iPhone 16 vs 16 Pro Camera Test - SHOCKING Differences!

My ULTIMATE Camera Comparison between the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro to see if the cameras are REALLY that much Better..!

Timestamps ⬇️
iPhone 16 vs 16 Pro Camera Comparison - 00:00
1x Camera Differences - 00:28
2x vs 5x Portrait Warping - 1:18
Full range of camera quality - 2:29
1080P vs 4K 120FPS Slow Motion - 3:10
2x vs 5x Zoom Quality - 03:36
Macro Mode 48MP - 5:29
New Ultra Wide - 05:54
Sunset Dim Lighting Shots - 6:47
Night Time Comparison Shots - 7:47
Night Mode Portraits - 09:19
Astronomy Mode for Stars - 10:19
Which Phone 16 should you buy? - 10:36

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[jamesstanley]

Great video, but how many clones can this channel find? 😂

[ryankov]

Bro spent half of the review zooming in… we get it, the 16 series don’t have a telephoto camera, ofc zooming will be better on the Pro🤦🏻‍♂️

[josephoduor]

Max looks so different in various videos that you'd think he's three different people.

[randyflies]

Not sure why you compared so much the 5x lens when you know the normal 16 does not have it.

[ViewpointsVortex]

Keep comparing 5x shoots on both phones is boring and the result is obvious since iPhone 16 doesn’t have 5x lens. I hope you could compare 2x or 3x photos between the two phones.

[MatthewVlossak]

Forget an iPhone comparison video, we need a sibling comparison video at this point! Dropping Ben into the video lineup without introducing him had to be a trick to see if we saw the differences 😂

[s.m.mediaproductions]

Wait...there's a THIRD brother?! I was shocked when I learned that the one guy was actually two guys! NOW THREE?!

[tronderikbrekke]

You can't test dynamic range on strait out of phone JPEGs. The phone will use computational photography, merging several frames, with different exposures, to make a final JPEG. That has nothing, diddley squat, zero to do with dynamic range. It's all processing, and just that. What you absolutely should include is RAW photos compared. Only then will you see which camera/lens has the best performance. You can test dynamic range by recovering highlights and shadow detail, and you can test for noise levels at different ISO settings on each camera/lens on each device. This should indicate which device has the best hardware. The RAW data hides nothing. And tells you the most. But the computational photography bits are equally important, since that is the one factor keeping the small sensors competing against bigger sensors. Without that it would be impossible to touch bigger sensor cameras. I'm not saying they come close even with computational photography either, but it's far closer than without. So please test both.

Also the Pro-devices has lidar, which is the main reason why the fake blurred out background/foregrounds are better on the Pro phones. On the standard phones they can only use parallax camera information to determine the distances. This works, but lidar is both faster and more precise.

[-chris-]

Every time Apple adds another buh-hon (button) to the iPhone, Max Tech adds another Max.

[ahmadhayat]

You're a welcome addition to the Max's channel 🙌🏻💯

[Alexpsy]

So the pro models actually have a telephoto lens? It's not just for looks? And it actually takes better zoom photos? Damn! Who would have thought...

[grouchyfluff]

5:42 its not really “super strange” that the 16Pro macro defaults to 12MP. on regular 16 and previous Pro models, the ultrawide sensor was 12MP, so unless you were shooting macro fully zoomed out at 0.5x, then macro at 1x was a crop and upscale to 12MP (still what the normal 16 is doing). Now, with 48MP ultrawide sensor, shooting macro at 1x is still a crop, but it is cropping into the center 12MP of a 48MP sensor, similar to how the main camera gives “optical quality 2x zoom” with the same center crop maneuver.

[grouchyfluff]

6:40 the steering wheel dynamic range difference is 100% related to SmartHDR doing something weird. In the left image, there’s no way that the blue sky has roughly the same brightness as the (black) interior of your vehicle, the normal 16 looks like a real estate photo where they double stack exposures to show the sky through the windows. I have no idea why the 16 Pro SmartHDR algorithm produced something so different, but I bet money that if you used a 3rd party camera app to take a Bayer RAW single exposure (Halide, ProShot, Camera M etc), for the same exposure settings, the pics would be much less different.

[Thelatebloomer]

7:32 … 16 n 16 pro don’t have the same primary lens. 16 pro has a much bigger sensor at 1/1.28 inches vs 1/1.56 inches on the non pro hence the difference in quality.

[MassimoTava]

The bike is a triumph rocket III, 2500cc. Largest engine on any production bike. 165hp 160lbs, around $24k new

[speedyg.]

maybe the reason why the Ultrawide was blown out on the steering wheel photo on the 16Pro was because you were shooting in either 48mp Heif Max or 48mp Proraw? switching it off should give back dynamic range

[michaelkraus]

The Illuminati is gonna have a hell of a time trying to pass this one off as a Mandela Effect.

[Cuhulin]

Max, something about this video is very different from your usual videos. The mic sounds very different, and not for the better. This also sounds much more like reading a script as well. Even your hair coloring is very different. What's up?

[Shan_Shah]

They could've made that camera capactive buttom as a digital capactive button that doubles as a finger print scanmer and programable which can also work for scrolling in browser.

[SounakMaisuri]

The best camera comparison video so far, so easy to understand. Thanks