Galaxy Note 20 and Keep In Mind 20 Ultra have 3 cam lenses. Here’s what they can do

Samsung’s Keep In Mind 20 and Keep In Mind 20 Ultra are packed with remarkable tech that puts these phones directly in the elite classification together with the Galaxy S20 Plus and iPhone 11 Pro With 5G connection, big screens and the S-Pen stylus, both phones are fully equipped for workplace life. However how helpful are they for professional photographers?

We have actually taken the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra out and ready to get a better take a look at the cam functions.

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Galaxy Note 20 Ultra: Hands-on first impressions

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Note 20 Ultra main camera

The triple camera setup is pretty standard — there’s a standard view, a super-wide angle view and a telephoto lens to zoom in on distant objects. 

Images from the standard camera look great, with plenty of detail and a great balance of exposure between the bright and dark areas. Colors can look a bit over saturated on occasion — something we’ve found to be the case on most recent Samsung phones. 

Note 20 Ultra’s huge resolution

While both phones have a triple-camera setup on the back, the Note 20 Ultra’s has the superior specs. The biggest upgrade is in the resolution of the main camera, which tops out at 108 megapixels on the Ultra for improved zoom, which I’ll come to shortly. The regular Note’s main camera has a 12-megapixel resolution.

Shooting at full 108-megapixels on the Note 20 Ultra produces huge 12,000×9,000-pixel image files — roughly 26MB instead of around 3-4MB 4,000×3,000-pixel images in the normal mode. It allows you to crop in much further to your image, but in my experience so far, there’s not a huge amount of actual image detail, even at such a high resolution. 

This is an image taken in the normal resolution, rotated to fit more easily in this article.

At 100% crop, it’s clear to see that you can get much closer into your images when using the 108-megapixel mode, but the details are very soft and fuzzy. The standard mode may not have the same resolution, but it seems to produce sharper images. My advice would be to leave it in the regular shooting mode.

Both phones use optical image stabilization on their main camera lenses which should help keep still images looking nice and sharp while hopefully minimizing camera shake when shooting video.

Note 20 zoom lenses

The Note 20 Ultra’s telephoto zoom lens has a 12-megapixel optical zoom that provides a 5x level of zoom. The standard Note 20’s telephoto has a 64-megapixel zoom lens for a 3x hybrid (optical and digital cropping) zoom. 

At 5X zoom, images are still packed with detail to the point where I’d doubt you’d know they weren’t taken with the regular lens and even at 10x zoom there’s still a satisfying clarity to the shots.

That’s not the end of the story though as the Ultra can use the huge resolution of its main sensor to offer zoom levels all the way up to 50x. It’s not quite at the same level Samsung achieved with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, which used a “folded” 48-megapixel lens to achieve a whopping 100x zoom. That said, we weren’t impressed with the quality of images taken at 100x zoom on the S20 Ultra, and even the 50x zoom on the Ultra doesn’t produce particularly attractive images.

The overall shape of this oil rig is clear enough — there’s no question about what it is at least — but the details are so mushy that it looks more like an impressionist painting than a digital image.

It’s much the same story here with this image of a cormorant. It’s just about possible to tell what the bird is, but beyond that this image is so poor quality that I’d never want to use it for anything.

Wide-angle lenses

The Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra are on an even footing with their super wide angle lenses, with the same 12-megapixel lens found on both. On paper, that’s the same ultra-wide lens found on the S20 Ultra, so it’s no surprise that performance is similar.

The Note 20 Ultra’s wide-angle lens can capture vibrant, sharp images, with little degradation of the image towards the edges of the frame. I love playing with this shooting view as you can capture so much of the scene in front of you, leading to some really interesting compositions. 

8K video

Both phones can shoot video in a massive 8K resolution at 24 frames per 2nd, quickly overtaking the 4K resolution readily available on the majority of other high-end phones today. However it’s not almost resolution. Samsung has actually geared up the Notes with professional video choices for taking manual control over settings. They likewise have the capability to shoot in a 21:9 element ratio, which provides a more cinematic, widescreen aim to your video.

The optical image stabilization discovered on the primary cams of both phones need to assist keep your video great and smooth, although whether you can utilize the stabilization when contending complete 8K resolution isn’t yet clear, however we remain in the procedure of screening 8K video on the Ultra and will upgrade this piece with our findings simply as quickly as possible.

Keep in mind 20 night mode

Like the S20 Ultra, both Notes have night modes to catch intense images in low-light situations by taking several images over a couple of seconds and combining those direct exposures to increase the readily available light, while lessening image sound.

We’re yet to completely evaluate the Note 20 Ultra’s night mode, however out preliminary tests are appealing. This image checking out a long, exceptionally dimly-lit tunnel has great deals of clearly-visible information and it does not appear like image sound is much of an issue. The S20 Ultra impressed us with its night modes, however with the majority of flagships– consisting of the iPhone 11 Pro and OnePlus 8 Pro– loading remarkable night shooting abilities, the Note 20 has a great deal of competitors.

Keep in mind 20 selfie cams

It’s an equivalent playing field here as both the Note 20 and Keep in mind 20 Ultra pack 12-megapixel front-facing cams. They’re single lenses, similar to the single lens discovered on the front of the S20 Ultra. It may have been great to see a wider-angle cam to let you squeeze more of your buddies into a group shot, however offered the Note is the more service and productivity-focused variety in Samsung’s lineup, it’s maybe not unexpected that including more selfie choices isn’t high up on the concern list.