What's the difference in Zoom Quality? | Galaxy S21 Ultra vs Galaxy S20 Ultra By Jeremy Toh

Now, this is to record your shenanigans all right today. We're testing the s21 versus the s20 versus a 400, mil camera and tam is here, and he's going to go one kilometer away into hormone point, and I'm at the pier which is here and uh we're going to test it out and see how it happens. Now. Last year, Samsung gave the world its first camera phone with a hundred times zoom, and we were silly enough to think that Samsung had actually packed a 2 400 millimeter lenses into the tiny, tiny body of a smartphone. So when we tested it out by zooming into this building from 3.5 kilometers away. Let's just say the results were very pixelated and blurry.

The problem here is that there is no 2 400 millimeter lenses inside the s20 ultra and the furthest it can zoom with its optical lens, is only 104 millimeters, which is roughly four times magnification. Anything beyond that is digital zoom. However, on the new galaxy s21, ultra Samsung has now packed it with an optical lens that has 10 times magnification, which is why tam is heading over to OMO, and I'm going to be setting up at the pier over one kilometer away, and I'm going to see if I can spot him from over here, one eternity later 2x 4x did you do a jumping jack? Please now, on this very windy day, it took me a really long time to line up the two cameras, as the wind was causing a lot of micro movements, when both cameras were zoomed in at 100 x, the new s21 ultra was a bit easier to set up as the electronic stabilization kicks in at 30x. Last year's s20 ultra doesn't do that which made it a real struggle to set up, especially during windy conditions. Now this is an image we shot at 100x zoom, and we think the s21 ultra took the better shot.

The image is sharper and retains more details than the s20 ultra, but the image quality from both cameras are not going to win you any kind of rewards. This is 30x. Both cameras are still on digital zoom, but you can clearly make out that the s21 ultra again has the sharper image, and this is because this shot was taken with the s21 ultra's 10 times optical lens, but then cropped in to simulate 30x. This is 10 times zoom, and this is where the s21 ultra is supposed to be using its 10 times optical lens, however, because the aperture of the 10 times optical lens is a smaller f 4.9. Sometimes when there isn't sufficient light source, the s21 ultra will defer to using the larger aperture of the three times optical lens, which lets in twice as much light at f 2.4, and this is why these two images look so much alike. The s21 ultra took this shot with its three times optical lens and then cropped it into 10x.

The s20 ultra, on the other hand, took this image with its four times, periscope lens and then cropped it into 10x. Unfortunately, making a picture bigger doesn't make it any clearer. Now we went out again on a sunnier day, and we were able to take a shot using the 10x optical lens on the s21 ultra, and this is how it compares to the s20 ultra's 10 times, digital zoom. On the surface, these two images look very similar. There's good dynamic range from the trees on both photos, but the color on the s21 ultra does look a tad bit more vivid than the s20 ultra.

Now, when we take a closer look, you'll notice that the image shot in digital zoom from the s20 ultra is missing some details, and this is expected because the s20 ultra has had to crop in its image from 4x, whereas the s21 ultra maintains sharp and crispy details from its 10x optical lens, making it an improvement over last year's s20 ultra. But how does the s21 ultra perform against the rx100 mark 7, which is a dedicated compact camera that comes with roughly eight times optical zoom? Now? The first thing that you'll notice is that the color science is drastically different. Here. The Sony opts for a natural warmer tone, whereas the Samsung goes for a cooler. Look.

The image from the Sony is at 8.3 magnification, but when we crop into these images, you will see that the quality from both images are quite on par. But if we do crop in a bit more, you might say the Sony rx100 has a slight edge over the s21 ultra look. No one is ever going to zoom in that closely to check out the quality of those two images. Well, maybe, unless, if you work for the police, or maybe if you're maneuver, vector on that guy by the back wheel, zoom in right here on this spot, enhance, unfortunately, that's not how cameras and computers work in real life, or maybe we're just not there yet now in terms of which galaxy s models have the better zoom quality. If it's not obvious by now, it is definitely the galaxy s21 ultra that ten times optical lens does make it a very, very versatile camera, which means, if you're landing into Singapore, you could zoom into the Marina Bay Sands, even while you're seated on the wrong side of the airplane, and on top of that, the zoom quality is quite on par with one of the very best zoom compact cameras out there, the rx100 mark 7.

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