improving that zoom aspect where the Galaxy is so much better?
Yeah, it's really gotten so with modern smartphones, ALL of them take some great photos. The differences tend to mostly have to due with the color intensity they capture in a given situation, or overall brightness. You're going to get graininess/pixelation at the extremes of zoom with any of them -- so the ones that look better all do it with image processing and manipulation. None of that means much to me because I'll fix those up on my desktop computer when the photos really matter.
When I browsed these samples quickly, I found I preferred "A" (iPhone) in maybe one or two more photos than "B" ... but not seeing anything here you couldn't improve on in a photo editor if you wanted to post-process it a bit?
When I browsed these samples quickly, I found I preferred "A" (iPhone) in maybe one or two more photos than "B" ... but not seeing anything here you couldn't improve on in a photo editor if you wanted to post-process it a bit?
I agree on this!
By default I'd like my photos to look as close to the human eye as possible. Can always fiddle with the image after for effect.
The LOG video stuff looked spontaneously better on the Samsung for me. The iPhone had a bit of gray haze feeling to some scenes. But again, without knowing how the actual scene looked it it's difficult to judge.
well, there is a difference between those shots, but, which one is better is hard to say:
. not having been at the site of shooting and understanding the surrounding lightning etc
. photos get drastically compressed when posting here, so some shots might lose in the comparison because of that
Given that smartphones have enabled the masses to have cameras, both are solid products. For a "professional", they will make either one work.
. not having been at the site of shooting and understanding the surrounding lightning etc
. photos get drastically compressed when posting here, so some shots might lose in the comparison because of that
Given that smartphones have enabled the masses to have cameras, both are solid products. For a "professional", they will make either one work.
I prefer camera A. Camera B sucks.
Exactly. Another problem is that there is not really a challenging situation/object/landscape among these photos, except the fourth pair. Should have included one with a sunset, a sky with many clouds and a colorful foreground, one with details in the distance, e.g. signs with text, and … flowers.
I could tell which were taken by the 16 pro because of the horrible oversharpenning done by apple processing (ever since the iphone 13) ! I got it right 
i'm glad samsung isnt as agressive as apple with their processing
thankfully there are some good third party apps (some of which are excellent) on ios, that can bring back good photography while your photos being destroys by crazy sharpening
it's a shame honestly, because the hardware is here, the software is here too (if you disable tone in iphone 16 settings) but apple just goes with the most horrible sharpening i've seen on any smartphone. seriously
i'm glad samsung isnt as agressive as apple with their processing
thankfully there are some good third party apps (some of which are excellent) on ios, that can bring back good photography while your photos being destroys by crazy sharpening
it's a shame honestly, because the hardware is here, the software is here too (if you disable tone in iphone 16 settings) but apple just goes with the most horrible sharpening i've seen on any smartphone. seriously
I overwhelmingly preferred the Camera A photo. I was, therefore, very relieved to learn that it was the iPhone 16 Pro since I bought one shortly after it came out and would have been bummed to see Samsung with a superior camera so soon afterward!