 Hey guys, Thundie here and welcome to a camera comparison of the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the Galaxy S23 Ultra. And right here, we are checking out the front-facing camera recording at 4K 30, seeing how well it looks, looking at the sky, background, people behind me, and we'll go ahead and switch to 4K 60. Now it's 4K 60 with the sun behind me, and you get an idea of what it looks like. I'm just going to tilt to the cloud a little bit there, and just pan around, and we'll change locations again, and we'll just walk up a little bit. But you get the idea of how it looks, and how it compares, and also how it sounds. Now let's check out portrait video from the front-facing camera, or cinematic video as Apple will call it. Okay, so here's portrait video shot at 4K 30, and you get the idea of what it's like, how it actually looks, also what the stabilization is. I'm just walking here in the park, and also the colors. Looks pretty interesting, looks pretty good. I've got some families playing football behind me. Let's see if we can see them clearly, but you get the idea here, and let's kick off this video. Don't forget to smash that subscribe button and notification icon. Now I like a bunch of things with the videos here. Now the iPhone takes the cake when it comes to stabilization, especially in cinematic mode. It's quite clear. I also like the colors of the iPhone over the Galaxy, even though none of them are true to life. And in terms of the microphone, I think the Galaxy microphone is just better because of that isolation from all that background noise. But what about the rear cameras? Now here's one that's a little different. We're going to start with the ultra-wide cameras here, and we add 0.5X for the iPhone, 0.6 for the Galaxy. I'm going to pause right here and switch over to 1X for both. That's pretty good. And now the iPhone goes to 2X, while the Galaxy goes to 3. Now this digital zoom variance in between, of course we know that. And then moving over to 5X on the iPhone, and 10X on the Galaxy. Then we go to the furthest, which is 15X on the iPhone, and 20X on the Galaxy. If you're going to zoom out in a distance to record, I think the Galaxy is the best camera for that, especially from what we've seen. But here's a cinematic video, and you're watching me punching at 3X, and what I like here is just a soft bulk here, right? Even though there's nothing around, but you can see as I zoom out, it's a really smooth motion, and that's what Apple kind of talked about with that 1-3X zoom, very fluid altogether. Now the Galaxy is a bit different, it only has one focal point, and as we go into that video, you can see it's just at one position, and you can see the bulkheads a bit more digital than, of course, natural, just in its effect. But I do like the fact you have different bulkheads you can choose from, something like that digital, something like this black and white color pop, so you can pick different bokeh effects for whatever your needs are. But it's all about images, so how do the images fare? Starting with the selfie camera, and you can see the difference in just the color feel of the photo. The bokeh on the iPhone feels more natural, the Galaxy is more digital, and also you can adjust it in the background or later on in the photo. You can also see the skin color tone, I do like my color tone on the Galaxy here over the iPhone. The iPhone feels, while it looks really good, it feels like I have this one set color all around, while of course naturally you should have different levels of skin tone in terms of color. Now zooming into this image, you can see here, this is just a selfie camera, you can see how my hairs are not well defined as I go into a 300X here, but again, a nice image overall, but when we move over to the iPhone next, you're going to see more detail with my beard, the necklace again, and this is just a 300X chomping to the image, it should give you an idea of what is going on here with the selfie photos. Now as we look at the next set of photos, this of course from the rear camera, again you can see how the Galaxy tries to brighten up the situation here, while the iPhone is a little bit more muted, but also my skin tone is just two different skin tones, I'm neither one of the two, I'm a bit more in the middle, but I do like the fact that the Galaxy has different gradients of skin tone, while I just look like one chocolate brown overall on the iPhone. So it's a nice image on the iPhone, but I think the color representation is not true to life, while the Galaxy of course everything looks pretty blown out of the back. Now this is fun here, I kind of like the Galaxy image, but I like also the way I look in the iPhone image here, and this is looking at one X bokeh, and then we're going to go through a couple of them so you guys will see what the differences are here, but both images look really good, and of course not much bokeh effect here, and here we have two X here, and you can see how two X looks really nice, again my skin tone on the iPhone, again is one set color, there's a bit more gradient on the Galaxy, although you can see more of the textures on my shirt already here at two X. Now this is three X on the Galaxy, because the Galaxy doesn't have five X for portrait, really nice photo, naturally I would say yes this is an awesome photo, I definitely like it, and it looks really really good, bokeh effect is nice on the back, and you can see just zooming in here this is three hundred, you can see more detail on the shirt as well as also you know just the fabric design itself or the fabric stitching as well as also my you know my vest underneath, but when we go to five X on the iPhone, this photo just looks really good, again this is five X is equivalent to 120 millimeter, the bokeh is really nice, very deep bokeh at the back, and also just a nice blend, now see the color gradient here is different from what we saw with the other two images, so this is more true to life, and again zooming in you can see this three hundred X crop here, a lot of detail, so much more detail in the fabric here, and this is very possible because it's a 24 megapixel image as opposed to 12 which is what the Galaxy shirt is giving us representation, now this is something shooting in a backlit, this is a direct sunlight in front of us, and you can see how the Galaxy does brighten me up, so you can see more of me, while the iPhone is still kind of muted and dark, I like the Galaxy image here in the situation, and I think the colors are a bit balanced more, although the Galaxy is getting a better color representation of my pants in that last photo, and this is a three hundred five X separation, a lot of deep bokeh on that five X, I love that bokeh on the five X, really comes out well on the iPhone, and I think people like it, so I'll talk about different lenses 24 20 and 35 which is one 1.2 and 1.5, so this is one here, and you can again you can see just the color separation differences, now this is 28 or 1.2 for both devices, and this is 35 and 1.5, again you can see how the nice photos, but the color differences in terms of my skin tone is very different from both devices, but I do like the bokeh and the background colors on the iPhone better here with both images, and I think overall the nice images, but there's more detail with the iPhone. Switching gears a little bit, looking at this photo with Tom the tech chap at the back here, taken by Sherlyn from Engadget, now I love the fact that the bokeh is really nice and it's focused on me, and we went ahead and changed the focus on the photo. Now this is something you can do while you're taking the photo, and you also can do later on within the app, and something you can also do on the Galaxy, but here's just a quick reminder again of that uniform color tone that the iPhone is doing, this is at five X here, and you can see here for all of us, both Tom and Sherlyn have the same kind of uniform color tone as well as myself, so it's just something to take note with the iPhone, but as I mentioned you can go ahead and just change the focal point or the bokeh for both devices right in the photo gallery. Doing a daylight zoom test, this is basically with the sun on the side of the building, and you're going to see the transition of how both the Galaxy and the iPhone handle this, and I think the iPhone is done with a good job, especially when it comes to moving to the highest zoom lengths where the Galaxy gave me some blue tints, which I don't understand why, but it's still a sharper image, there's a very lot of noise on the iPhone there, and that's 25 X, this of course is 100. Now when we go to something that's proper backlit, you can see ultra wide, the bokeh look good, nothing wrong about that here, then we go into like a 2X, and then we punch in closer as well, we're still getting some really nice imagery here from both devices, and this here is a 5X, I think I really like the detail in the Galaxy, this goes into 10 more detail as well on the Galaxy, and then this is 25, and you can see gradiness on the iPhone, and this is 100, showing you just a window. 4K 30 front facing videos, low light, the Galaxy looks better, stabilization is better on the iPhone, but when you go to 4K 60, it looks brighter on the iPhone, while the Galaxy is darker, I don't know, what do you guys think? Now this is also just taking a photo with a flash, which I didn't plan, but I find the results leading more to the Galaxy. Now these are low light photos using the night mode camera, and the iPhone does a better job here. Okay, let's move to rear camera 4K 30, just walking around, and you can see the stabilization, that extra stabilization on the sensor on the iPhone really comes in clear, both images are pretty good, although there's that ghosting right there floating around on the iPhone screen that is quite interesting. As we move to low light photos, these are good, the Galaxy is very punchy with the flowers, while the iPhone is on the stated, again on the stated, but I like the way the Galaxy looks with that car, that car look lovely, both are pretty good, this is a 5x shot for both here. Now this year the iPhone picked the color of the sign, while the Galaxy just did not do that. Here there's less lens flare on the Galaxy than the iPhone, the drink actually looks sharper on the Galaxy here than on the iPhone. Oh, this dish was absolutely tasty and fantastic. Image wise, I'm giving it to the Galaxy when it comes to food, it's really making it punchy, but also just more appealing and still sharp at the same time. You can just look at this potato wedges, which one looks more appetizing. Now this one is interesting, looking at closer at just the door lock itself. You can already see the softness on the Galaxy, but when we go ahead and we punch in, we can see more detail on the iPhone, on the black surface itself and on the door knob or the lock itself. Now this shot internally, the Galaxy is definitely brighter, but you can see more detail on the iPhone on the top and just specific places around the image itself. And then when we go ahead and we punch in here into 2X, the Galaxy is brighter. It's just a brighter image and well focused. You can see more around than of course with the iPhone. And then we go into 5X, it's actually 5X digital for the Galaxy. It is still brighter than the standard 5X on the iPhone itself. So again, a quite interesting image. And this last one here is a 5X digital on the Galaxy, 5X of course on the iPhone. And the iPhone is a darker image and the representation of the painting is kind of more in between, closer to the Galaxy. The Galaxy is brighter, brightens up the scene more. We can see more around you. Now moving outside in here, looking at some outdoor shots of me outside, this is where we find some interesting dynamics here. These are low light selfies. Now this is 1X and the iPhone just looks better. Even though, yes, that uniform tone is still there, it's a bit darker on the top. The Galaxy tries to brighten as much as possible, but it's overdoing it. And then the image balance in the iPhone feels a bit cleaner. Here we have 2X. And you can see it's a much darker image with the Galaxy. The iPhone looks very usable and something you can actually send out. This is the 5X shot versus a 3X. And again, the Galaxy seems darker. It's a decent image, but the iPhone, again, it's more presentable. Also, a well-framed shot and the bokeh really stands out. That's something that 5X lens really does well. Here's another shot here, just 1X. Again, the Galaxy is trying to sharpen the sky. It's really soft. I like the way the iPhone does the balance of the sky. And the ground's also not soft on the iPhone, really sharp. Again, you can just look at the ground, sharper on the iPhone, softer on the Galaxy. Yes, the Galaxy brightens up the image, but again, 12 megapixels to 24 really stands out right here. You can see the difference. But this is a different one. This is a 5X zoom. And that 5X lens, this is a digital 5X on the Galaxy and the Galaxy sharper and brighter than the iPhone. Now, let's wrap this up with some nighttime, of course, zoom shots. This is 1X here, and we're going to be zooming into the store across the street. Both images look good, but when we go here to our 2X shot here, you can see it's more balanced on the Galaxy than the iPhone. Also, a much sharper image and less blooming from the lights here. This shot here, we're looking at something that is giving us a 5X, pretty much close to the same for both devices. And then here at 10X, you can see where the Galaxy just feels much sharper than the iPhone, but the iPhone still does a good job. And this is 25X with the Galaxy being sharper, which it doesn't have. It's all digital compared to the iPhone. And of course, here's 100X zoom just for you guys can actually see that. And we can actually read the image of it as 185. Some impressive imagery overall. And I think the iPhone has the lead here this time around. I think simply because we are working with a 24 megapixel image. And that goes a lot to sure, especially when you look at the low light photos, there's more detail. And even the daytime photos, it really, really stands out. Now that 5X lens for portrait is beautiful, does a really good job in just capturing very stoke moments. I like that. And I think that's a really good job from the iPhone. When it comes to the zoom, I still think Galaxy has that edge there. Now another thing to note is how you actually use these devices to take photos of yourself. The reason I say that is because we have the S-Men for the Galaxy, so it's easy for me to take a lot of the portrait photos that you saw. While on the iPhone, I do have to use a timer. But again, that is near the here or there. Most of the time, you're taking photos with friends, you're capturing moments with the people you know and love. And that's what's most important about using these cameras. There's a lot of cool features here. And I like what the iPhone 15 Pro Max is doing with the 5X lens, with the 24 megapixel image. I'm not a big fan of that, you know, one color tone, which can be easily fixed by just hitting auto in the photos app. Whatever photo you're looking at, it literally just balances it all out. So it's something that the processing can be fixed when it comes to that. And I think the Galaxy can catch up. I think that 200 megapixel needs to be bent down to 50 to give us something with more detail because we're lacking a lot of detail in certain places. You see that softness, but the zoom lenses really work well. And that 10x zoom really showcases what you can do. Honestly, this has been a fun battle vid, especially with the new improvements the iPhone 15 Pro Max has brought to the table. That 5K bokeh lens is pretty sweet. But what do you think? Who do you think has the best camera? Right now I'm leaving the edge to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. But leave your thoughts down below, guys. Let me know if I am wrong. This is Thundee saying thank you and always enjoy your entertainments.