i am really excited today because we get to look at the xiaomi 12s ultra and
answer the question is this chinese market phone worth importing because i'm
personally looking for a new phone right now the cool thing about this phone is
not just that it is like flagship specs like oh that's great
and those are all things that you'd expect from a flagship here's the phone
very cool look at this camera bump oh my god full disclosure i've actually been
using this phone for about three days took it home over the weekend because i
couldn't wait and i have a lot to say about it first one i appreciate this
camera bump is gigantic even though they're not actually really comparable
devices look at this camera bump i actually like i really like the design
aesthetic you'll see that this phone is in the corner here branded leica and for
those of you who've watched any other phone videos that i've done i'm a fan of
leica we had their smartphone in a couple of
months ago it that was a japanese exclusive it was basically a rebrand of
the sharp i think aquios r6 and it also
had a one-inch sensor like that phone on the top 51 sensors just to quickly get
this out of the way yes i understand guys one inch sensor are not actually
one inch in diameter if you want like a full detail explanation there are other
people done videos marquez has a video on this but basically the short version
is the naming comes from old video tubes
that were actually about 1.5 times the size of the actual
imaging sensor that they were projecting onto that doesn't matter guys because
this sensor is still huge for a smartphone so i'm really hyped on the
camera on this phone but it does have a lot of other really good redeeming
qualities to it one of them being the harman kardon sound system there's also
a good example of how good this display looks like that full brightness
sounds pretty good there's so much to talk about this camera i don't actually
have a lot of time to talk about the specs so if you want their pretty flagship
specs snapdragon 8 plus gen 1. this uses
xiaomi's miui 13 on Android 12. there's
a lot of pre-installed chinese apps that you can get rid of so if you are importing this phone that's something to
contend with one of the other weird things i found is in the camera app you
go over to the settings motion tracking focus and motion capture two settings
that supposedly help you with the autofocus are not on by default motion
tracking for focus allows you to double tap the screen and then it'll lock on to
your subject so we'll test that later but again i didn't have it on all
weekend and then motion capture which tracks motion to minimize blur on the
photos of children pets and other active
subjects this was also off by default i
didn't actually get a chance to try this with my son but with the magic of
editing here are some of the photos i took this evening that have this feature
on and you guys can judge them for yourself i unfortunately can't judge them in the moment right now but we will
try some stuff later we've got a video mode portrait mode night all that stuff
is standard there's a bunch of other modes here you could do like there's a vlog mode slow-mo i want to try the slow
motion there's a super moon mode and then there's that multi-camera mode that i actually tried in the last film video
that i did where you have every camera on the smartphone going at
once and i think okay it looks like you can choose two here we go and then i can
record video on both the selfie camera
and the external camera and if i do that there's andrew
there's Colton and i'm also looking at myself which i
don't know why you'd need this but it's cool that you can do it and it
can be any camera so it doesn't matter so in the photo mode you have filters
that you might actually use so there's leica vivid and then there's
leica natural and there's like a black and white natural 50 millimeter swirly
bokeh and you have 90 millimeters soft focus
there's a macro mode tilt shift weird that's kind of gimmicky oh there's
riley hey you ready am i ready for what we're gonna take
photos of you no
let's take some new photos outside with riley
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let's go outside take some photos hey riley perfect timing okay you ready to
do let's do a couple of photos just with
the leica authentic mode and then i'm gonna do like a vibrant the mode chain's
really easy especially when you have it in this grip motion tracking and track focus are on so now i'm gonna double tap
riley's face okay now
it should be fully tracking him
what what okay that'll be an interesting test on if any
of those or how many of them are in focus so just walk towards me pretty
close yeah one two three four five yeah
and then this is like a natural and then this is like a black and white natural
you see that like it's got like a i don't know a film vibe maybe look look
hipster and then let's try the 50 millimeter
swirly bokeh oh that'll be interesting so yeah wow it's like
really doing its best to map you it definitely likes it more when your
face is in shot in 720p this camera can do up to
3840 FPS what
oh it's the fourth out holy
i mean we're only looking at it on the phone but that's so slow that is so cool
and go
oh my god
that's crazy look at your hair i'm gonna do a quick 8k video unfortunately it's
at 24 FPS and this video you're watching is gonna be in 30 FPS
whoa look at this amazing i love nature
hey you're doing a great job
the image stabilization is impressive that's for sure oh lost you there for a
second don't lose me stay on there brandon i don't want to get lost
in the upside down
okay there we go we're tracking motion now oh tracking my hands tracking your
face well it stays done i got something to say to you oh that was pretty good
and then on the way out and then back in
oh pretty good most of what i'm testing here is with the main shooter because
that is the camera with the one-inch sensor we're transferring the photos in
the video that we just did and from the weekend onto my laptop right now so we
can take a look at everything but in the meantime i just want to talk about the actual like build of this phone because
i i don't know i didn't mention it at all this phone might actually be the
best feeling phone i've ever held in my life because it's got this awesome
silicone leather apparently eco-friendly not that i don't think that matters to a
lot of people out there but my m10 has a similar texture and softness to
this phone and on top of that while looking amazing
it doesn't pick up fingerprints at all so it's actually also practical i would
be scared to run this phone case list but you could because it also has ip68
waterproofness and man this feels good like i it feels like you're using an
actual camera that is a good experience so this is the first time i'm looking at
all these photos from the weekend and now so there are a bunch of bees flying
around this bush that were just like pollinating it and i wanted to see how
the phone would do in taking photos of the autofocus with the autofocus of
these bees and i was constantly pressing at certain moments i wasn't using the
tracking feature because i wasn't aware of the double tap at the time but the
autofocus still seemed to be doing its job to a point so in this first photo that i
attempted i'm not gonna actually just lower the exposure by like
seventh of a stop that b is
i don't think quite in focus but it's not bad it's close
on the whole on the wide this photo actually feels very nice now we continue
this one so i actually i lowered the exposure on this shot this shutter speed
was one over 800 which is much faster than one over 180 which is some of the
other shots and dang that b is pin sharp
this photo looks awesome and this is a jpeg guys
man i'm about to get into showing you some other photos that this camera did not
necessarily impress me by but this shot it makes me feel things about the
potential for smartphone photography the color is great the
balance of exposure is awesome it's in focus on a very small moving subject and
i feel like this didn't come from a smartphone it also missed a couple of
times like here so yeah this b is out of focus but that might have been helped
with the motion capture and the motion tracking focus features being on and
they weren't on leica and xiaomi did a lot of work with this camera's lens to
remove as much chromatic aberration as possible and when i actually look at the
edges of the frame it's not really there now let's look at some photos that
didn't impress me a whole lot here's a bunch of photos of my son he's just
sitting on the couch i kept snapping hoping and thinking that all of these
would be in focus because the box was on his eyes it looked like it was tracking
properly and then i look at this photo and he's not invokes at all and sure i
didn't have those motion tracking features on but in my opinion i don't
think you would even need those if you visually can see in the camera app that
the autofocus is supposedly doing its job it was tracking his eyes
here's that photo i took in the mall this is the HDR just like one click
didn't change exposure at all version and then here's the one where i actually
like lowered the exposure to balance out the highlights and then you could
obviously edit up the whole shot
but yeah the the noise in this shot in the shot there it's
basically non-existent again the shot has a depth to me that i really it
reminds me of my m10 so this tree is directly backlight the sun is behind
this tree i went just around the tree enough that it was covering it and
impressively there's no fringing
there's something to this lens design that leica and xiaomi have made because
i really really like this now i will say that i do feel like this photo
specifically the HDR effect is a little bit much but that being said it doesn't
look horrible it doesn't look look too over sharpened though for my taste it's
a little bit over processed that looks really good so when you look too closely
at these photos they do start to like feel like a smartphone like this shot
feels kind of like a smartphone because it's got that kind of HDR feeling to it
that being said it still did a pretty decent job
so here's like a vibrant more contrasty more saturated and then here's like a
authentic vibrant makes it feel more like an
edited image and then authentic gives you
a flatter better starting point and then you can edit to be whatever you want that being
said they both look good i think the color is exactly what i was
seeing when i was outside so it's very true to life so whatever leica and
xiaomi are doing with the color here top marks the motion capture and the motion
tracking focus clearly helped because a lot of these photos of riley are in
focus when i would have expected them not to be in some of the other photos
okay it missed a couple of times but man like look this one obviously
riley's expression is kind of funny but like look at how shallow that depth of field is
looking at these filters i actually might use the natural one
again it's a great flat starting point the vibrant one is nice they feel
similar say you love the black and white like these black and white photos are actually pretty good wow this one of you
andrew's not bad it feels very cool and then here's our
black and white portrait mode shot of riley looking pretentious pretty
aggressive cut out but did a decent job
and then it does feel like a little bit
too shallow for the depth of him in the frame not bad and then let's see the
swirly bokeh effect this is a really cool effect the fact that they are able
to make this computationally is interesting i mean obviously riley's not super sharp
in this photo so it's you'll lose out on that but the effect is there not quite
as good as the real thing obviously but convincing enough and then let's see the
oh yeah i'm not a fan of this uh the dreamy one it really looks like you got
vaseline on the lens and if you like that look well this is for you
this is 4k 30fps
not like game changing not like best video i've ever seen out of a phone ever
but very solid sharp noise is good like not obviously it was
a bright scene but i would review this when i'm 20 years
old from now and be very happy that i have this so that's cool here's the 8k
it's very sharp but it looks over processed and you can
see in a shirt there's like
um moire and like it looks too punchy
like it's trying so hard to keep detail in the shadows and yeah the focus
doesn't hit every single time but there's a moment where it does a pretty good job so i would say that's very
solid here's the 4k let's see if it looks much different honestly i think it
looks a little bit less over sharpened the stabilization is really good
like it does not feel like i'm just like walking handheld with this phone last
thing i wanna look at is the slow motion that we did oh my god it's super super slow but
super artifact-y it looks like a potato
shot this i mean what are you gonna use this for probably nothing probably to
show your friends here's this like
on a phone screen this clip would be awesome and it looked good when we were
outside but on a computer it does not hold up also here's the selfie camera
performance i took a selfie of myself when i first opened the phone up and it
actually is pretty good at the end of the day though what do i
think of this i really like this phone it is the one of the best feeling phones
i think i felt in a long time the camera when it hits focus is amazing a couple
of weird quirks in terms of the settings easily fixable i guess overall the
future of smartphone cameras is bright guys i think this goes up to about 1100
usd that's a very good value to the
point where i'd almost consider importing this phone i think that this
is a strong case for phones like this to have a wider release because if every
phone's camera becomes this good we will be in a new world and i want to see that
world thank you for watching if you want to watch another video about a phone
with a 1 sensor check out my xperia pro i video which unfortunately that camera
didn't use the entire 1 sensor that it had in the phone that's why i feel like
this is kind of that perfect blend of performance and sensor size in a
smartphone thanks for watching