This story is a part of Samsung Occasion, CNET’s assortment of reports, suggestions and recommendation round Samsung’s hottest merchandise.

Samsung’s 2023 flagship lineup consists of the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Extremely, and their digital camera upgrades took up a lot of the dialog when the telephones had been unveiled at Samsung Unpacked final week. There are enhancements throughout the road to the front-facing digital camera. The primary digital camera on the $1,200 Extremely telephone received an upgraded 200-megapixel sensor in contrast with the 108-megapixel one on final yr’s Galaxy S22 Extremely.

However what do these digital camera enhancements imply for you? Whereas we’re nonetheless within the technique of reviewing the Galaxy S23 collection and testing their images prowess, we are able to go over all of the cameras and standout picture and video options every telephone has.

Each Galaxy S23 telephone will get a brand new front-facing digital camera

Whether or not you might be eyeing the $800 Galaxy S22, $1,000 Galaxy S22 Plus or $1,200 Galaxy S22 Extremely, all three telephones include a 12-megapixel selfie digital camera that you should use for taking selfies, recording video of your self and video calls.

The 12-megapixel digital camera looks as if an enchancment on paper for the S23 and S23 Plus — their predecessors every sported a 10-megapixel selfie digital camera. So far as the Extremely is anxious, the brand new entrance digital camera might at first seem like a downgrade, as a result of the S22 has a 40-megapixel selfie digital camera. However fewer megapixels is not essentially a nasty factor. Samsung centered on making the brand new selfie digital camera higher at separating topics from their background extra clearly. 

My colleague Lisa Eadicicco present in assessments for her S23 Extremely evaluate that images taken on the brand new front-facing digital camera are equal to final yr’s machine. Nevertheless, she noticed that selfie images from the Galaxy S23 Extremely sometimes regarded unnatural, exaggerating hair colour, in contrast with images taken with the selfie cameras on the Pixel 7 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional. She additionally stated that the S23 Extremely’s selfie digital camera takes higher night time portraits over final yr’s S22 Extremely. 

The brand new digital camera additionally helps Tremendous HDR, which boosts colour, distinction and brightness for video recorded at 4K 60fps.

Talking of video, all the rear cameras throughout the S23 lineup can file video at 8K 30fps, up from 8K 24fps on final yr’s Galaxy S22 lineup. By way of body charges, 30fps is extensively supported in apps like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. The 8K 30fps setting is not actually geared toward on a regular basis use. However 8K may turn out to be useful in case you intend on taking part in your movies on a bigger display screen that’s appropriate with 8K or in case you’re recording footage for a movie as Samsung steadily instructed throughout its announcement. It is also price noting that 8K movies usually take up more room than ones recorded in 4K or HD.

Samsung additionally elevated the sphere of view on the Galaxy S23 Extremely’s digital camera when recording in 8K, which is nice contemplating the crop was very extreme on earlier Galaxy S telephones that help 8K. The S21 and S22 collection made footage recorded in 8K on the primary wide-angle digital camera seem like it was taken on a telephoto lens.

Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus’ three rear cameras

The triple rear-facing cameras on the Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus are just about the identical as their predecessors, hardware-wise, however Samsung says it is made behind-the-scenes enhancements to parts like dynamic vary and glare discount. We’ve not examined the Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus but, however these modifications had been actually noticeable on the Galaxy S23 Extremely. In any other case, Samsung eliminated the digital camera bump, giving the S23 and S23 Plus’ cameras the same look as these discovered on the S23 Extremely. 

So, what does every digital camera do?

Let’s begin off with the primary digital camera, which has a wide-angle lens and is positioned in the midst of the opposite two cameras. This will likely be your day by day driver. The primary digital camera provides you the choice to shoot in 50-megapixels, nevertheless, full decision photos should be taken underneath very best lighting circumstances to seize the highest quality. You will have 50 million pixels to work with, however in contrast to new mirrorless cameras or DSLRs of yesteryear, telephone sensors and their pixels are extremely small, and do not take up as a lot gentle. This results in extra picture noise and the necessity to use extra noise discount processing, which might make particulars look gentle and your picture look dangerous.

As a substitute, Samsung’s digital camera app defaults to 12-megapixel images, which mixes teams of particular person pixels to behave as a single bigger pixel. The method is known as pixel binning and ends in much less picture noise and higher-quality images underneath medium- and low-light circumstances (suppose inside a darkish restaurant). 

Be taught extra: What precisely is pixel-binning?

Subsequent, you have received the 12-megapixel extremely vast digital camera on the prime of the digital camera array, an identical to the one on its predecessor. If you wish to seize extra of your environment, pinch in in your display screen to change to this digital camera and its 120-degree area of view. The extremely vast is right for capturing landscapes and its exaggerated look makes for dramatic wanting movies. It is a enjoyable digital camera to make use of once you shoot in slow-mo.

Lastly, you could have the 10-megapixel telephoto digital camera, on the backside of the array, with its 3x optical zoom lens. Telephoto cameras can higher seize far-away objects, topics and backgrounds. Zooming in may help take away distracting parts out of your body. It is also the digital camera you will use for portrait mode pictures.

And naturally, you should use Single Shot mode to take images from all three rear cameras concurrently.

Galaxy S23 Extremely’s 4 rear cameras, embrace a 200-megapixel major digital camera

Samsung saved its largest digital camera upgrades for its premium flagship Galaxy S23 Extremely. Not like the opposite two S23 collection telephones, the Extremely contains a quadruple rear digital camera system, annotated within the picture under.

The S23 Extremely’s pièce de résistance is a brand new major digital camera that has a large 200-megapixel sensor — practically double the decision supplied by the Galaxy S22 Extremely. As talked about within the earlier part, you most likely will not have to shoot on the highest decision, except you propose on making massive prints of images. Just like the S23 and S23 Plus, the Extremely’s major digital camera takes 12-megapixel images by default utilizing pixel binning. Within the case of the Extremely, it simply has extra pixels that it might group collectively which leads to higher wanting photos which might be brighter and have much less picture noise, even underneath low gentle.

The brand new sensor additionally has Tremendous Quad Pixel, an improved autofocus system that makes use of 2×2 pixel teams to assist the digital camera’s focus lock onto particulars like horizons or tree trunks even when it is dim. The S23 Extremely additionally helps the Professional Uncooked app, which lets you seize images utilizing Samsung’s computational algorithms and save your snap as a uncooked file to retains extra picture knowledge and higher dynamic vary. Uncooked recordsdata are usually bigger than JPEG recordsdata however are extra very best for picture modifying since they comprise extra picture data and settings. Samsung’s Professional Uncooked app helps all the S23 Extremely’s cameras, and once you set up the app, its controls are added to the native digital camera app.

Together with the primary digital camera, there’s additionally a 12-megapixel extremely vast digital camera, with a 120-degree area of view, and two telephoto cameras, as a substitute of the one discovered on the S23 and S23 Plus. The primary telephoto lens has a 3x optical zoom, whereas the second has a 10x optical zoom. The second telephoto digital camera additionally has a 100x digital zoom, however the extra you zoom in, the extra noisy photos look. If the 10x telephoto is something like earlier Galaxy Extremely telephones, its digital zoom ought to take respectable images as much as 25x to 30x magnification, which is properly past what the Pixel 7 Professional or iPhone 14 Professional can handle.

Need to be taught extra in regards to the Galaxy S23? Try our evaluate of the Galaxy S23 Extremely, how one can preorder the Galaxy S23 proper now and why Samsung’s future premium telephones could also be tougher to afford.

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