...Actually you can record video at 100X zoom on the S21 Ultra. First open the camera in photo mode and zoom in to 100X, then simply touch and HOLD the video record icon. But keep in mind that once you take your finger off that icon the recording stops.

Great tips! Thanks for posting this vid! I look forward to learning more!

This video is really helpful for explaining all of the different cameras. I was wondering why there were two cameras which seemed identical, but now I know that it's because of the zoom. 👍

I wonder what would happen if we attached one of those add on lenses for zooming to this phone

Don’t make the zoom seem creepy, it’s not the gun that’s evil but the user! Don’t blame the technology because it’s existed for a long time, it’s really innovative!!!👏

correction... s20 ultra has 4x optical not 10x.. you might be referring it to s21 ultra ... just for you know s20, s20+, s21, s21+, note20 : 3x hybrid s20fe : 3x optical s20 ultra : 4x optical (periscope) note20 ultra : 5x optical (periscope) s21 ultra : 3x optical + 10x optical (periscope)

@rubikfan1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I wanted to write this. But you already did. The more optical the better

@willmorris8198

3 жыл бұрын

So my question is. since the s20 ultra's periscope camera mechanically zoomed to 4x optical (as shown on jerryrig's video), is the s21's 10x camera locked at 10x mechanically? In other words it does not mechanically zoom like the s20 ultra? because theoretically if it can mechanically zoom from something like 3x to 10x optical then wouldnt that eliminate the need for the 3x sensor?

@rubikfan1

3 жыл бұрын

@@willmorris8198 de s20 has a locked camera aswell. All modern phones have locked camera, because there is no room to move. Maby in the future periscope could move, but no one done it so far. A decade or so ago they made a smartphone with a moveable lens. But it looked like a camera with phone on it. Not a pleasant look.

@BG-il2ym

3 жыл бұрын

@@willmorris8198 part of the problem here is the misuse of the word 'zoom'. These phones only have telephoto lenses, which by definition are fixed optical/mechanical magnification. A zoom lens has variable optical magnification. I'm fairly sure there are no mobile phones on the market now that have actual optical zoom lenses, and I would be surprised if the S20 Ultra had mechanical/optical zoom. Unfortunately this video doesn't explain the S21 Ultra's zoom sequence particularly well. I believe the main 108MPixel lens uses digital zoom to get from 1X to 3X at which point the 3X 'telephoto' lens/sensor takes over, and uses digital zoom on its sensor to get up to 10X. And then the 10X telephoto camera takes over, and I think it uses its sensor to achieve digital zoom all the way up to 100X. I might be wrong, it's possible the S21 Ultra combines data from different sensors simultaneously and does a lot of software processing to obtain the optimum image. I do own an S21 Ultra and I've watched numerous reviews. In my opinion, the most amazing photographic features of the S21 Ultra are 1) the image quality at 10X, as the dedicate telephoto lens/sensor are brilliant, and 2) the image stabilisation, particularly when using space zoom. And now the night mode has got even better, as has the optical image stabilisation.

@BG-il2ym

3 жыл бұрын

@@rubikfan1 Yes, it was the Galaxy S4 Zoom, about 9 years ago. It was actually quite good, but at the time not good enough to replace a decent dedicated camera and phone when heading out (I think the S21 Ultra goes some way to achieving that now).

You deserve a like I never understood it in the p40 the 2 Tele cameras but now I do thanks

Great video - straight to the point, useful info presented in digestible portions and very little pointless small talk bs to artificially extend the video length.

Entirely lost before this video, a bit Naive but I thought having a 3x zoom and a 10x zoom meant we'd be in optical zoom quality from 1x all the way to 10x. Great explanation!

Well explained 👏👏

One tip is to zoom in on photo mode and you can record at any magnifacation if you hold down the shutter button

Great video

thank you

tried to use s21 ultra on big mountain skiing but damn it its so hard to know which options to choose to record a video while skiing a long line from a long distance (another top- approx 1km). would be so cool to have the possibility to start with x1 then zoom on the skier with x10 and then the whole skiing process with x3. It seems like the phone has huge troubles to catch sharp picture, struggle to focus on something and its also hard to hit that skier on the screen with a finger to get autofocus. Even if we manage this the whole beautifull mountains in the background get foggy... That hand shake in winter conditions seems to be making it even harder. Do you think gimbal would help for that or do we need to carry big heavy tripod? (small one is not gonna work most of the times as we need hight to catch the whole line)

Lose the background music; just too distracting. Excellent explanation of S21 lenses.

Thanks man, I just bought my first multi-lens phone and was really confused about this concept. Much hocus phocus going on between the zoom steps in the app. Now I know what I am doing at least :)

I'm in the US any idea where I can get the S21 ultra with snapdragon processor 512 GB? Thank you.

Totally helped. +

Thank you for sharing this. i really learned a lot I have one question here. do you know what is the minimum focusing distance of this phone. Thank you

@BG-il2ym

3 жыл бұрын

I just tried measuring this now with a ruler, and it seems to be about 2.5cm. There isn't a dedicated macro mode or dedicated close-up lens/sensor. Instead the main 108MPixel lens/sensor can focus on things really close up. I've come to the S21 Ultra having used Sony's flagship phone, and I can tell you Samsung are doing it much better. For telephoto, yes you need dedicated optics, but for macro, a good quality versatile lens/sensor is the best way to achieve good results.

This was very helpful, thanks! Wondering why can't you Zoom more on the Night setting? I tried to take good photos of the lunar eclipse last night and could only capture the blood red moon on Night but zoom was limited and the red didn't show up without Night setting on but could Zoom more. I think it's 10x max on the Night setting.

@logann001

Жыл бұрын

Mine zoomed 100x to the moon at night no problem

For digital zoom....think about loading a picture in Photoshop....then zooming in. Maybe you can throw some image processing/ML/or AI at it to help (stabilization, super-resolution, etc.). You have already captured the image with your optics w/ the resolution afforded to you via the optical elements (this is tested in the lab using a collimator, edge targets, tri-bar, and/or MTF or PSF calculation. The given lens design tries to minimize optical aberrations using ray-tracing to minimize coma, LCA, etc. Once you collect the image, at focus, w/ the lens design, that's all you can do. But you can digitally zoom in (image processing) after that (i.e. the Photoshop example). In the old days, there would be ONE camera and a fancy, expensive lens design to do everything. But the lens system gets big to accommodate everything (wide angle to zoom) w/ minimal aberrations. So....focal planes/systems have become cheap to fabricate...so why not just break up wide angle, zoom, etc. into "separate" cameras then use computational photography / imaging processing to stitch the imagery from the different cameras together? It's cheaper and actually, better. That's why phones now have x-cameras on them.

My S21 has been....no day at the beach. A number of functions have failed and among them is my zoom camera. My zoom now accomplishes about 1/2 the zoom it did up until today. Was hopjng there was a way to restore or turn the full zoom back on. Less than a year old this S21 Ultra....not happy

Hey 👋 How come they advertised this phone as being able to use all 4 cameras to record at 4k 60 fps but once you press the record button at 4k 60 fps the trees to switch between all 4 cameras dissappear

Does both s21 and s21 ultra has ×100 zoom?

My s21 Ultra is only zooming 6.0. Help plz

Does the 100+ mp do anything for digital zoom. Sounds like it with the lock feature. I also bet there are stops within that that cause quality issues. It's using 3x3 pixel pixels. And then the wide/macro camera uses 2 phase pixels?

I'm incredibly impressed with this "phone." The zoom is impressive by itself, but the stability at the high end out of such a tiny package is insane. I'm just trying to figure out what the hell that fifth circle with the red diode is for. Is it IR for night/focus?

@BG-il2ym

3 жыл бұрын

laser autofocus ?

@brucewahlthesecond

2 жыл бұрын

How is the video quality when zooming in ?

@fastfiddler1625

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucewahlthesecond it's actually pretty good. It makes this thing as close to a camcorder as you can get. The 10x lens isn't as capable as the other three in low light however. So if you're doing an evening video and you zoom in to 10x while recording (it can seamlessly switch lenses while recording to a maximum of UHD at 30 FPS), you'll notice a sudden drop in exposure. That's just a normal phenomenon of making any lens longer. But in good light, it allows me to make really cool, almost professional looking, shots of action.

This is the 4th video I've watched to try and work out how to access this zoom and I still don't know.

@TheLakers001

3 жыл бұрын

Wow really so easy to use re watch then again

@FigNewton36

2 жыл бұрын

It's silly IMO, but Samsung's camera software switches which lens is used "automatically". If you select the single tree icon, it will _probably_ switch to the telephoto lens, but it might in fact use digital zoom on the wide lens (I am using the plain S21, so only one telephoto lens for me). In my experience, it will switch back and forth kind of randomly when I'm in the 2x - 4x range. As an experiment, you can definitely determine which lens currently in use by covering one lens at a time with your finger, and once the image is totally blocked by your finger, then you've found which lens it is using.

@Celestescookies

2 жыл бұрын

Dunno if you figured it out friend but I was struggling myself! You have to switch the quality of the photo to access 100x! So ex go from 3:4(108p) to 9:16!

@StevenChristenson

2 жыл бұрын

As Seth points out, it's not "so easy" as people suggest. They naively believe that 3x means 3x optical zoom... but it MIGHT REALLY be 1x with "digital" zoom because the camera doesn't do what you expect AND the actual zoom is also related to the MODE the camera is in: 1:1, 9:16, 3:4, 3:4 104MP, or Full. E.g. in 3:4 104MP, it is ONLY using the left middle camera and you can pinch to go from 1x to 6x but of course only 1x is "optical". And once you pick something, it no longer tells you what it's set at. If you switch to PRO photo mode, you're even more restricted... so it's not just you, Trevor. PS I'm a professional photographer (meaning I've been paid to license or have published my photos - not as in I make my entire living from that craft), and I TEACH photography. To understand why digital zoom is usually counter productive, image you have a camera that captures 300x300 pixels. If you "digitally" zoom this 3x, you are now capturing only 10,000 (100x100) rather than the possible 90,000 pixels. Of course the actual pixels are MUCH higher, but the effect is the same.

Epic machine

good , i love this phone

Aren't you on CNET too?

What are the main differences between the cameras of S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra?

@taylor22222222

3 жыл бұрын

Far too many to list.. battery capacity, camera capabilities, RAM, storage, screen sizes and resolution... and it goes way more in depth from there. I suggest looking up the specs on phonearena or cnet to get all of the details and weigh them against each other because you'll need like a full article on each model to really get the idea.

@ehsaananwaar

3 жыл бұрын

@@taylor22222222 Thank you, I was interested ONLY in CAMERA details. I already know a lot of things about these. Much interest in camera Performance.

@taylor22222222

3 жыл бұрын

@@ehsaananwaar Ah. I apologize, I misread where you specified the camera. There are still quite a few differences between the 3 S21 models, and if you're an avid photographer with your phone then you'll definitely want to consider the S21 Ultra, because the camera features on that particular model is where the phone really shines, alongside everything else. The base S21 cameras are nice, but they feel very limited when sitting next to their more expensive counterparts. I highly recommend phone arena to get in depth specifics as the differences even just in the camera are quite huge as you go through each model. Hope this helps some.

Just got my phone and camera is blurry. Is there a setting to correct this?

@MannyNegron

3 жыл бұрын

Remove the protective film?

@billal-dz

3 жыл бұрын

@@MannyNegron lol

But can you record zoomed in 100× zoom ? If so how

@no-won

2 жыл бұрын

Put it in camera mode, zoom in to 100x on the object you want to record; hold down the "take picture button" and don't release it and it will start recording

I don't understand why you only get 10x DIGITAL zoom at 4k 60fps? If video has access to all cameras then surely you should be able to get 10x optical zoom at any video resolution?

I have the phone but I don't know how to take a screen photo please make a video 😅 how to take a screen picture please help 🙏

@TheLakers001

2 жыл бұрын

Press down on the volume button and the button below that button at the same time. Do It Quick Though

it's not locking for me ... I just get a yellow frame ...

I absolutely love my S21 Ultra

3:44 demonstrating what an optical zoom is as he say it but zooming in digitally (post production) then cuts abruptly to a an optically zoomed out video 3:37. I know a lot of people here are tech-savvy and know their stuff but not all does. I mean, haven't you guys not even bothered to put on a B-roll shot instead demonstrating how what an optical zoom worked?

@cnethowto

3 жыл бұрын

That's because he was shooting the video alone and had no one to physically turn the zoom on the camera to show the optical zoom. We are still social distancing and are not producing these videos with a camera-man and producer. It's all done by our lonesome. Thanks for watching.

Hi

I'm a software engineer and I do some photography from time to time. In my opinion, the software behind Samsung's user interface is just awful - the camera app is a little better, but still lacking. They force all users to be treated as totally ignorant by not exposing any control over which optical lens is used. Samsung's camera software switches which lens is used "automatically". If you select the single tree icon, it will probably switch to the telephoto lens, but it might in fact use digital zoom on the wide lens (I am using the plain S21, so only one telephoto lens for me). In my experience, it will switch back and forth kind of randomly when I'm in the 2x - 4x range. As an experiment, you can definitely determine which lens currently in use by covering one lens at a time with your finger, and once the image is totally blocked by your finger, then you've found which lens it is using. It is quite often not the lens you wanted. I understand that _most_ people don't know much about photography, lenses, and optical/digital zoom. But to not expose any control for those of us who actually know what we are doing is such an Apple thing to do. Huge disappointment.

@StevenChristenson

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY! It's beyond annoying. Selected the 10x zoom to take photos of dogs at a dog park. What it actually did was use 3x zoom with cropping so all the photos are heavily pixelated. I'm beginning to think what we need to do is put stickers over the lenses we don't want it to use.

@compassioncampaigner728

2 жыл бұрын

@@StevenChristenson My zoom power has diminished noticeably. Is there a way I can force the camera to use the most powerful zoom...10x or 100 times?

@StevenChristenson

2 жыл бұрын

@@compassioncampaigner728 The problem is with the software. And unfortunately it's too complicated to explain how to do it reliably. As @Seth Nielsen noted, if it just allowed you to directly select the lens, you'd be good. But the camera does stupid things behind your back. So, to actually use the 10x optical zoom, many things have to be true: a. you can't be in 3:4 108Mp mode (that only uses ONE lens); b. your subject can't be too close (closer than about a meter) or the camera automatically switches to a different lens, c. your telephoto lens (bottom one) must not be blocked by a finger or case. The minimum subject distance is about 3 feet based on my trials... so the net is, if you try switching to 10x mode and the subject is too close, you may end up with 3x Optical and 3x digital zoom. AND whenever you try to do anything ABOVE 10x (30x or 100x) it USUALLY switches to the 10x lens except if the subject is too close, then you just get really bad pixelization. In general you do NOT want to use digital zoom (anything above 10x) as you're not really gaining anything except possibly an ability to read fine print - which would usually be too close to use the 10x lens!

@compassioncampaigner728

2 жыл бұрын

@@StevenChristenson Thank you so much. Only by chance did I spot the 3.4 mb setting and only by chance did I see if I could change it. Ba da boom.....adjusted to "Full" and everything started working again in the camera's telephoto. Thanks for the tip/lead, my friend.

@StevenChristenson

2 жыл бұрын

@@compassioncampaigner728 Warning: I just got back from the dog park where I used 10x in Full mode... and it was junk. Try 3:4 or 9:16 and compare.

Tech is great, but I'm not convinced on the gorilla glass durability over the years....from an impact point of view. I cracked my Note 8 screen from an accidental drop during a hike...(even with a highly rated aftermarket shield overlays (all hype I think)). Now I got a S20 Plus replacement last year...and am still very nervous about cracking if I drop it on any hard surface. Its Apr 2021 now and Apples new commercial is touting the new ceramic screen durability with a bunch of drops and abuse segments. Perhaps Samsung should get onboard with stronger screen protection from cracks from realistic drops. EVERYONE drops their phones more often then not.

@RockCousteau

2 жыл бұрын

I disagree. I dropped my phone while on a hike, after running from a wasp and just got a small ding in the glass, but that was also bc inhad a screen protector.

@johnmaguire5018

Жыл бұрын

Mu s21 ultra has taken straight abuse

The s20 ultra had 4x optical not 10

Why can't they spend as much time and effort improving battery life? I couldn't care less about the constant upgrading of the camera.

@butterfly9274

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thought🤦🏽‍♀️

@TheLakers001

3 жыл бұрын

Battery is awesome what are you talking about

I purchased this phone form Amazon and I'm about to try to send it back. I was expecting crystal clear images and got anything but that. I've made sure the lenses were clean and the phone has the latest updates and in plain day light the photo's are grainy. You can't force an HDR photo , only pick auto mode. Not using digital zoom only using 1x, 3x and 10x ALL 3 modes the pictures are grainy and soft. The photo's I take with my Note 8 or Note 9 kick its butt. I've got a walmart $39 camera that takes sharper images.

@TheLakers001

2 жыл бұрын

Did you take the plastic off the lences

@fusedglass01

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLakers001 Yep the glass is clear enough I can see my reflection in them

@TheLakers001

2 жыл бұрын

@@fusedglass01 Double check I was having same problem with mine sure it enough had plastic on lences..worked great after that awesome pics

@chairer375

2 жыл бұрын

i agree with you, FusedGlass, that the zoom images are grainy, even on s22 ultra, which i have tried out in 2 different shops. i am not going to buy such a failure.

Is this phone suitable for the elderly? 

The X on 3X for example is said as 3 times. Phone tech reviewers never get this right

POV: You have Galaxy S20

i just want a new phone... not one with 10 camera

@mryusuf7536

3 жыл бұрын

U can spy on people miles away lol

@shobah2952

3 жыл бұрын

@@mryusuf7536 “global surveillance “😭

They said s10 ultra

All I want to do is take a decent picture of the moon. I Wasted My Money😫 *in my Rollin ray voice*

@thecapitalg

7 ай бұрын

Give it to me then

Privacy on digital zoom? Lol, what are we talking about here, it's like zooming an image in photoshop - lets discuss privacy in software zoom tools in that case

Keeping my damn mouth shut :)

Be nice to just get to the point. Smh

Don't appreciate being told to keep my 'damn mouth shut' thankyou very much. Your review was fine until that moment.

Optical zoom is the worst. Only posers even use a digital cameras, pin hole cameras are the only way to go 😁

HUAWEI Are milions better!!!

@yeticusrex1661

3 жыл бұрын

Nope.

@no-won

2 жыл бұрын

chinese spyware poorly built off of American technology is not better