Samsung S23 Ultra: Photographer's Review
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
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Contents:
0:00 S23 Ultra Intro
1:40 Scene Optimiser
3:30 Main rear lens (Standard Shooting)
5:18 Camera Assistant
7:00 Drop test????
8:30 Shooting modes
9:10 50MP JPGs
9:56 Expert Pro RAW
11:51 200MP JPGs
13:02 Zooms
13:44 Low Light
14:25 Video Performance
15:32 Overall opinion
Sheeeeesh guys, absolutely triggered some if you that I said some of the upgrades were incremental 👀 did anyone else see MKBHD’s Intro? I was merely saying that if anyone has the S22 Ultra they would likely not be able to notice _significant_ performance upgrades but with features like the camera (and battery too to be fair) you’d notice a significant difference!
Yeah there is no shortage of people jumping to conclusions and assuming and expressing negativity. Thank you for taking the time to help me understand the camera on my s23 ultra. Cheers from Texas! (San Antonio.)
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Well if u r going to exclude the camera and battery then you wont notice a difference from the s20 and up
@Ali coming from s22 ultra. difference between both phones is night and day. only thing that is similar is the look. S23 ultra is crazy smooth. The battery life is great. people often underestimate internal. most of the internal hardware are upgraded in s23 ultrs RAM, ufs storage, display, processor, cooling pad. this makes a huge difference in day to day usage. i do not regret trading my s22 ultra for s23 ultra.
@@AliYassinToma boom roasted
You took the best shot of UA-cam, no one explains the s23 in as much detail as you, you did it perfectly.
Thanks man :)
Really? Mediocre review at best
the 50mp mode is the mvp here, great video as always tom 👍
What a beast of a mode
true ^^
The only phone review i need 😉
Same hug fan o samsung
@@adilriaz2858 what about one plus 11?
Actually😌
@@MrBjorn6 oneplus waste of money
Loved the detailed review of the phone and also the camera assistant app idea
I've been waiting for this! Definitely agree on that 8k video and the low light performance! Great review, great photos!!!
Travelling is what sold me on the S23 Ultra! I went along the east coast of Australia and did a lot of wildlife and nature photography. For those who know, 10x - 30x zoom is usually the sweet spot for wildlife photography. Having a 10x optical zoom lens made *all* the difference!
In scenarios where I didn't have a DSLR, it out performed most other phones in our groups. I decided to leave scene optimizer on, although it does over saturate in some cases it did take a picture of how _I_ remembered the moment (as when you're in a new country, everything does seem more vibrant as your senses are taking in all the new sights and smells).
My iPhone 12 pro max so much better than s23 ultra and another phone
12 pro better video and photo
I think 11 pro max camera better than s23 ultra!
@@Noname67125 you can't just deny photography facts with "12 pro is better". Not having a dedicated zoom is an L in the photography world. But if you don't know anything about photography just say so
This is the kind of review that's worth watching. I didn't even realize that it was 16 mins. I enjoyed it and please keep on doing this kind of reviews rather than those just specs and nothing more rubish reviews.
A comprehensive yet enganig review, this video made me feel like having a new phone feeling, I admired the transparency when you made the cut in the middle to correct the smoothing info. excelent work, keep it up Tom.
Nice video, and I'm glad you mentioned the Camera Assistant app. I think it's also worth mentioning if you want a more natural less processed image in the default camera app you can switch to Pro mode and you don't have to manually adjust anything there - just keep everything on AUTO
Thanks for this advice, golden
S23 Ultra has new ram, storage, sensor, cpu, stabilization, NEW display, better sound, better battery life, smoother and faster, better, cleaner and crisper zoom at 3x, 10x and 30x not to mention 100x etc.
It's all around a new beast!
Not minor upgrades from the incremental S22 Ultra upgrade that was the filler phone, from the S21 Ultra flagship!
No comparison!!
Man, i agree on the S23U part, but S22U was a big upgrade too - totally integrated the note series in S series. The guy just meant to say that if you are not die hard fan or rich, you dont need to extend yourself for upgrade, you wont miss much if you keep your S22U for a few more years.
you're easily my favourite person when it comes to phone reviews. No one's doing it like you Tom!
Thanks dude!
Good work man 🙂
Hey Tom, great video as always. One request can you please review the Xiaomi 13 Pro with that one inch Sony sensor with Leica tuning. And maybe compare it to S23 Ultra. I'm really interested to know how a full sized sensor affects the quality of pictures on a smartphone.
This phone is unbeatable in terms of camera.. no other phone camera beat its photos
Are you sure ? 😂
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Yeah it's insane I'm waiting for s24 ultra i hope it will be as crazy good as this
Really? Samsung is good at zooming but 14 and 15 pro's are in another level speacially the videos
@@charlesdu2977if you know what you're doing definitely.
@@charlesdu2977 s23 ultra camera is better then 14 pro period and that goes for the fact it has 8k video vs 4k on the iPhone so under ideal conditions it'll be much better, and better night shots for photos even then the 15 pro, but yes point and snap and video on the 15 pro is abit better generally daylight but it lacks zoom. To say the iphone is on another level is flat out wrong.
New subscriber. I really pay attention to every thing you say. Really nice review😃😃. Cheers from Lima, Perú.
Finally, someone answers my questions! I've been wondering for a long time if softening meant "less sharpening" or "added softening". I also feel that the second interpretation is the right one (unfortunately).
I took mine out to two events in the past week to see if I could get some viable shots. Some notable experiences are that I was able to get some cool shots with the .6 setting, which I could not get with a 24-70, so that was a win. Otherwise I shot with the RAW app capturing only "RAW" files. In that app at 12 mp it's wildly oversharpened. I'm expecting no sharpening at all. Secondly, I took the same shots in many cases with the 12mp and 50mp for comparison, and I saw the oversharpening of 12mp again, but then the 50mp versions were not overly sharpened, but so badly overexposed as to be unrecoverable in lightroom, so I ended up trying to fix the over-sharpened 12mp files. Overall, I would say that they have some real work to do. I see the possibilities, but it's a little disappointing that they are missing some really fundamental targets that require only a rudimentary understanding of the purpose of RAW. RAW should be RAW, and exposure is a mess, even with the pro app.
The Camera Assist app works on my S21U also, thanks for the tip
One of the best videos ❤
s23 is a fully baked s22 ultra. everything just works! speaker quality is on point. camera is better in low light. view finder is way smoother, video hdr and 8k are usable. battery is great !
Great video!! Earned a new sub.
Thank you for great video!
Great video! What do you think of the camera performance on moving subjects? Every picture I take turns out a blurry mess.
Great review overall but I do take exception to your comments about 8K video recording. First of all, in the 4K mode you are not actually getting 4K of resolution. This has commonly been the case due to the RGB bayer filter limiting actual resolution (unless it's over-sampled). Anyway, I took a couple of the same videos in 4K and 8K. I examined them both on my 28" 4K monitor and there was no doubt that the 8K mode recorded significantly more detail. I down-converted the 8K video to 4K using Handbrake and the detail increase was left intact. Looking at them on a 65" TV from 8 or 10 feet away it would be almost impossible to see the difference but on a 28" 4K monitor, the difference was obvious.
Thank you so much, Tom for your thorough explanations!!! Could you please explain on how to take a better portrait and selfie. Some how the photos I took came out kind of dark and does not matters what I tried, I could not make the photos look brighter. Thanks again, Tom.
Great video, thanks. Do you not think it saturates too much ch in the day? How do u deal with that?
It's a solid upgrade overall. Unsure what else will they improve after this. Maybe a 12MP for the two telephoto lens. Hopefully, we can see something more next year. Till then, a great smartphone camera exp overall.
Amazing👑
you can take 200MP photos with only 2 to 3MB in file size with heic file type, you just enable it in the settings. i have now enabled the reduction is file size is so great even for the standard 12mp photos
Thank you for the video. The only thing I don't agree is the usefulness of 8K recording. I would love to see familiy videos from today in 10 years in best quality when probably 32K TVs are about to become popular😀
We NEED 8K
Hi Tom..do u advise to use camera lense protectors on S23U camera's.. to save them from damages?
awesome review as always
Thanks :)
Killing It mate - best tech UA-camr out there...
🤣🤣🤣 thanks bro 🥹
Hi Tom, thank you for the very interesting video. Concering zooming, do you also prefer 50MP with digital zoom over 12MP with optical 3x zoom?
Optical 3X zoom definitely better in this use case!
I've been out all day taking pics and coming from an ex 13 Pro max user the photos I have are fantastic and I usually hate the Samsung camera.
Performance, battery, are both very big upgrades over the s22u
how are the photos compared to pixel 7 pro? love your videos btw!
One big thing you missed out on, and it cures one of your biggest complaints. Sharpening and overly done HDR. Go to pro mode, and keep the settings all on auto. Your sharpening is gone and you don't have HDR. So it's more like an xperia👌🤙👍. Bam.
I complained in so many videos for the overlightning and inaccurate colors, but when using the pro mode it really gives amazing results
@@rosenivanov7028 50mp pro mode anyone?!
Wow thanks for this! I was literally out and about shooting pics with auto hdr on/off, scene/optimizer on/off, softening on/off and comparing the pictures one by one. If you want to really test this camera, look for a red/orange object. Samsung's processing will get confused and will give you varying results based on which is toggled on and off. The pro mode with everything set to auto gave me the most true to life colors!
dude ur review about camera are the best on UA-cam 👍
Thanks!! 🙌🏻🥹
Amazing
truly a really great camera smartphone
Great Video, I´m looking for a new Smartphone and my main focus is the Kamera. Your Video really helped me :) I was also thinking about buying the S23 Ultra ot the new Sony Xperia leading smartphone or the Xiaomi 13 Pro. What do you think of those cameras? :)
I like you Tom a lot ❤
Great review, was looking forward to this video. I'm curious, did you notice any difference in picture quality between the normal camera 50 MP and the Raw Camera 50 MP with everything on auto? Same as you, I found that the 50MP gives the best quality but I didn't figure out yet if there is a difference between the two. Thank you.
50MP RAWs are huuuge and really are in a similar bracket to the 40mp jpgs. I don’t think there’s enough of a difference personally - whereas with the 12mp JPGs compared to the 50, the difference is enormous
@@ItsTomRich Sorry, I phrased my question wrong. I meant to ask if you found a difference between the 50 MP JPEG shot with the normal camera and the 50 mp JPEG taken with the Raw Camera.
@@ItsTomRich you can convert the dngs to lossy dng, then the files become 2-6 times smaller in size if you agree with some very little lack of finedetails in 100% view
Great reviews! We need one for pixel 7 pro
8K is so jittery and uselles on this phone here in UA-cam. Very good review mate! 🍸
Would you still recommend softening when shooting in 50MP? Thanks for the detailed camera review!
No, turn it off when shooting 50. I don’t even think it does anything tbh
Did u try the 50mp mode in expert raw mode?
can you do a pixel vs s23 video?
or are you interested in trying a GCAM mod for the s23?
Huawei can take night shots without night mode enabled (meaning no blur). Would love to see a comparison between the s23 ultra and s21-22 without night mode, because that's where the real differences in the sensor show up, without the long exposure.
With the 10mp pic, how large of a photo could you print?
The best sort of general tech tips I have heard, is to focus on the camera. And therefore 8K video is a great thing to have. The basic point being that today I shoot my kids. In maybe 50 years time my kids will show that video to their kids. We can only speculate what type of "screen" they have then, but more resolutions is probably better.
That said, I don't shoot at maximum resolution all the time. But I try to remember to turn it on for certain occasions. If this strategy has a point, only the future will tell!
I use the HEIC format. A 200 MP photo takes like 7-15 MB, I just took one it took only 11 MB of space.
TIL that Lightroom Classic supports HEIC!
To get around the file size how come you are not using HEIC? The file size is not much larger than the standard 12MP mode.
I love mine s23ultra..
I asked Samsug if the picture softening feature softens the picture after the image process where it is already sharpened or if its not(of less) sharpening the pic when softening is turned medium or high.
Here is the answer that I got:
2-) ,,To soften the image, select the High Pass filter layer and choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Invert. You'll need to create a Clipping Group between the Adjustment Layer and the High Pass Filter layer by selecting the Adjustment Layer and choosing Layer > Create Clipping Mask. Hope this information helps you"
And I don't know if that's even the right answer for that what I asked or if it is completely bullshit what they wrote because I don't understand anything about it at all
They were fobbing you off and didn't answer the question at all! That sounds like they were describing instructions for Photoshop.
I find that photos from this camera look better with a little softening applied in Lightroom afterwards.
I'm confused. My phone says 12 mp on all images shot with the individual lenses but the specs and youtubers say some lenses are 10mp. What are the real specs or am I doing something wrong
How is the battery life?
I don't understand the Expert RAW. It lets you set your ISO, shutter speed and color tone, but it autoadjusts the photo after it's taken, changing everything you've set on the preview. The PRO mode is much better. I can't take a photo of a candle in the dark with Expert RAW.. i set it to very low light, i shoot and the result is so bright with so much weird color around the fire. It's raw? ok, but it's not what i tried to photograph..
try honor magic 5 it do have a motion capture making moving object capture easy ...maybe try to review it ..
Thanks!
Thanks for the super thanks 🥹
Still waiting for my S23U. Thanks to you (and other YT reviewers) - since I got the 1TB version anyway - I think 50mp would also be my go-to mode.
New subs, cheers 🍻
I just got google cloud storage 4tb...
@@OutsideDuhBox Having these Cloud storage services, right? It's a good time to be alive indeed.
@@OutsideDuhBox btw, that's a lot of personal cloud storage you got there wow
Great to have you man thanks for watching 🙌🏻
another banger. Soon you will be doing, Sony A7S10, a Phonographer's review haha
“Hey guys welcome to my photography review of the iPhone 47” lmao 🤣🤣
Tom is baaaaaaack!!!🔥🔥🔥
Where did I go? 🤣🤣
@@ItsTomRich 😂😂
except at 8K 30 you can pull individual frames from that video.
Do a video on Gcam!
Lindo.s23.ultra.amigo
None of the reviewers talk about how blurry photos of fast moving objects get (even in daylight), so this year I had to find out first-hand again that Samsung has not improved this yet again.
Shoot in pro-mode and set the exposure time to 1/125 or 1/500 and that will stop a lot of urban movement. I do street photography at 1/500 and the auto ISO takes care of brightness.
@@donncha1 thanks, but that is not the same as full auto mode when taking spontaneous pics. Also, I tried lowering the time yesterday on Pro mode...less blurry but far from perfect.
Its come to a point thanks to NEW ALGORITHM in Cameras where you do not need to buy a professional camera to shot EXCEPTIONAL photos ,all you got is your phone 🙌🙌
I always turn off scene optimizer and hdr on my camera settings I just don't like it when taking images of myself and other people I look reddish.
Alot of my friends have iphones but ove samsung quality pics and features i think there with apple for the brand to look cool just fashion statement from apple.
Its funny at 12:27 he took an image of the s23 ultra advert using the s23 ultra 😂
All that camera power in my pocket 👍
You say that the 3x and the 10x are improved, but is that on a hardware or a software level? It seems to be a mystery where no one can say for sure that Samsung actually did an update on a hardware level.
What's your thoughts on HEIF vs JPG? Are there any disadvantages to HEIF? I tried it and the 200MP pictures are literally 1/10 the size of JPG, what's the catch?
HEIF is awesome and definitely the future, but support for it is still pretty patchy atm. For instance it’s sucks with integration with any of my editing softwares (this will het better over time) and definitely seems to be a win moving forward
@@ItsTomRich can you please give me your honest answer, is it worth buying the s23 ultra over s23 ? Coz i also want a good primary lense and a 3x zoom lense that's all . Does these 2 factors make too much diffrence from the ultra varient .
Rewatching this gem, in time for the S24 drop
Look for an upload tomorrow 👀
I shoot with 8k and its worth the size it's kinda like 4k in 2019 where it was first introduced. 8k will be the new 4k and also the 200mp great for outdoors scenes like buildings, landscapes anything that you want details showcased so overall both are not gimmicks to me they are useful tbh when you really want to showcase videos and photos.
I think 8k here is different. 4k when it was first on phones was just a selling gimmick. The 4k video was terrible and not really usable for anything wanting quality or smooth transitions.
The 8k video from this phone is already gorgeous, usable, and doesn't feel like a beta feature thrown in for sales like 4k was in the early days
@@CodyThierauf yup 8k was introduced I think 2 years ago and it wasn't very impressive but now it's very stable and has no crop you can even use it at night and yet people still find something to complain about like file size duh of course it's big it's 4x the size of 4k but it's worth it because the level of detail you will get is absolutely stunning!
My pixel 6pro just broke in Colombia. They don't sell Google phones here so I've just bought the s23 ultra my first impressions aren't good. I much prefer the photography on the pixel phones, I hope I can learn to like it
Bravo.. You are a professional, there are simply no words. Good afternoon, I am also a photographer and videographer. Say please? Which is better for photos and videos: SONY XPERIA PRO-I, SONY XPERIA 1V or S 23 ultra, your advice please, which one should I take? I'm really looking forward to your response. Thank you very much in advance.
Can you review Xiaomi 13 pro camera 👍🏻
I agree with you about the Camera Assistant - doing it in the post is wrong, but better to have it. Why, oh why there is not slider, or even 3-steps dropdown for things like saturation, sharpening and noise reduction, and saving it as a default profile for all pictures.
Agreed! Picture preferences like this would be amazing
For saturation you have the filters which can be saved permanently for both videos and photos. For sharpening you have the mode mentioned in the review. If you wanted full control of everything including "noise reduction" through your own ISO and shutter speed settings, use Expert raw and save multiple setting combinations and give each combination your own name for later reuse. you can do it for each lens separately. I think, this is more than you should expect.
@@arvandvarahram Well, yes and no. Filers affects whole colors, not only saturations. Tom mentioned the big drawback of the Camera Assistant softening - it is post, so it is just not less sharpening, it is same over sharpened image, processed again to soften it, so affects image quality more than just sharpening less. ExpertRAW yes, it is a great tool, but on start there is already sharpening applied as well as noise reduction, even with all sliders at 0, so you cannot reduce it further. And my biggest complain about this app is that preview is really bad (comparing to e.g. shooting raws in iPhone, where you don't have any difference when shooting). So, my dream would be to have presets, but with those 3 sliders - saturation, noise reduction and sharpening. I'm quiet happy with 50Mpix RAWs from ExpertRAW, but I don't want always to process each of the photo that I take. I'm just not happy with processing that is being applied by Samsung by default in my phone. I just wish that I had more control over it. :)
How do you activate 200X zoom as I select it but its not displaying 200X zoom but 1.0 to 6.0 zoom.
Just keep pinch zooming?
Does the s23 have focusing issues that were common in Note 20 Ultra? What i experience with the Note 20 Ultra is that I can only focus in 0.5, and 5. Even at 1, the focusing may not work.
Thankfully no, I had the S20U and it had the similar focus issues so the upgrade was well worth it
Forget about negative the keyboard warriors, appreciate your time & effort & fab content.
I have 5days that my pixel7 has arrived and in photography department and browsing in anything it blows my mind I'm just speechless and I got to use s23ultra and iphone 14pro from my friends and pixel 7is better in photography then in video iphone and Samsung are a little better ....
My god this phone is a beast. Wish I could afford this
Great video, I'd love to hear about microphone performance of the S23
I feel like the photos are better with scene optimizer turned off
Which screen protector did you use?
I didn’t cos I’m a mad man 😂 but casetify sell some excellent ones
@@ItsTomRich I got some curved glass thing with glue on mine. All fingerprint and feels great.
Im trying to look for a case that i can mount to a tripod. I like the Spigen Magsafe option.
I really believe that you should take a look at the Xiaomi 12s Ultra's camera. It's really different from the others and the images it takes are pretty astonishing.
Gonna try and get them to send me the upgrade when they release it!
Not even near s23u
It's trash
@@ImtheIC definitely is
@@vanterbaba4110 not even close by 50%
Pro mode was always available in the camera app, expert raw was a different program entirely. Have they merged it or what?
Oh…. I never found it that way before. I guess it’s merged now? I’ll have a look it it’s still in the galaxy store
They are not merged because you still have a Pro mode and a Expert Raw mode. Yes,you can now access the Expert Raw from within the normal camera but that's just a link to it, it will still open a different app. I think that is the case because Expert Raw is the only camera option that you cannot add as a quick access in the camera app. You can drag everything down when you click More except Expert Raw.
It is when you tap the option in the camera mode options it will give you the option to download it into the camera app so it will be together then
@@Mob3tta_01 I know that. What I was saying is that if you need to access the Raw Camera from within the camera app you need to go to More and then select it. You cannot quick access it as you can with Portrait, Night, Food etc.
i will say 1 thing about 8k video try to put the phone on a tripod and video ur self doing a youtube intro on 8k and look at the results👍
8K not but wish they have 4k 120fps video recorder
S23 Ultra or X100v?
As far as the 8k goes though. There are some benefits to that, that I feel like you didn't address at all, or you didn't think about that use. The two main advantages are for instance one, where you just setup the phone on a tripod to film something. If you film it in 8k, you can then zoom and pan, or even cut to different parts of the scene, retaining so much detail, while you didn't actually have to move the camera at all. This is for instance very useful as a professional photographer. Where you can film something while you shoot. And do all the videographer work later on, during post production. The other advantage is also related to zooming/panning in post. But even if you hold the phone, while filming. You can stabilize, zoom, recompose all in post, rather than doing all that heavy lifting on location, maybe even messing up using the wrong lens, or panning somewhere regretting it when you got there.
But where I feel you hit the nail on the head is all that pure 8k use. That's not something I see happening anytime soon. And that's coming from a guy with an 8k TV in my living room. I just don't see that type of use.
I guess watching 8K 4:2:0 video on a 4K display would give you 4K 4:4:4 picture.
But even if we stick to 4:2:0, a video downsized from higher resolutions usually looks way better than shooting at desired resolution natively, because conversion doesn't have to happen in real time.
The reason I didn’t address these (apart from the fact that the video is already pretty long lol) is that these reasonings are really quite niche. Most of the time for instance cropping with higher resolutions is used to reframe interviews and nobody is shooting interviews on their phone. Same with stabilisation - these phones stabilisation now it’s just so good you definitely don’t need additional res to do it in post
When I shoot in 50mp with expert raw my photos look good but when I export them to lightroom they come out dark. I have to bump up exposure to 4+ to fix the photo. Why is this happening?
Apply the Samsung raw profile that should be available in profile and treatment section of lightroom :)
Apply the Samsung raw profile that should be available in profile and treatment section of lightroom :)
@ItsTomRich Hey Tom, I think I figured it out. Maybe you could test this out and let your viewers know. When shooting in expert raw 50mp, when sending the photo to lightroom they show up heavily underexposed, even when applying the samsung raw profile. The reason for this has to do with high efficiency raw turned on. When I toggled it off, the 50mp raw photos being sent to lightroom had good exposure.
@@romualdochavez9672 Great tip man
If you could only choose one to be your phone based on photography, would will you choose, s23 ultra, iPhone 14 pro or pixel 7 pro?
Im not even a photographer and I know the answer; S23.
They are all good honestly. I have the S23 Ultra and it oversaturates the picture but it really depends of how you like your image to look
@@christopherlane5238 if your not a photographer, your opinion is based in what? Do you have the 3 phones to compare?
I think probably the Ultra overall. As much as anything it’s the only one with the 10X zoom
I'm currently testing this phone and the iPhone 14 PM. I have no loyalty to either, they are both excellent. However, I would say that the iPhone is more consistent. S23 is better in low light/ night. In good light I have noticed that the galaxy can look unnatural, almost like a drawing, especially if taking photos with trees and foliage.
The biggest issue is sharing amongst family who are on iPhone, ( which is an apple issue) because sharing media between android and iPhone isn't great for quality
WE DONT NEED 8K
I'D SAY 1440P is the sweet spot for me