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With enough light, shooting in full 200MP using the S23 Ultra gives you the option to ‘zoom’ after the fact with enough flexibility for you to make out all sorts of fine details such as lettering and brush/spray strokes. The London South Bank skatepark photographed at night using the Samsung Galaxy S20. The London South Bank skatepark photographed at night using the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. So you’d need to ensure you have plenty of cloud storage space for backing up your shots, as well as fast upload speeds over Vodafone’s mobile and home broadband networks. Do bear in mind though that the S23 Ultra’s full 200MP mode works best when there is plenty of bright, even light.Īnother caveat to remember is that 200MP images take up substantially more storage space than 12MP images – around 36MB compared to 3MB, respectively. While there’s nothing stopping you from cropping into the S20’s 12MP shots, the details inevitably become fuzzier the more you crop in – from the legibility of the lettering to the brush and spray paint strokes – as you have far fewer megapixels to play with. Plus, framing your shot can be trickier than you think when you’re fully zoomed in using the optical zoom, as your hand’s minute and inevitable shakiness is magnified in addition to the subject you’re trying to shoot. While it may be tempting to use the S23 Ultra’s optical zoom lenses, you’ll have more flexibility by cropping into a 200MP shot as you can get the exact framing that suits you. One scenario where you may want to turn-off pixel-binning and shoot in full 200MP is when you want to ‘zoom’ in on a faraway detail, such as this pair of graffiti-decorated columns at London’s Southbank Skatepark, by cropping in. Although far from bad, there’s less sharpness and clarity in the S20’s effort. Despite the unfavourable lighting and windiness, the Galaxy S23 Ultra captured admirable levels of detail in these spring blossoms from the petals to the stigmas. It fared far better at reproducing the folds and creases of each petal, even compensating for motion blur caused by the wind blowing the blossoms about back and forth. The S23 Ultra’s pixel-binning showed off its chops once again in this shot of spring blossoms at night, backlit by a stark streetlamp. As can be seen in elements such as the nose and fur, the S20’s main camera captured noticeably less detail. The level of detail captured by the Galaxy S23 Ultra is evident when cropping in to the face of this cat. A cat at night, taken on a Samsung Galaxy S20. Nighttime photo of a cat taken on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. The S23 Ultra has also avoided the S20’s common misstep of over-brightening the right side of the cat’s face where the street lighting shines through the edges of his fur. So much so that it’s possible to make out the strands and patterns of fur on the face of this friendly little cat – including the fact that his nose is balding a little. In this dimly-2lit scene with only a flickering streetlamp for lighting, the S23 Ultra’s pixel-binned 12MP image is noticeably sharper and packed with more detail than the S20’s effort. Each image can be viewed in a larger size by right-clicking/long-pressing it and opening it in a new browser tab or window.

Note: all images have been resized for faster webpage loading, but are otherwise unedited. We also point out when you might want to use the option of shooting in full 200MP mode, rather than the default pixel-binned 12MP, and why. To illustrate the abilities of the S23 Ultra’s main camera, we pitted it against the Samsung Galaxy S20 in some photographically demanding scenarios. By pixel binning, the S23 Ultra’s main camera can produce 12MP photos with the best of both worlds – plenty of detail in all sorts of lighting conditions. Pixel binning helps overcome this as the single virtual pixels, by working together, can capture more light than the multiple physical pixels can individually. It does this because the copious number of pixels on that 200MP imaging sensor, while great at recording fine details, are so physically small that they’re limited in the amount of light they can collect. This is where the camera’s imaging sensor, a chip that turns light from the camera’s lens into the digital data that makes up your photos, groups together multiple physical pixels and treats them as single virtual pixels. While head scratching at first glance, this is a deliberate choice that uses some clever behind-the-scenes engineering.īy shooting in 12MP by default, the S23 Ultra’s 200MP camera is using a technique called ‘pixel binning’. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra’s most eye-catching feature has to be its 200-megapixel (MP) main camera which, on paper and in pure numbers, surpasses almost all other phones and even many dedicated cameras. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra's blockbuster camera has some obvious and not-so obvious tricks up its sleeve.

Galaxy shooting star wallpaper