72 hours with Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus: ongoing review of the camera

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 camera comes with the best camera phones, or at least that's the conclusion I draw from the TechRadar full review this week.

I've already unpacked Note 10 and provided details on size, performance and some selected camera samples. Now it's time to release a complete gallery and demonstrate the versatility of the four camera lenses and the exclusive Plus depth sensor.

Samsung's Note 10 is equipped with a standard 12 MP lens with a variable aperture of f / 1.5 and f / 2.4, which means that the space in which the light passes changes physically depending on the lighting conditions. It's pretty sophisticated for a smartphone.

What stands out even more are the ultra-wide 12MP f / 2.1 and 16MP f / 2.2 telephoto lenses, which offer pictures from different perspectives. I've captured scenes in new ways: up close without distortion via 2x telephoto zoom, and framing more in the frame with the wide-angle lens – without having to make a backup to get everything in the plan.

After a weekend of testing, I am ready to share the good, the bad and sometimes the unclear.

Note 10 on the current camera (gallery)

This is my Samsung Note 10 camera sample series that I prefer so far, as it shows how the three rear cameras describe a scene differently, especially the 16MP wide-angle lens.

You can not even see 42nd Street and the iconic yellow taxi from New York on the other two photos. And yet, if you wanted the Chrysler Building alone, the telephoto lens is there to get the best shot of its perched gargoyles.

My second favorite set of photos, Note 10, is this one. It shows again how far the ultra-wide camera can be useful in certain situations.

The first photo you see here is the "finished product" – it was taken with an ultra-wide lens and has undergone some modifications – some basic corrections and cropping of Lightroom. I've used the ultra-wide lens because the usual purpose of the Note 10 does not do justice to this reflection (photo 2): the building is cut up and down in the reflection .

Because I did not want to be splashed by the traffic nearby (you can see a group of yellow taxis looking at me almost downstairs), I did not have time to go back and crop the picture. By quickly switching to the ultra-wide camera (photo 3), I was able to take a more complete picture and crop it later (photo 4); the image was then modified to produce photo 1.

Color Point was my favorite camera mode when I was looking at the Samsung Galaxy S10 and the S10 Plus, and it debuted in the Note series with the Galaxy Note 10.

This makes the background and the foreground parts in the background white, but keeps the main subject in color so that the person or object really comes out of the scene. This is not always perfect – you can see that part of the red tomato is in color and some of it is not, and the glass is also in color. Some photo taker settings and several security attempts (just pressing the shutter button until it works) usually solve these problems.

It's a really fun way to capture a scene, and Samsung does it better than anyone else (especially Motorola, who tried the same thing with poor results).

Here's another great example of a Color Point image next to an ordinary full-color photo. I do not want people in the background of the plan (sorry, people), and the Color Point Live Focus mode makes them a lot less distracting.

The photo of all the colors is taken at an aperture of f / 1.5 (it is a little dark in the restaurant), as well as the color point photo in black and white. What's interesting is that the Color Point mode (and all Live Focus modes) lets you switch between normal and telephoto lenses (the latter is always the default mode).

This … needs more tests. I've used Samsung's new night mode on Note 10 (the S10, the S10 Plus and the S10e have appeared via a software update after launching these phones).

The first photo shows what Samsung cameras do in dimly lit environments: they amplify the exposure and smooth, smooth and smooth again. It looks like my skin has gone through a family portrait montage session of the old school. Samsung's Night Mode (photo 2) further increases the exposure, but the grain is visible everywhere, especially in curtains. It's definitely brighter, though.

I've added a Google Pixel 3 photo taken with the famous Night Sight mode of this phone. This helps to better keep the details and compact the grain, but it's also noisy at the end. This is a dark picture, which means that the Note 10 camera requires more testing in the bars. "Wood, please!"

I said that I would emphasize good, bad and sometimes a little blurry. It can be difficult to try to get focus on a subject with Color Point or even with regular cameras and telephoto cameras. I gave myself permission to eat a donut for this test. A donut was injured during the creation of this photo gallery of note 10.

Color Point gets all the attention and for a good reason. This is the best new camera mode from Samsung, and it's the first time we see it on a Note phone. But there are other modes of live focus than this one.

There is Spin (Photo 1) and Zoom (Photo 2), a normal blur effect, and the new Big Big Circles filter that makes the background lights blurry and bulbous (as shown in Figure 2). next set of photos).

Here is a good example of the Big Circles mode using the 10MP front camera – and an example of remote shooting using the S Pen Pen to trigger the shutter.

The Samsung S Pen Pen has always been a useful stylus, but it has become a remote shutter of the Bluetooth camera with the grade 9 of last year. Color Point appears in (Photo 2) with a cropped selfie (Photo 3) as automatic cultures of the Samsung front camera compared to the larger selfie (unframed version) that you can select instead.

More Note 10 samples of incoming photos

I've been testing the Note 10 camera for a whole weekend. It's not enough to put a stamp on the review, but I'm closer after 72 hours (well, a little longer after writing and uploading photos – Samsung's photo transfer software leaves a lot to be desired, which I will nibble in the criticism.).

The analysis of the camera is not complete. Too often, critics do not consider the video capabilities of smartphones, and that's what I'll do Monday and Tuesday. The Samsung Note 10 image stabilization has been improved, according to Samsung, and I will test it in side-by-side comparisons. Stay tuned for more updates as the week progresses and Note 10 bends its multicamera muscles.