Vivo X100 Ultra vs Xiaomi 14 Ultra vs iPhone 15 Pro Max: Ultimate Camera Showdown!

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That glare from the sun is actually the feature from Xiaomi called "starburst effect" due to its variable aperture. You can check it out on their product info/specs/feature/details on their website.

Xiaomi 14 ultra is best at audio quality this year

Watching on my Xiaomi 14 Ultra 1Tb 😊

Xiaomi mi 14 ultra is beast ❤❤❤ love it ❤

your mistaking the artificial sharpening over natural sharp,

That running kid is super cute. Thanks for the effort Sami. I was surprised to see how good fhe iphone15PM videos were at those zoom range in daylight. Night videos, I feel goes to the 14ultra. But Vivos night time photos were killer. Some suggestions for you. When comparing videos for the 3 phones, I think instead of going through all the different zoom ranges, individually one each phone first before moving on to the next phone, I think it's better if you go to a particular zoom range and do it for all 3 phones respectively, before changing to the next zoom range and doing the same. Example, wide for all 3 phones, then 1x for all 3 phones, then 2 times for all 3 phones and so on. That way it's easier to compare concurrently. Also, for zoom video. I think you should compare the video quality at 15x since that is the max the I15PM can go to. It's unfair to compare 15x on the Apple and 20x on the other 2 phone. You could do a separate category for the zoom video at 20x where only the xiaomi and vivo would be competing.

I think 14U was clearly the best here in majority of situations. Most natural looking photos and details. Vivo is really struggling hard with over-sharpening, tho a lot of people seem to think that over-sharpening is detail, it's not, the same way a darker photo doesn't mean lack of detail or exposure issues. Plus almost 2x slower shutter speed on average compared to Xiaomi, really impressive job Xiaomi.

Try x100 ultra vs x100 pro vs pura 70 ultra

It seems the Vivo X100 Ultra's numerous firmware updates over the past few weeks have improved it a lot and there's plenty more updates to look forward to. It's still not perfect and isn't much of an upgrade over the X100 Pro (which is perfectly well optimized by now and costs a lot less). The blurry long distance zoom photos is a real problem and it's not massively better even in low light against the competition, but it's still noticebly better overall compared to how it was during launch and the main lens and ultrawide still performs well.

Thanks Sam, great in depth video covering these top competing camera phones. Hard to make a choice at the moment but have a Vivo x100 Ultra coming in the mail soon! Can't wait for all the macro photography goodness 😁

I think you should clarify where your focus is beforehand. The fact is that all smartphones take good pictures. However, I see that VIVO uses its AI to blend the shadows and all looks to artificail sharp from front to back, and so they look like all the old smartphones from the last 5 years. I see that Xiaomi retains shadows, especially in faces, and to me it looks like a good DSLR camera. I won't go into everything here. You could perhaps take a SONY DSLR and do a proper comparison. ;) I would also compare automatic and manual. There is also an important point that you always leave out and that is that the automatic mode is supposed to take the user's thinking away and it is supposed to represent a theoretical preference of the manufacturer (company policy). So please, before you confuse people any further, please do a qualitative comparison. Thank you

I hope Xiaomi 15 Ultra has features like LivePhoto on iPhone, diverse Bokeh like Vivo, 2.8K up to 60fps UltraSteady mode on all rear cameras, 4K120fps on all rear cameras, 8K up to 60fps on all rear cameras, 10-bit LOG up to 4K120fps, can switch cameras while recording video at 4K60fps resolution (on all cameras including the front camera), 10-bit Dolby Vision up to 4K120fps on all rear cameras (up to 4K60fps in front facing camera) and comes with the following specs.... BODY Build Glass front (Dragon Crystal Glass), Glass back (Dragon Crystal Glass) or Eco Leather back, Titanium frame SIM Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) or Dual SIM (1x Nano-SIM and 1x eSIM, dual stand-by) IP69 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins) DISPLAY Type LTPO3 AMOLED, 68B colors, 120Hz, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, 6000 nits (peak) Size 6.8 inches, (~92.0% screen-to-body ratio) Resolution 1440 x 3200 pixels Protection Dragon Crystal Glass PLATFORM OS Android 15, HyperOS 2.0 Chipset Qualcomm SM8750 Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (3 nm) MEMORY Card slot No Internal 256GB 16GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, 1TB 16GB RAM UFS 4.1 MAIN CAMERA Triple 50 MP, f/1.6-4.0, 35mm (wide), 1.0"-type, 1.6µm, Dual Pixel PDAF, Laser AF, OIS 200 MP, f/1.8, 85mm (periscope telephoto), 1/1.4", Dual Pixel PDAF (5cm - ∞), OIS, 3.5x optical zoom 50 MP, f/1.8, 12mm (ultrawide), 1/1.55", Dual Pixel PDAF TOF 3D, (depth) Features Leica lenses, Dual-LED flash, UltraHDR, panorama, Eye AF Video 8K@24/30/60fps, 4K@24/30/60/120fps (HDR10+, 10-bit Dolby Vision HDR, 10-bit LOG), 1080p@30/60/120/240/480/960/1920fps, 720p@3840fps, 16-bit RAW video, gyro-EIS SELFIE CAMERA Single 32 MP, f/1.8, 18mm (ultrawide), Dual-Pixel PDAF, OIS Features UltraHDR, panorama, Eye AF Video 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, gyro-EIS SOUND Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers 3.5mm jack No 32-bit/384kHz audio COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e/7, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA Bluetooth 5.4, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, LHDC Positioning GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS (L1), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a), QZSS (L1+L5), NavIC (L5) NFC Yes Infrared port Yes Radio No USB USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2x2, DisplayPort 1.4, OTG FEATURES Sensors Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), accelerometer, gyro, compass, color spectrum, barometer Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM Browser HTML5 Virtual proximity sensing Ultra Wideband 2 (UWB) support Satellite Calling and Message BATTERY Type Si/C 5600 mAh, non-removable Charging 90W wired 80W wireless 10W reverse wireless

Vivo only has blurry images if you move the phone too fast before the photo has been taken away, it should be related to the focus and the exposure

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@SamiLuo at start thanks for great comparison. Anyone who owns Vivo X100U could confirm or decline this "blur" issues? Do you think it's just software and could be fixed or this might be something with hardware?

Hi Sami, please match zoom levels when doing zoom comparison part! 1x to 1x to 1x then 2x - 2x - 2x ON EACH PHONE and so on. Because all we can compare side-to-side is only 15x (60x, 100x) at the end, ignoring all of the major zoom levels...😭 Thank you so much for a comparison ❤️