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now this is to record your shenanigans
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all right today we're testing the s21
versus the s20
versus a 400 mil camera
and tam is here and he's gonna go
one kilometers away into hormone point
and i'm at the pier
which is here and uh we're gonna test it
out and
see how it happens now last year samsung
gave the world its first camera phone
with
a hundred times zoom and we were silly
enough to think that samsung had
actually packed a 2
400 millimeter lens into the tiny tiny
body of a smartphone
so when we tested it out by zooming into
this building from 3.5 kilometers away
let's just say the results were very
pixelated and blurry
the problem here is that there is no 2
400 millimeter lens inside the s20 ultra
and the furthest it can zoom with its
optical lens is only 104 millimeters
which is roughly four times
magnification
anything beyond that is digital zoom
however on the new galaxy s21 ultra
samsung has now packed it with an
optical lens
that has 10 times magnification
which is why tam is heading over to omo
and i'm going to be setting up at the
pier over one kilometers away and i'm
gonna see
if i can spot him from over here
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one eternity later
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2x
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4x
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did you do a jumping jack please
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now on this very windy day it took me a
really long time to line up the two
cameras as the wind was causing a lot of
micro movements
when both cameras were zoomed in at 100
x
the new s21 ultra was a bit easier to
set up as the electronic stabilization
kicks in
at 30x last year's s20 ultra doesn't do
that which made it a real struggle to
set up
especially during windy conditions now
this is an image we shot at 100x
zoom and we think the s21 ultra took the
better shot
the image is sharper and retains more
details than the s20 ultra
but the image quality from both cameras
are not going to win you
any kind of rewards this is 30x both
cameras are still on digital zoom but
you can clearly make out that the s21
ultra again has the sharper image
and this is because this shot was taken
with the s21 ultra's
10 times optical lens but then cropped
in to simulate
30x this is 10 times
zoom and this is where the s21 ultra is
supposed to be using its 10 times
optical lens however because the
aperture of the 10 times optical lens is
a smaller f 4.9
sometimes when there isn't sufficient
light source the s21 ultra will defer to
using the larger aperture of the three
times
optical lens which lets in twice as much
light at
f 2.4 and this is why these two images
look so much alike the s21 ultra took
this shot with its three times optical
lens
and then cropped it into 10x the s20
ultra on the other hand took this image
with its four times periscope lens
and then cropped it into 10x
unfortunately making a picture bigger
doesn't make it any clearer
now we went out again on a sunnier day
and we were able to take a shot using
the 10x optical lens on the
s21 ultra
and this is how it compares to the s20
ultra's
10 times digital zoom on the surface
these two images look
very similar there's good dynamic range
from the trees on both photos
but the color on the s21 ultra does look
a tad bit more vivid
than the s20 ultra now when we take a
closer look
you'll notice that the image shot in
digital zoom from the s20 ultra
is missing some details and this is
expected because the s20 ultra has had
to crop in
its image from 4x whereas the s21 ultra
maintains sharp and crispy details from
its 10x optical lens
making it an improvement over last
year's s20 ultra
but how does the s21 ultra perform
against the rx100 mark 7
which is a dedicated compact camera that
comes with roughly eight times
optical zoom now the first thing that
you'll notice is that the color science
is drastically different here
the sony opts for a natural warmer tone
whereas the samsung goes for a
cooler look the image from the sony is
at 8.3 magnification
but when we crop into these images you
will see that the quality from both
images are quite on par
but if we do crop in a bit more you
might say the sony rx100
has a slight edge over the s21 ultra
look no one is ever going to zoom in
that closely to check out the quality
of those two images well maybe unless if
you work for the police
or maybe if you're macgyver vector on
that guy by the back wheel
zoom in right here on this spot
enhance
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unfortunately that's not how cameras and
computers work in real life
or maybe we're just not there yet now in
terms of which galaxy s models have the
better zoom quality
if it's not obvious by now it is
definitely the galaxy s21 ultra
that ten times optical lens does make it
a very very versatile camera
which means if you're landing into
singapore you could zoom into the marina
bay sands
even while you're seated on the wrong
side of the airplane
and on top of that the zoom quality is
quite on par with one of the very best
zoom compact cameras out there
the rx100 mark 7. so we hope you've
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bye
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