Galaxy Note 20 Ultra camera rated worse than S20 Ultra's by DxOMark

Last updated: October 12th, 2020 at 14:47 UTC+01:00

Similar we needed more than confirmation that Samsung's bizarre lack of consistency troubled the visitor's flagship range throughout this entire year, French imaging experts from DxOMark recently fastened some numbers to those suspicions. Based on the business firm'southward benchmarking methodology, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G offers a photographic camera experience that isn't an improvement, just a marginal downgrade compared to the best of Samsung'south previous flagship line, i.due east. the Galaxy S20 Ultra.

The difference is largely insignificant, with the newer device earning a 130- and 101-point rating in photo and video, respectively, but the 132/102 score of its older predecessor is however a surreal reference to find, at least following years of massive quality leaps from Samsung's mobile photography tech.

Hindsight is 20/twenty, so a lot nonetheless hinges on how Samsung reacts next year

As things stand correct now, DxOMArk notwithstanding deems at least seven recent Android flagships from Xiaomi, Huawei, Vivo, Honour, and OPPO as improve portable cameras than the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. For added context, the Galaxy S20 Ultra was accounted the fifth-best camera smartphone in the world following its launch dorsum in spring, and at least two new Chinese handsets DxOMark whose rear cameras DxOMark labeled superior hit the market in the meantime.

Relative to the Galaxy S20 Ultra, the best version of the new Note does a slightly simply consistently worse job of processing noise, capturing natural calorie-free so every bit to deliver an optimal exposure (particularly for video), and doing anything in telephoto mode, the review plant. Then again, so long as this same technological base continues, optical zooming on smartphones will remain a little more than a joke. In fact, that volition likely hold true no thing what for the foreseeable time to come. Which isn't expected to stop tinkerers from tinkering; just please practice so at your own risk.

The lack of clear progress and even outright regression in this regard may stalk from the fact Samsung lost out on some cut-border fourth dimension-of-flying cameras from Sony before this year. And it's rapidly trying to come up with its own such tiny radars that would aid in amateur portrait photography – fifty-fifty selfies.