Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs. Google Pixel 4 ULTIMATE camera showdown By CNET

Samsung's Galaxy S 20 ultra is here it's really expensive, and it's got a lot of megapixels. How does it stack up to the Google Pixel for Excel? Let's find out, you've probably noticed this. Isn't the usual C net offices we're all on lockdown here in Sydney, but don't worry office or no office. We're still going to keep this professional when it comes to the s20 ultra. There are two key numbers: 1,400 the amount of dollars you'll need to spend. If you want to get one and 108 the amount of megapixels, the main rear camera can capture, but there's one number justify the other.

Here we have a Google Pixel for if we're talking about flagship phones from the likes of Samsung, Google, Huawei, Apple and personal preference will always be a big factor. But if the conversation is about the best camera on a phone, the pixel is always involved, even if it doesn't have an ultra wide-angle lens. So how does the s20 ultra sumptuous camera setup fare against the $900 pixel for Excel? In some cases, it's a close call, but overall there's a win for Samsung. Let's begin with standard photography, a qualified victory for the s20 ultra the pixel force. Camera is more consistent.

It does a good job at not blowing out highlights or overexposing taking the right shot on. The s20 ultra often means finishing, with the focus to make sure it's not either too bright or too dark. At the end of my testing I found it took one or maybe two attempts to get a good shot with the pixel. Conversely, I'd often have four or five variations on the s20 ultra remnants of my attempts to get the focus just right. The flip side is at the s20 ultra ends up taking more impressive shots photos, look more vibrant and colors more rich in previous articles, I've compared Apple's, iPhone, 11 pro to Huawei flagships, where wildly phones tend to shoot more striking photos at the expense of detail.

The s20 ultra gets it just right. Shooting photos that pop without sacrificing information. There are exceptions like this for us where the pixel retains finer details, but, generally speaking, the pixel shots, look under saturated as compared to the s20 ultra and only rarely look more detailed. A quick note on the 108 megapixel camera: it's pretty cool once you flick on Ultra, HD mode, you'll shoot photos in 108 megapixels. This results in a much bigger file size and increased detail retention when you zoom in its pretty nifty, but not really worth buying a phone for still it's one of several features that the s20 officer has that the Google Pixel forward doesn't but easily the most egregious omission on the part of the pixel 4 is the ultra wide-angle lens.

Its absence was painful upon launch last year and has, with every new flagship released here. You'll see some shots taken with the s20 ultra and since the pixel 4 doesn't have an ultra wide-angle lens. Please enjoy this trailer of fast and furious 9 hold on. Let's move on to portraits. This is a really close call, but I have to give this slight edge to the pixel, for both phones shoot excellent, portraits, but in distinct ways your personal taste will make the biggest difference what's on them, camera quality itself.

With that said, the pixel gets a win because it's more consistent, the galaxy s, 20 ultra, has a beautification effect that doesn't disappear even when you manually disabled the beautify mode. As a result, all portraits end up smoothening your skin. The pixel fork is the opposite way. Sharpening up minute details. Take this shot personally I like the pixel force better to my eye.

The background in the s20 ultra looks washed out and SS face, looks blurry in comparison, but s4 herself preferred her likeness as captured by the s20 ultra, but the reason the advantage goes to the pixel. For is consistency. The s20 ultra sometimes does shoot better portraits, but the pixel captured balanced shots in a wider variety of lighting conditions. In this shady picture of hue, the pixel does overcompensate, with contrast by it. It looks a lot richer than this dollar flaw shot the s20 ultra-torque.

Usually the distinction between the two phones isn't as lost. Both are highly competent at edge detection, ?, meaning you'll, see very little blurring between background and foreground, as exemplified by these publicans exceptional mullet. So the s20 ultra does deserve props for shooting terrific portraits, but if it was me getting my photo taken, I would trust the pixel for just a bit more while the pixel force insures a slight win for portrait. It suffers a significant loss for zoom lossless zoom was something Google trumpeted when the pixel 4 was launched, but now it's been well and truly outdone by Samsung. It's not just that the s20 ultra can do a hundred times in a magnification, that's kind of useless.

Even if it's technically impressive, it's that comparing the two phones at three five and eight times zoom, where the pixel four taps out. There's a huge gulf in picture quality. Take a look at Sydney University in three five and eight times, magnification you'll see that the s20 ultra retains much more detail and indoors less magnification blur this photo of Sydney's University of Technology shows it to look at the corners of this Jenna building they're much sharper on the s20 ultra. The pixel zoom also loses color richness as compared to the s20 ultra. As you can see in this close-up of street art, many people don't really take advantage of zoom.

But if it's a feature you care about, it's one that the s20 ultra nails, the pixel, fours Knight site, shows more dynamic, low-light shots with more contrast and pop. The result is often a slightly more striking photo with slightly less detail in this shot of a looming tree. The s20 ultra was able to capture more information as you'll, see on the left side by these leaves, but other times the pixel for shot more arresting photos with minimal detail loss if any at all, it's cause a clean win with this photo of Garrett, who looks much more vivid when captured by the pixel. For most of the time, though, it comes down to taste, the s20 ultra captures more light in this shot of a flower, for instance, but the contrast in shadows makes the subject pop more on the pixel. I would call this a tie both of these phones perform exceptionally at nighttime.

The pixel four is still among the best cameras you'll find on any phone, but its outgunned by the s20 ultra Samsung's new fight ship kills. The pixel on Zoom generally shoots more lively photos, and it's 108. Megapixel mode is a nice addition. The pixel force still hangs in there, especially the portraits and low-light shots. At this point, the absence of an ultra wide-angle camera is just painful.

The galaxy s 20 ultra has a better camera than the Google Pixel, for whether that difference is worth several hundred dollars is another question.

Source : CNET