Choose the right camera protector for Galaxy note20 Ultra 5G: EVG (glass) vs Suoman (metal) By That Works

Hey everyone welcome to my channel two weeks ago, I upgraded my cell phone. I've always been a Samsung phone user, and this time is no exception. The phone I purchased is the note 20 ultra the white color, which looks really awesome. I really love it um. I didn't go with the latest and greatest s21, because I want the SD card expansion function, and it looks like Samsung decided to abandon it in the s21. So that's why I decided to settle with the slightly older note.20 ultra plus the s pen will always be with me, which is a great addition. When I buy a new phone, I would always also purchase the protection accessories.

That means the phone case and the screen protector. But this time there's a new type of accessory comes into my site, which is the camera lens protector. As you might have noticed, the trend is that the most recent flagship phones all have this kind of huge camera module, and it's made of glass with multiple lenses on it, and it's also sticking out quite a bit from the back of your phone. This makes it much more liable to damage, so I decided to also get a camera protector for my phone after a bunch of search online. I found by far the most popular solution is this type of camera protector? It's basically a thin layer of glass with two cutouts one for the flash and the other for the autofocus sensor.

All your lenses, camera lenses are actually covered under this piece of glass. There are many brands of this kind of camera protector. I've read many reviews on Amazon and some brands have reviews stating that the protector will actually cause flashing problem. Basically, if you take a picture with flash on, you will see the floodlight in your picture, which is obviously not good, and some of some brands have reviews stating that these brands doesn't have the problem. So I selected a brand that the review says it doesn't have this problem and the one I bought is this one.

It actually comes with both the screen protector and the lens cover, which is great, just buy ones, and you get both of your glasses covered. I was super excited when I received it. I put them on the screen. Protector is, I would say, pretty good. It's on par with other polymer screen protectors, it's smooth, and it doesn't interfere with your fingerprint scan and for the camera protector.

I did a couple of tests with and without the lens protector, just to make sure that whether the protector will actually interfere with my photo taking it turns out without flash. There is pretty minimal degrade of photo quality. I pretty much cannot really tell the difference with and without the protector on. So this is great now, with the flash turned on. This is a result of me taking a picture of a close by item, and it looks like the result is pretty comparable within the without the protector.

But then, when I take a second picture with the item, that's a further away from my camera um, it looks like the flood problem actually showed up. It's pretty obvious and the color of the picture and the clarity of the picture is, is way off. So it turns out. The flash problem is still here. Although the review says it's not there, I don't know why one of them have showed this problem and the other picture of mine didn't show it.

My guess is that uh in the first picture, the item is close by to the flashlight and the flash is just trying not to burst too much light out, because of that, when we was taking the second picture, the distance between the flashlight and the item are much, much further and uh to compensate that distance. The flash actually bursts out much more light in the second case and that's why those light bounce in the glass protector and eventually cause the floodlight problem in the picture. Um again, that's just my guess. I don't know if it's true, but it sounds pretty logically correct anyway. The result is not good, and I was disappointed, so I went ahead to search for other solutions and the second one I find is this type of metal screen protector.

So this is basically a thin layer of metal with the cutouts for each of your lens and the sensor. Those are real cutouts. So there's nothing in it. There's no glass or whatever. That means your lenses are exposed, which means it has less protection, but on the other hand, it will provide the best optical quality because again there's nothing on the lenses, and I'm pretty sure this will also not cause any flash problem, as we have seen in the glass protector, let's check it out, yeah as we expected.

The result is as good as without the protector, even with the camera flash on. So that's it. I think I'm settled with this metal one. Yes, it doesn't cover my lenses directly because of those cutouts, but those cutouts are pretty small. If I think about all the phones, I've used before many of them have this size of lenses too, and I've never damaged them before.

So I think such size of cutout is actually fine, and it doesn't really cause a big increase of the risk of damaging my lenses now which one you should choose. It's really up to the trade-off between having the flash problem and not having on-lens protection. If not having on-lens protection is a bigger problem than having the flash problem, then you should choose the last one and if having the flash problem is a big problem for you and not having the on lens protection is not a big deal, then you probably want to go with what I did the metal one. Is your choice all right? Thank you for watching, and I hope you find all the information useful here. If so, please don't forget to click that, like button, and I'll see you next time.

Source : That Works