Vivo X200 Ultra: Official camera sample pits camera flagship against DSLR and iPhone 16 Pro Max

[Redaktion]

Vivo is leaning heavily on the camera capabilities of the X200 Ultra in another round of teasers. This time, the company has compared its new 35 mm camera flagship against not just the iPhone 16 Pro Max but also Canon's Eos 5 Mark 4 DSLR camera.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vivo-X200-Ultra-Official-camera-sample-pits-camera-flagship-against-DSLR-and-iPhone-16-Pro-Max.988029.0.html

[Johnathan-Wick]

A DSLR or A Mirrorless camera is not simply a camera. It's a two part system which has a sensor and a lens. They used a very cheap lens for this comparison.

Try comparing with a f/1.2 aperture lens or even a f/2.8 lens would be sufficient for these smartphones.

But no, they will always compare with a bad lens or with a good lens with very small aperture.

[Vrvly]

A lot for the best performance with fullframe cameras depends on what camera, what lens, what postprocessing is used and how capable is cameraman of handling manual settings and shooting with it.
Basically, if you want it to be bad, it will be, but if you want to compare with point-and-shoot photographer, you should provide him with at least average hardware.
Actually the biggest advantage of fullframe in bad light compared to phone is colors, retaining more details and better natural bokeh.

On other side, there are some advantages to phones, like getting good results if you don't know how to handle real camera.
There are also some features not available on full size cameras, like electronic auto ND (not on this phone), bug screen, IR mode(not on this phone), resolution mode, auto hdr, in hand tripod,...

[Ganzo]

Instead of comparing it with a full frame DSLR like the canon 5d4, comparing the x200 ultra with a high-end point and shoot camera like the canon g7x or sony rx100 would be more interesting and relevant. That said, the image taken with the phone is really amazing. The "external flash" simulation thing looks very promising.

[Xiaowei]

What makes the x200 sample more appealing is the good looking of the wheel is the background while still maintain a perfect exposure and color tone model's face.(Dslr's sample the background wheel is apparently too dark) However, the wheel's lighting is dynamically changed in terms of color and brightness, so we don't know if vivo deliberately select the right timing for vivo's shoot over another 2 samples, or it is purely due to the auto dynamic from vivo.

Another point is vivo try to show the dynamic range, which a traditional DSLR can only do the post prosessing manually after shooting, but vivo can help you to do it first time right. This is great advantage of modern camera smartphone. Actually most of the flagship smart phone has already been delivering a very useful night mode which DSLR need very skillful shooting and pp.