Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra - 2000 photos and 2 updates later 

Going to be interesting when Samsung implements the HDR patch/fix that they have already announced. Good thing with Samsung is that they patch and improve their phones all the time

Really nice to find a RU-vidr reviewing the phone/camera system in the same way that I use my Note8 and will be using my s23 Ultra tomorrow when I get it! I do a lot of photo and printing them too. I use the full Adobe CC suite including Lightroom on my phone (love the S-pen for post in Lightroom for masking etc). Thanks for this video! of all the ones out there, this has been the most relevant and most helpful 👍🏿👌🏿. Subscribed!

Just found your channel and went back and watched your POV photography videos, really enjoyed them. Inspired to take more photos while I'm out.

Great detailed camera review. Good job taking the time to really go into detail with everything.

Thanks for the detailed quality photos. It really helpful.

I love that the stylus can be used as the Shutter button. Awesome feature.

Such high quality videos for the ammount of subscribers you have, i thought you had mullions when i first watched the video, new sub

Love this video man ❤

Great video. You know what you're doing and you can explain it well - thanks! (and yes, I've got an S23U too, but only since less than a week ago)

I totally agreed with you on the overexposure. I didn't realize that I often tune down the exposure when I take photo with S23U. However, I see a lot of users prefer to have slightly overexposed image especially the darker part of the image. People take it as high HDR but it makes the image too flat to my taste.

You are the biggest example of gold hero youtuber who listen to the viewers what they ask for. I asked you about making a vid like this. My mistake, it's slow shutter speed. Your video about S23 Ultra is the best on RU-vid platform. Even MKBHD didn't make a test about it. I respect you! Love that masterpiece vid! Some positive words 🙂

Those photos look dope with your presets!

Yes I do manual adjusting of the exposure slider to get the right amount of shadows and light when taking photos with my s23 ultra. I observed that the default or auto mode tend to over expose the subject.

I love the way you talk and explain the different values in the photos your discussing I'm a novas with picture taking but am addicted to capturing life in a photo. I've never had classes but intuitively follow what you talking about as we're both looking at the photo you select to use. I wish it if (maybe you have) that when your going into settings you could walk us through in a way that is easily followed as when your showing editing the photo. Maybe give reason for the settings you'll choose prior to the snapping the photo. In your exspecanal way of conveying what and why your choosing those settings. Thank you for putting out your wisdom for us to learn.

Broo! I´m late, but your analysis was sharp!! Thanks for the well prepared material, you got my sub. Thanks again!

Greate review camera man thanks!

great effort man, thanks.

Thanks for the high quality video

I have been using Note 20 and recently bought S23U, both tend to always overexpose and that's the way it has been since the beginning of Samsung. I always slightly decrease the exposure manually for some shots to give it a better look, like you did.

The kinda fair review i was looking for

Great effort 👌 appreciate that

Superb video... looking forward for more videos like this bruh

Great work!!

Nicely done , detailed video.

Got an S22 a little over a year ago, my first Samsung phone since the SGH slider phones. Love it. I’ve taken just a tad under 20,000 images, so far so good no real complaints. My previous phone was an LG G6.

Camera assistant is great to hear about I'll have to check it out. Yes, the shutter isn't "lagging" the camera has simply assessed the lighting situation and set a slow shutter to let more light in, just like when you use night mode and the phone asks you to hold the camera still until it's done so it can get a proper exposure. This can be bypassed as well by using the pro camera mode but sometimes I find that I can't get as good color and exposure settings as i do if I just let the regular camera use ai (I'm still on S20FE) On a side, it's interesting that you found many of your shots coming "washed out" straight from camera. Samsung has always been known for their vibrancy but maybe they are trying to market harder to photographers and took notes of the popular cinestyle way of shooting/editing seeing as though the images edit nicely which means that all the information is present My theory about the over exposure is simply competition with the apple look. Iphone ai really likes to flatten out exposure by brightening shadows and it has a discernable look geared towards the general user who isn't a photographer

Nice work, a cute face and a nice voice. Keep on! Thank you. I cannot understand why the cam is so hyped. I also have the s23 and I am far away from beeing happy

I just bought the S23 Ultra yesterday. I've been watching lots of videos and can't wait for it to come. My question is are you covering up the lens because they look like they are exposed to dirt and moisture? I saw a video that has a magnetic case with magnetic filters. That sounds like a good resolve for me. I enjoyed your video very much thank you.

Very good video. I am having the best experience with this phone. It is not the best in everything but it is good in general for everything. I'm so impressed with technology today. I downloaded the Motion Cam Pro application and am getting beautiful raw video. I can't even imagine what phones will be like in a couple of years.

Hi Alex. Thanks for your video !! It helps a lot. Tell me, do I need to be premium user of Lightroom to use your Presets ?

Great video

Shutter speed is great (S23) when there is enough light. Indoors you should shoot in Pro mode and set a manual shutter speed to capture movemet. Also don't go to high-res as it makes shooter slower.

Great review. Is it just me or do you also find the main camera a bit difficult to shoot with due to its large view angle and you need to get really close to objects?

Thank you for highlighting the blur caused by shutter speed. It's so annoying that Samsung can't fix this but Pixel and iPhone can. I don't know why the other top phone reviewers always fail to mention this? Pretty sure Samsung is sponsoring most of them!

im hella curious what your presets are or do you have a video or "shorts" about setting the presets on the phones? would appreciate your advice and presets :)

Just subscribe because of your gentle voice

Good video dude

In high contrast scenes/situations you have to underexpose the shot before capturing in order to pull out more information from highlights and shadows.

I've noticed that you get the best results on Samsung phones if you are a "tap to expose/focus" photographer. If you just push the shutter button like many reviewers seem to do, everything will be overexposed and sometimes blurry.

This video should send to Samsung This guy brilliant 👏🏻❤

Can you share what your presets are in Lightroom? I would love to use them for myself as well 😊💓

Finally someone talks about the shutter speed

Great video👍🏼 I really like all your mobile camera review videos. If its possible can you make a camera review video of Base Samsung Galaxy S23. Will love to see that video. As I am planning to buy it and its in my budget and i also love taking pictures from my mobile, when I'm not carrying my Fujifilm x100v. And If not..then it's totally fine..as I know how much these videos take time to make and post. Keep making these awesome video. Love from India 🇮🇳

I find all photo are slightly overexposed wish there could be a exposure lock custom setting so it wasn't such a Bind to keep adjusting before a shot. Spot on with all the problems I see on this 23ultra camera side. Thankfully I use Expert Raw more than the main camera system.

Great video !!! I really need your setup .. what is the name of the calendar widget please 😮

Is there anyway you can post a video detailing your preset "settings" that can adjust overexposed photos with S23U?

Nice review

That's a nice and honest review. The phone is great, the best of course the almost unbelievable zoom range, especially until 30x the pics are quite usable which is insane. Pro mode, especially compared to older phones, is losing its relevance since you're losing all important software gimmicks like HDR or multi pic stacking instead of just simple long time exposure. What I'm missing, not only with Samsung phones, is using auto modes but with some constant adjustments to your liking. Companies try to make the look of pics fitting to everyone's liking and every situation, one click shoot - but this will never work, never. Buying such an expensive phone I don't want the 'company knows best what's good for me approach' (rather arrogance). I want options, but of course not by doing everything by myself but to change auto mode to my(!) liking. Why is there no option slider to adjust HDR shadow brightening or HDR high light reducing in general?. Why no option slider to adjust color to something individual between insta popup colors and pure cool color DSLR aesthetics in general? Older Samsung at least had a sports mode for shorter shutter speed priority. It's gone! Why? No cam app in the world in auto mode can read my mind, e.g. if I want to take a pic of a little river with water flow smoothed out or crystal sharp. I understand they had to deliver a one-shoot auto experience as most customers are inexperienced, but doing so they are frustrating everyone who knows about foto technology. Why do you have to adjust your light room color scheme afterward? Why aren't we able to do so just out of the cam app itself directly when saving the pics file. It seem all these cam app developers were no photographers at all.

Damn, this is a good advertisement for your present system. Ended up getting it and I really like how it makes my pics look. The different presents remind me of taking analogue photographs on different kinds of film.

Do u have the 8/256 or 12/512? What about pixel 7 comparison? Thanks a lot from Genova, Italy

Nice review and such a cutie 😂❤

As the photographer, it's up to YOU to make the image. The camera can't read your mind and just magically know that you want a specific part of the scene exposed a certain way or that you want a specific shutter speed. Claiming something is a "problem" just because it's not what you envisioned in your mind (while also not adjusting the settings yourself or using the appropriate mode) seems misleading to me. I'm not saying this as a Samsung fanboy, but as someone with over a decade of photography/videography experience that understands that the camera is just a tool. Also for future reference, when you want to capture a fast moving subject....use the Burst mode.

Thumbs up!

Thank you, mate, for another informative video. I'm still confused as to why Samsung keeps duplicating apps. Now we have the Camera assistant, and I'm not sure why they couldn't keep all the settings in one app. Nonetheless, it was a nice video with cool presets, and I appreciate that you're an actual photographer. As an average user, I can say that the additional settings and flat images, as well as the challenge of taking close-up pictures of nature, such as flowers and leaves due to the presence of wind, may give mixed impressions of the S23U.

😁👍informative

keep it up bro..........

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Do you think that this camera would be good if I wanted to take pictures for large prints (such as 36x72) and keep the clarity?

Good video. But i think the issues you highlight are only present if camera is on auto set. Those who know their way around manual controls will have no issues getting shots they want!

does your preset system also work with lightroom mobile?

I have a bunch of cameras and lenses, iPhone 13 Pro Max , s22 ultra. And I’m to lazy to properly test them myself. Thank you very much.

What is that calendar widget ypu have on your home screen. I really like it

the same for me I found the shots are overexposed so saturated with the ai mode, but in pro it's much better and the dynamics are flatter for editing, but overall when you find the right setting this phone is really stunning on the photo and "ultra" "polyvalent ! :)

14:20 leveling this image was such a relief :D

Great breakdown. Photography of Pixel 7 pro vs S23 ultra 🤔

How come you didn’t use the pro photo for photos. You can try to reduce the blur with that since it’s a manual setting where you can increase the shutter speed. For 200 mp it’s off. My mirrorless does better but then thats a different camera than a phone camera. Still can’t beat my mirrorless regardless. I do have one issue, on the Samsung, it keeps trying to auto edit my photo when I use the regular image and use the expert raw. It ruins it so bad by overexposing it. This is something that needs to be fixed. Wondering if there is a way to turn that off?

So, what do You think, which one is better: S23Ultra or Xiaomi 13 PRO for a photography?

Is shutter lag issue be solved while using raw settings in s23 ultra??

You need to tap the screen, focus and reduce the exposure then click otherwise all the phones has the tendency to over expose every photo. You have to know how to click and not just slap a preset after. Great video though 🎉

For moving shots I keep the Live Photo on and you can scroll through the seconds and pic the more optimized image

bro wowww, your present makes it look good, im receiving my S23 Ultra tomorrow, how can i apply your present on my pictures??

Can your do the fulldepth camera review for the Sony Xperia 1V pleaseeeeee!!!! Thanks really appreciate it ...

True

If you take in pro mode and raw, you can change exposure in post

How's this camera compare to the pixel 7 pro from your perspective?

Hi, I'm just watching your videos now and they are awesome. I am torn between the S23 Ultra and the Google Pixel 7 Pro. I want the best camera phone as I do a lot of hiking and travelling. I have watched many reviews, and I am so confused. If you could pick one, which one would you choose? I know that is a loaded question, but I'm going crazy lol.

Question: I noticed other RU-vidrs images come out flat as well. My initial reaction was "Perfect! Like a raw photo I'll have more latitude to work with when I go to Lightroom." Then I realized the avg consumer wouldn't like flat curves on their final pics. 1) Does this "flatness" preserve detail in a similar way that a raw does; 2) Does the flatness depend on defaulted outputed file format?; 3) Do you think this is intentional by Samsung??

Is that already fix the shutter speed problem? I can't accept cause it's too blur with moving object.

Left apple for samsung s23 ultra and I don't regret it one bit lol!!!

Great ❤ .. Could you please share some of the presets 😊?

My brother which settings should I put on my camera so that my videos are not badly distorted on WhatsApp,Facebook and tik tok.please help!

I can always tell the difference. My older Canon 70D still out does my S23 Ultra. You can see it in the post processing the phone does as you take the picture. However, I have a lot more experience looking at photos. I had a friend that could tell you what 35mm film (hehe film) was used when looking at a photo.

Is the iphone better for photo? My only choices are 14 max or 23 ultra. Not a fan of google operating system really

4:54 this is easily arguable a good photo.. For me the people on moped is blurred that kinda give the photo some depth and motion and layers . After all your phone camera was already focus in the back ground first.

Is it expert raw better for professionnel photograohers ? Or apple raw is better?

Would love to see you review about Nothing phone camera❤.

I wish you could review the Oneplus 11. Need a photographer's perspective.

I have found that the shutter speed issue is solved if you use Pro mode and set the shutter speed manually. EDIT: You mention that! Kudos!!

Best

To buy xiaomi 13 ultra or s23 ultra? I need opinions. Don't know what to do

The Camera Assistant shutter hack is worth checking out. So is the exposure advice. I have shot into the sun and created some serious UFO shsped lens flares! I don't have a native Samsung tool to remove them. Overall, I am impressed with this Camera/Phone. Some minimal editing and wildlife photography works well enough for RU-vid or maybe more. The thing about hiking trail wildlife...you find it when it finds you.

How do you add the horizon level grid while shooting in auto mode? I cant seem to find that option in my s23 ultra

I wish you could review the OnePlus 11.

Hi i have a question. Im planning on buying the s23 and i see that the camera quality is really good. But if you record something on the regular camera app and post in on like tiktok, instagram, whatsapp does the quality then drop alot? I heard a lot of people say that the quality drops. So maybe i need to buy the iphone 14..

Did you try video? I'm getting oscillation of normal speed and slow motion during videos I record in slow motion mode. The video plays in slow motion and suddenly plays in normal rate and then goes back to slow motion. Samsung is ignoring this issue

Is there regular 120fps video option ? If yes at what resolution ?

Hello , can we use ur presets ? :D

The overexposure is how all their camera system does but I think it normal for users to reduce it to their preference

Can anyone help me, my camera startet rattling like to much just by moving the phone from a table to my ear and its not ben droped. Does anyone have the same thing where the slightest move makes the camera noise(rattle) ?

What is your preset system for editing these photos ?