This is where we talk tech. I've been a tech head since I was old enough to walk. No small feat as the first computer I ever used only ran DOS. Try explaining to kids today how to use something without a GUI. I've worked with DOE on mobile technology strategies, I've been a featured reviewer and columnist for several publications, and I've even played pundit on national and international news shows. I hope to share my experiences using consumer tech here on KZread with an audience just as passionate as I am.
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this or Galaxy Buds FE ?
S23 ultra dont have such a problem even at auto mode. Once you switch off auto macro, it will keep that. You can even turn off switch lens, depending on light situation, like zoom at night in auto mode will not switch lens. Manual mode is the same ofc.
This is very well done. Thank you. I have been recently looking at a smaller / lighter system (preferably a tablet or 2-in-1) to play lighter or more casual games on. And my search started with looking at the MS Surface. I found the same general "it's not for games" guidance. But, didn't have any idea what that looked like or where the limit was. This illustrated the point in a fantastic way. I could very likely play most of the games I wanted on a Surface after seeing this. However, there are one or two more demanding titles which will likely push me over to the Asus Flow line. Thank you for allowing a more informed decision. It's appreciated.
Hi, I have 1 question, can you wear these over your prescription glasses?
Your just poor you cant afford to upgrade😂
Huawei does such things, it knows when you are close it turns Macro mode on, when you are in a group it shift to Ultrawide and when human detects it shows Portraits mode
I have X100 Pro with the latest update on OriginOS and don't have that problem
In my experience the best Phone doesn't have have the best hardware but the most advanced software. In case of Vivo i think the S-Line is the Sweet spot
Vivo, oppo, OnePlus, realme is the same company.
I've been using my phone to shoot my b-roll as well. It's just as good and more convient.
It isn't even a battle. Just the spec sheet alone makes the 12R the winner.
Anyone else watching these old videos and reminiscing about how great Windows Phone was?
This is indeed a big software problem, just let us choose the sensor in pro mode or at least make a switch to disable it
Abandon iPhone, buy Pixel, install GrapheneOS.
“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
how do u feel about curved vs flat screen
I greatly prefer flat screens, but if the cameras are better, I can suffer through curved sides.
@@SomeGadgetGuy i wonder if x100s has good cams,it also has flat screen
The cameras are solid. In terms of hardware, it's much closer to the sensor level performance of something like the OnePlus 12. Should make for a very good all-rounder point and shoot camera.
Man, imagine having your mirrorless or DSLR's mode dial on M, and the camera going like "nah, I don't quite like that shutter speed you chose, man".
"Lemme just swap your lenses for you just before you take that photo..."
I have problem with my my huawei p40 with activating macro mode. When i am 20cm away from subject it always switches to ultrawide wide even though main camera can still focus.
That. That bugs me so bad.
So my iPhone buddy covers up the lens he doesn't want to use. I always thought that was weird, but I see now that he was talking about. Looks like they are taking a page from apple on this. Ps. I have been getting into more videography. I might be interested in an upgrade from my Nikon 5200.
Makes sense. I hate smudging my lenses, but we gotta do what we gotta do.
On OnePlus 12, in video, pressing 3x should switch to the telephoto lens, but in low light it keeps using the normal lens all the way up to 10x. where it then switches to the tele lens. So in lowish light you can get some really digital zoomed ugliness from 3x all the way to 10x. Knowing that, I stopped using the phone in that range and try to just accept maxing out at 2x or getting closer. But in the case of a person being in a spotlight, the lenses act as advertised. So I need to be careful about panning around with stages with uneven lighting.
I wonder would adding more RAM to my Intel 2019 iMac help. It just has the basic 8 GB at the moment..
If you're doing a bit of multitasking, and/or using a lot of browser tabs, more RAM would help a little
Please do some testing trying to track items in the city or neighborhoods.
Low light is probably the main reason I go back to my fuji x-e3 in theatre settings. Another fail to the phone is that it can’t cope with adaption to vintage lenses. Someone tried creating an attachment, but the quality of the photo was abysmal! I love my fuji more and more these days, but phone is good for some sharp product photography.
Also, variable aperture is still not a thing on smartphone cameras. To this point, only Sony, Xiaomi, and Huawei did it.
I really don't understand the thought process of these engineers and how they thought auto switching is logical. I believe even in the auto mode the person behind the phone makes the choice for himself
I'd prefer that too, but I also know folks in my circles who get mad at photo quality but won't even tap on the screen to focus. "It just doesn't work..." 🙄
@@SomeGadgetGuy I guess they got used to the phone doing everything for them which it's the fault of the engineers behind everything honestly. If you're gonna take a picture the least you can do is to check your focus, or at least give us an option in settings to deactivate it as we wish that would make more sense. and lastly I'm still on my V60 because the current market sucks.
Looking for a new phone and was considering the X100. This video has helped me make up my mind, this would drive me absolutely crazy! The fact it does it in pro mode is ridiculous... Thanks Juan, you saved me a lot of hassle and made my decision-making process easier!
I had the Vivo X100 Pro until the last month (now I have the X100 Ultra) and I can confirm that the auto-switching in Pro Mode didn't use to happen. Maybe it was changed with the last update.
And I can also confirm that the Ultra behaves as it should, always switching to the optical sensor even in pitch black.
No such problems on my Global Version Xiaomi 14 Ultra. I have been shooting DNG RAW video with Motioncam, and the video quality is amazing. Just as good as Blackmagic Pocket 6K DNG RAW in terms of dynamic range, low light, and overall image quality.
There must be an option to turn off automatic lens switching
Oh. I've looked.
Hi, will you be getting the 1 VI?
it's not sold in US
@@SatongiFilms it is on Amazon (US) already.
I'd love to know whether the iPhone, S24 Ultra and Sony Xperia 1 hehe this issue too?
Samsung and Iphone definitely. Xperia i dont know, my Xperia 1 did that but it didnt have Photo Pro support, idk about the new ones
Great video as always. Manufacturers are so focused on improving the cameras that I think smartphone innovation has hit a wall. There are no new exciting features.
That's just it. The exciting stuff here is that you get massive sensors and fantastic IQ, at a price that often goes toe to toe with an S24+. We actually have been getting some incredible camera upgrades IF you care about USING those sensors beyond lazy point and shoot.
The thing that absolutely KILLS Vivo phones for me is that the always on display can only show notifications from like four system apps and that's it. WTF Vivo? Why can't your $1,000 phones do things that literally any other Android phone made since AODs became a thing can do? Do I have any new Discord messages? Literally all other brand phones will show me on their AODs. On a Vivo, don't know! It can't show Discord notifications on the AOD, for reasons! Guess I'm supposed to unlock the phone and then check every time I want to see if any app has sent notifications other than GMail and Google Messages. Hard pass Vivo, fix this crap. I don't care how good the cameras are if the phone can't do basic every day functions.
That's the Chinese version. The global version functions like any other android device
I'm thankful that the Pixel 8 Pro's "pro" mode let's us change lenses manually, I can basically force the 5x telephoto always I hope they don't break it! Apparently, the manual lens switching rolled out to the Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 6 Pro, too!
It's the right way to do it!
You should definitely get the Xperia 1 VI which is basically the only phone that does macro manually. Even in auto mode. But I don't think it has automatic switching unless I'm wrong somewhere. Have you considered the DJI Pocket 3 too?
he is in US I think. Xperia 1 VI is not sold in US.
@@SatongiFilms true. But he'll probably have one hopefully.
I absolutely hate the skin smoothing effect that my OnePlus 11 has on the self camera. Even when you set sliders to the minimum, it still does it. I'm happy to hear you talk about your dissatisfaction with OnePlus macro mode. And I hope after your complaints, OnePlus takes the community complaints more seriously. You often talk about how OnePlus is releasing really good phones here in North America, and that they should be more popular. But as a OnePlus 11 user, I would not be getting another OnePlus device. Great value phones, but they don't listen to the community and just mess up a bunch of little things. Things you may not care about, you're a camera and compute performance per dollar type of guy (and I come to listen to your insights on those), but lots of other things that are easy to fix but they don't fix it. One example is the janky animations when using third party launchers. Chines OEM seems to not care about having third party launchers work properly with gesture navigations. Or the fact that App Info is not available when you hold down a notification on OnePlus. And notification history is not available in the notification tray. The music widget in the quick panel sucks. Or the new IOS style quick panel with a vertical brightness slider all the way at the top 🤮. The community asks for these things to change over and over again, but OnePlus doesn't care or is too arrogant to change it. Oneplus needs to listen to their community and just fix the little things. Like the macro mode you have an issue with. Edit: I appreciate all the little things OnePlus does add to their phones to make it great. And I love the fast charging. But they are shooting themselves in the foot by not ironing out all the wrinkles. The notification and quick settings panel complaints can easily be resolved. Motorola new HelloUI allows users to have Motorolas new layout or the stock android version. Oneplus can easily do the same.
on my honor magic 5 pro, the auto camera switching from main to uw-macro drives me insane in the regular mode. you can deactivate it but you need to do it every single time again, absolutely can't stand and never use uw cameras on phones since they all flat out suck in my opinion (there are some exceptions with decent uw-sensors on certain oneplus phones, but that's it). if i go to pro mode it won't switch but it also won't do the nice hdr from the manual mode. the worst thing is that the camera switches happen way too early (at least on my phone), so for example i could easily go 5 inches closer with the main and still have a perfect focus on the object. meanwhile i've completely abandoned the stock camera app and am now using bigkaka's gcam 9.1 not only are the results much better, it also doesn't switch. having auto-switch in pro mode would drive me insane, honestly a very stupid move of vivo!🤦🏻♂️
I think you would really like the Vivo X100 Ultra's telephoto camera for shooting B-rolls, especially because it has a GOOD sensor. In addition to that, because it can also be used for macros means that you can get some very close macro B-roll of techies.
It looks real good. I just can't keep collecting expensive Chinese phones that don't get proper international releases.
@@SomeGadgetGuy Time to talk to the Vivo PR team about it? And then, based on which you like more, you can retire the X100 Pro or forward it for some other specific use xD
Chinese smartphone producers don't focus on the US-owned west. The World is bigger than the corrupt West. The main focus of Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi and Huawei is the Chinese market, and after that the Global South. Stop thinking you are the center of the world, you are not. Keep using boring overpriced mediocre Samsung and Apple smartphones with shitty plastic lenses and small sensors.@@SomeGadgetGuy
@dannyg8032 You really talked to the wrong guy. Juan is not a SamApple fan.
Danny seems lost...
Just got my Xiaomi 14 Ultra and noticed that switch to macro using the wide lens as well. Thought it was cool at first but then I noticed 3rd party apps are also affected. My bank app could not scan a QR code on a phone screen due to the wide lens dynamic range being weaker
Argh! So frustrating!
You can disable "auto-adjust lens" in the camera settings of the 14U. Idk if it'll prevent it from happening in weird-acting 3rd party apps though.
Using the Xiaomi 14 Ultra for the past month and I can say that the phone behaves well in both Auto and Pro modes. In Pro mode, the phone does NOT hold your hand in the slightest if you set everything in manual, and even with everything left in Auto, the phone does not kick out of the sensor that you are using regardless of the distance of the subject or zoom. Each sensor will have a minimum and a maximum focal range and the phone will not switch the sensor if you try to go past each limit. It'll still keep you in that sensor until you change it.
Looks like an awesome 📱 phone. 🫵🏾 🙂👍🏾
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Guess what? Sony is also doing this on auto mode for close-up shots. Sony used to stick to lens where you switch into, say main lens, and does not switch automatically to ultrawide. I've seen this with iPhones and LGs. I guess, camera phones is not intelligent on that regard. It should know the user's intent before switching to whatever lens.
That would be really annoying on a Sony for sure. It's like the whole point of getting a Sony.
@@SomeGadgetGuy I actually want to hear what you have to say about the integrated camera app. But, Sony said they have yet to include some video features present on either Cinema Pro or Video pro app, so it is incomplete to be criticized, just yet.
Great video. I hate when this happens in auto mode, even if it makes sense like you explained. I would like to learn more about how to take good smartphone photos, but I have zero knowledge about photography in general. Apertures, focal lengths, ISO, auto/manual focus, I'm basically in the dark about all this. What's a good resource I can use to get started with mobile photography? I would like to get to a point where I can take my expensive OnePlus 12 with its enormous camera housing and take a good shot on the pro mode. Something to call my own rather than trusting the auto mode to do it for me.
Hi Juan, almost buy the vivo x100 ultra, but after thinkin a lot, i went for the x100s pro for 700$, 300$ less than the ultra and little better than the x100 pro.
I hope you get to try the Ultra also
Like always like button smashed 👊
I want to try pixel again but the 4a I had would just get so warm. I have only tried one OnePlus phone and that was n20 5g
Happy Friday Juan! Keep up the Amazing Content! 😊
I wholeheartedly agree with the aggressive macro mode switch on OnePlus. There have been numerous times that I've been taking pictures and was just about there to snap a great shot and BAM! Macro mode comes in and ruins it all.
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Thanks Jimmy!
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Perfect looks like I’ll be getting the iPhone 15 instead of the 16. I honestly don’t NEED AI things
It might be worth waiting for the iPhone 16 launch then. It's the crazy thing happening with windows laptops right now. The CURRENT generation of Intel and AMD chips are being price cut dramatically because they won't be Copilot+ compatible. But if you didn't WANT copilot+, the savings are AWESOME.