I really admire your work bro gj and keep it up.

@@YEBGD thanks man :)

Quality of your content is really better than most of big KZfaq gadget reviewers

@Tom Rich Hi, thanks for the video. What's your take on Pixel 7 Pro vs S23 Ultra for photos and videos

It's a literal crime that you're not getting sponsored by top companies, your videos are insanely close to perfection

Me personally im a photographer so having a s23 ultra or iPhone 14 pro whichever one you choose you cant go wrong

I prefer images on iPhone personally

@@michaelupchurch3779 Im also a photographer but I could care less cause I use a Sony a7iii for all my photos, I pretty much never ever use my phone for actual photography.

Speak for yourself. I'm up for any advances in technology

I can tell the difference. Preferred the S23 Ultra in most shots.

Yeah it’s much better than 12mp when cropping in. But I couldn’t see a real difference from 200mp to 50mp mode on the s23. But the 48mp pro raw fotos from iPhone are even better when cropping in. When I compared both, I could read some small texts far away with iPhones 48mp foto and in 200mp Foto from Samsung it was unreadable.

@@christiandoninger5951 50mp mode in pro raw is comparable to the 48mp apple Mode. The default 50/200 or 12 is just no pixel binning, 4/1 and 16/1 binning with Post processing and compression. 50mp pro raw with .dng files is 4 to 1 binning with no processing. A litte bit confusing for the normal user. Just check out the file size between the modes lol. 50mp pro raw makes 120mb images while the default 50/200 Mode makes 2,5 MB or 12 MB

@Christian Doninger I notice a difference in bright daylight. Took a photo of my airplane in the middle of the day with all 3 modes, and the finer details are more visible with the 200mp compared to the 50mp. The worse the light gets though, the more negligible the improvement. 50mp I'd say is the best all-around mode for the main camera during the daytime

Feels like they’ve definitely just improved everything by like 30% haha

@@ItsTomRich yeah. I'm typing on my 23 ultra right now. It's a great improvement. Top 3 improvements are. Low light video, video Stabilization, and the amount of detail you can capture in a 50mp jpeg file alone(nevermind with 200mp mode) without it being a huge file.(not in that order) The 50 mp files are overflowing with detail really. Battery life and low light photography are good improvements as well. Samsung really shines with the s23 series. If iPhone 14 pro is a 10/10 for video, this is easily like a 9.4 or so. It's... Right up there with it. I believe it's the new stabilization that helps keep alot of the detail intact when panning in videos. I always thought Samsung and all other Android phones had that issue, until now. It's all clear and crispy, like It should be

Indeed @Deadly Alliance it is the improvement in low light and indoor video on my new S23 Ultra over my previous Exynos S21Ultra that has impressed me the most. No more rampant noise and mushy detail dropout. I have noticed that they have upped the low light video bitrate on the 23U over the 21U from @41Mbit/sec to @70Mbit/sec, so video is much more detailed now and impressive. This, coupled with pixel binning, explains to a large extent this massive improvement.

@@neilmcguinness4422 mhmm I'm curious as to how theyve achieved this with such a high megapixel sensor for video. Can they bin in video too?

@@deadlyalliance8281 Yes they are binning for video and doing it a lot better than they did with the old 108Mp sensor on my S21U for example, which video wise could do nothing with it's poor bitrate and the Exynos 2100 chip, which was a very good chip overall but did nothing for the phones video quality. I agree that the S23 Ultra is still a little behind the IPhone 14PM in video quality as this phone has supernatural noise control, but at least they are both finally on the same page. This is good for Apple consumers, as the IPhone 15 Pro Max will need to put improved video on it's to do list to keep Samsung at bay.

I’ll cover this properly in my full camera review

@@ItsTomRich you can also turn off the scene optimizer to get more natural colours.

The video was already getting quite long 🥲 I will include more video samples in my full camera review!

He really ddint want to give samsung a win. Most KZfaqrs are like that. Isheeps to the core.

What's the point of those cameras if the apps aren't optimized to use them properly ? Instagram & TikTok still look bad when uploading from S23 series.. On iOS , you can upload and view HDR 60fps videos to Insta Reels while the Android app is stuck at SDR content capping at 30fps

@@shebjjeje9720 then blame those obsolete apps for not catching up

@Sheb J,jeje LOL clearly you don't have s23 ultra, my cheap s21 fe can shoot 60fps instagram story

​@Sheb J,jeje Hahaha what Samsung has optimized the S23 series so much that you can now upload a photo on Instagram, Tiktok and others with better quality. You don't have samsung right?

@@shebjjeje9720 they do not look bad on the s23

​@vi8tboy Professional? iPhone's pro models don't even have a pro mode. S23U has a damn pro mode in photos/videos and on every damn lens too.

Thanks Neil! 🙌🏻

Thanks for the note - I experimented with it once or twice but wasn’t super happy with it. I’ll give it another look for my full camera review!

Really true tbf, overall that’s fair to say night video is probably better on the Samsung because of it

I’m going to cover this in my full photography review, thanks!

Pixel takes better photos than iphone. But not video. 23 ultra takes best photos and better videos than pixel. Iphone is video king

On for vast majority of shots

Thanks for the reply, do you see a significant different when its off? If the pictures are a bit toned downed and less saturated?

Thanks Jeth 🙌🏻

I really miss the hard press home button so far other then that a vast improvement over the note 9. Also the dual aperture on the camera was a neat novelty

Thanks for the nice comment bro. Happy to have you 🫡

Thanks!!

Thanks for helping me shoot bruuuuh

No it was mostly on thorough this video

@@ItsTomRich I mean you should turn it off.

Yeah, but apple will supersede it in September. They’re on different release cycles I literally just mentioned it so people are aware. People need to chill lmao

Same thing with zoom test..

I literally just have no need at all to shoot 8k on a phone - that’s more the reason if that makes sense. It’s good to have it as an option (I guess?) just doesn’t make any sense to me lol

@@ItsTomRich thats like saying no need to shoot 4k 4-5 years ago. They put that there for a reason and it improves the quality, but when apple does it its the best thing ever lol come on. 😁😂 You said its noisy lol then show us then? Coz I'm shooting videos under the same conditions as you and its not. No proof.

@@ItsTomRich one reason could be when one uploads videos to KZfaq since they compress the videos so much? Most use 1440p to 4K even on 1080p to get better bit rate (or they could have changed it last year, i´m stuck in my habits of putting everything on 4K on my 1440p monitor🙃)

@@_TrueDesire_ the browser actually let's you watch in 8k if the video is uploaded in 8k. I watched the sample videos and it's not noisy like the reviewer said.

@@ItsTomRich Good day, Tom. Your response just seemed to come across as putting a negative spin on a rather impressive and positive feature on said device which many reviewers have only praised, and it would seem simply for the sake of bias or promoting the other and could be seen as malicious when you say something that could put people off buying a device in favour of the other, are asked why and then say "Honestly it's not even that, I just don't personally find 8K a necessary thing". I can completely see where Blake is coming from. Now, I can think of why the 8K could be noisier, and something which may or may not be true and which may or may not be visible in your video due to KZfaq compression if said statement is true. Perhaps the 4K mode uses on-the-fly alrogrithms that employ the use of pixel binning and apply that to the video to increase dynamic range and reduce noise in a similar way to photos, but this may not be possible in 8K due to it being much more demanding to process, the noise reduction may be toned down in software too on top of all of this and it may just not be available on the sensor level at 8K. However, this could be demonstrated in a blown-up circle of a portion of your video next time to show that it is indeed something that you see visible and strong enough to warrant not using it for yourself personally. Now, I do not want you to think I'm saying you ARE wrong or right, and thus I do not want you to think I am attacking you in any sort of way. Some of us just love these in-depth things as much as you yourself do, possibly even more, and enjoy a genuine answer to a question. I can understand from your point of view too, however. Perhaps on this particular day you were tired and didn't have the energy to explain something in detail. That, too, is fine, and personally completely understandable. However, do remember if you make a statement to back it up in a suitable manner otherwise people being people these days can take it negatively and try and take credibility away from your work which may or may not be justified depending on what is happening. I'm simply saying I can see the viewpoint of both you and Blake here. I am writing this in the hopes that you see this and understand it is purely for your sake and that content going forward is even better and a few pointers I feel that will help you on your journey to even better content even if it is a small pointer, as we are all always learning and constructive criticism is always appreciated, at least I like to think. Have a lovely day and I look forward to more videos and content my friend.

Frfr the only main difference for me was the colour science.. also sam has done good work in video so we can hope it gets better with updates

Definitely don’t think it’s a needed upgrade from S22 to S23!

@@ItsTomRich in Europe, its an upgrade! byby exynos

Doesn’t always work, sometimes without optimiser photos look like absolute trash. I normally just leave it on for ease

That does not help,s23u still have crap colors.too bright and not represent what you see at all

@ItsTomRich But you can activate filters (the icon looking like a wizard) and configure the strength to your liking, for instance, the filter 'Cool'. They are available in photo and video mode and can be saved permanently as your default color temperature (or name it schema, you got my point). On iPhones they are called Styles and are only available for photos.

@@arvandvarahram on s21u default colors are amazing,true to real life.and you dont need to do anything to make it better.On s23u colors are totaly broken,too saturated,too bright,so much that picture is losing details.As now,camera is crap.

@@ivanosijek2306 I think they completely switched to "sharability". Interestingly, most reviewers have accepted this in the meantime. A friend of mine posts photos on Instagram. He uses a professional Sony whatever (I don't know the exact modell name), but he edits each single photo before posting, and none of the edited photos has colors which have nothing in common with real life colors. It is all about sharing in the meantime. Therefore, the idea of using filters (styles). I mean the way Samsung allows you to save them as default makes it pretty easy to use.

How much did it cost?

@@roshaney My phone? Got it as an upgrade and paid a fee upfront to bring down the monthly payment.

I will include it in my full camera review of the phone :)

A very good summary!!

if you haven't known, you can reduce the shutter lag by a considerable amount for the S23U using Camera Assistant. i dont know why it's not just baked into the camera app natively, but it is an option so you should look into that!

@@soratsuki469 Thanks. I did not have that. This makes all the difference. Choice of the compromises at fingertips.