Another camera demonstration, this time uploaded to YouTube by Alpha Tech, shows off the Xiaomi 14 Ultra’s zoom capabilities. Again, here the camera’s strong stabilisation performance stands out, with even a maximum zoom in video mode provoking very little jitter. Photos taken at 30× zoom are impressively sharp, while 50× starts to reveal some very mild artefacts around dark shapes on bright backgrounds.
Alpha Tech also uploaded a more comprehensive comparison between the Xiaomi 14 Ultra and the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max, confirming the findings of the aforementioned similar comparison. The video stabilisation on the main lens again easily smoothly stabilises walking, panning, and even running just as easily as the iPhone, if not better.
The ultra-wide sensor is also put on display in this test, with results here being less cut and dry. While the wide-angle lens captures sharp, smooth video, there are some slight hitches in the late-afternoon scene, but overall image quality is impressive and colours appear consistent with the main lens, once again matching the iPhone in this regard.
One of the only other phones to offer iPhone-like video stabilisation is the Asus Zenfone 10 (curr. $599.99 on Amazon).
