The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 camera comes with the best camera phones, or at least that's the conclusion I draw from LaComparacion's full review this week.
I've already unzipped the Note 10 and provided details on size, performance, and some select camera samples. It's time to launch a full gallery and demonstrate the versatility of the four camera lenses and the exclusive Depth Sensor Plus.
Samsung's Note 10 is equipped with a standard 12 MP lens with a variable aperture of f / 1.5 and f / 2.4, which means that the space in which light passes physically changes depending on lighting conditions. It is quite sophisticated for a smartphone.
What stands out even more are the 12MP f / 2.1 and 16MP f / 2.2 ultra-wide telephoto lenses, offering images from different perspectives. I've captured scenes in new ways: up close without distortion via 2x telephoto zoom and further framing the frame with the wide angle lens, without having to back up to get everything on the plane.
After a weekend of testing I'm ready to show good, bad, and sometimes fuzzy.
Note 10 about current camera (gallery)
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Ultra Large Lens: 42nd Street / Chrysler Building
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Standard Optic: 42nd Street / Chrysler Building
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Telephoto: 42nd Street / Chrysler Building
This is my favorite Samsung Note 10 camera sample so far, as it shows how the three rear cameras describe different scenes, especially the 16MP wide-angle lens.
You can't even see 42nd Street and the iconic yellow cab in New York in either of the other two photos. And yet, if you only wanted the Chrysler Building, the telephoto lens is there to get the best shot of your perched gargoyles.
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Ultra Wide Angle Lens - Cropped and Modified Reflection Photo (Best of Both Worlds)
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Normal lens: cuts the highs and lows of the subject
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Ultra wide angle lens - all in the frame, maybe too much
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Ultra Wide Angle Lens - Cropped Before Editing
My second favorite set of photos is the Note 10, and it shows once again how much the ultra-wide camera can be useful in certain situations.
Now the first photo (taken with the ultra wide angle lens) has been tweaked - some easy Lightroom fixes and cooldowns have been made. In fact, the classic Note 10 camera lens did not make this reflection fair (photo 2). The building is cut up and down in the reflection. Evil.
Since I didn't want the nearby traffic to splash me (you can see a group of yellow cabs staring at me almost down), I didn't have time to go back and crop the image. By quickly switching to the ultra-wide camera (photo 3), I was able to take a fuller photo and crop it later (photo 4). The final result photo 1.
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Color point Live Focus mode
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Color point Live Focus mode
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Color point Live Focus mode
Color Point was my favorite camera mode when I reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus, and it debuted on the Note phone with the Galaxy Note 10.
Isolates the black and white foreground and parts of the foreground to keep the subject in color and allow the person or thing to exit the scene. It's not always perfect - you can see some of the red tomatoes in color and others. The glass is also colored. A few snapshot setups and various security attempts (just pressing the shutter button until it works) usually solve these problems.
It's a really fun way to capture a scene, and Samsung does it better than anyone else (especially Motorola, who tried the same with bad results).
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Color point vs regular photo
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Color point vs regular photo
Here's another great example of the Color Point mode associated with a standard full-color photo. I don't want the people in the background taking the photo (sorry folks), so the Color Point Live Focus mode makes them much less annoying.
The all-color photo is taken with an aperture of f / 1.5 (it's a bit dark in the restaurant), as well as the Color Point photo in black and white. What's cool is that the color dot (and all live focus modes) lets you switch between normal and telephoto lens (the latter is always the default setting).
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Note 10 vs Pixel 3 in low light: Note 10 image (normal mode)
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Note 10 vs Pixel 3 in low light: Note 10 image (night mode)
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Note 10 vs Pixel 3 in low light: Google Pixel 3 (normal mode)
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Note 10 vs. Low Brightness Pixel 3: Google Pixel 3 (Night View Mode)
This...needs more testing. I've used Samsung's new night mode on the Note 10 (the S10, S10 Plus, and S10e have all come out via a software update after these phones launched).
The first image is what Samsung cameras do in low-light environments: it increases the exposure and is soft, smooth and smooth again. My skin seems to have been through a family portrait montage session in the old days. Samsung's night mode (photo 2) increases the exposure even more, but the grain is visible everywhere, especially in the curtains. However, it is definitely brighter.
I have included a set of photos of Google Pixel 3 with its famous Night Sight mode. It does a better job of keeping the details and tamping down the grain, but it's noisy in the end, too. This is a dark image, which means that the Note 10 camera requires more testing on the bars. "Wood, please!"
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Focusing on the Color Point photo
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Color point blurred photo
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Normal lens - focus
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Blurred regular image
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Telephoto: focus
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Telephoto - blur
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Ultra wide angle lens - focus
I said I would emphasize the good, the bad, and sometimes a little blurry. It can be difficult trying to get a color point or even the normal camera and telephoto lens to focus on the subject. I gave myself permission to eat a donut for this test. A donut was injured during the creation of this note 10 photo gallery.
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Live focus modes in addition to color point
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Color Point gets all the attention and for good reason. This is Samsung's best new camera mode and we are testing it for the first time with a Note Camera. But there are other live focus modes than this.
There is Spin (Photo 1) and Zoom (Photo 2), a normal blur effect, and the new Big Big Circles filter that makes the backlights blurry and bulbous (as shown in Figure 2). next set of photos).
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Remote autofocus mode and large circles
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Remote selfie and color point mode
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Remote selfie and close-up perspective
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Remote selfie and frameless perspective
Here's a good example of using Big Circles with the 10MP front camera, as well as testing the remote shutter with the S Pen Pen.
The Samsung S Pen Pen has always been a useful stylus, but it has become a remote Bluetooth camera shutter with grade 9 last year. This feature returns with other gesture controls for navigating camera menus and zooming in and out. Color Point appears in (Photo 2) with a cropped selfie (Photo 3) as Samsung's front camera auto crops compared to the larger selfie (frameless version) that you can select instead.
More Note 10 Incoming Photo Samples
I've been testing the Note 10 camera for a whole weekend. This is not enough to mark the review, but I am closer after 72 hours (well, a little longer after writing and uploading photos; Samsung's photo transfer software leaves a lot to be desired, which I'll nibble on the revision).
The camera analysis is not complete. Too often critics don't consider the video capabilities of smartphones, and that's what I'll do on Mondays and Tuesdays. The image stabilization of the Samsung Note 10 has been improved, according to Samsung, and I will test it in parallel comparisons. Stay tuned for more updates as the week progresses and the Note 10 flexes its multi-camera muscle.