Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra camera samples highlight impressive night and zoom shots

Date:
Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:45:08 +0000

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Leaked Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra camera samples show bright night shots and up to 30x zoom.

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The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra was always likely to rank among the best camera phones , and now were even more sure of that, as leaked camera samples, reportedly shot on the phone, show impressive photography skills.

Twitter user Edwards Urbina posted a series of shots showing off night and zoom photography (via NotebookCheck ), so lets take a look.

First up, night photography. For this, Urbina posted two photos taken in presumably the normal mode, alongside ones in night mode (or perhaps astrophotography mode). Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Edwards Urbina) Image 2
of 4 (Image credit: Edwards Urbina) Image 3 of 4 (Image credit: Edwards Urbina) Image 4 of 4 (Image credit: Edwards Urbina)

The normal shots are incredibly dark, giving an indication of how little
light there was in the scene, while the night mode shots are impressively bright, and packed with detail.

Theyre far from perfect theres a bit of noise, some mushy details, unnatural color on the foliage, and they arent perfectly focused. But given how little light there seemed to be to work with the results are still strong.

Now we come to the zoom shots, with photos apparently taken at 1x, 3x, 10x, and 30x zoom. @TopesdGama @MARCIANOPHONE @TecnonautaTV #s23ultra pic.twitter.com/kFQ38i5Ggt January 22, 2023 See more

The Ultra line always excels at zoom shots, so its no surprise that these
look good particularly the first three, as the phone can probably optically zoom to those distances. However, the 30x zoom also looks fairly detailed if not quite as sharp as the others, and given that the Samsung Galaxy S23
Ultras optical zoom probably tops out at 10x, thats impressive.

Indeed, leaker @UniverseIce claims that this shot looks as good as a 20x zoom shot on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra , so even though the optical range might not be any better this year, the overall quality of zoom shots and particularly digital zoom could be improved.

Of course, these are just a few photos, we cant be certain that theyre genuine, and we dont have side by side comparisons with the Galaxy S22 Ultra or other phones. So dont read too much into them, but they look promising regardless.

With the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra expected on February 1 , we'll know exactly how good its cameras are soon. Opinion: zoom looks great, but next year it needs to be much better

From everything weve seen and heard so far, it seems likely that the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra will take the crown as the best camera phone, replacing the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, which currently sits in the top spot.

With a new 200MP primary sensor and improvements to both night and zoom photography, there should be a reasonable number of photographic upgrades
here but next year the company should focus even more on zoom improvements.

Samsung is arguably in the lead for zoom photography right now, as rival handsets dont offer 10x optical zoom, but they might soon catch up. Google is gradually closing in, with 5x optical zoom offered on the Pixel 7 Pro , and Apple will reportedly put a periscope camera on the iPhone 15 Ultra .

Meanwhile, Samsung has done little to push zoom photography forward in the last few years. The software has improved but hardware improvements have been minimal, and theres been no change to the maximum optical zoom distance on
the Ultra phones.

So, if the company wants to maintain its lead then we might need more than
10x optical zoom on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra or some other tricks, like the continuous optical zoom offered by the Sony Xperia 1 IV .



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