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@@sleepyearth tbf the comparison on those very high contrast pictures wassn't that fair. he should've either disabled the hdr function on the s23 ultra or used a fixed lens on the a7. having a full frame with a zoom lens increases the quality of shadows, increasing the already present advantage of the bigger sensor. if he shot that pic with a fixed lens and the hdr disabled on the s23, the pictures would've looked way more similar, bringing the comparison down to the software being able to correctly elaborate the shadows. a phone has a small sensor, thus all the job in those details comes down to the software and the hdr function.
@@game9370x Whether the lens is a zoom lens or a prime makes no difference to the shadows. The only thing that affects how shadows appear is how good the lenses’ contrast is, which is unrelated to if it is a zoom or a prime.
Great video, very interesting to see what the S23U can do. I have a Sony A7C with Tamron 28-200mm and also a Samsung S21U. The Sony auto uploads to my google photos, along with the phone pics, and for me the differnce in quality is very apparant even without zooming in. I think the main factors are the natral bokeh, lack of over-sharpening (while actually resolving more detail) and more natltral colours. Looks like the S23U has improved things further but still a little way off in my opinion.
Excellent job! This is a review I was hoping to see. I am a Nikon shooter but also have some Sony cameras and the one you have is a great camera! I will receive the S23 Ultra in a few days and purchased it primarily for photography and video usage. I am so impressed with the shots you got from it! TY and I will continue to follow your page.
Back when screens weren't as good as they are today, I could barely notice the differences between smartphones and professional cameras. But now you can tell very easily
The S23 Ultra is really good and it allows you to have all you need in a professional camera in your pocket. I still think professional cameras are not going to be replaced by smartphones anytime soon.
I have had the chance to do my own tests on the s23 ultra, and let me just say... WOW! The night mode is amazing! It's like having night vision, the phone could see better in the dark than my actual eyes! I was walking around a pitch black room and I could use the camera to see. Very impressive. The 200mp camera looks amazing. The detail and amount of times you can zoom in on a photo and still get a clear image shocked me. 100x zoom of the s22 ultra lives on as well! The phone felt great, quality yet not heavy in the hand. It has a very clean look, the sides have a bit less roundness than the s22 ultra, as it has a bit of a flat spot on the sides which I think is handy for gripping the phone steadily. The s-pen was amazing as always, the phone was smooth and fast like the top of the line phone it is, and the selfie camera made me look great! Can't wait to get my own, and I highly recommend going in-store to feel the demos. You'll be impressed. Hope this helps!
I really love tom's phone and pro camera comparison, it just shows that you don't need a expensive camera to get nice photos even with a phone and creativity you can create art.
Night mode photography on phone still isn't good enough yet. Nightmode pics always looks like painting to me. I hope pixel 8 does something about it. Awesome comparison video 👍 keep up the good work 👍
Awesome video! Did you try the pro mode in S23 ultra and compare that to a regular camera? I’m not sure, but you might not get the over sharpened/contrast images that you get by default.
No mobile phones camera will give the result as DSLR camera gives. Yes the DSLR camera required more accessories with more price tag and more collections with different lenses and equipments, whereas the Samsung S23 Ultra is a all in one in low budget camera setup which can easily be carried out in pockets and more reasonable with lots of variation and ease of use with very low accessories.
People use their phones as regular cameras primarily for convenience. However, it is important to note that there is no way to completely replace a dedicated camera. When you print out photos or zoom in on them, you will often notice a significant difference in quality between phone cameras and dedicated cameras.
For me it still cannot match pro mirrorless camera with proper glass and you can see difference. I own Nikon Z6 and S23 Ultra but it is nice to have this power in your pocket.
The Sony camera gives you a raw image with excellent details for professionals to edit and processed it afterwards. The S23 Ultra is for the layman who doesn't want to go through all the steps so the phone does everything for you. However, you end up having less control of the final image and especially in zoom shots there is significantly less details.
It's just show how far behind are mirrorless/dslr cameras producents. All they achieved in last decade was to remove mirror and increase electronic fps recording. Extra option with live software processing like smart phones doing could lift up picture quality.
Looks like finally Samsung is upto something good with camera improvisation, still battery could be better from charging perspective. But overall great upgrade.
As someone who travels with their camera (Canon R5) and has an iPhone 14 Pro, I use the camera for the pictures and the phone for video. Sure the R5 actually takes better video, but who can tell?! And the iPhone has better IS and doesn't need a gimbal. In Sweden a couple of months back I didn't use my R5 - gimbal combo until the last night when I realized I still needed a great quality video of gamla stan.
Wow, I'm gobsmacked! Just bought the S23U and I'm patting myself on the back. I much prefer the look of the photos from the phone. Rather than your pro camera!
Thank you for vid...really really useful Just got my s23 ultra...am blown away by camera....previous phone was sony experia pro 1 which was expensive to buy and blasted it had professional level camera....I have to say I was always disappointed with the experience camera especially the lack of zoom.....other features of experia were very very good ....I decided to go with s23 ultra....I am knocked out by camera in s23.....its just mind blowing ....zoom ...incredible....makes other cameras just inadequate....the camera in s23 ultra far far exceeds my expectations
Great video. The only thing I wish you had done was exposure compensation on the Sony to better match. The photo comparison appears more different than truly are simply because of exposure differences more than color or sharpness, but still great job.
on the main camera: To an untrained eye watching on a small screen on a smartphone, you can't really tell which one is taken by a smartphone. And for me, the colors on the a7 will always be superior.
I still can't understand why smartphone companies go for the uber sharpening filters that look so horrendous to me. I think they could achieve a more natural look, closer to real DSLRs if the wanted to.
Yes sure professional equipment still does a lot of things better. Bu just been at the local zoo with my S23 Ultra and really impressed. 25 years ago you looked down on digital cameras as a pro, Im really curious where iPhone 40/Samsung Galaxy 50S Ultra will take us
For longtime camera user this phone is good but what your info clearly is like camera is not good enough to the price You don't need tripod you just need to stack photo or not sony camera ,Other camera better for stabilizer than sony For testing raw file you need to increase shadow not decrease
Кто знает, что такое камера и ее возможности, никогда не будет сравнивать с телефоном. Зачем мне машина в маленьком городе в 10 тыс. населения? Мол, пока машина на светофоре, припаркуется, я уже буду в магазине, при этом занимаюсь спортом и не трачу деньги на бензин. Круто? То же с телефоном, который нельзя использовать с внешней вспышкой, использовать специальные объективы, в которых широкий угол выглядит с перспективой и искажением ближних предметов совсем по другому, например, в недвижимости. Когда нужно быстро, качественно и надежно, профессионально, то телефон имеет множество ограничений. Сегодня камера только для профи. Для всех остальных случаев хороший телефон - это бомба. Качество передачи натуральности цветов не такое, как в камере, то тоже ок для большинства случаев. Но сравнивать фоткая крыши домов и селфи - это какой-то бред.
Crazy because there no need for a big camera like that and you can have the s23u in your pocket. The sony a little better but I could live with the s23u ones.
And now you can even shoot portrait and other shots at 2x which wasn't available before but is now through software update and the camera will keep getting better with future updates and that's crazy! Also i thought you could capture raw photos with the ultra models as well?
Im a photographer, no way can it be better then a big full frame sensor and good expensive lenes say a 70-200 2.8 but that being said ,for having something in my pocket that i can carey everywhere its just really convenient
@@xslvrxslwt but the oversharpening could be solved by the software that caused it in the first place. The reason why smartphone shots are so oversharpened because the normies like it. Just like the pumped up contrast on Smartphones.
It would be nice to compare unedited photos with both cameras set in RAW with matched shutter speed; ISO and aperture as well as the an edited side by side to see where the strengths and weaknesses truly are between the hardware/software sets.
@@bigherb That 99% are not the ones watching this kind of video, the ones that are looking at comparisons like this want to know details like the ones OP is asking for
so you're telling me you wanna cripple one of the main advantages that the phone has for the sake of "fairness" ? in that case we should only use like 10% of the pro camera's sensor to make it fair.@@ChaosRune
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Why? it's super obvious which photo is the proper camera, colours alone give it away
That's quite pointless endeavor, considering RAW images, as the name implies, are just raw data that need to be processed; i.e. edited. Besides, apertures are not directly comparable either. Smaller sensor means smaller physical aperture, f1.4 would be more like f10 on a full frame camera (can't bother to calculate this exactly, but you get the point).
I've seen countless S23 Ultra's Camera reviews and none of the photos taken by the other reviewers compare to the the photos taken by Tom. This actually confirms the fact that, it's not the camera it's the photographer!! Amazing review Tom, now I'm tempted to move on from my OP5T.
I've actually come to complain about how bad the video quality is on this video. It all looks like it's been shot on a 2012 phone. I'm watching on a 4k TV and it all looks very pixilated. Luckily I know the phones are good from other better image quality videos I've seen.
@@ItsTomRich I didn't mean it nastily mate, take it as constructive criticism. Maybe something to do with the quality rate you uploaded it as or something. Might be fine to watch on a phone maybe but on a full sized TV it renders it all useless as something to judge image quality by especially 👍🏻
That 200mp sensor from Samsung is really ahead of the game. Even the optical to digital zoom can compete the professional cam. It was a great review 👍🏼
Yeah 200 mp sensor but you never tell the truth as we count the megapixelx in the the result photo, the real dimension of the photo so compare of the same resolution of photo ...
The Samsung S23 Ultra is unbelievable! Some photos looked preferable than the Sony if you don't pixel peep too much. Something you dont get to hear a lot from smartphones. Great video!
One thing I think some people have overlooked which is particularly important to myself, is that, to resolve all that extra detail, Samsung have quietly also upgraded the lens, not the specs, but the quality. The refraction (spots) from lights in night shots, is noticeably improved and the overall natural sharpness in RAW shots seems improved. That, along with the overhauled speaker system and microphones, tells me Samsung are more focused on pushing the more marketable material. I personally think improved speakers/microphones on such a device, is a big deal! Especially as a content consumer/creator.
@@joelconolly5574 how ? Is there a setting for lowering down the sharpening? And if you say that I can even reduce noise reduction on the night shots, I'm gonna find you and give a bottle of nice whisky or rum! :D
This is crazy. I can't believe how well the s23 ultra holds up. The framing and composure also is key, which you nailed. (I wish I had the pixel 6a, or any free phone at that)
The Pixel 6a is such a good phone for the price... I have been using it as my secondary phone with my S22 Ultra as my primary phone. The Pixel 6a excels in battery life, I can routinely get more than 2 days of battery life if I'm not gaming (way smoother compared to my S10), has no bloatware, and absolutely love the "listening now" feature on it!
@@Jabrosky I never even knew that feature existed on pixels till I got it, and the speech to text/translation I use daily and Absolutely love these features!
Wow, what a fascinating review! Your comparison of the S23 Ultra's photography capabilities to a professional $5000 camera was truly eye-opening. I appreciate how you presented your findings in a clear and concise manner, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each device. Your side-by-side comparisons of the images and videos captured by both cameras were extremely helpful in showing just how capable the S23 Ultra is in producing high-quality content. Your expert analysis has not only provided valuable insights but also helped me make an informed decision when it comes to investing in a camera. Thank you for such an informative and thought-provoking video review, keep up the great work!
it depends what phone u have if u have 22 ultra or any new high end phone u should wait for another year cause like since this phone is first ever phone to have 200mp u never know s24 ultra next year gonna have better camera
Incredible how close the S23 gets to a professional camera! I'm curious how good these photos would be if the sensor was physically bigger, like even just twice as big
You'd run into sensor readout-speed limitations pretty fast. That's one reason professional cameras can't (yet) do a lot of the software-trickery cellphone cameras can. The Sony A7IV for example reads the sensor very slow (it's a budget/entry level camera), but even the Sony A1 flagship hovers around 15ms I think (in electronic shutter mode). It WILL be interesting to see what will be possible once APS-C and fullframe cameras have near-to-instantaneous readout. edit: then again; who knows what will be possible with tiny cellphone camera sensors then! :)
@@M0eRiyadh Not directly. The current BIONZ XR processing units in some Sony cameras for example are pretty beefy already (the A1 can handle up to 30 fullframe 50 MP images per second, which is pretty crazy), the limitations lie within the imaging sensor itself and the pipeline to the CPU as I understand it. Once you have read out let's say 12 or 30 or 50 MP of sensor data and the CPU goes to work, it doesn't really matter that much how large or small the sensor was. The amount and type of data is basically the same. I'm sure Sony BIONZ XR processors could run circles around a cellphones CPU but nevertheless it can't (yet) do what - for example - the S23 Ultra can achieve. But I'm not an expert, and I'm sure it's possible that Samsung is already doing some trickery before the image data has even left the pipeline to the CPU. Maybe there is some HDR processing already going on in that stage, just as the Canon C70 camcorder apparently does to boost dynamic range in certain modes...
@@finch-island I got a sony a7iv for my first camera and I've taken great pictures with it. Used a Viltrox 85mm lens which is surprisingly good for a 3rd party. I sold them all and now I'm trying to get the A7RV.
Agree with you 100%. Over the past 3 years I haven't taken my DSLR on vacation for this same reason, our pocket phones are nearly as good with less work to get good results.
I have upgraded from the S21U to the S23U. The S23U is really the camera backpack for your pocket. The picture quality is awesome. The 50 MP mode is also interesting and the files aren't that huge. And there is still so much to try and discover in expert raw. Or film in 8k. Then you can also crop photos well. And the whole performance over all is so good. It's a real leap forward for Samsung.
It's difficult to compare the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra to a professional camera that costs $5,000 because they serve different purposes and have different capabilities. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is a smartphone with a powerful camera that can take high-quality photos and videos. It has a quad-camera setup with a 200 MP primary camera, a periscope telephoto lens with 10x optical zoom, a telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom, and an ultrawide lens with a 120˚ field of view. It can shoot up to 8K video at 24 or 30 frames per second and has features such as auto-HDR, panorama, and super steady video. On the other hand, a professional camera that costs $5,000 would likely have even more advanced features and capabilities, such as interchangeable lenses, larger sensors, and more manual controls for adjusting settings such as shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. It may also be more durable and able to withstand harsher environments or shooting conditions. Ultimately, whether the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra or a $5,000 pro camera is the better option depends on your specific needs and preferences. For most casual photographers or videographers, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra's camera will likely be more than sufficient, while professional photographers and videographers may require the more advanced capabilities of a dedicated camera.
It's astonishing how far we've come in terms of improving the capabilities of smaller cameras Im still using the iphone 5s and Galaxy s5 as my dailies, and it is absolutely insane how much of an advancement we made in a little over a decade
Yeah, it still works; it’s just a hobby of mine Using old phones haha I still have 4s as well; I can’t use that one though, but everything works on that one too still
I'm still using s8 plus. Not gonna change this phone for another 2 or 3 years. Hope I'll get the greatest phone that even s23 ultra would look less futuristic compared to my next phone.
I bought the s23 ultra and I've been using it for a week and I have to say that the camera quality is amazing. I'm glad that it can compare even to professional cameras. Congrats for the great content!
One other consideration (more of a benefit to hobbyists, vloggers, etc.) is that when you pair the S23U to a handheld gimble stabilizer, you move the results slider even closer to the pro cameras. Additionally, the handheld phone gimbles are $100. While a decent gimble stabilizer for a D7500 is four to five times that much.
I've been using my phone more than my Canon EOS D3 Mklll just because of weight. I still use the Canon for IndyCar races, weddings and wildlife. I'm too old, and have way too much invested in L glass, the switch to EOS R Pro camera now. So the S 23 Ultra fits the bill. After 2 days of playing with it, I'm in love
Really excited to get the s23 Ultra. Upgrading from an S22 ultra, mostly because of the battery and UFS 4.0 fast storage. But the camera upgrade is going to be a big bonus!
