The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is not the first smartphone to have a 108 MP lens on its rear camera, as Xiaomi has presumed after the presentation of the top of the Korean brand range. However, does the Chinese firm have so many reasons to put its Xiaomi Mi Note 10 before the S20 Ultra?
As the images taken by the lekaster @IceUniverse show, not too much. And although the two smartphone share a 108 MP sensor , the technology behind each of them is so different that the quality of the images obtained between one mobile and another is exaggeratedly evident.
Xiaomi Mi Note 10 vs Galaxy S20 Ultra
The 108 MP camera of the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 features a 1 / 1.33 ”Samsung HMX sensor and an f / 1.7 aperture that captures images at a resolution of 12032 x 9024 pixels, equivalent to the high-end DSLR camera. It has 4-in-1 Pixel binning technology.
However, the Ultra model releases a new Samsung ISOCELL Bright HM1, which is precisely the evolution of the Xiaomi smartphone sensor. It keeps the same size and opening but adds a new Pixel binning technology 9 to 1 , that is, instead of combining 4 pixels in 1, it combines 9 . In this way the new sensor of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra combines the pixels of 0.8 to achieve a total size of 2.4μm capable of accumulating more information nemotecnias less space.
This, on paper, translates into the fact that photography has a high level of detail compared to the captures made with the Xiaomi mobile.
Galaxy S20 Ultra vs Galaxy S20 +
Another good news for Samsung fans is that they will not have to pay the 1359 euros that the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra costs to enjoy high photographic quality. And is that the 64 MP sensor implicit in the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus (a few euros cheaper) is able to get very close to the quality offered by the Ultra model. Although the image “sins” of some more noise than that obtained with the top of the range, the set of 4 lenses of the Plus model complies with note.
While the capture of the S20 Ultra is done with the 108 MP angular sensor, for the S20 Plus, the 64 MP telephoto lens has been worked on, such as the DepthVision approach-assist sensor that helps manage the blur of the shot.
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