Re: Note 20 Ultra cameras
I’ve had my Note 20 Ultra for a week and am disappointed with the camera. It is definitely not an optical Zoom as cane be seen by the EXIF and by the file sizes. As you Zoom the file size decreases until the next lens/sensor is activated when there is a jump in size, then a further decrease.
Close focus is poor compared to my Note 8.
Sharpness is no better for general pictures than the Note 8 and much worse for closer focussed images. Regarding the closer focus and Zoom, it behaves inconsistently. As you zoom in it reaches 6X the jumps to the next lens which can’t focus as close and also shifts the image due to parallax.
The 108 Mpixel mode is slightly sharper but there is a large lag between tapping the button and the picture being taken. I’m guessing this is the actual shutter lag of the camera but in the 12Mp modes it is buffering images before the button is tapped and just saves the past image that matches the tap.
Focus in the dark with flash on is much worse than the Note 8, often taking out of focus shots (taking picture of electric meter in cupboard to report reading). I don’t know what the mythical laser focussing does.
Overall the phone is faster and the screen better than the Note 8. There’s a few UI changes that a worse, such as the loss of the quick switch swipe on the home button and the loss of the 5 across grid on the pull down menu.
So I think this one is going back. Sad because I had high hopes that the camera would be an improvement on the Note 8. I will miss some improvements to the phone side.
Perhaps the next version...