Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra's BEST new camera tricks By CNET

We've got the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S 20 ultra -. Let's find out what makes this camera so special. It's a camera that seen some of the biggest upgrades on Samsung's new flagship for 2020, and it's not being subtle about it. That camera unit on the back of the Ultra is immense. But weird, though it might look, it does offer some cool new features. Much like its predecessor.

There are three main cameras as standard zoom lens and ultra wide-angle lens and a telephoto zoom lens, and it's that zoom lens. That's been seriously beefed up here. It's a weird, looking lens when you look closely at it and that's because it's got new optics that give it a huge amount of zoom. In fact, with those optics and it's 48 megapixel resolution it can zoom in up to 800 times it's an absolutely astonishing level of zoomed. As far as I'm concerned makes this phone for love, child of a galaxy s 10 and the Hubble telescope I was able to zoom in on a bottle all the way across the room and was able to just about read the label.

Pretty impressive. Considering that, with my naked eye, I couldn't even see there was a bottle, do not expect pin-sharp clarity, though, while I could just about read the bottles' logo. There was a huge amount of image, noise and other artifacts. That meant the image wouldn't end up printed and framed on a gallery wall at 30 times. Zoom the quality looked a lot better.

I was using an early sample, though so I'm keen to see how the zoom performs wants Samsung's optimize it a bit more, and I'm, using it outdoors in daylight, rather than zooming in on a dim corner of our demo area, the 100 times. Zoom is a feature reserved only for the s20 ultra. If you don't feel the need for getting up close on distant details and the regular s 20, or s 20, plus, maybe or better options. The main camera sensor has an astonishing 108 megapixel resolution, but it's not just for needlessly detailed images. It can combine 9 pixels into one single pixel that can apparently capture a lot more light.

The result is a 12 megapixel image that even in dark conditions should come out well exposed. It's important to note, though, that we haven't been able to put this to the test, yet you can always go into the settings and shoot at the four hundred and eight megapixels. If you want bigger, more detailed images, having extra resolution can give you more scope for cropping into the image later on, although exactly what such high resolution shots, some a tiny phone camera sensor, look like remains to be seen. Only put this thing through its paces. Single capture is a new mode that shoots what looks like about ten seconds of video and then presents you with a whole variety of different photos and smaller video clips all shot with different zoom levels and some of different effects like black and white already applied.

The idea is that you shoot a little scene in front of you say someone blows out candles on a cake and instead of having to decide in advance to take just one image, zoomed right in you use single capture, and it takes a whole variety for you to choose from after you've taken it. You can then select the shots you want to save as they are or use a software to automatically combine them into a little highlight reel. You can instantly share with your friends or family. Is this a killer feature? Well, no I wouldn't say so, but it's pretty fun and I can say it's appealing to people with young families. You want to quickly share the fun things their kids have been doing.

Video skills have been a particular focus on the new phone just when we were all getting to grips with our phone shooting, 4k Samsung ups, the numbers to a whopping 8k. Why so many k's? Well, you can, of course, just shooting the maximum resolution for bragging rights. If you want Nova displays on the phone, isn't high enough resolution to show it off, but you can upload it to YouTube, which supports 8k, or you can play it back on Samsung's 8k TVs. If you happen to have spent a small fortune in one of those costs. The other benefit is that you can zoom into your footage or take still 33 megapixel images from it.

The downside is that those 8k videos will quickly take up space on your phone. The twenty-second 8k video came in at almost 200 megabytes, while a 20-second clip in Full HD, taken on the Samsung Galaxy fold was less than a quarter of the size at only forty-two megabytes best to go for the higher 512 gigabyte storage option. If you're planning on shooting in max resolution, often Samsung has also added a pro mode for video that gives you manual control over settings like ISO, shutter, speed, focus and white balance for video, not just for still images. It may have more Aneesh appeal, but if you're wanting to create more cinematic, looking footage your YouTube channel, it's likely you'll get some use out of this mode. Although bear in mind that you can't use the maximum 8k resolution in the pro mode.

The video stabilization has also been given a boost, apparently with improved hardware and software. It seemed to do a decent job in our brief hands on time, but it's another feature: I'm, really looking forward to putting to the test enough for review elsewhere, you'll find a 40 megapixel front facing camera looked into a little cutout hole on the front, a whopping six point: nine inch display up to 16 gigabytes of RAM and 5g connectivity for superfast data speech, which of course, you'll need for uploading those massive 8k video files. So lots of exciting new features on this phone I'm particularly excited to see how that hundred times, zoom mode actually works outside in the real world rather than this inside a demo area, but for more on the phone and make sure to keep it. Seen calm.

Source : CNET