Name: iPhone SE vs. Pixel 4A: battle of the budget camera
Uploaded: 2020-11-06T18:15:28.000Z
Duration: 8 min 30 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

We're putting two cameras that cost less than $400

and number two, we have a car in New York City?

A bunch of people always ask me, they're like,

but I don't want to spend over $500 and, quite frankly,

and I then ask them, well, what phone do you have?

Because what I've learned is that most people

don't actually want to buy a camera system,

they just need a better camera on their phone

the best two cameras you can get for under $500 to the test

It's the Pixel 4a versus the 2020 iPhone SE versus NYC.

I've wanted to shoot in this location for so long.

First stop is Keith Haring's "Crack is Wack" mural

up in Harlem and I knew this would offer a ton of contrast,

Here we are testing the iPhone SE's 12 megapixel,

which is the same single camera found on the iPhone 8,

and the Pixel 4a's 12.2 megapixel single rear camera

We will get into processing power in a bit

but right off the bat you can see that both of these cameras

are extremely capable in perfect lighting conditions,

and differentiating them feels a bit nit-picky.

But, you can start to see one difference.

the iPhone is not afraid to hold onto the shadows

You can see it in the black lines on the mural

and the shadows on the trees on the pavement

And, real quick, all of the photos in this video,

I let the camera make the choice of what to focus on

We are in Central Park to test out the video capabilities

while the Pixel maxes out at 4k, 30 frames per second.

Both phones' front facing cameras record at 1080,

Personally, this is where the lower cost of these cameras

For starters, the image stabilization in both cameras

I found the footage to be jittery and lacking any smoothness

and there's a real debate over the need for phone gimbals

but for both of these devices, if you want smooth footage

external stabilization is gonna be necessary.

Overall the video is just fine from both of these devices.

Oh, and real quick, buds, there's one other thing

It was a 90 degree day and we were in direct sunlight

and I kept getting an error message on the Pixel 4a

when I would start shooting video that said

I'm really not sure what affects this had

but the iPhone managed to stay cooler to the physical touch

All right, next on our New York City tour

Subtitles ListPlay Video

iPhone SE vs. Pixel 4A: battle of the budget camera

process

slightly

exposure

quality