O YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss recently put a iPhone 14 Pro Max to duel with the impressive (and expensive) Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept in a rather peculiar camera test.
The Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept, for those who don’t know, is a special version of the flagship launched in July and which was developed in partnership with Leica. As you can see, instead of a traditional camera game, it has an exposed one-inch sensor on the back of the device. If the user wants to take a picture, he necessarily needs to attach an external lens — just like a DSLR camera.
This model costs no less than US$43 mil (about R$223,000), with only three copies ever being manufactured by Xiaomi. The traditional 12S Ultra, for comparison purposes, can be found at retail for around R$3 thousand, while the iPhone 14 Pro Max is sold by Apple from R$10.5 thousand.
The YouTuber himself admits that this comparison is unfair, given the sensor caliber of the Chinese model. Its lens has an aperture of ƒ/1.4 that lets in a much larger amount of light than the standard model, with its ƒ/1.9.
Although, as expected, it lost in all respects, the iPhone 14 Pro Max did not do badly. Its best performance was in the focus test, in which it managed to deliver a result very close to the conceptual model. The difference between the two was much more elastic in the exposure check tests, for example.
As the Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept has a lens that rivals that of dedicated professional cameras, it managed to deliver much fuller and more natural photos than the Apple model. The 14 Pro Max, despite having an undeniably very good camera, relies much more on computational photography capabilities than its rival.
An example of this is the famous background blur in photos taken with Portrait mode. While Xiaomi’s model manages to blur the background without any software help, the 14 Pro Max has to add the effect artificially, which isn’t always ideal.
iPhones 14 Pro e 14 Pro Max
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