uh yongo Yong yeah what he said the Yong
yn450 first got my attention through a
random social media post where I went wow what a brilliant idea instead of
making our phones more camera likee why
don't we just make our cameras more phone likee because that is exactly
what's going on here by day it's an
Android device with a full touchscreen
back and by by night it's got a 16 megapixel micro 43 sensor Andy I need
your help with this yo no no y y
obviously because this product is not formally available outside of China
there's no need to have an English product page so I actually can't read
almost anything about the specs on the website here so Andy what can you tell
us about this thing I figured this out 4K 30 FPS 32 gig storage yep 3 gigs of
RAM 4,000 mAh battery and conveniently
it's actually a removable one that is a
mess ton of internal space taken up by the battery which is a little confusing
given that the product is only I think rated for 4 hours of continuous use got
a qu2 threaded mount on the bottom one of those handy dandy little uh I mean
you could put a wrist strap on it but let's be realistic you're more likely to
hang like a little Crystal or Stuffy off of it these days micro SD and SIM card
card slots oh I can't wait to put my Sim in this and see if it actually works
micro USB charging headphone jack can't take that for granted these
days why buy a camera phone when you can bu a phone camera you know right I'm not
even going to be able to like operate this device cuz it's probably only going
to be in Chinese it does this say 8 core8 core yeah okay and 2 like 2.0 GHz
yeah yeah I can read that part that's uh that's in
English curiously even though the only pricing we can find for the camera
itself is from news articles and pegs it at around
$300 it seems like
Yong y okay yeah sure uh it seems like
they only sell it as part of a bundle that seems targeted squarely at
influencers so it's a lighting and
Camera microphone lighting camera and microphone bundle and a lens so what
makes you think they're targeting Tik tokers with this thing on their product
page it says this is the best thing for Vlog what are the odds we can select
English in the menu here let's see let's see and only Chinese
dang it why did they give option the home screen is clearly designed to be
more like a camera so your media is front and center we've got our camera
app ripoff Safari icon that is presumably a browser of some sort video
app uh mail and then some other sort of random tools you got your calculator uh
that looks like a gallery application contacts uh voice recording and then
over here right there on your home screen you've got a little widget that
tells you how many pictures and videos you've recorded and how much of your
storage is still free so let's put the lens on one of the major criticisms of
the first revision of this product the yn450 was that it used a Canon EF mount
on a micro 4/3 lens which led to some compatibility problems so this is the
yn450m which has a micro 4/3 Mount and
then Yong no y y uh includes their own
lens this is a 422 mm uh f1.7 lens and uh presumably it'll
just kind of Pop right on
there look at that hey look at this guy
first picture wait is that a camera couple things I'm noticing immediately
one is the software not great I'm heing
the camera app and the home button just
it it doesn't work maybe if oh yeah so you can actually press the back button
specifically in the camera app also in terms of ergonomics it felt all right
holding it as a phone before with the lens on it the story changes a little
bit I realize there's no real way around that there's a lot of you know glass in
a lens it's fine I get it uh but it is
definitely something to consider so it wants a SIM card so I guess this is
where I put my Sim in the in the phone
camera whatever it is can I place a call with it does it even have like a
microphone and speaker sure trying to call Andy
hello it's not doing it but I can text
okay I I text you yeah my data works and my SMS is working but calls are not
coming through for whatever reason you know what that's fine this is more about
the camera anyway so what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be setting
Brandon Off to the Races to take some pictures with this puppy the iPhone 11
Pro Max and what did we decide on for
our last one Brandon xt2 a Fuji xt2 xt4
xt4 it's really weird the like Android
buttons are very unresponsive when you're in the camera app in here we can
manually change settings like the iso uh
shutter speed uh depending on which mode
you're in so here we'll switch to full manual you can change the aperture very
very nice I am really excited so am I
how was it so I've used this thing for a total of
about 5 hours now and that's what happens when I ask him to do something
for two hours and it involves a camera hey you asked me to cover photos and
video that's in with three devices that's not a small task all right and
how was it um it was a very interesting experience so right off the bat the
touchcreen is awful it's not very good
like I could not change the setting that
I was in half the time if I wanted to use aperture priority or manual um and
then the biggest thing with video specifically is right off the bat you
can't I could not figure out for the life of me how to change the mode so
you're stuck with apperture priority and
you can't change any other settings you can change your aperture that's it
luckily I combed being able to use the
lens in a way that is useful outside by using an ND filter then the photos
themselves I couldn't tell sometimes if
something was going to be exposed properly because it would show exposed
properly on the display yeah but then when it would take Theo i' get aoto that
was like STS or something just like so
like ridiculously dark so whatever it's doing it's previewing allowing you to
see it as if to tell you that your image
is fine but then it's not but because you're capturing raw maybe that's
something they're doing on purpose knowing that it does a better job of
capturing details in darker parts of the scene even switching to the raw dng
setting when you don't speak like when you can't read Chinese cuz I can't read Chinese unfortunately
I I I couldn't do it I had to have Andy do it it was and that part was just
rough but you can record something with
a much better lens than what you would find on a normal phone and upload it
straight to Instagram straight to Tik Tok cellular data yes and some of your
criticisms were of the lens specifically as well yes the lens is also very
mediocre right but again you could make that better and then have a better time
and if you're very careful if like if you want to use it for normal use if
you're very careful with the way that you're looking at the image exposing the
image you will actually you could get good results it is possible well let's
have a look now to be clear I pushed this photo a stop just with all the Yos
because they were shooting in dng I just needed to push them to be exposed how
you would normally expose them but as long as the information's there then
there's nothing wrong with that it just means that extra work is involved before
you could actually up so just without even looking at anything else as a reference you can tell that the
Highlight rolloff is not a amazing y um
colors they managed to keep it not pink yeah um that's tough that's hard to do
this is a backlit situation so like the sun is like right over here wait I see
what you mean this doesn't even look like it's taken in the same place yeah I
mean there was wind so and they weren't taken at the exact same time but this is
the exact same spot the tripod was in the same place and you can just you can
see the iPhone is doing a way better job
of the sky like it like you almost don't even feel like this is a back situation
yeah so like this is a 26 megap camera it's also fairly recent camera so like
detail is great bokeh is great it's a 56 mil F2 or f1.2 lens so like so really
the only justification for the
yn450 is if it was more user friendly to
be able to use a manual lens maybe not this lens but if you had a different
lens how do you feel about the experience versus the iPhone it's still
a much worse exper like it's slower to take the photo I had I and I also found
myself taking more photos with it because I was not confident that I got
it on the first try this so this was another challenging situation where it
was like back lit and the Sun is like above this building but you can just see
the sky is really bright and I also exposed for the sky yeah we clearly
completely lost the detail under the building here there's a little bit left
not much it looks really crushed as well like right here like it's almost it's
almost like it can't tell if it's red or black like it's not
Nott there's artifacting and like noise that is not pleasing the sharpness
though is not bad like overall it's again 16 megapixel sensor this lens at
like I think was this was an F4 it's
serviceable um again though you really feel the lack of dynamic range this is
not a portrait mode photo this is just like a standard photo with a telephoto
lens this also looks like a cartoon almost yeah well it's the smart HDR
right like was this guy really that blue no okay yeah it like yeah it's something
it's something that's a thing like so this is the xt4 this is the young new
yeah so how much does that camera cost though In fairness uh it is about oh I
don't know the US I think $ 1699 us yeah okay so it's six times the price yes it
is almost yes it is five times the price and you can't upload straight to
Instagram well you can't no you can't not directly from the camera it it is a
pretty easy upload but but now let's see the iPhone because one of the
justifications I could see for this device would be okay you know maybe I'm
spending a bunch of money on you know this thing that's really more focused on
being a camera than it is on being a phone but this way I can only own one
device like I could see it as like a cost savings thing unless the phone
experience was so bad that I was going to have to own this in addition to my
regular phone anyway which in which case the argument becomes well why not just
get a better phone with a better camera on it in the first place that's where I think we're running into trouble so I
exposed this at no exposure compensation and this is what the Yong NOA thought
was an adequate exposure is there enough detail left in here can you bring it up
in light it gets really rough like there's there's like this purple
fringing that I again I can show you some other ones you can really see it
right along here and Dennis's shirt and
this was consistent with underexposed images like this is what seems to happen
with it and I've seen that shirt it's not purple no definitely not well and
again the iPhone did a good job the cut out's pretty good yeah it like this
would be shoulder got a littleit yeah and a little bit here but like most
people be pretty happy with this honestly I hate what Apple does with the
guy the did a great job of this one Yep this one's really good it's a pretty
subtle cutout a little mess up here but
otherwise 4x6 or 5x7 I would never
notice it even even with the HDR they
didn't fully retain this part of his ARM and it's just gone in the yo yeah like
you can just there's nothing there it's clipped completely they're both clipped
but this is a little bit nicer overall roll off wise I definitely think that
the teran's face looks more like the lighting looks more natural on taran's
face you can actually almost see some of the correction that Apple's done to
flatten out the lighting on his face yeah which I always hate about their
processing it gets he looks like he's wearing face makeup
and his skin isn't like that like yeah his Skin's not that uniform yeah whereas
here it has more texture to it this is kind of fun it's not very often we get
to look at such an unusual device that
neither of us has any idea what to expect from it it's such a weird like
thing to think about so the other thing I noticed is that there's significant
vignetting like on a lot of these shots at the Yong no you don't notice that
yeah that's almost like a mismatch between sensor size and lens but it's
not these are this is micro 43 and I also wonder if it's the type of thing
that they could have corrected if like there is cuz the benefits of Android
they could have put that in software this one baffled me a little bit because
I was unsure of what was going on again
I exposed this at zero exposure compensation but it just looks so much
darker like I don't know if it was a processing thing or and I even tried to
take the photo at like a half stop exposure compensation but then I just
lost the sky it's really dark it was gone it it like and look you can see in
this photo the vignetting is intense yeah like it is so noticeable looks like
a filter yeah I don't know why I couldn't explain why cuz that this was
not the case on every photo I took with this thing and I used the same lens the whole time and there are other shots
that were this wide but it just didn't do and this is the iPhone you can really
tell Apple's pumping the saturation on things like the orange uh around that
store um red sign the red yeah the red sign and the sky is that blue again
bloody blue again it's so much sharper
than the yo though even though we're on looking at it wider here I can already
tell and you know what too the other issue I was having this is the best I
got out of the focus when I tried to take this photo I didn't notice it because I couldn't also reviewing the
photos is not like a really seamless thing so it's not perfect here and the
shutter speed was high so it's not a matter of like the camera wasn't stable enough it just misses really easily well
that and it's really hard to hold it stable I noticed this when I was just
taking shots ergonomically it's not the best shape and there's no stabilization
whatsoever either in the camera or in the lens so this is the xt4 yeah on and
the other thing I did with the xt4 is I put it on a profile that is closest to
the iPhone so this is actually like more saturated and cont and contrasty than
you would typically uh have for my camera I would typically not shoot it in
this profile but I wanted them to be closer and again though you still see it
like ah this looks so much better yeah
like the orange actually looks like what I could see at five times the price yes
fair enough at five times the price let's look at some video oh okay yeah if
if anyone's watch space force there's they used the cooko song in that in that
first episode and so riy did a Tik Tok to that I did it as a vertical video
like a Tik Tok that's fine there's nothing left in his pants this is with
an ND filter as well so this is giving the lens the best shot to like get a
nice bokeh depth the field look to be to be fair though the bokeh does look
relatively nice like this is not something that you get from a phone and the sky looks way more natural than what
I'm going to see from the iPhone okay so speaking of the iPhone
let's take a look at that real quick my expectations are that the video will
look very fluid but wow that pops
doesn't it okay so that's the iPhone and then just for reference I didn't even
know the xt4 is really like a video it's not really a video camera though the
video on the xt4 has improved a lot since my xt2 so it actually is a
reasonably good camera especially for a mirrorless having me the ability to
choose your exposure makes a huge difference and I didn't like I could
color this to look that much better too wow you can really see that purple yep
the fringing is pretty bad but like the depth is there like this is not you
can't do this with a phone honestly this would be very usable all right iPhone
100% is a phone there's no depth here um
you can see the Jelly Little rolling shutter issues um this is what a camera
looks like for the cost of the other two Sol for the cost of the other two
solutions come back it's purple so this is what happens when you don't have an
ND filter so as it tries to compensate
for having too much light look at this it turns purple this looks like Twilight
yeah not the movie it still better than Twilight bad
like so then when I this is I forgot to put the ND filter and then here's me
putting it back on right and you can see
how much it's helping the image yeah this is usable very usable cuz this
looks pretty good like overall yeah I I'd be okay with that no one would
notice if we put that in our video no absolutely not that actually looks so
much sharper not necessarily because the lens is sharper but because you're
getting so much more detail in those
those sharp contrasts between the light reflecting off the top of the leaves and
the Shadows underneath them and by default there's so much more Shadow detail here because it's corrected
already um this actually is a really great showing for the video camera on
the iPhone did a great job outstanding and you're on a tripod so you don't get
as much of that Jello-O effect going to say wow this is the xt4 getting blown
out of the water by the iPhone I was also using the re 79 profile so it's it
is not retaining as much dynamic range as it could so this is a case where the
iPhone's inability to have you know foreground things out of focus and
background things out of focus like you would on a real camera can actually be a
strength for it because everything that we're looking at is within one plane in
the image so having this deep depth field gives us all of this detail in
this branch and we're not drawn to our
eye is not drawn to the fact that if there was something in the foreground
that would also be in perfect focus and you know so would a cloud in the sky cuz
we can't really tell I prefer the iPhone shot in this Cas I prefer the iPhone shot I think so this was the best the
best case scenario for the iPhone I think and it shows that again when
you're using a phone and you want that wider like wide shots on a phone
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