Galaxy Note 9 Camera Review - Worth $1,300? | A Photographer's Perspective By Moment

All right, let's hit it Cheers, what's up guys today we have the Galaxy Note 9 in hand in person. This phone is awesome. We saw in New York, but today we're really going to dive into the camera. Specifically, the camera is one of those important features that people are looking at when they decide to upgrade their phone. So you want to see. Is this phone worth that thousand dollar or even $1300 prices, let's dive into specs on this $1300 cell phone camera, and we're excited to actually see what it looks like, but specs are important, so it has two lenses which a lot of phones do now both are optically stabilized.

So that means it has stabilization in the tell and in the normal lens they have a dual aperture on the main lens which was introduced on the s9 and s 9 plus phones. They brought that onto the note 9. The camera itself is 12 megapixels on the rear and on the front for those selfies, you have 8 megapixels. The note 9 also shoots 4k 60 frames per second, so for video, that's great, it did not. In the previous version.

The no 9 still features super slow motion which is fairly unusable in my opinion, but based on the quality, but it is a cool feature if you really want to get something that slow, I think it's 960 frames per second, but you have like 0.2 seconds to capture it cool. The note 9 also has a four thousand William hour battery. What that means for a photographer or from a filmmakers' perspective is that you have all-day battery life, so shooting a lot on your phone does take a lot out of the camera so having that is actually, in my opinion of photography, feature inadvertently. Samsung also introduced Auto enhanced into the software which detects you basically hold your phone up to take a photo, and it can detect landscape portrait people, food kind of those gimmicky things that will most likely turn off anyway, but it's kind of cool that they have them, there's always more to talk about than those specs. We really do like to just get in and see how the image actually looks in a practical sense.

So that's why we kind of hit the streets in Seattle, and we're going to shoot here today we are going to be testing sharpness, dynamic range, we're looking for some good colors that are super important. A fun thing about this video is we're actually going to give you guys access to the photos that we're taking, so we're you're going to drop them in a folder, and let you guys download them kind of see for yourself like how good that image actually is. Sometimes it's hard to tell in a UTI just because of like compression and stuff, so yeah that'll be yeah. Normally we take the photo. We just put it on a timeline for you to see if you actually want to download that photo and see it in its full glory.

Now you can't be awesome check out the momentous article, that's linked in this video. If you want to go, go do that alright, alright, let's go shoot. We have a little ways away, there are some wildfires, so we do have a nice like warm tone to this whole. This whole shoot Daisy and looks like me yeah, but it for photos. It kind of looks nice and soft so that photo it's not like the sickest photo in the world, but it just kind of goes to show like that.

Rock goes right in from the lens super sharp and look at that such like for a phone. That's that's pretty legit yeah you'll get a lot of likes on Facebook with that on Facebook, no I went to a live critique of my photo. Oh, that looks cool, actually, no joke right. So I think people have always given Samsung a little of grief because of like super poppy colors and right now, I'm not seeing that I. Don't know if they've like actively change that, but I do seem they have.

They do a good job of just a quick double tap to zoom into nothing. That's a big deal, but okay good photo Nile's. Your exposure was great dynamic range. Honestly, it's a little tricky to tell because, like you was saying today, is pretty muted, and we have such a good cloud cover with this wildfires going on, but dynamic range looks insane. Yeah, I think we're getting hyped on.

This I think we're getting hyped on one thing: I do really like about their live focus or portrait mode, as some might say is that when you do take a shot and live focus, and you get the blurry background, it gives you the option right away to have the wide-angle normal photo of that too. So you have the option that you're, like oh shoot, I, really wanted that as a regular photo without the depth effect. It gives you that immediately, which is a great feature that Apple doesn't do actually cool, recording in 4k 30 right now on the native wide lens in the native tell lens I. Think the only thing I'm seeing is just a little too much sharpness. It looks like someone went in Lightroom or in Premiere and just kind of cranked, the clarity up a little much, but that's looking good again.

You can go ahead and download the footage for yourself we'll leave the 4k 30 or any clips we get from this vlog today, we'll put them in the folder which you can link from the momentous article. Alright, we're venturing a little farther than we ever have on the one wheel, so we hope the battery is good now towards West Seattle area, all right. So right behind me. There's like this light. So right behind me.

There's this light right. There coming through heads up Nile's, there's a great opportunity for dynamic range and basically, what that's doing is because it's really bright, and it's really shadowy all in the same scene. It's going to see how it handles the shadows and the highlights I'm saying on a heron fill the water all the way. It's been such a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful 2x. So we're gonna quickly test the super slow motion.

I know he said it's gimmicky, and we probably won't every actually use it, but why not? Let's actually test it in the super slo-mo option. There's a point to second in a point for second- and it says in the menu point to gives you a little higher quality. So we'll see that's Kenny nice. Whatever funny thing is that we just had fun with Slave, but we'll probably never use it again, yeah no joke! That is fun. Give it to your kids give it to that's actually kind of fun.

Okay, I would like to post that on my answer. Story. I wouldn't have fun with that five or six times and then never use it again. Yeah alright, so we just got to a friend of ours named Sam. You can check him out, will link his Instagram below he's going to shoot with the note 9 we're going to shoot with a know.9 and we're going to go up on his roof, and he's got a great view of the sound of downtown. It's going to be awesome, and he's just a nice guy.

I would like to have our friends. This is honestly the coolest rooftop I've ever been on in Seattle. I haven't been on too many, but thanks again, Sam and Alex for letting us come up here with you guys, hey guys, welcome my view and yours. Thank you again very appreciative. This is a good like detailed test, there's so much in the image, and it's a good landscape, so it'd be good to kind of punch in.

So if you download the photos, punch in you know tell the note.9 stacking up again, it's really smoky. Okay, you see those. So if it's looking a little washed out, it's because there's a lot of fires. Okay! So since this is the note series phone note 9 the notes all come with the stylus, this is called the s-pen. What's different about this.

One is that it has Bluetooth connectivity so basically, with the camera and photography stuff, you can actually use this to your advantage. It has a small button on the side of the pen right here. If you single click it is takes the photo. If you double-click it is switches to selfie mode. So we're going to show you an example of how you might actually use this in a practical setting.

If you want a group shot, you set the camera up on a tripod, and then you just hold this using the S Pen. So a practical example of how you would use this camera on the tripod or whatever 1 2, 3, 1, 2 3. Look at this! That's a great shot of us, and you can, you know she's a stylist Doubleday, make sure no one's a love. This thing, alright, so we're shooting in 4k 60 frames per second, you get this nice big, open scene and usually in 1080p, shooting 6 feet gets kind of mushy, so we're going to see if 4k really holds up with all the detail, looks like you have a 5-minute record limit too. Typically, when shooting 60 frames per second we're going to use that and actually slow it down to 24 or to 30.

So it's going to be like it's a slow motion format all right and put it in an for awesome mode. Details are spotless. Good highlights now that man alright guys so that about wraps up our photographers review of the note 9 overall, pretty impressed with this phone great battery life takes good images. I enjoyed the colors I thought, there's some good dynamic range, but we would love to hear what you guys think. So, let us know in the comments download those images put them to the test in the next video I think we're going to have to do a shootout.

I think we think we need to compare it yeah. Let us know if you're planning to get the note 9. Are you interested in this phone? Are you a note user or are you going to switch? It definitely has piqued. My interest I think both are interest more than any other than any other of the Galaxy phones. So thanks for watching see you in the next one.

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