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i am really excited today because we get to look at the xiaomi 12s ultra and

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answer the question is this chinese market phone worth importing because i'm

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personally looking for a new phone right now the cool thing about this phone is

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not just that it is like flagship specs like oh that's great

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and those are all things that you'd expect from a flagship here's the phone

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very cool look at this camera bump oh my god full disclosure i've actually been

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using this phone for about three days took it home over the weekend because i

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couldn't wait and i have a lot to say about it first one i appreciate this

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camera bump is gigantic even though they're not actually really comparable

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devices look at this camera bump i actually like i really like the design

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aesthetic you'll see that this phone is in the corner here branded leica and for

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those of you who've watched any other phone videos that i've done i'm a fan of

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leica we had their smartphone in a couple of

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months ago it that was a japanese exclusive it was basically a rebrand of

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the sharp i think aquios r6 and it also

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had a one-inch sensor like that phone on the top 51 sensors just to quickly get

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this out of the way yes i understand guys one inch sensor are not actually

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one inch in diameter if you want like a full detail explanation there are other

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people done videos marquez has a video on this but basically the short version

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is the naming comes from old video tubes

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that were actually about 1.5 times the size of the actual

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imaging sensor that they were projecting onto that doesn't matter guys because

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this sensor is still huge for a smartphone so i'm really hyped on the

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camera on this phone but it does have a lot of other really good redeeming

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qualities to it one of them being the harman kardon sound system there's also

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a good example of how good this display looks like that full brightness

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sounds pretty good there's so much to talk about this camera i don't actually

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have a lot of time to talk about the specs so if you want their pretty flagship

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specs snapdragon 8 plus gen 1. this uses

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xiaomi's miui 13 on Android 12. there's

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a lot of pre-installed chinese apps that you can get rid of so if you are importing this phone that's something to

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contend with one of the other weird things i found is in the camera app you

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go over to the settings motion tracking focus and motion capture two settings

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that supposedly help you with the autofocus are not on by default motion

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tracking for focus allows you to double tap the screen and then it'll lock on to

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your subject so we'll test that later but again i didn't have it on all

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weekend and then motion capture which tracks motion to minimize blur on the

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photos of children pets and other active

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subjects this was also off by default i

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didn't actually get a chance to try this with my son but with the magic of

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editing here are some of the photos i took this evening that have this feature

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on and you guys can judge them for yourself i unfortunately can't judge them in the moment right now but we will

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try some stuff later we've got a video mode portrait mode night all that stuff

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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

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motion there's a super moon mode and then there's that multi-camera mode that i actually tried in the last film video

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that i did where you have every camera on the smartphone going at

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once and i think okay it looks like you can choose two here we go and then i can

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record video on both the selfie camera

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and the external camera and if i do that there's andrew

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there's Colton and i'm also looking at myself which i

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don't know why you'd need this but it's cool that you can do it and it

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can be any camera so it doesn't matter so in the photo mode you have filters

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that you might actually use so there's leica vivid and then there's

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leica natural and there's like a black and white natural 50 millimeter swirly

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bokeh and you have 90 millimeters soft focus

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there's a macro mode tilt shift weird that's kind of gimmicky oh there's

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riley hey you ready am i ready for what we're gonna take

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photos of you no

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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

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do let's do a couple of photos just with

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the leica authentic mode and then i'm gonna do like a vibrant the mode chain's

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really easy especially when you have it in this grip motion tracking and track focus are on so now i'm gonna double tap

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riley's face okay now

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it should be fully tracking him

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what what okay that'll be an interesting test on if any

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of those or how many of them are in focus so just walk towards me pretty

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close yeah one two three four five yeah

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and then this is like a natural and then this is like a black and white natural

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you see that like it's got like a i don't know a film vibe maybe look look

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hipster and then let's try the 50 millimeter

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swirly bokeh oh that'll be interesting so yeah wow it's like

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really doing its best to map you it definitely likes it more when your

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face is in shot in 720p this camera can do up to

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3840 FPS what

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oh it's the fourth out holy

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i mean we're only looking at it on the phone but that's so slow that is so cool

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and go

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oh my god

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that's crazy look at your hair i'm gonna do a quick 8k video unfortunately it's

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at 24 FPS and this video you're watching is gonna be in 30 FPS

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whoa look at this amazing i love nature

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hey you're doing a great job

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the image stabilization is impressive that's for sure oh lost you there for a

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second don't lose me stay on there brandon i don't want to get lost

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in the upside down

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okay there we go we're tracking motion now oh tracking my hands tracking your

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face well it stays done i got something to say to you oh that was pretty good

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and then on the way out and then back in

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oh pretty good most of what i'm testing here is with the main shooter because

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that is the camera with the one-inch sensor we're transferring the photos in

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the video that we just did and from the weekend onto my laptop right now so we

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can take a look at everything but in the meantime i just want to talk about the actual like build of this phone because

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i i don't know i didn't mention it at all this phone might actually be the

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best feeling phone i've ever held in my life because it's got this awesome

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silicone leather apparently eco-friendly not that i don't think that matters to a

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lot of people out there but my m10 has a similar texture and softness to

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this phone and on top of that while looking amazing

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it doesn't pick up fingerprints at all so it's actually also practical i would

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be scared to run this phone case list but you could because it also has ip68

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waterproofness and man this feels good like i it feels like you're using an

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actual camera that is a good experience so this is the first time i'm looking at

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all these photos from the weekend and now so there are a bunch of bees flying

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around this bush that were just like pollinating it and i wanted to see how

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the phone would do in taking photos of the autofocus with the autofocus of

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these bees and i was constantly pressing at certain moments i wasn't using the

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tracking feature because i wasn't aware of the double tap at the time but the

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autofocus still seemed to be doing its job to a point so in this first photo that i

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attempted i'm not gonna actually just lower the exposure by like

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seventh of a stop that b is

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i don't think quite in focus but it's not bad it's close

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on the whole on the wide this photo actually feels very nice now we continue

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this one so i actually i lowered the exposure on this shot this shutter speed

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was one over 800 which is much faster than one over 180 which is some of the

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other shots and dang that b is pin sharp

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this photo looks awesome and this is a jpeg guys

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man i'm about to get into showing you some other photos that this camera did not

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necessarily impress me by but this shot it makes me feel things about the

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potential for smartphone photography the color is great the

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balance of exposure is awesome it's in focus on a very small moving subject and

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i feel like this didn't come from a smartphone it also missed a couple of

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times like here so yeah this b is out of focus but that might have been helped

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with the motion capture and the motion tracking focus features being on and

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they weren't on leica and xiaomi did a lot of work with this camera's lens to

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remove as much chromatic aberration as possible and when i actually look at the

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edges of the frame it's not really there now let's look at some photos that

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didn't impress me a whole lot here's a bunch of photos of my son he's just

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sitting on the couch i kept snapping hoping and thinking that all of these

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would be in focus because the box was on his eyes it looked like it was tracking

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properly and then i look at this photo and he's not invokes at all and sure i

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didn't have those motion tracking features on but in my opinion i don't

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think you would even need those if you visually can see in the camera app that

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the autofocus is supposedly doing its job it was tracking his eyes

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here's that photo i took in the mall this is the HDR just like one click

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didn't change exposure at all version and then here's the one where i actually

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like lowered the exposure to balance out the highlights and then you could

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obviously edit up the whole shot

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but yeah the the noise in this shot in the shot there it's

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basically non-existent again the shot has a depth to me that i really it

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reminds me of my m10 so this tree is directly backlight the sun is behind

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this tree i went just around the tree enough that it was covering it and

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impressively there's no fringing

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there's something to this lens design that leica and xiaomi have made because

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i really really like this now i will say that i do feel like this photo

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specifically the HDR effect is a little bit much but that being said it doesn't

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look horrible it doesn't look look too over sharpened though for my taste it's

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a little bit over processed that looks really good so when you look too closely

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at these photos they do start to like feel like a smartphone like this shot

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feels kind of like a smartphone because it's got that kind of HDR feeling to it

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that being said it still did a pretty decent job

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so here's like a vibrant more contrasty more saturated and then here's like a

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authentic vibrant makes it feel more like an

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edited image and then authentic gives you

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a flatter better starting point and then you can edit to be whatever you want that being

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said they both look good i think the color is exactly what i was

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seeing when i was outside so it's very true to life so whatever leica and

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xiaomi are doing with the color here top marks the motion capture and the motion

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tracking focus clearly helped because a lot of these photos of riley are in

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focus when i would have expected them not to be in some of the other photos

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okay it missed a couple of times but man like look this one obviously

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riley's expression is kind of funny but like look at how shallow that depth of field is

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looking at these filters i actually might use the natural one

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again it's a great flat starting point the vibrant one is nice they feel

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similar say you love the black and white like these black and white photos are actually pretty good wow this one of you

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andrew's not bad it feels very cool and then here's our

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black and white portrait mode shot of riley looking pretentious pretty

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aggressive cut out but did a decent job

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and then it does feel like a little bit

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too shallow for the depth of him in the frame not bad and then let's see the

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swirly bokeh effect this is a really cool effect the fact that they are able

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to make this computationally is interesting i mean obviously riley's not super sharp

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in this photo so it's you'll lose out on that but the effect is there not quite

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as good as the real thing obviously but convincing enough and then let's see the

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oh yeah i'm not a fan of this uh the dreamy one it really looks like you got

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vaseline on the lens and if you like that look well this is for you

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this is 4k 30fps

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not like game changing not like best video i've ever seen out of a phone ever

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but very solid sharp noise is good like not obviously it was

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a bright scene but i would review this when i'm 20 years

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old from now and be very happy that i have this so that's cool here's the 8k

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it's very sharp but it looks over processed and you can

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see in a shirt there's like

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um moire and like it looks too punchy

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like it's trying so hard to keep detail in the shadows and yeah the focus

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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

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solid here's the 4k let's see if it looks much different honestly i think it

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looks a little bit less over sharpened the stabilization is really good

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like it does not feel like i'm just like walking handheld with this phone last

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thing i wanna look at is the slow motion that we did oh my god it's super super slow but

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super artifact-y it looks like a potato

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shot this i mean what are you gonna use this for probably nothing probably to

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show your friends here's this like

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on a phone screen this clip would be awesome and it looked good when we were

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outside but on a computer it does not hold up also here's the selfie camera

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performance i took a selfie of myself when i first opened the phone up and it

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actually is pretty good at the end of the day though what do i

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think of this i really like this phone it is the one of the best feeling phones

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i think i felt in a long time the camera when it hits focus is amazing a couple

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of weird quirks in terms of the settings easily fixable i guess overall the

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future of smartphone cameras is bright guys i think this goes up to about 1100

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usd that's a very good value to the

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point where i'd almost consider importing this phone i think that this

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is a strong case for phones like this to have a wider release because if every

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phone's camera becomes this good we will be in a new world and i want to see that

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world thank you for watching if you want to watch another video about a phone

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with a 1 sensor check out my xperia pro i video which unfortunately that camera

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didn't use the entire 1 sensor that it had in the phone that's why i feel like

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this is kind of that perfect blend of performance and sensor size in a

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smartphone thanks for watching