There will be no clear winner
The iPhone 15 Pro Max camera has finally been compared to the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra camera. Considering that the new Apple product for the first time on the iPhone received a “telephoto” with a five-fold zoom, this comparison looks more interesting than usual.
Both flagships, of course, take photographs and shoot videos very well, and it is impossible to single out a clear leader.
If we talk about the same zoom, then with a three-fold zoom, the Samsung flagship takes pictures a little better, because it has a camera with exactly this zoom, whereas in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, it is a crop from the main sensor. At five times the situation is the opposite: the iPhone looks better since its telephoto lens provides five times zoom. At 10x zoom, the S23 Ultra looks a little better because it has a second telephoto lens, but the iPhone overall delivers a very similar level. But at 25 times the situation is more interesting. If in general the iPhone, surprisingly, lags behind its competitor far from catastrophically, although noticeably, then when it comes to working with text, the difference between smartphones is huge. At 25x zoom, the S23 Ultra has no problems displaying text, but the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s processing algorithms seem to eat up the text. and sometimes it becomes completely unreadable. Well, Apple’s flagship can’t zoom even closer at all, and the S23 Ultra, as you know, allows you to take pictures with a 100x zoom.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max couldn’t beat the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra in terms of zoom.
With photography in poor lighting, not everything is clear either. In some pictures, the iPhone confidently pulls ahead, while in others it performs very poorly compared to its competitor. At the same time, the iPhone takes night shots noticeably faster. The iPhone also performs better when shooting at night with zoom-in, and significantly so. Probably due to the larger aperture.
Everything is simpler with video: here Apple’s brainchild, as usual, is better, both during the day and at night. True, the iPhone cannot shoot video in 8K and, again, loses when zoomed in significantly.
