I think Samsung is going in the right direction with it's video. They have really improved their sky noise control in night video. To now run the IPhone closer than ever in video overall is a big thing. Especially on pre production software. Congratulations to Apple though. They have set the standard bar that all we android users are still benefiting from.
Love this comment. Give respect to where it’s due no matter the company. We all need benchmarks and the better a certain company is we all benefit from the competition. Cheers 🍻
I don't get why no one mentions the pro capabilities in samsung (and android in general) video camera. It completely changes the conversation. In auto iphone may win but if you know how to use the pro settings you can get results that are impossible on an iPhone without a 3rd party solution.
Bro! these phone companies need to make you a camera consultant when they are tuning their software. I hope they are watching! Fantastic as always. Samsung really stepped up this year though,
the lighting was a bit harsh in china town. But I do think that Samsung has gotten better with video this year. It just doesn't look good on the phone's screen.
No matter how much you defend Apple, Samsung has been crushing it for years and even more so this year, so fanaticism never works. The reality is that Samsung is better in everything.
My two cents, if you're going to speak about colour accuracy then it shouldn't be situational, it should be throughout the entire comparison. In fact, maybe have a 3rd frame where you compare phones to an actual camera so that we can see how close phones are. Great video as usual.
Thanks for the suggestion but that is tough to introduce. Sometimes even mirror less cameras don’t get things right in auto so you have to manually adjust them. I can only explain what I am seeing in real life. Plus some don’t even care if it’s accurate. They only care about what looks best when they look in their gallery. No right or wrong.
I think the iPhone 16 pro max is way superior in terms of video. I was expecting the s25 ultra to at least be on par with the iPhone, but hell what disappointment.
Please, stop saying you're hoping software updates will help Samsung, because you say it literally every year, and literally every next year, the new Samsung isn't better even than the old iPhone, and it's a whole new phone, including hardware updates.
Last few years, Samsung is overall better phone. When it comes to cameras, for the photography we have better phones then Samsung or iPhone, but for video iPhone is still the best. If you buy phone that costs 1200-1500€ for camera, then better get some dslr.
It's same old "I hope they will fix it with updates" story every year and nothing really happens. New phone is presented with same issues previous one had. You're totally right !
It's no contest in video. The iPhone is streets ahead. It has better dynamic range, more colour volume, better detail, better stabilisation, and is way better at night.
I do not understand why we do not get a 24 Mpx large sensors? Why go for 200 mpx? makes no sense. There is no way the image will look better on pixels so small? there would be no reason to oversharpen the image and there would be no reason to use pixel binning. All you'd have to do is develop a good codex for files and you shoot 24 mpx pics by default instead of 12 mpx... Imagine 17 Pro max or 26 Ultra giving us three 1/1.1" - 1.2" sensors all 24 or 32 mp. The night mode photos and video would skyrocket in quality...
@@Randomdude21-eexactly, and even satellites only have 100mp, they just think “200 beats 48, so ima buy that one” when the sensor and processor can’t even handle that much
What makes you think that Samsung will fix this? The S24 ultra camera still has so many issues (even after a full year) and Samsung hasn't been able to fix them.
@@levipb1403Blurred pictures of moving subjects (especially in low light), higher MP modes completely blowing out colours or being slow as hell.. These are just the Major ones
After the S24 Ultra, there was a one-year gap without significant updates for the S25 Ultra. It seems they aren't able to launch it properly. I currently have an iPhone 13 and I'm planning to switch to Android. No phone is perfect, and I waited for the S25 Ultra, but it turns out it’s very similar to the S24 Ultra. I’ve decided to keep my current phone for another year.
@@sanjayl198 Same situation here. After watching the S23 Ultra - S24 Ultra, I noticed that the camera module and hardware are the same. Even after two years, nothing has been updated through software for the S23 Ultra, nor for the S24 Ultra in an entire year. This issue could easily be solved with a simple update. So, my ans for myself is to wait for either the iPhone 17 Pro or 18 Pro.
@@shabbarbukhari7200 first of all it's a hardware limitation Samsung prefers slower shutter speed because they want more light to come in due to a small sensor that still hasn't changed up to this day, secondly the higher mp photos that you say are blown out lol thats because it doesn't use binning so in result you won't get better hdr do you know how smartphones or camera work?
did Apple make so much progress in the last few years or is Samsung not really improving? It feels like Samsung was closer to Apple a few years ago. But maybe i am also remembering this wrong, because i see many people praise Samsung.
I kinda remember the same when it comes to reviews, they were so similar side to side it would be hard to tell difference. What happened and who improved, I'm not sure.
@ Apple somehow perfected video recording long time ago. I found some great videos from my prehistoric Iphone 6 (daytime though). Could not tell it was such an old device just looking at them. Samsung can't seem to perfect basics (colors, exposure, moving subjects, indoor performance, video stabilisation...) and then make small improvements. I appreciate 100x zoom, but as long as 1x of my kid doesn't end up blurry and unusable because of movement.
The videos taken by samsung though looks good but it has a feel that it was taken by a phone while iphone looks and feel like it was taken by a professional camera. I don't, its just the vibes im getting.
Samsung video still lags behind apple, at 1:48 you can clealry see the difference, the window above is crisp and clear on iphone, but on s 25 ultra, its muddy with no detalis, also samsung is still jerkier while panning around. But overall samsung is a better phone because of software, except in videos
@dratul15 I don' t think so bro and from what I saw Samsung is going head to head with the iPhone in video this time. So don't let that old mith bout iPhone being the king in video blind you bro
I don't get Samsung they have had these same cameras as they have had the same cameras for a few generations now. So why haven't they tuned them properly out the box?? Come on Samsung
If the iPhone is 9.5, Samsung may be 9 .It's very close. I don't know why Samsung fans can't accept the truth that Apple is still better, and why the Apple fans can't accept that Samsung is really closed. 🤔
Whole year I was hoping Samsung will fix a camera of s24 Ultra, and until now no major changes which I could notice. So I think in case of s25 Ultra it will be same, we should not count that Samsung will fix something....
Thanks for the Log video test. The iPhone is clearly better here. Way less sharpening and especially noise reduction in low light. Sharpening and noise reduction in a perfect world would be entirely disabled in any kind of Log video recording.
I was really looking forward to the S25 Ultra having skipped S24 but this is below par. They must focus on upgrading the hardware rather than just giving us AI gimmicks to cover the laziness. The S25 Ultra needs a sensor upgrade to its main camera and its front-facing camera. Those macro / ultra-wide cameras can stay as they are for cost-saving if required, but they definitely need a better main camera (sensor). What's the point of a 200MP camera when a 50MP from an iPhone is doing a better job? The S25 is a major disappointment from Samsung!
Samsung has considerably improved their video game which is majorly on par with iphone, even i liked some videos on the ultra better as opposed to iPhone, kudos to Samsung👍👍
and I liked hella lot of pictures on the iPhone 16 pro max over the s25, and plus iPhone beat the s25 ultra in the camera comparison of mrwhosetheboss too
Pease keep talking about color accuracy, and accuracy in general. Accuracy makes a camera predictable AND reliable. I want my photos to turn out the way I saw the actual scene with my eyes, unless I opt to use stylistic filters or night mode.
Samsung is getting closer and better year after year and sometimes surpasses it.. but the iPhone is generally better when it comes to video. But the gap between them has become very small.
@@Topo-t7p Finally someone with sense. Every year they talk about how the Galaaxy has never been closer to the iPhone in terms of video and shutter speeds and it still falls short.
Great improvement by Samsung, but iPhone still looks better to me. The gap is definitely closing which is great for the customer. But based on video alone, iPhone still appears better
Great review as always... Thanks for that... But Samsung needs to improve slightly more.....samsung and iPhone going almost head to head on this one. But iphone got the edge.
I really like Samsung. I own a s24U but damn Iphone video just kicked samsungs video. I thought they were seriously were going to improve the video but it looks too similar to the s24U video tbh.
i can trust iphone’s camera consistency as long as the phone runs …. but samsung just ruins things up updates after updates and i personally don’t like too much post processing… doesn’t look natural
I’ve been waiting for your video, you’re the only one I trust. I’m glad I jumped ship to the iPhone 16 pro max. I couldn’t be bothered buying another Samsung at launch and having to wait 6 months for the camera to become consistent.
Finally... the one I've been waiting for. Great review as always. I feel Samsung has optimised a lot with less hardware which is good and gained a lot of ground on the iphone in video department. The two reason I'm upgrading from my s24U is the log video (other camera improvements) and trade in offer 😅
In 8K the log video seems to look way less processed. That would be the way to go. But honestly, you can also keep the S24U and get MotionCam Pro, which records 10 bit Log (ACEScct, V-Log, S-Log 3 etc.) from the 12 bit RAW stream directly resulting in better quality than both the S25U and iPhone 16 Pro can offer.
@@justphones3801 Quite expensive considering that besides the ultra wideangle lens everything is the same and the new ISP is bypassed by motioncam anyway.
Samsung is so bad on night video, it's 2 generations behind the iphone, the biggest diffrence samsung improved for night and low light video was from the s22 ultra to the s23 ultra, they were respectable close to the iphone, then once again iphone destroyed it easily with the s24 ultra and now again with the s25 ultra. Samsung can't compare with iphone on video.
I don’t watch other TH-camrs while I am doing my testing. This is 100% S25 Ultra. I went to Samsung Unpacked with Samsung and got my device directly through them.
@@dannywinget In other reviews, the low-light video quality and noise were significantly improved, making it even better than the iPhone 16 Pro. But I’m not sure what happened in your review
amazing ultra detailed video with amazing analysis / voice over and of course amazing shots, thank you as always top of the top quality to be honest i really love the contrasty aspect that samsung is giving, i hope they'll keep it as is, but it's true that it should be tweaked for low light situations for example as you very clearly showed (ps : in some other videos it seems like the 3x telephoto really has some big color shift related to the contrast overall, i hope they'll fix this, looks like their is a white veil above the taken video, but i didn't see it in this review) waiting for the photo comparison now :D
I am sooo disappointed about the S25 cameras... Only daytime 20x zoom and sometimes 8K look better than 16 Pro. Dynamic range is some kind of nightmare! Fu*king AI...
I wonder if you may have gotten a faulty unit or one with a software bug. I've watched 10+ reviews at this point, and this is the first time I've noticed such a drastic difference between Samsung's and iPhone's processing. Almost every video you showed that was shot on galaxy in bright lighting is extremely blown out & soft
I guess it comes down to reviewes, will they choose scenarios in which both phones will be similar (if not the same) or go honest route and point out the flaws.
Samsung is on the right direction but the steps are too slow. There is a lot job for samsung to do to surpass the competition. I was expecting much better results, but they become stingy especially on hardware. So I'm not buying it
dissapointed of course, they will never fix their cameras, im samsung user for years, even now i have S24U, but my next phone could be iphone, i love their cameras.
Hi Danny Winget, first of all I wanna say I love your videos especially the camera comparisons. I have a quick question though, do you have HDR turned on the iPhone when doing video recording? The reason I ask is because I know Samsung has HDR 10 + so I’m not sure if there would be a difference there. Thank you and blessings to you and your beautiful family.
Good review. I find that Provideo mode on a Samsung phone is always better than regular video mode. With Provideo I'll bet the Ultra is better than the iPhone.
Danny thank you for this review your camera views are the best please always always talk about the color accuracy nobody does because you're there in real life so it's not an opinion it's the truth because if you seen it and how it looks to you that's super important that it's realistic I love Samsung but I was very interested on how close or how good it would be in video against the iPhone and I did like the iPhones videos and some instances but compared to what I have on S21 I'm very happy to see how much closer or what I have to deal with so this helped a lot I really appreciate your attention to detail and your description especially the color accuracy that you've added now
I don't know what to think. Is Samsung really bad or is the iPhone really good? I would like to see an identical comparison of the iPhone with the Vivo and Oppo cameras.
8:11 Samsung's low-light video has been 'improved', but it's still not as good as the iPhone. This time, details have been crushed for the sake of noise reduction or vibration. The best way to go is to keep details while reducing noise, but they ended up giving up one for noise reduction. I look forward to the next improvement.
"This wasn't the huge overhaul that I was expecting out of the box" Good thing the phone isn't even released yet, so it's not 'out of the bix' yet.. you're on pre release firmware until the 7th.. I've gotten an update on most of the samsung's I've gotten early so hopefully it'll improve lots. It took them way too long to improve the 24 Ultra zoom shots IMO..
That update won’t be anything drastic. We all know this. Most of those updates are carrier optimizations etc. Why would Samsung give us these phones to do this with? This is the camera it’s shipping with.
I used Samsung flagships for 7 years straight and NEVER did they fix anything major with those updates. It's more of a placebo effect. Even if they did, why should we pay for flagship and get half baked device, they didn't have enough time, user feedback, resources... to fix it ?
Iphone videos quality and details is just superb Plus better HDR DV videos Better log videos with better details And the night time video quality diff huge iphone brighter video without any noise
The thing I am the most dissapointed in regarding the 25U is that photos of kids that move are still blurry. My 3 year old phone makes crisp beautiful photos of my daughter that plays, even on a swing mid air. If that was "fixed" i would take the lack of shadow details any time because i really like the chipset in the 25U but those blurry pics man. I now understand it can't be fixed because it is hardware limitation of the used sensor. To bad they did not upgrade the cameras.
I think they could fix that with software, if they wanted to. Competition solved it years ago, with prehistoric sensors. Still, on Samsung, one has to use Pro mode or mess with gcam to get decent picture of any moving subject. I know a lot of people (myself included), who gave up on Samsung mostly because of shutter lag / motion blur.
We are not actually waiting for camera what every body talks about ,, why you guys never talk about s25 speaker quality test and comparison ? This is very important,,
I really wanted so bad to switch from my iPhone Pro Max 14 to S25 Ultra but after watching 10-15 of these kind of videos I just can't ... Rather switch to iPhone Pro Max 16 or wait for 17 ...
Dude, wait to the 18 or 19, you don’t need to switch every few years especially since you have the pro, id wait 4-5 years or even more with iPhone updates going for 7 years or more
More test videos I am watching a more confuse I am ... want to upgrade from my S22u Exynos to S25u but won't be disappointed ... will Samsung work on bad things with an update?
I've been a samsung fan ever since but iPhone really does have the best optimization for their video despite not having the best camera hardware. And with the social media trend nowadays that people prefer watching short clips rather than images, i think the iP16PM is the best bet as a content creator in 2025
All the work Samsung has to do will be done on next year's model because what you get from these phones out of the box is what you are left with. Come back and disprove me after some updates. Imagine Samsung has a special chip added for night photos and videos and it's still not able to compete 😅😅
You say color don’t change on the iPhone but on the zoom at the basketball game it did. Coming from iPhone 14 Pro. Using it for. Photography raw. I thought it was going to be the best. Till I was able to go back to my old raw photos of Samsung S21 ultra and it blew me away. 3x in Samsung it’s true. iPhone 14 Pro you have to use what the software thinks it’s best. It is super hard to hack it and use the true 3x all the time. Just my experiences since TH-camrs have an agenda. Real used day to day people non tech heads wouldn’t notice the difference.
Team Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max or Team Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra?
S 25 ultra
Team Samsung
Team Vivo
Samsung knight ⚔️
I was always an iphone owner know I change to Samsung Galaxy S25 Titanium Jadegreen. Unboxing I will post soon.
I think Samsung is going in the right direction with it's video. They have really improved their sky noise control in night video. To now run the IPhone closer than ever in video overall is a big thing. Especially on pre production software. Congratulations to Apple though. They have set the standard bar that all we android users are still benefiting from.
Love this comment. Give respect to where it’s due no matter the company. We all need benchmarks and the better a certain company is we all benefit from the competition. Cheers 🍻
For the video Iphone is better but photos from the samsung are more sharper and more details
time to switched to Apple, I hate android video quality🤡
Well said 👏
I don't get why no one mentions the pro capabilities in samsung (and android in general) video camera. It completely changes the conversation. In auto iphone may win but if you know how to use the pro settings you can get results that are impossible on an iPhone without a 3rd party solution.
Bro! these phone companies need to make you a camera consultant when they are tuning their software. I hope they are watching! Fantastic as always. Samsung really stepped up this year though,
Thanks! I appreciate it. Samsung listen to this man! 🤣🤣🤣
100% agree
the lighting was a bit harsh in china town. But I do think that Samsung has gotten better with video this year. It just doesn't look good on the phone's screen.
Very true. It looks so different on the phone compared to the computer. I hope they fix that
No matter how much you defend Apple, Samsung has been crushing it for years and even more so this year, so fanaticism never works. The reality is that Samsung is better in everything.
Finally it's here. where have you been?😅😂
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Vote for X200pro vs S25ultra vs 16pro max
china phone=back door phone
My two cents, if you're going to speak about colour accuracy then it shouldn't be situational, it should be throughout the entire comparison. In fact, maybe have a 3rd frame where you compare phones to an actual camera so that we can see how close phones are. Great video as usual.
Thanks for the suggestion but that is tough to introduce. Sometimes even mirror less cameras don’t get things right in auto so you have to manually adjust them. I can only explain what I am seeing in real life. Plus some don’t even care if it’s accurate. They only care about what looks best when they look in their gallery. No right or wrong.
@@dannywingetsome don't care but many do.
I think the iPhone 16 pro max is way superior in terms of video. I was expecting the s25 ultra to at least be on par with the iPhone, but hell what disappointment.
Apple is two years ahead of Samsung in video
Been waiting on this! Can’t wait to see the one for photos next.
Please, stop saying you're hoping software updates will help Samsung, because you say it literally every year, and literally every next year, the new Samsung isn't better even than the old iPhone, and it's a whole new phone, including hardware updates.
Last few years, Samsung is overall better phone. When it comes to cameras, for the photography we have better phones then Samsung or iPhone, but for video iPhone is still the best. If you buy phone that costs 1200-1500€ for camera, then better get some dslr.
It's same old "I hope they will fix it with updates" story every year and nothing really happens. New phone is presented with same issues previous one had. You're totally right !
It's no contest in video. The iPhone is streets ahead.
It has better dynamic range, more colour volume, better detail, better stabilisation, and is way better at night.
LoL 😂
What happen with your eyes 😂?
@@carlosdavidcapellan216he is right btw you can really tell
@@ajmeirkhan7549 I don't think so
Let them be happy with their 10000x camera zoom😅
I do not understand why we do not get a 24 Mpx large sensors? Why go for 200 mpx? makes no sense. There is no way the image will look better on pixels so small? there would be no reason to oversharpen the image and there would be no reason to use pixel binning. All you'd have to do is develop a good codex for files and you shoot 24 mpx pics by default instead of 12 mpx...
Imagine 17 Pro max or 26 Ultra giving us three 1/1.1" - 1.2" sensors all 24 or 32 mp. The night mode photos and video would skyrocket in quality...
that truie small pixels , too small and pixel binning - that real problem on no detail and bad video in night in samsung
Marketing
Samsung users look at megapixels and say its the best since the number is higher, many buy it bacuse of it
@@Randomdude21-eexactly, and even satellites only have 100mp, they just think “200 beats 48, so ima buy that one” when the sensor and processor can’t even handle that much
Finally someone spoke up.
What makes you think that Samsung will fix this? The S24 ultra camera still has so many issues (even after a full year) and Samsung hasn't been able to fix them.
Name them
@@levipb1403Blurred pictures of moving subjects (especially in low light), higher MP modes completely blowing out colours or being slow as hell..
These are just the Major ones
After the S24 Ultra, there was a one-year gap without significant updates for the S25 Ultra. It seems they aren't able to launch it properly. I currently have an iPhone 13 and I'm planning to switch to Android. No phone is perfect, and I waited for the S25 Ultra, but it turns out it’s very similar to the S24 Ultra. I’ve decided to keep my current phone for another year.
@@sanjayl198 Same situation here. After watching the S23 Ultra - S24 Ultra, I noticed that the camera module and hardware are the same. Even after two years, nothing has been updated through software for the S23 Ultra, nor for the S24 Ultra in an entire year. This issue could easily be solved with a simple update. So, my ans for myself is to wait for either the iPhone 17 Pro or 18 Pro.
@@shabbarbukhari7200 first of all it's a hardware limitation Samsung prefers slower shutter speed because they want more light to come in due to a small sensor that still hasn't changed up to this day, secondly the higher mp photos that you say are blown out lol thats because it doesn't use binning so in result you won't get better hdr do you know how smartphones or camera work?
did Apple make so much progress in the last few years or is Samsung not really improving? It feels like Samsung was closer to Apple a few years ago. But maybe i am also remembering this wrong, because i see many people praise Samsung.
it happened the same to me, a few years ago I thought samsung was getting closer, but now I see it's still far away from iphone
I kinda remember the same when it comes to reviews, they were so similar side to side it would be hard to tell difference. What happened and who improved, I'm not sure.
Samsung is not improving. Apple hasn’t made much progress.
@ Apple somehow perfected video recording long time ago. I found some great videos from my prehistoric Iphone 6 (daytime though). Could not tell it was such an old device just looking at them. Samsung can't seem to perfect basics (colors, exposure, moving subjects, indoor performance, video stabilisation...) and then make small improvements. I appreciate 100x zoom, but as long as 1x of my kid doesn't end up blurry and unusable because of movement.
Can't wait for the photo comparison video. The Cocoa cola sign shots haha. That's always been Samsung's weakness, magenta
iPhone 16 pro max wins 🎉
The videos taken by samsung though looks good but it has a feel that it was taken by a phone while iphone looks and feel like it was taken by a professional camera. I don't, its just the vibes im getting.
Wait for s25 ultra they say 😂
True 😂😂
Yeaaaa hahahahah 😂
Yeah I heard that comment a lot
I guess now the torch falls on the Pixel 10 Pro to beat iphone 16 pro in low-light 4K videos on the main camera.
@@SaintxReborn waited and pre ordered. Why ? Whats wrong about it? On the OVERALL the Samsung 25 Ultra is better.
I've been using Samsung phones for many years and I will say the iPhone always has better cameras. Bigger imaging sensors makes a huge difference.
I think Samsung didn't improve the night light video recording at all, I think still just like the s24ultra...
they didn't, all they did was apply a smart blur to reduce the noise which is why it's less sharp in a lot of shots
9:44 iphone looks better
Samsung video still lags behind apple, at 1:48 you can clealry see the difference, the window above is crisp and clear on iphone, but on s 25 ultra, its muddy with no detalis, also samsung is still jerkier while panning around. But overall samsung is a better phone because of software, except in videos
Bro Did you see the whole video?
@carlosdavidcapellan216 yes i did, samsung fan here, but sammy need to up their video detailing
@dratul15 I don' t think so bro and from what I saw Samsung is going head to head with the iPhone in video this time. So don't let that old mith bout iPhone being the king in video blind you bro
@@carlosdavidcapellan216 ok lets see, my s 25 is arriving in few days, will do camera comparison
@@carlosdavidcapellan216 He even gave me the timestamp, so if you dismiss it as superstition, aren't you only seeing what you want to see?
I don't get Samsung they have had these same cameras as they have had the same cameras for a few generations now. So why haven't they tuned them properly out the box?? Come on Samsung
If the iPhone is 9.5, Samsung may be 9 .It's very close. I don't know why Samsung fans can't accept the truth that Apple is still better, and why the Apple fans can't accept that Samsung is really closed. 🤔
Whole year I was hoping Samsung will fix a camera of s24 Ultra, and until now no major changes which I could notice. So I think in case of s25 Ultra it will be same, we should not count that Samsung will fix something....
Thanks for the Log video test.
The iPhone is clearly better here. Way less sharpening and especially noise reduction in low light.
Sharpening and noise reduction in a perfect world would be entirely disabled in any kind of Log video recording.
I was really looking forward to the S25 Ultra having skipped S24 but this is below par. They must focus on upgrading the hardware rather than just giving us AI gimmicks to cover the laziness. The S25 Ultra needs a sensor upgrade to its main camera and its front-facing camera. Those macro / ultra-wide cameras can stay as they are for cost-saving if required, but they definitely need a better main camera (sensor). What's the point of a 200MP camera when a 50MP from an iPhone is doing a better job?
The S25 is a major disappointment from Samsung!
Samsung needs a new sensor...
I am gonna have to hold onto my old school flip phone for now. I'll wait until the iGalaxy S35 Max Pro Ultra comes out.
Samsung has considerably improved their video game which is majorly on par with iphone, even i liked some videos on the ultra better as opposed to iPhone, kudos to Samsung👍👍
and I liked hella lot of pictures on the iPhone 16 pro max over the s25, and plus iPhone beat the s25 ultra in the camera comparison of mrwhosetheboss too
4:33 lens transition is observable on the Samsung. its like “teleported” on the left
Pease keep talking about color accuracy, and accuracy in general. Accuracy makes a camera predictable AND reliable. I want my photos to turn out the way I saw the actual scene with my eyes, unless I opt to use stylistic filters or night mode.
Samsung is getting closer and better year after year and sometimes surpasses it.. but the iPhone is generally better when it comes to video. But the gap between them has become very small.
The same thing has been said since 2019 and Samsung never manages to match iPhone
😂
@@Topo-t7p Finally someone with sense. Every year they talk about how the Galaaxy has never been closer to the iPhone in terms of video and shutter speeds and it still falls short.
Great improvement by Samsung, but iPhone still looks better to me. The gap is definitely closing which is great for the customer. But based on video alone, iPhone still appears better
Great review as always... Thanks for that... But Samsung needs to improve slightly more.....samsung and iPhone going almost head to head on this one. But iphone got the edge.
In video?
Yes on video iphone still better in day and night videos @@dannywinget
not head to head, iPhones are clearly better, Samsung have just become better what they were they have to improve more before they can equalise
Honestly idk who to believe, every video i see every video looks completely different,
I really like Samsung. I own a s24U but damn Iphone video just kicked samsungs video. I thought they were seriously were going to improve the video but it looks too similar to the s24U video tbh.
i can trust iphone’s camera consistency as long as the phone runs …. but samsung just ruins things up updates after updates and i personally don’t like too much post processing… doesn’t look natural
I’ve been waiting for your video, you’re the only one I trust. I’m glad I jumped ship to the iPhone 16 pro max. I couldn’t be bothered buying another Samsung at launch and having to wait 6 months for the camera to become consistent.
Finally... the one I've been waiting for. Great review as always. I feel Samsung has optimised a lot with less hardware which is good and gained a lot of ground on the iphone in video department. The two reason I'm upgrading from my s24U is the log video (other camera improvements) and trade in offer 😅
In 8K the log video seems to look way less processed. That would be the way to go.
But honestly, you can also keep the S24U and get MotionCam Pro, which records 10 bit Log (ACEScct, V-Log, S-Log 3 etc.) from the 12 bit RAW stream directly resulting in better quality than both the S25U and iPhone 16 Pro can offer.
@@DennisSchmitz Or I could just get MotionCam Pro on the s25U 😅
@@justphones3801 Quite expensive considering that besides the ultra wideangle lens everything is the same and the new ISP is bypassed by motioncam anyway.
Why did you change your title from "Not what I expected" to "What?"
Audio: Samsung!
Video:
Ultrawide: Apple
Main: Samsung
5x: Apple
10x to 20x: Samsung
Zoom transition: Samsung!
Indoor video: Apple!
Nighttime video: mostly Apple
Zoom transistion samsung😂 good one😂
@@Randomdude21-e😂😂😂😂
@@Randomdude21-efr😂
Main:- samsung ? 🙄
Zoom transition seriously?🤡😂
Finally, thanks danny❤
Samsung is so bad on night video, it's 2 generations behind the iphone, the biggest diffrence samsung improved for night and low light video was from the s22 ultra to the s23 ultra, they were respectable close to the iphone, then once again iphone destroyed it easily with the s24 ultra and now again with the s25 ultra. Samsung can't compare with iphone on video.
It’s Nice to have you point of view of the real scene to make it easier to understand which is doing a better work
Your low-light test is not the same as others. I don't think you actually tested it with the S25U.
I don’t watch other TH-camrs while I am doing my testing. This is 100% S25 Ultra. I went to Samsung Unpacked with Samsung and got my device directly through them.
@@dannywinget In other reviews, the low-light video quality and noise were significantly improved, making it even better than the iPhone 16 Pro. But I’m not sure what happened in your review
amazing ultra detailed video with amazing analysis / voice over and of course amazing shots, thank you as always top of the top quality
to be honest i really love the contrasty aspect that samsung is giving, i hope they'll keep it as is, but it's true that it should be tweaked for low light situations for example as you very clearly showed
(ps : in some other videos it seems like the 3x telephoto really has some big color shift related to the contrast overall, i hope they'll fix this, looks like their is a white veil above the taken video, but i didn't see it in this review)
waiting for the photo comparison now :D
Why does S25 Ultra photos and videos are so washed out and lack details/focus? This is very concerning.
it is even worse than S24 Ultra.
I am sooo disappointed about the S25 cameras... Only daytime 20x zoom and sometimes 8K look better than 16 Pro. Dynamic range is some kind of nightmare! Fu*king AI...
Love your videos. Thank you!
I wonder if you may have gotten a faulty unit or one with a software bug. I've watched 10+ reviews at this point, and this is the first time I've noticed such a drastic difference between Samsung's and iPhone's processing. Almost every video you showed that was shot on galaxy in bright lighting is extremely blown out & soft
I was testing with 2 others who have a S25 Ultra. Same results.
@dannywinget interesting, thanks for the reply. If that's the case, then I'm pretty disappointed in its HDR capabilities
@@dannywingetis it better after updating the software?
I guess it comes down to reviewes, will they choose scenarios in which both phones will be similar (if not the same) or go honest route and point out the flaws.
Samsung is on the right direction but the steps are too slow. There is a lot job for samsung to do to surpass the competition. I was expecting much better results, but they become stingy especially on hardware.
So I'm not buying it
iphone won easily
Iphone is better
dissapointed of course, they will never fix their cameras, im samsung user for years, even now i have S24U, but my next phone could be iphone, i love their cameras.
The noise on video on Samsung 🤮, still the worst camera on the market.
Samsang wins on daytime night time iphone wins but overall I prefer samsang
Watching yall argue in the comments is always funny lol
Samsung did nothing for the camera, the result is 2025 and it's a disgrace
This is the comparison I've been waiting for, because it's detailed.👌
Danny, do you think the S25 ultra could the lead on video after some updates, based on what you're seeing right now?
No, s24 ultra didn't magically solve its issues with software updates. S25 will be the same
@eduard6450 great answer Danny
@eduard6450 But the point is: s24 ultra wasnt this good when it was lauched, the s25 is pretth great, so i thought it could get better and better
@@thomasm2161 obrigado
@@isaquebertoldo9499 the s25 is the s24 after all the updates. There's only so much they can do with the same old hardware
Hi Danny Winget, first of all I wanna say I love your videos especially the camera comparisons. I have a quick question though, do you have HDR turned on the iPhone when doing video recording? The reason I ask is because I know Samsung has HDR 10 + so I’m not sure if there would be a difference there. Thank you and blessings to you and your beautiful family.
It's like comparing tiger against kitten Samsung is the king 😂
lmfao it lost throughout the video what u on about?
@@veleyaarvines277 I found out that iphone was better when it comes to depth under water 😂
This isn't the camera comparison I've been waiting for. Do the OnePlus 13
I am only one person 🤷🏻♂️
Good review. I find that Provideo mode on a Samsung phone is always better than regular video mode. With Provideo I'll bet the Ultra is better than the iPhone.
Amazing video, thank you!
i feel video recording smoothly Samnang
Danny thank you for this review your camera views are the best please always always talk about the color accuracy nobody does because you're there in real life so it's not an opinion it's the truth because if you seen it and how it looks to you that's super important that it's realistic I love Samsung but I was very interested on how close or how good it would be in video against the iPhone and I did like the iPhones videos and some instances but compared to what I have on S21 I'm very happy to see how much closer or what I have to deal with so this helped a lot I really appreciate your attention to detail and your description especially the color accuracy that you've added now
I don't know what to think. Is Samsung really bad or is the iPhone really good? I would like to see an identical comparison of the iPhone with the Vivo and Oppo cameras.
Samsung is very good
iPhone is very good
iPhone is just better in videos
8:11 Samsung's low-light video has been 'improved', but it's still not as good as the iPhone. This time, details have been crushed for the sake of noise reduction or vibration. The best way to go is to keep details while reducing noise, but they ended up giving up one for noise reduction. I look forward to the next improvement.
Galaxy for the picture and Apple for the video.
Thanks Danny. You're still the king of Camera Comparison to all smartphone since Nokia Lumia 1020 Launch - Present
"This wasn't the huge overhaul that I was expecting out of the box"
Good thing the phone isn't even released yet, so it's not 'out of the bix' yet.. you're on pre release firmware until the 7th.. I've gotten an update on most of the samsung's I've gotten early so hopefully it'll improve lots. It took them way too long to improve the 24 Ultra zoom shots IMO..
That update won’t be anything drastic. We all know this. Most of those updates are carrier optimizations etc. Why would Samsung give us these phones to do this with? This is the camera it’s shipping with.
Cope
I used Samsung flagships for 7 years straight and NEVER did they fix anything major with those updates. It's more of a placebo effect. Even if they did, why should we pay for flagship and get half baked device, they didn't have enough time, user feedback, resources... to fix it ?
Iphone videos quality and details is just superb
Plus better HDR DV videos
Better log videos with better details
And the night time video quality diff huge iphone brighter video without any noise
The Log video on the S25U looks awful in comparison with its heavy oversharpening and noise reduction. No idea what Samsung was thinking.
@ yah
@ also Samsung log is 4.2.0 in colour Samsung vs chroma 4.2.2 in iphone which is miles better
Really nice review Mister Winget both are nice but I think iPhone did better hopefully Samsung can improve a little more
Noticeable curvature for Samsung. You only need to increase the lighting in dark places at night with less noise
The thing I am the most dissapointed in regarding the 25U is that photos of kids that move are still blurry. My 3 year old phone makes crisp beautiful photos of my daughter that plays, even on a swing mid air.
If that was "fixed" i would take the lack of shadow details any time because i really like the chipset in the 25U but those blurry pics man. I now understand it can't be fixed because it is hardware limitation of the used sensor. To bad they did not upgrade the cameras.
I think they could fix that with software, if they wanted to. Competition solved it years ago, with prehistoric sensors. Still, on Samsung, one has to use Pro mode or mess with gcam to get decent picture of any moving subject. I know a lot of people (myself included), who gave up on Samsung mostly because of shutter lag / motion blur.
We are not actually waiting for camera what every body talks about ,,
why you guys never talk about s25 speaker quality test and comparison ? This is very important,,
Would love to see a similar S24 Ultra vs S25 Ultra video pleasee
9:03 ufos captured on the iPhone
Big Galaxy/Android fan here but... Iphone video camera specially at night looks better.
We all know that new samsung phones camera are not always better significantly,until about 2 to 3 software updates and camera patch
I really wanted so bad to switch from my iPhone Pro Max 14 to S25 Ultra but after watching 10-15 of these kind of videos I just can't ... Rather switch to iPhone Pro Max 16 or wait for 17 ...
Dude, wait to the 18 or 19, you don’t need to switch every few years especially since you have the pro, id wait 4-5 years or even more with iPhone updates going for 7 years or more
@@Michael-165tx Words of wisdom ☺
I seen the biggest problem Samsung have with video is the codec, Samsung they need to work for create a better codec with better quality
Been waiting, what about 5x night time video?
More test videos I am watching a more confuse I am ... want to upgrade from my S22u Exynos to S25u but won't be disappointed ... will Samsung work on bad things with an update?
S22 Exynos? Definitely upgrade
I've been a samsung fan ever since but iPhone really does have the best optimization for their video despite not having the best camera hardware. And with the social media trend nowadays that people prefer watching short clips rather than images, i think the iP16PM is the best bet as a content creator in 2025
After the s25 ultra is officially launched, will you wait for software updates before comparing it with the s24 ultra?
Lens flairing on iphone sucks
I think I can swear that my s23 ultra takes better videos then both of these. I don't know what's happening in tech and car industry
Never give up samsung 💪
The iPhone always king the video 👍💪
All the work Samsung has to do will be done on next year's model because what you get from these phones out of the box is what you are left with. Come back and disprove me after some updates. Imagine Samsung has a special chip added for night photos and videos and it's still not able to compete 😅😅
Excellent video Bro , I am with Samsung in video department also. Excellent 🎉🎉🎉Samsung
Hey Danny, what am patiently waiting for is S25 vs oneplus 13
You say color don’t change on the iPhone but on the zoom at the basketball game it did. Coming from iPhone 14 Pro. Using it for. Photography raw. I thought it was going to be the best. Till I was able to go back to my old raw photos of Samsung S21 ultra and it blew me away. 3x in Samsung it’s true. iPhone 14 Pro you have to use what the software thinks it’s best. It is super hard to hack it and use the true 3x all the time. Just my experiences since TH-camrs have an agenda. Real used day to day people non tech heads wouldn’t notice the difference.
This is so big improvement for Samsung. I'm so happy. Good job samsung 👏🏻😍
Yes, let's know how it looks naturally