Galaxy S20 Ultra vs Professional Camera - Photographer Review! By Dom Esposito

What's going on everyone, this is DOM, and today we are getting into another video on the galaxy s, 20 ultra specifically taking a very close look at the camera on this guy, and this is a new face you haven't seen before this is Clayton tell the people what you do? Yes, so I'm, a professional photographer here in the Phoenix area. I do a lot of different types of stuff, which kind of worked out for what we were doing today so yeah, so I actually found Clayton on Craigslist I just searched photographers professional photographers on Craigslist I took a look at his stuff. It's all pretty amazing I will link his website and his Instagram in the description for you. So you can go ahead and follow him there. He does some pretty cool work, but I hit him up. I was like hey I.

You want to maybe give the people out their review on the camera, with the s20 ultra and maybe compare it to your professional setup. The thing that you use on the daily to make a living right, and he was totally down for it. So here we are, this is the first time we met today for the first time literally found this guy on Craigslist, and we're going to go out and about and see how this camera stacks up against a professional setup. So, let's get started yeah. Let's check out this thing, I kind of want to walk in the park here see what's going on Center up as good as I can hear that looks pretty good they're, pretty comparable photos.

Actually we get. This does not enter sign in there. There we go. This is work. This is nice, so this is pro mode.

I'm going to go as wide as I can, I got this cool barber sign which old-school signs spinning, let's open up to a 5.6, I'm going to bring down my ISO, actually a little two and half times zoom, so pretty much comparable to 75 millimeter length, full, auto man, these cars right in the way I'm going to move a little and the colors just really pop. You can see it on this alright, so we just got back. We got all the photos loaded up and sorted out on the computer here to take a look at, but basically, if you couldn't catch that from the b-roll, he is using a Sony a7 three, and we are comparing that to the Galaxy S twenty Electra. Now we set a few categories that were predetermined before we shot all these photos here before he shot them all and the first one that we were taking a look at is Pro Mode. So we have pro mode on the galaxy s 20 ultra, and we are comparing it to full on manual mode on his Sony a7 3, so I'm gonna.

Let him take the wheel and kind of critique his own work and compare it against the shots on this smartphone. So yeah I mean the smartphone takes I mean straight out camera. Just it takes perfect pictures compared to Luna I took I mean I wish I would have maybe exposed a little higher for my photo, but we're gonna look at maybe sharpness here it looks like man, the Samsung did a little better for sharpness and there you can see in the center of the circle those strings, those lines. Just they come out a little more and the thing is ? you got to keep in mind. Guys is like a lot of processing is being done, even in Pro Mode, on the Samsung on the galaxy s, 20 Ultra, even if you're in pro mode you're still getting a lot of post sharpening happening here, whereas like if we're doing it on like just the a7 3, a lot of that you can go, you have to go in and add that sharpness ?, which is an interesting thing to consider here, but we do have another, a very nice photo.

They took I just like the composition here. So let's talk about this one a little and I like this one, a lot ? I, you know as far as sharpness goes, they're both pretty clear. They both look perfect. Like again, the Samsung is doing a lot more processing, so it's got a little of color, but you know in post, you're going to be able to push the Sony to you know to his limits to whatever it can really go to, but man these are pretty they're, pretty identical. If you, if you ask me to compare the two and not knowing what they came from I, don't know if I could tell you the difference honestly and a good point about that too, is, and I think it's in this next photo here where we can kind of see the dynamic range between what we got off the s20 ultra versus what came out of the a7 3 right I mean that's a pretty good shot to demonstrate that it is.

It is yeah I, just I'm just so shocked. It just got the color that comes out of the same. Furthermore, it's really incredible. I use a picture profile when I shoot, so I do add a little of color in mine, but I mean just I mean just looking at that you could. This is this one's a little more flat, the Sony picture, but you know a post.

You could change that, but starting at a camera, if you're just looking to shoot and get it done and not have to put it into editing and process. All that I mean that is a that's a good photo. This shot is pretty cool, though too right here again like. If you told me to compare these two, it would be so hard to tell which one's which I know I might have to give the sharpness to the Samsung in this one as well just I mean those letters come out so clear and crisp alright. So next up after Pro Mode, we decided to go full blast on the s20 ultra.

Do one hundred and eight megapixel photos in auto mode because you cannot shoot 108 megapixels in pro mode, so we decided to go auto mode on both cameras and do it what needed to be done basically to kind of match that up. So we want to get the best quality out of auto mode on the s20 altar, the best quality out of auto mode on the a7 3, and this is what we have here. So this is an auto mode shot like you can see here on the right. We do have the s20 ultra. Oh, how do you compare these two um, so yeah I first I would never usually shoot an auto on my camera, so this is almost a little new for me as well.

Yeah, like what professional shoots are not on them. Exactly that's why you buy the cameras to put in manual and all that. But yes, so it looks like honestly I think you got. We got a little more crispness I! Think in the lettering here on the Sony one, that's funny too, because we have a higher megapixel count on the Samsung, but the photos from the s7 3 are a lot more crisp. Alright.

So next up we have I guess this is kind of like a ghetto-fabulous Hollywood Walk of Fame that they have in town on Phoenix I. Honestly I've lived here. My entire life I was born here and I. Don't even know what this is, but nonetheless tell me your thoughts on these two yeah. The Samsung definitely brought out the color in that gold star a little more right out of camera.

Again, you can put you put it into post a Sony picture and push that, but let's look at kind of the lettering here. Because, that's pretty important, so we lose a little here in the Sony if you get, if you get pretty close, there you're losing a little, but let me check over here with oh man. They've done about the same as far as crispness of the letters and just kind of what it got here. I mean the colors are different, but you can always fix that. So man, this one, it's pretty they're they're, pretty similar a lot of people out there will assume more megapixels equals better photo right and that's not always the case.

I mean sensor. Size is allowed to play into that. We have obviously there's a full-frame sensor on the a7 3 vs, the tiny little one that fits inside the back of the camera module here, just a tiny little sensor. So next up we are taking advantage of the optical zoom on the galaxy s 20 ultra, and we are actually matching it to his lens. So go for right here, so yeah this is a Sony zoomed.

In pretty close I mean this. Is its pretty sharp I mean that looks perfect yeah. This one was impressive. Even if you get pretty close in there, I mean you're not losing too much there and let's see here with the Samsung um it doesn't. Even it doesn't even measure it does.

I could just see that wow this one is this Sony kind of blew this one out of the water on that one, which is a little surprising. It's been ? and really well I mean even with the those bars there that fence you lose a lot and yeah I mean just the detail. Here is pretty crazy. Look. You can just see the little freckles on the wall, basically like the texture of the wall and that's completely gone.

This almost looks like a drawing and not even a photo here. It looks sure like when you yeah right. It looks good right there and to be honest back here. They look pretty much the same yeah when you zoom out, like that. You're hardly noticing a difference, but I mean when you're doing something professionally.

If you're trying to get that professional style, people are gonna. Look at that, and they're going to know yeah exactly okay, so moving on here we have you took photo of Washington Street. This is downtown Phoenix by the way in case you guys were not familiar with that, so go and do what you do? Yes, so this one I'm gonna focus on the lettering again because that's kind of what we focused on here, colors again, obviously better straight through from the Samsung. So you's pretty good. Uh I mean that's pretty sharp right there if you get closer in you're losing a little, but that's pretty sharp right there.

That's yeah! That's pretty nice! Let's look at this one here, oh wow um! This one is good too I. When you get in close there's almost let's see, yeah, that's ridiculously sharp. Let's go that doesn't know way yeah game over right. There I mean push out great. That's fine! There's almost you're not noticing too much but yeah, and keep in mind that these these these zoom photos they are at 12 megapixels.

That's, that's impressive! Dora I mean okay. Let's, let's put it let's be real. Here, though, it is impressive. How well the s20 ultra has been holding up, but I. Think the takeaway here is donen't expect that this camera is going to be like it's not going to be like the hero of the day.

It's not going to be the clear winner in every situation. It's impressive as hell for a smartphone super impressive, alright. So, finally, we have a 12 megapixel raw shot right out of the galaxy s.20 ultra and I want an image it is like a raw photos just so we could throw it in Lightroom and kind of do what he does with it with the stuff that he gets paid to do. Basically, edit the photo see how far we can push this raw photo in comparison to what he's used to, so we're up in Lightroom. Take it away do what you got to do with this thing: perfect, alright, so yeah! Just by looking at this right now, you can tell there's some really dark shadows in there and even that building is it's got a lot of light on.

So there's a lot of contrast here. So the first thing I'm going to do is mess with these shadows, so you see what I can pull out, and you can already tell it's pulling out quite a bit. You know if you push it too far. I know you're going to get noise. Let's see how much we're actually going to get here, I mean noisy, it's its pretty noisy I mean you can mess with the noise reduction tool here, I literally zero difference yeah.

What is up with that like it literally does nothing, there's not even nothing. Let's try I'm going to bump up the saturation here and try to pop those colors a little more as well. So you can see the red and blue they're popping up pretty well, let's see how well they handle the, though that, obviously, in the shadows did you can see all the noise and uh like wind. As you were coming up, there is really noisy yeah. You can really I mean the colors.

Here, though I mean they did fantastic here in the light and the ship I think it's just a shout as it's not handling very well yeah, and you can go. You can fine-tune all this stuff. You can, you know, mess with every single color, and you can mess with every little thing, but I mean it gets literally spend hours messing with this. Just one photo spend hours doing that, but I think that it's okay. Obviously, this is not going to compare to a camera.

Spoiler alert', late, spoiler alert you're not going to compare a smartphone to a professional camera, and it holds up in every aspect of things sure this had its winds here and therefore just being like straight up. Let's take it out, take a photo and get on with the day right, but, like I mean what do you think about this? This camera right here, just coming from your perspective, I mean it held its own today, like really well as just a normal user you're, taking your phone out you're, taking them for Instagram you're, making your social media look good if your website, whatever it, does really well straight out of camera, if you're doing something professionally, though I mean you could tell I mean just you know the sharpness, the manual stuff you can do with a camera, not just Sony, you can use. You know: Canon Nikon, whatever you have professionally. I, obviously would go with the camera, but I mean Samsung. I mean its colors I mean the fact that can do.108 megapixels is just yeah insane and I know that the optical zoom 100 times it gets a little fuzzy but yeah. Just that feature I would say, though I, like I've cautioned before don't always fall for the marketing right, 108 megapixels doesn't mean you're going to get the best photos around there.

The number is irrelevant because, as you saw here, some of the photos that we took that are much lower than that uh, a little more than a quarter lower than the resolution on here from the Sony a7. Three they look sharper even though we have less megapixels. We have a sharper photo, and obviously we're comparing a full-frame camera to a tiny little sensor here. So keep that in mind warm those Dhoti, don't equal, better, a 100 times zoom, as you saw in the video that I've linked below in the description. It's not the greatest feature in the world.

In my opinion, but I don't know we want to know. What do you think about all these photos? I will leave galleries to everything that we shot or that he shot I should say in the description below so be sure to check out those links. If you want to see the full resolution versions of these shots here and go check out, Clayton check out a social media, his website, it will be linked in the description for you as well. Leave the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and if you don't run here, subscribe to the channel and don't forget to use the notification Bell, so you can be notified when new videos like this drop in the future, so I'm pretty I'm, pretty happy with the Galaxy S 20 ultra though, but stay tuned for my long-term review, and we'll talk about this a little more because I do have some other opinions. So thank you so much for watching.

Everyone really does appreciate it. This is DOM is Clayton and I'll catch. You later.

Source : Dom Esposito