Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G camera review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM marina, the Galaxy S 20 ultra brings the most advanced camera setup, we've seen from Samsung, and we felt like the best way to do it. Justice would be to make a separate camera review that will provide a link to the other review as well. So what do these cameras provide that last year's Galaxy Note 10 couldn't, and is it worth the price? Let's have a look. The Galaxy S 20 ultra Squad camera setup is the crown jewel atop, this particular slab of glass and metal. It has a 108 megapixel main camera, a 48 megapixel periscope zoom cam, a 12 megapixel ultra-wide and a TOF depth sensor. The main camera doesn't have a variable aperture like last year's models, and it's missing dual pixel autofocus, but it does something else.

That's special. It combines 9 pixels into one, so the output is 12 megapixels, with hopefully much lower noise and improved quality. Let's look at some samples in daylight image. Quality is good. Color rendition is lively, but not over-the-top.

Dynamic range is wide, though, highlights look better than shadows, there's very low noise, and you get plenty of detail, however, compared to last year's Galaxy Note n plus there is a much more fine detail here and this rendition could be cleaner and in the grange is about the same as last year's flagship 2. We also ran into some issues when it came to taking pictures of people you get aggressive, skin, brightening and smoothing, and for some reason these shots often come out. Blurry Samsung has stated that they will fix this in a future software update. This problem also happens occasionally when you're taking portraits, but besides that these look nice with good subject separation, just a note that these are always taken with the main cam, regardless of the crop you choose, so the perspective may not be the most flattering. Besides the issues with human subjects, we're happy with what this camera can do.

Close-Ups look especially good, since the large sensor is able to throw backgrounds dramatically out of focus shots taken with the full 108 megapixel resolution. Don't really offer many benefits over the 12 megapixel ones. You can capture more detail this way sometimes, but it's not a guarantee and the file size is huge. The s20, ultras periscope lens has plenty of zoom levels, though it is 4x zoom natively, the others are all done with digital assistance to achieve a 2x zoom, the phone populates, the center of the frame with fine detail from the zoom lens and fills out the rest with data from the main camera. You can often see an outline between the two at this setting.

The quality isn't much better than what you get out of the note 10. In contrast, photos taken at the 4x level are impressive. You get pleasant, colors high contrast, wide dynamic range, almost no noise and a high level of detail. For some reason, the default magnification on the viewfinder is 5x not for these photos are almost as good as 4x, but are a little softer. Dada ab scaling we're happy to report that, even if you go to 10x, zoom photos still hold up pretty decently, but when you go beyond that, the quality really starts to fall off.

This is how we get to Samsung's highly advertised 100x, spaced zoom. Nothing much to look at, though this feature may be useful on the viewfinder to check out faraway objects enough about the zoom cam. Let's see the ultra-wide regular daylight, shots are quite ok, you get punchy colors in fairly good dynamic range, but detail hasn't improved much from the note 10. There is no autofocus either, which is a pretty big omission for such a large and advanced camera setup. Now, let's move on to low-light photos with this large sensor.

The main camera delivers excellent images with nice, detail and well contained noise. Colors are punchy, and the dynamic range is very good too. If you turn on night mode, you get even better development in the shadows, and it helps with a glow around light sources. Colors are even more saturated and noises wipe clean. The bad news is that it can take up to 10 seconds to capture a night mode photo when it comes to low-light performance.

The ultra wide-angle cam is a noticeable improvement for Samsung. It manages to record decent detail when there's enough light and has decent dynamic range for this kind of camera. Again night mode lifts, the shadows nicely highlights are better retained, colors are boosted and there's less noise, but the images are slightly softer when it comes to zooming at night. Sticking to the telephotos native 4x zoom level will get you the best quality. These photos are actually pretty good.

There's a lot more detail than you'd expect and colors and dynamic range are impressive. Night mode is available here too, and gives you an improved definition of light sources, punch your colors in a boost in shadows, but some sharpness is lost. You can zoom at the other levels and even with night mode too, but these will result in softer images that lower magnifications and almost unusable ones. If you zoom in too far, selfies are taken with a 40 megapixel quad bear front-facing camera. These are perfect with plenty of detail.

Nice, colors and excellent dynamic range just watch out when choosing the field of view. The cropped mode is really tight, but it does automatically zoom out when there are more people in the shot. You can record 4k selfie videos, and these look excellent, there's great detail. Nice skin tones and backlighting is well handled. Stabilization is decent, but it crops to frame quite a bit.

One notable feature is that you can switch from 4k video on the front and the rear main camera on the fly. Let's continue with video, but on the back side, the main camera cords in 4k at 30 or 60 FPS 30 FPS video is quite good with a competitive level of detail. Good contrast, lively, colors and wide dynamic range 60fps video has some extra sharpening going on, but colors and dynamic range are similar to the 30fps ones. You can also shoot video and 8k at 24 fps from the main camp compared to 4k videos. These are crops and the level of detail is nice, but not mind-blowing.

The cropping occurs because these Mode's is a portion of the full 108 megapixel sensor, but without the bending involved, unless you're playing back on the high-res monitor it's really hard to see the benefits of 8k video compared to 4k. Now, let's look at the videos by the zoom camera at 4x zoom, the 4k 30fps output is coming natively from the telephoto. This footage looks excellent, however, turning on stabilization crops of footage and is still not that steady, one-hand hell zooming in further understandably will redo a loss in quality. The ultra wide-angle cams' footage is nearly identical to what you get out of last year's note 10 despite the different hardware, that's not a bad thing, and these videos are very good. The colors are also nicely matched to the main shooters to stabilization is available in all modes and is optional.

You can disable it. If you want, then there's super steady mode which uses the ultra-wide cam in both available magnifications. The tier field of view is just cropped in further in low-light. Video quality is awesome, a substantial improvement over the notes. Hence, this footage has low noise, nice, colors and great dynamic range, almost as if Knight mode was on, there's a cold night hyperlapse mode.

? quality here is just as impressive, and we really enjoy. The light trail is coming from the cars headlights, it's much more dramatic than what you can achieve with the NOAA one feature missing on the s20. Ultra is 960 fps super slo-mo, video recording you get something similar, but it's recorded at 480, fps and digitally interpolated to 960, but you do get a new feature called single take. It allows you to capture photos and videos from all rear cameras simultaneously for up to 10 seconds. The result is a mash-up of photos, videos and animated gives, hopefully usable ones of the special moment.

So there you have it guys. Actually, all the s20 ultras cameras provide some level of improvement over the Galaxy Note tens, where fans of the main cameras, natural, both and photos from the telephoto cams lower zoom levels. Look amazing. The nighttime ultra-wide shots are impressive, and we're loving the nighttime video recording. However, there are some things that didn't live up to the hype and strange that Samsung's marketing focused on them.

So much stills from the 108 megapixel main camera quality wiser than the note ends and photos that higher zoom levels just aren't good, especially the 100x spacesuit, and just throwing it out there. The ultra-wide camera still doesn't have autofocus overall 1300 euros about 40% more than what in the ten costs, is too much to ask for this setup and this phone we're really more excited to see it with the cameras on the regular s.20S are capable of thanks for watching guys and see you on the next one.

Source : GSMArena Official