The World's Largest Smartphone Camera! Xiaomi 12S Ultra

Xiaomi 12S Ultra has a truly incredible camera... sometimes

Phone provided by Xiaomi for review.

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[flibbittygibbitt]

That part about the center camera not being the main camera was quite a plot-twist.

[vidIQ]

Looking forward to this going out in the first round of the blind camera test comp!

[Smithson]

Now all Xiaomi needs to do is start pushing out consistent software and security updates. That's the only thing they are lacking right now. Killer phone regardless!

[thecodfather]

Nice to see this camera has a phone in it.

[cablekibble]

8:05 Watching a camera recording a camera recording a camera recording a cityscape truly gave me the MKBHD experience.

[TexRobNC]

Man, as a 44 year old dude who was basically always in tune with the tech world, but finds it hard at this point in my life compared to my 20s, I love your stuff Marques. You help keep me in the loop!

[chrisk]

Xiaomi is nailing it again. Been using it since 2016. Not switching it for any other brand so far. So good.

[AndrewHahaLee]

Haven't seen MKBHD this excited over a smartphone camera for some time now. Good job Xiaomi. There aren't many bad smartphone cameras these days, so having shutter confidence and noiseless low light shots, are top tier bonuses for me. One reason I swopped from a Samsung to a Pixel was because of how every Samsung phone I've used seems to be plagued by slow shutter - caused by the camera app itself, especially when lighting is causing the camera to constantly re-calibrate for whatever reason. (I know this because I used a third party camera app and that slowness wasn't there, so it's not the hardware).

[Koushikdbrp]

Unlike OnePlus with their Hasselblad venture, Xiaomi, with Leica actually made something worthy of praise.

[tayzonday]

They missed an opportunity to call this the “Cyclops” instead of the “12S Ultra” 👁

[abdultajj]

This guy's really the best. I have never seen anyone review a camera of a phone like that. Precise, concise with needed details. Keep it up MKBHD!

[scientia]

This "hit or miss" thing is typical in photography, I would say. Even with professional DSLRs, you still have to try a bit, know about the settings etc. to get "hits".

[Ashlord]

Love that you hit on the main focus of the phone, and then just listed all the specs at the end. Nice work as always!

[creativepicnl]

From a photographer perspective this phone is a beast! Ben from Ben’s review did a side by side compare and it’s capabilities are quite remarkable. Performance wise it feels like its up there with all of the other brands. I don’t really get why the color profiles change that much when switching cameras. Other than that: highly impressed. The bokeh with the sharpness is so nice! Nothing beats optical rollout!

[jonleexz]

I think Panasonic released a 1-inch sensor DMC-CM1 in 2014, which take amazing photos (and you can even use circular filter with an adapter).

[Hobbles_]

Thinking back to the Lumia with the huge camera! I remember when everyone was crazy talking about it

[perfugium_]

10:05 marques is just too good a reviewer that he's even reviewing the phone for the people who do "super weird creepy zoomed in videos"

[JBuhr]

I think this is the most excited I've ever seen Marques about a phone camera. Pretty cool to see things that can still wow the experts!

[ahlokecafe_articulate]

Wow the zoom-in flaw is like xiaomi engrs are sleepin on the job

[KizzysoKizzy]

I went from a Samsung Note 8 to a Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro. It was by far my favorite android phone I have had. I currently have a Google Pixel 6 Pro, and I still can say that Xiaomi was my favorite phone. So much for so less compared to price points of other phones. Many bells an whistles. I HATE that there is no real official US carrier (T- Mobile/AT&T) that will support 5G on the bands they have. I only retired my Xiaomi phone because it was only working at the time on a 4G/4G LTE band that the carrier was no longer supporting. I envy the international market. They make amazing phones!