So Samsung just showed us the s 9 + s 9 + and it's got a dual aperture camera
2.4
2.4. And 1.5 and 1.5 and so obviously the 1.5 is geared towards low-light scenarios
Adam took a bunch of shots during the demo we weren't able to compare it to any other
Cameras because they actually made its tape over our own smartphones unfortunately unfortunately
but we did get a bunch of shots with the s 9 plus and
Now we're gonna go over them and we can learn something from what we've seen yeah
There's not a ton to talk about here. Especially because most of the in-depth testing it's nice to do like side-by-side comparisons
Yeah, but but there's some results that you know as I comb through this that we can look over so let's uh, let's jump
Right in the this first one
is
You know just one of the nice PR people, that's sittin in the corner, but here. I was able to manually change between
2.4. And
1.5. Okay, so what's this right here?
So I mean it's actually not too far often turn out closer
I mean really that it's it's not a ton - I was going to say I cannot tell any
Real tangible differences between these two shots. Yeah, I mean really it's not until you look at the actual
stats here you know the the
1.5 was able to do a faster shutter speed at 1 over 20 and the
2.4. Was 1 over 60 the the only thing I could really find in this shot. Here is if we zoom in
Things Newman one more step on this on this little ship right here, right ya know not too bad on the 2.4
But the 1.5
Yeah
Will kind of go back and forth here
The 1.5 is a little clearer and that's because you know at 1 over. 20. You kind of eliminate some handshake
You know so obviously the the wider aperture came little more lighter right. That's very vivid
Yeah, yeah, and I mean one of the things I'm worried about with the with the F 4.5
Is that?
When you open up the aperture that wide you can introduce a lot of lens anomalies?
And I was worried that it was going to be soft
But actually I mean, it's it's letting more light in giving a higher shutter speed and therefore having a sharper image
So that was something here to look at the the next one. You know is
I
So most of these I put on auto mode sure uh you know and this one you know
I just wanted to see what what kind of choices it wanted to make you know it does the usual Samsung pumping up the saturation
obviously, that's a
Little more than than what was actually there?
I mean it's hard to tell without comparison shots like how crisp of an image
It is compared to something else like the May 10
But I mean so far it
It's looking pretty nice. So which aperture is that so this is it - for most of the time?
It's it tried to stick it to forward. Okay um
Will go a little further
I got a little closer once again to four I mean the the environment we were shooting in had plenty of natural light anyway
And those colors are super. They're like surrealistic
Yeah, yeah, I mean that that's the Samsung thing so yeah
You know they've definitely toned it down so the these next couple shots are interesting
This is a two four and I was able to go into manual mode
I left all the settings on auto except for the aperture which I can manually change from the one five so that's four that's
Offered directly in their camera app yes. That's cool
Yeah Which is nice?
And so you know there's not a ton to show here except for the if you look at the the amount of bokeh
Yeah from the two four and then we switch over to the 1/5. It's actually more which makes sense
You know you have a wider aperture. You especially at those forced perspectives even with such a small lens
You're still getting a lot of blur introduced
So you know that's nice to see and this isn't with the the fake
Yeah, look at Buca mode on I actually went back and did the same shot with the bokeh mode on later
You know and it's it's not as good. So you know at least you are able to see a little bit of a
Difference in background blur with the different aperture and aside from the like the highly saturated Samsung colors
What do you what are you seeing so far in terms of just generally image quality? I mean so far
It's standard. You know like once again without without direct comparison. I mean it it feels like Samsung you know
tuning for sure
You know they've been with the s8
You know they definitely kind of tune down some of the usual Samsung vivid colors. Yeah, you know, but it feels pretty good
So we'll go on to the next
couple shots you know the
You know I was trying to do some really high contrast. You know we see a little bit of
The window blown out here and a little darker just to see you know if we got a ton of noise
And it's not really that noisy
The exposure is still good except for like I said it
You know it blew up kind of where these lights were and and where this is
but I don't feel like that is handling it any different than almost any other phone, so
You know same thing here. You know we get a little bit of blown out on the white here
You know but even in the darker areas like like right here where the cables go I mean
There's not a ton of grain. I mean there
There is some grain present, but you know I can see grain is this it's just the maximum
Have you tuned in to the maximum? Yes, okay, so?
Okay, then that doesn't look that bad
Yeah, it's it's not that bad
And this is at two four you know so especially because they were trying to you know clamp down on on the highlights
I think I think you'll be seeing a lot more photos taken with the two for M hmm to tell you the truth
You know and then this this little tight pattern
I was looking for any sort of lens anomalies, and you can kind of see a little color banding
But I think that's more from the JPEG compression. Honestly than then the the camera itself. Okay um
Yeah, once again. Not not a ton going on here that we didn't have a
Real you know huge area to shoot stuff in but you know one of the things. I like to do is just
Especially in these blown out areas to kind of bring down the exposure a notch and just see like okay
How much information is it actually holding in the highlights? Uh-huh once again? I mean kind of like any of the other
phones that we encounter so
Nothing too crazy. I mean the clarity
It's very good. You can kind of see the little print patterns. I don't know the technical term for the Moray
It's a type of Moray. Yeah, so the way it prints, but you know
It's definitely
Definitely keeping some some good
You know some good clarity here, so yeah, actually that could be like a four color process that could be like CMYK dots
But anyway, we're getting into here. Okay? What's it? This - this was one of the the laptops. They had up for presentation
I just wanted to see how close I could get the phone to the to the actual laptop
Yeah to see the kind of the minimum focus distance
And I mean it was it was real close
You know I didn't have a tape measure so I couldn't measure something it was only a couple of inches yeah
And I focused as close to the camera as I could
So you know?
You definitely get a lot out of it Wow and it I mean it stays it stays pretty clear
You can see that's it's a pretty
You know thin razor slice of focal
Clarity, but sure yeah, you know and once again. This is still at two four
Even though it clamped down to a shutter speed of 1 over 25
You know I thought maybe in this scenario would have opened it up
you know and tried to to get a little less shutter, but you know, it's
That that's kind of what we're seeing in these tests is you know how is it going to make those decisions between?
you know when it stays open and
Yeah, when it clamps down so this is a you know this isn't a great shot
but it was a little darker of an area so in auto mode it did clamp down to
21.5 and you see even though at 1.5. It still had a shutter speed of 1 over 20
It didn't push the ISO too far so we don't see a ton of coat
Which is nice is this on a natural shot because if this was in a really dark environment
So this does not look like a dark environment in the final output. I know right
Yeah, well I mean and that's what a lot of camera phones do is to try to say hey
You know it's probably we're trying to show you more than maybe even your eye could see at that point
Which it's not necessarily
How I like it
But I mean it's also not doing anything that is overly is it tuned to capture faces and dark
Is that part of what's going on I mean that but uh you know I think once again
It's just trying not to to clip any of the of the darker parts of the image
and it doesn't that this seems to be kind of the
Darkest parts that I could find in the show it's not coming off the the end it is it does feel a little soft
You know when it went opens to15
But once again that you know I can't I have to dig into the testing a little bit more
You know I mean the same kind of stuff. This is just a demo unit they had with
The different images, so this is a this is an interesting one. You know I could see it was kind of clamping down
so that it didn't over expose the the
Really bright parts here with with I'm assuming there was lights behind here sure uh
but you kind of loose any of the dark stuff you see you know you're starting to lose a little bit of that darkness and
You should barely make out that Samsung
You know luckily if I push the exposure a little bit
Yeah, you know you can still see it, and it's actually not too. Grainy, which is nice. You know. I'm gonna push it even further
You know and to not have like a ton of grain to push the exposure that fart is actually pretty nice
so you know I think they're
They're noise reduction algorithm has definitely improved
Which once again yes, so here I did
The fake bokeh mode you can kind of see you know yeah, especially
I mean that this was not a fair test necessarily cuz you know there's a lot going on here
But you know it still struggles
I didn't know what to necessarily cling on to that this was in the the same plane of field
But you know this was this was sharp. This was not you get these weird
Almost kind of like water color patterns, yeah
So you know it'll it'll still struggle with some stuff same thing here
You know once again not necessarily a fair test
But you can kind of see you know these fake bokeh modes still have a long way to go in reading depth
And accurately portraying it it is an icy East you start to see a little bit of a fall-off towards the edge like they could
Tell like this was closer to the camera than this
But you know it's still yeah, that wire still these are the wire back is just gone, right?
so
Yeah, and and here here's that same flower that I did with the both ammonia turn on
Which once again that this this has to use the telephoto lens, so I couldn't get the same exact kind of
shot composition
But you know I mean if you were to try to get something artsy that this is not necessarily what I would
what I would do I would
Actually, try to engage that uh that main camera that at one point father and say hey
You know you're actually gonna. Get some some nice depth of field for for items that you know right?
Thank you getting clean go into manual mode and just choose it and get your yeah, get your artsy close-up
Which it which is nice, so?
You know that they had a low-light demo set up which once again, I was in manual mode
I left everything auto except for I switched over so this is at one point five which
They were trying to say hey
You know look you can you can see in this in this tunnel and sure and look how great it is
I mean, it's it's the problem. Is is that you you were holding it really steady and any phone at one six
You know is still gonna be like pretty good one right? You're holding it
For the people who didn't see the demo we were peering into the cylinder and putting
First we peered in to see that essentially. It's just a dark black cylinder. It was very dark in there
yeah, and then you would put the phone's camera directly on top of it and there you could see it, and then you engage the
Two separate apertures so this is at one point five
This is at one point five and I mean they were trying to show hey, you know look how awesome
It is when you know when you when you have it
Yeah, such a large aperture, but then I manually switched over to the two for which not that bad
You know like for how dark that cylinder. Yes, it's still not that bad
Not raizy like in some ways. I almost prefer the two-for-one even though. It's a little noisier. You can see it bumped the ISO to
Twelve fifty rather than than a thousand you know
But in some ways you're almost getting a little more detail. You know and especially like on the bricks right here
If you look at it right on the bricks
Yeah, like the police car way so that's two this is two for ya, and this is one five
It's actually a little soft
You know in ways so you know?
That's why I was like
You know it's kind of a weird demo because even a - for
Your you know like you're still able to get a lot of information out of that so I wasn't that impressed
you know
Like a lot of these phones can do great stuff
And and the real the real test is gonna be when we can do side by side by side
Comparisons exactly the 1.5 aperture - to other phones
Well in in real world environments. Yeah. Yeah, well an especially movement
You know cuz here you were kind of you know holding the phone you steady against the object which you know isn't really happen
You're taking away any of the shutter speed yeah the movement of the hand so I mean a you know at at to at
1 5 it was 1 over 7th. I you know
Like you're totally gonna get handshaking in that environment yeah
And I mean even one over for like it's not it's not increasing that much
You know you're not getting that much 1/5 does it creates a brighter image
But when you yeah, when you look at it the do floor doesn't look like a big disappointment it
Just looks like a great low light image. Yeah, so which is interesting too because they're their standard aperture was
1.7 in the SAT I want to say uh no, they actually opened up two to one six one six direction hmm
It was one seven or one six they've definitely improved
Well, yeah, I mean you can still do great stuff. You know even with smaller apertures sure so you know this is a
Not a great shot, but I did notice something especially when I was switching between the the 1 5 and 2 for yes
You're getting a little bit more of an exposure here at the to 4, but that I think that's just compensating
But really when you look up at this light at 2 4
And then you switch over to 1 5 there you start to see some of that chromatic aberration absolutely
Yeah, you know and hey this is this is one of those things
I'm gonna notice because I'm really poking it hard, but you know like I thought yeah
I mean especially at wider apertures. It doesn't matter like a you know. I've Canon lenses that are thousands of dollars
You know when you should when you shoot and wide open you can that's this chromatic aberration
You know and the same things gonna happen here, so you know
Whether that's a huge problem. I don't know once again. Well that looks more realistic. You know what the two for looks more realistic
Yeah, yeah right you know so
At least I was able to kind of poke that out there oh
I think I was dating one of the Samsungs little
Treats they give journalists, yeah, this is back in auto mode this one did engage the 1.5
You know it was interesting. That would be relatively dark
yeah, the whole way you know the the mixture of natural lighting and the the
I'm sorry the natural lighting and the artificial lighting. You know that you definitely did see like its its handling the colors pretty
Well you get a little bit of color banding here on the wall, but I mean that's gonna happen in any of them
That this was like one of the darker corners. I could find I remember when you were shooting right yeah
I mean I was literally dark when I was like okay, that's gonna be a dark shot. Yeah
Yeah, you know, but it holds up pretty. Well. You know it's
Yeah, it's not a great photo obviously. I was just trying to test though. That's pretty soft the low-light
Yeah, but you know it's not too noisy either. Which is nice. You know a couple of the demo shots
I was just looking at the the clarity on the sand and I mean once again that looks pretty that's on -
Yeah
So yeah, and then the the nice little
macaroons however you pronounce macaron
And then I took one oh
Yeah, sorry that I mean that that's pretty much it
You know like we didn't have a ton of time and obviously we're gonna do more right. You know. I mean I think
Samsung has always had you know one of the top handful of cameras every year, and and I don't see this changing anything
I think this is gonna be great really the big question for me is you know trying to understand?
when it's gonna switch between the 2 4
and the 1 5 and what problems you might run into to have such a
wide aperture at 1 5 you know
That's kind of right. We'll be look romantic aberrations
Yeah, okay, so thank you so much Adam obviously this was just the first round of testing during a hands-on real quick. Yep
We're gonna get the phone and compare it to the make 10 pro. Yeah the wall. We make 10 Pro
Yeah our current champ so our current chef. Okay, so check back soon
Thanks guys