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Wow, great timing, Brent. Just got my 23 Ultra this morning. Can't wait to try it out. Also very eager to see what you can do with astrophotography with the S 23. Looks like you are at the City of Rocks.
Thanks Dan! So far it seems like a solid phone camera for sure, but for astro specifically, it's doesn't appear to be much if any better than than the S22 Ultra. I'll have the first astro video out here in a couple days.
Love your videos man, it's so clear your passion for photography. I watch your 20+ mins videos without even realising they're long
Great job on doing this wonderful video and thank you for sharing with us yours perspective and opinion of a photographer. I ordered the S23 Ultra lavender and now your video has me more excited than ever. Have a great day. 🪷🌸🪷
Got mine today☺️ Can't wait for your more videos on this beast!
Really good and interesting video. Can't wait to see the astrophotography one. I think it's crazy how in one pocket you can have all those focal lengths and a decent quality, it's just like you said, it is for fun! I wanted to say you though that when I tried many many times the comparison between 200mp and 12mp binned, there was always a great amount of detail more in the 200 mp, I don't know what happened in that image, actually it suprised me.
Wow, great video, I enjoyed much more than I thought, thank you for sharing this wonderful video...🌻🌼🌻
Galaxy 23 is the best camera performance of all time. Fantastic!!!
Excellent video. Image analysis part is great.
Thanks, I appreciate it! 😀
I got my S23 Ultra 1TB phone on Monday, it arrived last week, but picked it up from the post office Monday. It's great, but I still like my Note 9.
Note 9 is a legend
Most of the Notes have been great for their respective times. But the S23 Ultra is clearly next level. Just the smoothness of the interface alone makes most of the older Samsung devices feel like ancient technology. Not to mention all the other improvements such as greatly improved battery life, boosted storage, refined camera setup, etc.
Ok 👌 note 9 was great I owed it. But come on the s23 is crazy level not even close
@@stephenpatterson8056ikr it's not even close I've had every Samsung phone so I know
Man this note 9 is still going strong, the only worthy upgrade I see right now is the s23 ultra but i would still like to see alot more improvements.
I love you man you are amazing ❤❤❤
You guys are so under-appreciated! I could HEAR the cold through your mic. 🥶
Phones are so amazing these days. Crazy. Great video
Mannnnnn! Many thanks, Brent, for your time and knowledge...it's been super helpful to me and I've learned a ton learning to take better shots with my S22 Ultra. Appreciate you taking the time to help us smart phone users out...and btw...thank you for your service, brother, from a former "puddle pirate"! 👍 From my DSLR /mirrorless days, I understand DOF and how to get "tack sharp photos" from foreground to backgound. With my Z5, it had an "auto" feature in it to do a focus stack series which could be later combined in Lr /Ps. Prior to that, I used to do manual stacks with my D7500. With a smart phone, though, I don't know if I'm just dense or just simply missing the boat when it comes to DOF. Watching this video, when you were taking shots, I never saw you place / adjust the focus square anywhere before taking a photo (like with your wife standing in the crater starting about 18:08). Is that simply because you left the focus on "auto" and let the camera figure it out? By my understanding, if you wanted to highlight a foreground object and blur the background, you'd go off autofocus and place the focus point on something in the immediate foreground (or get real close to your foreground object), correct? And, vice versa if you wanted foreground blur with sharp background? I guess what I'm asking, with no aperture to set a desired DOF, if you want the ENTIRE picture to be in focus, do you simply let the camera do it (autofocus...subject to which lens it's using) or is there a "middle ground" in manual focusing where you can place your focal point on the the mid-ground and then (hopefully), everything from front to back will be in focus? Lastly, you mentioned doing a focus stack series which can later be combined in Lr / Ps. Is that process any different than bringing in a similaly-shot series in from a DSLR / mirrorless? Cheers from Bend, Oregon...some of that New Mexico high desert looks a lot like around here! 😉
Hey thanks man, I'm so glad the video helped! Yeah, I used the auto focus for all of those, and just tapped on the screen where I wanted it to focus. If you want the entire picture in focus, then it's still all about subject distance. The closer you are to your subject, the more out of focus the background will be, due to physics. These sensors are smaller, yes, and inherently have a smaller DOF, but they are getting larger these days and are still subject to background blur when closer distances are evolved. In the case of camera lady being in that rock well, I was using the wide angle lens for starters, and she wasn't super close to me, so even though I focused on her, she was far enough away from the camera that she and pretty much everything else is in focus. Hopefully that helps explain it it a little bit.
Nice work it will be difficult do this in a cold weather but you did a good work👍🏻 Nice I hope you get a lot of subscribers for this I appreciated you hard work👍🏻❤️❤️
Can't wait for astro😃
So cool. I've never been into photography, but I got the s23U, and i find myself pulling over on the road when I see what I think would make a good landscape photo even though I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm picking up things here and there from your video definitely a hobby I'd like to chase.
Oh nice, I'm glad you're liking it! The more you get out and mess with it, the more addicting it'll get, 😁
This is The s23 ultra test I've been waiting for this is beast mood done right . Fyi Samsung recommend light light light for the 200mp picture you where shooting in what looks like a lower light setting
Fantastic shots my man! As a few others have mentioned, I'm also interested in some night and astro shots. Wanted to see how improved the low light photography is, and how that expert raw system works it's magic once setup. Perhaps even seeing if a 200mp shot produces some crisper astro shots. Great video as always though!
Thanks! Unfortunately, there's no way to do astro with the 200mp, as that is only available in the regular jpeg mode and not the pro or expert raw modes. they have the 50mp option, though IMHO there isn't really a point in using the 50mp option for astro images.
Thanks so much! I'm about to go to Europe for a month. I have been excites to use my new camera. Its quite an upgrade from my Galaxy S10+! I know I won't have time to play with settings so I like the idea to use pro mode and be able to quickly switch lenses. Thanks for the thoughtful review and explanation!
That's awesome, have fun over there! So many good photo opportunities.
Love your videos. When you have pushed all facets of what the S 23 ultra cameras can do, could you please provide tips for the best settings to get the most out of these cameras Including astrophotography
Thank you.
You need to stand still after pressing on shutter for 50 and 200MP, hold still for several seconds until is done
I'm hoping to have mine next week, says 20-27th for shipping
We are waiting for the astrophotography review mode :)\
Yes, please!
A Brent? I'm back. I have a question. With the checklist calibration in Lightroom you make a profile for your specific camera right ADN G or a tall into the software. And the checker after that in Lightroom you just color code for each shoot right ?
Great comparison and video. A Promode RAW IQ between 50MP and 12MP would be appreciated.
I'm looking forward to more of these. I still have my S9+ but it's starting to drive me crazy but I don't know that I can justify spending the $$$$ on a new cellphone. It would have to be exponentially better than my current one. Plus I think I told you about the wildfire and losing everything and being massively underinsured soooooooo it's hard to justify a phone when we haven't even replaced our cars yet 🙃 Anyhow, we love your content and look forward to more.
Well, it's definitely a massive upgrade from the S9, in every way, not just the cameras, but even still, if your current phone still works and you don't have any way to get a good deal on the new phone, then personally I'd think it might not be a huge priority given your current situation. Thanks for sticking around, and I hope you and your family are able to get things sorted and start moving forward again soon!
@@es-zw3mg do you notice any difference on photo quality?
I have an old pixel 3a which is always with me. I rarely use my cameras these days. I'm looking to upgrade the phone. I was wondering what do you recommend between a new s23 Ultra or a s22 Ultra. Looks like the s22 would be something like 300 - 400 less.
If you don't stand still especially in wind you will get blur on 50/200, doensample to 25MP on both modes and its great
How to downsample to 25 MP?
Hey Brent, as a fellow messed up shoulder sufferer, best of luck with the surgery. unfortunately i don't have any cheat codes for surgery recovery, other than to be realistic about your expectation of function, and go to PT as long as insurance will let you. I'm at over a year, and still going, still seeing improvement. I have a camera question as well: have you ever used the Swarovski TLS adapter for spotting scopes? I've seen some impressive pictures with it, and I'm thinking about getting one of their scopes for observation this year, and certainly, the TLS is cheaper than any lens with decent reach, provided you already own the scope.
Hey thanks for the kind words man, I appreciate it! Unfortunately, this will be my 9th surgery, so I'm sadly very familiar with recoveries and the PT process (the military was not kind to my body, lol). Hopefully this next one goes well. I've never used a scope before, so I don't know how that would perform, unfortunately.
HI I have a question for you: In your opinion, from what you've seen trying it, samsung galaxy s 23ultra in raw mode takes excellent quality photos yes or no? thanks if you answer me... 
Super interesting brent. I have the S22 ultra. I have not really played a whole lot with it. These days I'm still trying hard to practice with the r6mk2. Which I love but still have struggles. So while I have ya. On the r6mk2 for example If I have a hawk perched like 150 feet away. With back button focus I hit my main spot focus to aquire initial focus. Then when I hit the star button for eye tracking why does my focus square go about everywhere other than the eye? Using ef to rf canon 100 to 400L2. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Seems to nail focus if bird is in flight. And I'm talking about a hawk perch on clean perch. Nothing in the way. Thanks Brent 😊
Hard to say without being there in person, but 150 ft is usually too far aawy for the af to accurately detect an eye, and if it can't then it will default to the head, and then the body.
@@BrentHall Thank you for replying
Hello, Beautiful work! I have a few questions. I'm buying this phone and know nothing about photography. When you were editing the photos on your pc, was that part using camera options or was it all photoshop, or something else? Thanks for your time and for sharing this amazing video!
IF I'm editing on the phone, it's either with Snapseed or Lightroom mobile. When I'm editing on the computer I always use Adobe Bridge/Camera RAW & Photoshop.
Thanks for this test always super interesting! Do you think it's better to stay in 50Mpix in pro mode rather than 200 to have just a little more freedom than 12? Because the 200 brings nothing after all, finally I don't have the finesse you have to see the best And remains the Raw expert mode. See what gives between 50 and 12 since the 200 is not Thanks again for coming back
i think that wide camera has real 50 mp. 200 mp may be the upscaling feature available in base camera mode only. so 50 px in pro is the best choice i guess.
Nice video, why pro mode and no expert raw?
Hi. When I click the link for "favorite light panel," a list of items appears, but none of them reads "light panel." Also looking for the round polarizing filter you sometimes manually hold in front of your phone, as for water photos? Many thanks!
Oh thanks for the heads up about the link, and sorry about that. It's this one: amzn.to/3xZdz9a For filters, I just hold my big filters over my phone lens if I need one, because moment quit making the cases with the built-in filter and lens mounts for the S22 and up now and I haven't found any other good way to reliably attach a filter for the newer galaxy phones.
I have noticed that if there isn't enough light 200 Mp option when using the pro/expert raw mode will not be an option, only the 12 & 50 Mp. I have tried it yesterday. I didn't have explored the photography of my S23 ultra yet.
hoping you are starting to feel a little better with that shoulder. Did you go to the VA for that surgery? Ive been thinking about playing around more with smart phone photography myself. At least for street photography to be less obvious lol. Cheers brother.
No surgery scheduled yet. Unfortunately they found some things with my shoulder that are going to make it more complicated than they thought, so they're having more tests and consultations scheduled now.
Brent, a quick question. Do you use or plan to use some kind of lens protector on your S 23 Ultra?
No, I never have.
Are there any smartphone only photographers on youtube? Preferably in street photography. Many are just influencers of established camera brands but smartphones are evolving fast.
What are "camera lady's" favorite gloves? Mine would likely ot allow fine work, as they are Kombi's waterproof ski gloves. I have 2 damaged digits that now cannot get cold.
She just has some REI tech gloves. I've been meaning to get her some of the photographer gloves, but I haven't yet.
@@BrentHall Just thinking outside the box a little..it could be that if you stitch the "tech" material onto a different glove, it will still work. Not sure if that fabric relies on body heat to work or not.
Try Astrophotography! I want to see?
Thanks. Great video. I'm finding something strange with the cameras. 1) Close/shut down the camera app. 2) Start camera app and choose Photo mode and select 10x. It's actually using the 3x lens. Why isn't it using the 10x lens? 3) Press Home button and then open the camera app again, it's now using the 10x lens. I'm just confused at which point the camera switches from using the 3x lens to the 10x lens. It doesn't seem to be at exactly 10x zoom. I placed a sticky note over the 10x lens to confirm the above.
Samsung has always had an issue with that. For some reason they have an algorithm that will tell it to switch over to the 3x or main sensor if it thinks there's not enough light in the scene, and then it will just crop in on that instead of using the actual 10x lens, which is really annoying. I think the only way from keeping it from doing that is to use pro mode.
@@BrentHall Thanks for confirming this. So in Photo mode, when you press either 0.6, 1, 3, 10, you aren't guaranteed to use the corresponding lens. However in Pro mode, when you press either UW, W, T, ST, you are guaranteed to use the corresponding lens?
Thank you for the video. I recently had a lens protector installed on my s23 Ultra and immediately noticed night photos are now blurry. Do I even need lens protectors? If yes, what is the best?
Sure thing man, thanks for watching! I've personally never used a lens protector on any of my phones. I think they probably have a better chance of degrading the image quality than protecting the lenses. Just my reasoning for not having them though.
@@BrentHall makes sense keep up the good videos I subscribed to your channel!
for information, Expert Raw had an update today but I don't know what other than live sharing with lightroom???
I would love to see you try the Google Pixel 8 Pro and hear your thoughts on that compared to the s23 ultra.
Yeah, I'd love to try it, can't afford one though 😓
Honestly I thought the would be more detail on using the pro mode and how to use it for the shots taken when screen recorded. But this seemed more of a post processing video for shots taken on the base photo mode. Still, it was very informative for post processing. But would have been nice as a guide to using the pro feature on the phone for those of us not familiar with photography techniques.
I'm doing another full video on pro mode, including going over everything in it and all the good l how's and why's and when's to use it.
@@BrentHall that's good to know and exactly what brought me here in the first Place. I'm a new user of the s23 and know nothing about photography. A video like that would help me massively in getting the best out of my photos abs also teach me basic photography settings on the mobile. Post processing I can do after the fact, following your already posted tutorial. I'm flying to Northern Norway on Saturday, hence me looking for how to get the best out of my camera. Having known nothing about photography techniques 👍
Np. If time is an issue, since I won't have my video up by Sat, check out any of my other pro mode tutorials, probably the S21 Ultra pro mode video will be the most recent. There are some new changes I'll go over, but the S21 Ultra is similar enough that it will help you get familiar with the pro mode features.
@@BrentHall Thanks Brent, much appreciated! I'll have a look. Subscribed, looking forwards to your future videos 👍
Would there be a benefit in using expert raw mode instead of pro mode?
You have a few slight advantages. (For the s23 for sure idk about other phones) You get astrophotography and multi exposures. (i think) If those features are interesting then use expert raw.
it is worth buying the s23 ultra or the s22ultra. What is the big difference between the two when shooting in raw? I'm undecided and the 22 has dropped in price.
For me personally, I wouldn't have upgraded from my S22 Ultra if it weren't for this channel, but I knew doing the S23 videos would pay me back for the phone. There are some nice improvements, but I don't know if they're worth the price over S22U, especially if budget is a concern. So far, at least in my own experience, I haven't seen anything from my S23 that my 22 couldn't have done similarly, especially after some editing. That's just my 2 cents though, everyone's different, you know.
NOW i UNDERSTAND WHY i HAVE BEEN GETTING CRAPPY RESULTS.... When cropping in and then shooting all the benefits go away but at 1x they seem much better. I would LOVE to see a video showing how pixel binning works on this phone...
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Will you explain the difference between expert raw and pro mode?
The only real differences that I know of at this point are the astro mode and the fact that expert raw mode gives a bit more bit depth for its raw images, which theoretically might give you a little more to data to work with in post. In practice though, I haven't noticed a big enough difference for it to really matter.
@@BrentHall just found another youtuber who says expert raw uses multiple images where pro mode uses 1 and that if your subject is in motion to use pro mode because of the quicker exposure
Isn't the 200mp raw available using expert raw mode?
Alas no
Negative, just the 50mp.
You can change the view to full .. am surprised you never did that click on the icon that says 3.4 then change it to full ..
I am s 23 ultra user, No need to spend lakhs of rupees in DSLR,There is no doubt that its camera is very good.❤
Like the phone don't really care for the square look I think why I haven't picked it up yet
You as pro photographer using pro mode looks good.But what do you think about auto mode?I mean most of the people will use that.What i did see is that pictures are way to bright and colors are too much saturated.So much that pictures looks like crap.How to fix that?Or that only can samsung fix with software?
You know what's crazy? I do videos where I don't use pro mode and people get upset, saying I should have used pro mode to get the most out of the images. Then I do vides where I use pro mode and people say I should just shoot in auto regular modes because that's what most people use...I just can't win huh?! lol. But yeah, Samsung definitely over-processes their jpeg images, which is why (like I said in the video) that the only way to not have that happen is to shoot in pro mode, but you can just set everything to auto within pro mode and just enable the raw + jpeg option that way you'll have the unedited un-processed raw to edit if you want, but you'll also have the jpeg for quick snapshots...again, I'm pretty sure I discussed and showed this in the video.
@@BrentHall i did watch video but i must missed something.Funny thing is that you are one of least people saying that s23u is making over processed images.on auto mode.most of people is blind or dont want to see how bad images are at auto mode.They are too bright,too saturated,so much that phone making pictures bad.And for me that is deal breaker.I want a phone where i can get it out of pocket press button and that auto mode make nice picture.For me,as right not that is not.For example my s21u is making nice photos on auto mode.This is just bad,at least for auto.
The cameras on the s23u are not as good as everyone says, especially considering the price. And yes, I bought one and I'm not returning it, but the photos from my previous Note 10+ are much nicer and more natural. It's just my opinion.
@@zyyz2761 thats why i returned mine.This colors on camera that cost so much is no for me.There is better option.Dont know why everyone is saying that is best camera,people just hype something without reason
@@ivanosijek2306 why return the phone when you can just take pictures with Pro mode while keeping all settings in Auto? This way you avoid the overprocessing from the auto camera. The phone just came out, there hasn't been any software update for the camera. Even with my Pixel 7 Pro I still had to pretty much always always go to Edit and select Enhance because the pictures were underexposed and looking cold.
How's the shoulder doing Brent..??
Still no bueno. More tests and consultations before they will schedule the surgery.
Note to self: Learn how to use pro mode on the Pixel 6.
Bro we want astrophotography
I would say you probably need to be on a tripod to take the 200mp shots.
I have S21Ultra and find the 10x telephoto lens too soft and overall image quality far from 1x or 3x cameras.
What model is the tripod? Please put the link. Thx. Take care man!
With Samsung gettin' the new S23 Ultra in everyone's hands - get ready for a SLEW of nighttime astrophotography shots to flood the web, lol. If you don't have astro shots on your social media within, say...2 weeks - you're a dinosaur. 😎
Nice, but the sensor is still 1/1.3-inch. Yes, they do voodoo magic with the likes of pixel binning, but until they get bigger sensors in a cell phone form factor... A whole lot of marketing is talking to you.
Yeah, I definitely agree, and have said as much many many times on my phone videos; however, that's not the point of these videos. Phones will likely never catch up to being comparable to proper cameras, and I think most people know that. The point of these videos, at least why I make them, is to help people who might have never otherwise, get into photography, and realize that they can start making images and learning photography even if they only have a phone. In that regard, phone cameras these days are quite incredible.
Been in Photography for years, I just bought a new s23 ultra, only for the Camera, since I saw reviews, I straight away set it up on 200 and against my old Samsung A21s, exact same Landscape image, I just Blew all that money for nothing, there is no difference on the 200 MP setting whatsoever Resolution sharpness wise between it and my old Samsung, I've seen all those KZhead Guys doing a great job, but for the life of me, I can't get my 23 Ultra to take on the old a21s , am well out of Pocket now, what a waste of cash for nothing. 2 Images side by side, same landscape subject no more Detail in the 23 Ultra image...
Soy usuario de S23 Ultra y tú tienes toda la razón. No sé nota una mejora sustancial con otros modelos. 200 mpx sólo es marketing. Deberías publicar una comparativa para que otros no caigan en la trampa. Saludos
So if s23 ultra beat iphone 14 pro. Do you mean that the a21 takes pictures like all the most expensive phones above 1k? I have never heard such nonsense and you should buy better glasses John.
Pro tip: don't get your fingers in the shot.
Is it just me or does he looks a bit like Elon Musk?
200 and 50 megapixels look more like a gimmick. Samsung does make a app "camera assistant" to tweak your photo's. I have played around with camera assistant.
At this point, I don't personally think they're a complete gimmick, but I do think they're over-marketed, and heavily misunderstood and misused. I also think their processing algorithms for the 200mp just aren't very good yet, so in most cases, it just doesn't seem advantageous to use that feature, at least for me anyway. The 50mp option in pro mode is better now though.
Can you compare s23u to my nokia x50 :( I look forward to the release of the new s series so Brent can review it.