Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra vs Galaxy S20 Ultra Camera Comparison By Lord Hezion

So I've got a pretty interesting camera showdown for you today. Here I've got the Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra, which is arguably the best android smartphone so far this year, going up against its predecessor the galaxy s20 ultra from last year. The whole point of this video will be to see the camera improvements made onto the galaxy 21 ultra and at the same time I have a theory about the Samsung s20 ultra to prove, since this is a highly scientific test, I'm going to throw in the galaxy s21 plus as a control for this whole test, and before we start make sure to subscribe and hit the bell icon, so you're notified whenever I make an upload cheers before anything else. I should mention that all three phones in this test were up-to-date. Camera lenses were cleaned, zero edits were made in post, and I just let the cameras do their work with as many more inputs as possible. Just pointing and shooting like an average of the world Samsung this year has been more intentional, with the camera design on the s21 ultra, compared to the hideous atrocity from the s20 ultra they've retained the 108 megapixel wide camera, but coupled it with a new different sensor, they've completely redone their approach to the periscope, zoom and telephoto lens, and even dish the time of flight sensor for laser to focus, and I'd, say these intentional changes translate to the images in one way or another in altered, shots that have a ton of objects in frame.

Both phones do a good job, capturing the details of the scene and bringing out objects that stand out. However, I noticed this foggy misty, look on photo samples from the s20 ultra and that's just ruined how images were perceived. I know this isn't from a smart camera lens. In fact, as you can see shortly, this is quite a constant issue, with the s20 ultra across all lenses. Throw this nitrogen plus into the mix, and first thing you notice, is how the s21 plus offers a wider field of view in ultra rad compared to the s20 and s21 ultra.

Furthermore, you can clearly see how both the s21 ultra and the s71 plus nail dynamic range consistently, as seen from the clouds in the sky. Contrast and color are spot on each time. This turn to ultra, not so much. It was a hit or miss from time to time and pretty unpredictable. However, when it did find its footing, it did take some stellar shots.

As this test got more and more diverse, I noticed how the s20 ultra image, 4 game, can be solved by taking pictures indoors in balanced lighting or giving the camera more time to focus on an object or scene or taking shots that have bulk of the objects in the foreground or in the middle ground like in these photos. Oh, and I love the lens flare in this shot, but somehow it wasn't there on the essential plus wide-angle shots are pleasing. To look at colors are accurate. Clarity is nothing short of amazing and dynamic range. Is epic for the most part, the essential one ultra in synth on, plus maintain their consistency in wide angle shots while they notice a slight shift in dynamic range for objects.

In the background for the s20 ultra put a human subject in frame and results hold up the same images from the s91 ultra and the essential plus look similar compared to those on the s20 ultra and all this is attributed to dynamic range disparities. We've talked about. Let's talk telephoto, because this is where some massive changes have been made by Samsung in the s20 ultra. We have a 48 megapixel, periscope telephoto lens that can do 4x and 10x zoom. Previously.

What we saw from that lens was sharp mind-blowing images at 4x and 10x, and some flimsy hit or miss uncertain, grainy images anywhere between 4x and 10x. That's because the phone in those focal points was hunting rather guessing how to crop into the image digitally to produce an image on the extension ultra. We have two telephoto lenses that seem to have worked this issue out. We have the 10 megapixel periscope telephoto lens, with up to 10x optical zoom and another separate 10 megapixel 3x optical zoom lens. After a couple of software updates on the s20 ultra and the new dual telephoto design, I'm pleased to announce that Samsung have found the sweet spot for telephoto pictures.

They look great, especially when zooming in towards human subjects, with this nice background block coming in with proper edge mapping that keeps the objects, natural, colors, accurate and clarity technology. The essential one plus does manage to keep up, even though its telephoto lens supports 1.1 x, optical zoom and 10x digital zoom. Frankly speaking, I'm impressed so far fascinating stuff. That's done a perfect segue to the zoom test on our contenders. Today.

This year we see the introduction of zoom locking on the strength one lineup here, this neutron plus and the central ultra have it, but it never came even as an update for the s20 ultra as a result, focusing rather locking onto one object. That's far away when zooming in on the s20 ultra can be quite cumbersome. That's because any slight movements shift the focus, friendly advice. If you want to get the best most consistent, zoom shots use a tripod, it makes your shots that much more consistent, all through bottom line. I love how these phones can get you miles closer to an object without you having to move in on it question is: are you the type of person to use 100x zoom, all the time or often, or are you the type of person to use it once in a while to creep up on people or show off or just have fun by the way? If you're enjoying this video so far and would like to see more like this, a sub to the channel will be ultra.

Let's talk about portrait shots, we've got high blood density, and they're sent to an ultra and strength, one plus compared to this 20 ultra, even though they're both set to level 5. The subject in frame is kept natural, that's for sure, but the s21 ultra suffered from this glitch that made 100 look see-through, and that was quite interesting. Basically, it's the phone trying all it can to map out the edges of the subject properly, but trips and spills the blah all over her deadlock. All the same, I'm pleased with how blah and object mapping stayed natural and how all phones are able to detect the subject's face, even when they're wearing a mask. Previously, I experienced some difficulty with the a51 and the 31 cameras detecting faces in portrait mode.

When someone had a mask, I'm glad Samsung has found a fix for it here before I forget here are runway megapixel mode samples from phones. This is basically where everything is turned up and the phones use every ounce of that 1 8 megapixel lens to take photos. The upside image quality is superb, epic, sharp detailed to say the least, and the downside is maybe huge file size or the occasional stutter and lengthy image. Processing. Time first is to mention that these hair picks were taken with all phones on a tripod and all phones support night mode from different focal perspectives.

I also noted how these phones will automatically take a nighttime shot when the scene optimizer senses its dark outside, but minimize exposure time when you switch night mode. The phones maximize exposure as long as needed to get the best shot shots with a lot going on in the scene are noisy and grainy in some areas, but put a distinct subject in frame, and you do get some decent results. Both phones can shoot some great video and are capable of 8k video recording the s7 ultra edges out on the s20 ultra, since it can do 8k pro video in 21x9 and sees the introduction of director's view. The s20 ultra really struggles in video. At times this one time I was doing a 4k 60 frames per second shot and the phone literally just shut down the camera up and made recording another time.

The camera up, froze mid, recording, and I couldn't stop the recording or even leave the app or use a different video recording mode. It also struggles a lot with exposure settings, meaning I had to think around with exposure color balance and at times focus locking to bring up the detail of some video samples. What's up guys, Lloyd, Helen here back again with another video, and today we're having a look at this, the infinite note, 8 his, what's up guys lord Helen here back again with another video, and today we're talking about the infinite note 8, I, let's move on to the selfies, and this one should be quite easy: yeah. Well, it's not both the Galaxy S9 ultra and the galaxy s20 ultra use a similar 40, megapixel, f, 2.2, wide angle, selfie camera, but the images turned out are for the most part miles apart. This is a wide sample and this is an ultra head.

Selfie sample 20 ultra completely flopped. I remember when taking the selfie thinking that this is an isolated miss on the first part, but switched back and forth a couple of times and the results stayed the same. However, when it did work as intended, it did produce some good shots that match those on the essential one. Ultra in the strange one plus portrait shots on these phones are great. These are creative edge mopping and the both affection pictures give them a natural look and feel, and, of course, with Samsung.

You do have the option to play around with the background block in post. If you wanted to, so what's my theory here well, I'd, say: Samsung is the galaxy s70 ultra to test these waters of next level? Photography? They did this by cramming all the big numbers into the s90 ultra's camera to get people talking about it, but failed to deliver in the real world experience today. I'm pleased to say that in one way or another, Samsung has managed to iron out the bulk of the issues, there's only ultra hard via software updates and completely change. The approach to camera attack with the s21 patron take, for example, autofocus issues that played this 20 ultra. Those have been fixed via software updates, and they're, sent to an ultra straight-up nails autofocus with that new laser autofocus feature remember how 100x zoom felt gimmicky and out of place in the center ultra well in the center on ultra Samsung.

Have redone it from the ground up, and it feels much more intentional now from the design to how you traverse the focal length to zoom, locking to how the phone suggests what mode you should use to take a photo. Everything just feels a bit more refined. Basically, they took what they learned from the s20 ultra success and failures worked on them and improved them before they put them into this into one ultra. In that regard, I also think that cent ultra hasn't aged that well over time. Don't get me wrong.

It does function like a flagship camera world, but it's the little places where it slips or falters that really matter and make it feel like it's been left behind. How does 20 also can't handle a ton of directional light and ends up washing out the images or how the s20 ultra gets really hot hotter than this into an ultra or a citron plus for that matter, after taking just 10 minutes or 4k 60 frames per second video, all that just shows how far this 20 ultra has come and how far it has to go as for which one you should pick between the two go for this into an ultra. If money isn't a problem for you hands down, it's the better of the two or, if you're, on flagship performance, that's just as equal minus the overkill pick up the synth on plus and by the way I've got a full long term review of the Sutton plus coming up soon. So please subscribe for that. You can't go for those 20, get it for cheap and still get a flagship level camera, but hold out your expectations and give Samsung more time to refine this camera as it's just not there.

Yet that's been it. This is lord region, thanks again for watching it make my day if you subscribed like and share this video with your friends, it took quite a while to put together, see you in the next one, pretty soon cheers.

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