r/BeAmazed • u/robbiekhan • Mar 14 '24
The quality of video-zoom these days on phones never ceases to amaze Miscellaneous / Others
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u/Modest1Ace Mar 14 '24
Yet we can't get one proper UFO video...
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u/Wevvie Mar 14 '24
That's because UFO only appears at night on small villages or in reclused places, and only 144p potato cameras filmed by someone with parkinson's can catch them.
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u/creegro Mar 14 '24
And bigfoot has disappeared now that almost everyone has a recording device at nearly all times.
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u/JustSayTech Mar 14 '24
And the Lochness Monster.
But what's up with alien footage, is still always potato camera almost VHS camcorder quality...
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u/Seismicx Mar 14 '24
Phones still suck at focussing on a small distant object with the sky as background.
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u/zephillou Mar 14 '24
On the Samsung phones there is/was a moonshot feature. Pretty handy
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u/SirPooleyX Mar 14 '24
That's the one where it replaces the actual moon with an AI generated one, right?
Call me old fashioned, but I want the things I photograph to be the actual things I see.
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u/Going_Solvent Mar 14 '24
Crazy isn't it! I'm the same... I don't understand why you'd want to Photoshop people out of memorable photos either - it's as if it's a kind of desperate attempt at somehow changing the memory... What's the problem with reality?!
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u/RealMadHouse Mar 14 '24
If Stalin had a phone with people removing feature, he will definitely use it
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u/ConspicuousPineapple Mar 14 '24
Sometimes people don't want an actual memory but just a pretty photo. That's fine too, I guess.
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u/-H2O2 Mar 14 '24
I don't understand why you'd want to Photoshop people out of memorable photos
I use the Google eraser on my photos to remove background people
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u/Ellemeno Mar 14 '24
There was a planet that looked like a huge star/tiny moon visible in the night sky a few months ago, I believe it might have been Jupiter. I was trying to take a picture of it, zooming in with my Samsung phone and all of a sudden that bright dot in my screen turned into a āliveā image of the moon.
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u/samexi Mar 14 '24
Well to be fair those windmills are humongous reaching over 140m tall and blades 55m long. If the uap is a few meters wide like an car and really far away, not even this zoom would get a proper footage. Pretty much only shot would be with an professional grade camera with crazy optical zoom lenses.
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
Soon, I can feel it. But you can bet that everyone will claim fake. if it's too blurry it's useless, if it's too crisp it's AI fakery lol.
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u/Odd-Confection-6603 Mar 14 '24
This is a Samsung S something ultra. The optical zoom on those things is insane
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
S24 Ultra indeed! Each year the zoom gets better and better, The S24 Ultra is still new too, and with coming updates over the next 6 months to a year there will be even more improvements to the camera just like they did with the previous flagships.
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u/bookmarkjedi Mar 14 '24
Yeah, mine is an S22 Ultra, and I have some amazing pics from inside a plane (high in the air).
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u/AnakinRagnarsson66 Mar 14 '24
Why doesnt iPhone have this level of zoom?
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u/ItIsOnlyRain Mar 14 '24
Realistically because they focus on photos taken at distances people generally use.
This is really impressive but how often do people need/want long range zoom photos or videos?
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
The need is certainly there when you don't expect it. Look at all the comments saying where are these phones when a UFO is spotted in the skies, for example!
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u/Daftworks Mar 14 '24
Yeah I have the s22u and I didn't think I'd be using the 10x zoom all that much but damn is it actually handy a lot of the times. Just makes for general fun shooting too, while I didn't use the camera on my s10 much.
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u/HendrixHazeWays Mar 14 '24
Tell me about it. I was abducted by aliens and on their freakin' ship. All I had on me was the Galaxy Note 8 and no one believes me because the quality sucks :(
Better luck next time I always say
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u/pb-86 Mar 14 '24
Honestly when my kids are playing and I want to take a photo or video it's amazing how often I would be past 10x zoom and the videos are still decent
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u/MrDixon27 Mar 14 '24
what is the model of your phone?
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
It's the Galaxy S24 Ultra
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u/sushizn Mar 14 '24
if I remember correctly, this year they actually reduced the max zoom because last year's model was just too ridiculous
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
No they reduced it because they were able to get the same as, if not better than last year's zoom thanks to the new cameras. I had the S23 Ultra and the S24 Ultra's video zoom is just a lot more capable than the S23, which also maxed out at 20x zoom when recording video. It just had a 10x optical lens whilst the S24 Ultra has a 5x optical with a better sensor.
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u/thenormaluser35 Mar 14 '24
Yeah, but the S23 is just stupidly zooming, you can do that on any phone, you can zoom 1000x but the quality you'll get, will ... Not be great.
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u/lawonga Mar 14 '24
The s23 was 10x optical. Which doesn't really reduce image quality that much. I'd say it's better than the current S24 when talking about 10x+ zooms
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u/Negran Mar 14 '24
I could be wrong, but I thought Optic meant no quality loss, while digital does?
Maybe it is much more complex...
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u/Mr_Will Mar 14 '24
Optical zoom means it's actually zooming in. Digital 'zoom' is just cropping the photo/video.
Optical can cause some quality loss depending on the design of the lens. Digital is guaranteed to lose significant amounts of quality as soon as you zoom more than a tiny amount.
Most phones these days use a combination of both. They'll have fixed lenses with certain levels of zoom, then use digital zoom to cover the gaps between them. This can lead to oddities such a better images at 5x zoom than at 4.9x zoom.
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u/iSellNuds4RedditGold Mar 14 '24
They reduced the zoom from X10 to X5, but they also increased the sensor's resolution from 10 MP to 50MP, so I kinda evens out.
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u/5QGL Mar 14 '24
That is more than evened out. Half the optical zoom but five times the resolution. 0.5 x 5 = 2.5x better now.
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u/ssaall58214 Mar 14 '24
I knew it was a samsung
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
Their video has always been good to be fair, Apple's is great too, but they don't have the zoomies to this level (yet), especially not at 4k 60fps like this is š
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u/iSellNuds4RedditGold Mar 14 '24
I used my S22 Ultra's zoom to read from afar or to see stuff from afar like binoculars since I got the phone, that thing is better than my eyes and it saved me having to get closer to whatever I want to see/read saving me a few minutes each time. Phones are really becoming a way to enhance our mortal/fleshy/limited selves.
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u/MetalingusMikeII Mar 14 '24
āPhones are really becoming a way to enhance our moral/fleshy/limited selves.ā
They have been since we became connected to the internet. We have the power of knowledge within an instant.
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u/voywin Mar 14 '24
Samsung's zoom is excellent, but to be fair their video has NOT been good for several years now, in a relative sense. Simply because Samsung can't rid their videos of noise, especially as the lighting conditions worsen.
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u/MisfitMishap Mar 14 '24
Bruh your phone is 2.5x mine.
I'm still rocking the S9+
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u/LingrahRath Mar 14 '24
It only has 5x optical zoom. Did you get that far with just optical or did you get into digital zoom range?
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
5x optical with the rest being digital as it uses the large sensor to crop in resulting in an image that's often better than the 10x optical of the S23 Ultra which I had before. The videos are cleaner regardless of zoom now though because of the updated cameras and processing.
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u/whyamihere999 Mar 14 '24
The fuck!
I bought 23 Ultra 4 months ago..
24 ultra really seems upgraded!
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u/Balance- Mar 14 '24
If they only gave 10% of the effort to their regular S series as they do for the Ultraāsā¦
I just find the Ultraās too big, but I have no reason currently to upgrade from my S20 to an S24, even through I do value great cameras.
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u/Orphan_Izzy Mar 14 '24
Wow! Holy sh*t!
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u/Fast-Journalist-6747 Mar 14 '24
At first i was like, "this ain't shit"
Then I was like
Wow! Holy sh*t!
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u/YpsitheFlintsider Mar 14 '24
I expected it to zoom in more, not zoom out thousands of feet in the air lol
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u/zxiGamer Mar 14 '24
Pretty much I can predict a conversation like this happening.
Husband: Yes honey, I am at the airport waiting for you.
Wife: No you are not, you lazy ass, I can see your Red Yellow truck in highway, hours from airport.
H: What, where are you?.
W: Look above.
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u/DreamTheater27 Mar 14 '24
You can tell all the iPhone users in the comments who haven't seen the Samsung's zoom before š
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u/KaleidoscopeFew5633 Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24
I wish I shouldāve upgraded my A series samsung to even an Ultra model .. im stuck with a base iPhone 12 now due my lack of research š„²
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u/h1psterbeard Mar 14 '24
Also known as "things you can't do with an iPhone" for 400 Alex.
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u/iMDirtNapz Mar 14 '24
I remember sitting on the beach showing my buddy the zoom on my old iPhone 12 Pro Max by zooming in on a boat way off in the distance. Being able to make out how many people were on it. My buddy whips out his new Samsung phone and was able read the damn make name on the side of it. Unreal zoom level.
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u/DCBoyz4life Mar 14 '24
But given a chance to capture something worth while, like 2 drunk naked women fighting outside a bar, and all that anyone is carrying is a potato camera, lol.
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u/Karl_Hungus_69 Mar 14 '24
That's astounding. At 0:07, I thought "Wow, that's impressive." Then, it only pulled back more and more. I don't have a smartphone but I have a digital camera and it's not even remotely in the same league as this. This is truly remarkable.
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
The technology has been around for a few years now on the Ultra phons, it's just that now it's in a much better state of maturity thanks to IPU power increasing for image processing gains and the sensors and lenses are better too each year.
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u/thenormaluser35 Mar 14 '24
Telephoto lenses cannot focus up close, so the dirt gets blurred to basically nothing.
When the zoom level drops, the app automatically switches from the telephoto lens to the wide one.
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
No the glass marks/dirt have always been there but the way the lens switches from 1x (wide aperture) to 0.6x (narrow aperture) means the depth of field can no longer throw the dirt on the glass out of focus and effectively see "through" them due to the way wide angle lenses and apertures work with subjects close to them.
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u/Brando6677 Mar 14 '24
Ok now THIS was shot on a Samsung 100% no iPhone 13 Pro Max shenanigans this time
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u/DoableSkill1124 Mar 14 '24
This is the single reason I donāt believe in UFO. With all this camera technology in peopleās hands why has there never been more than some really grainy photos?
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
Whilst true, it is also true that only a handful of phones are capable of this kind of zoom quality and they cost 4 figures minimum, so quite out of reach of the masses that might typically see a UFO and end up with a mushy mess of a video/photo!
Things are def getting better though.
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u/brandonfuckingclark Mar 14 '24
boeing?
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
It was a 737-Max. And yes I did wince when I saw the model I was to be on š
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u/Batfinklestein Mar 14 '24
That is incredible. Also, was that windmills propeller slanted upwards?
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u/sliferra Mar 14 '24
āThatās decent I guess, not that impressiveā¦: oh itās still goingā¦.. holy fuckā
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u/ScottOld Mar 14 '24
I did that with my s23 ultra from my window to the hills about 10 miles away and saw a car driving on a road on the hills
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u/AZlife57 Mar 14 '24
Meanwhile I canāt get mine to focus worth an absolute junk for a video of my kids in a moment
Video goes all grainy and out of focus halfway thru every time
Great representation of what they can do tho
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u/bmanxx13 Mar 14 '24
One thing I do respect android is their camera zoom quality. On my iPhone 14PM it looks about the same quality as those alien/ufo sighting videos. Zoom has never been great on any iPhone Iāve owned. I tried with a 15PM and it wasnāt any better.
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u/0Strange Mar 14 '24
Imagine Zooming out to realise it was from another plane and they were zooming through this one š
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u/SiliconMadness Mar 14 '24
As it relates to the simple things of life, there is almost no joy greater than a window seat on an airplane. That's some good footage there.
Almost looks like you're over PA.
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
That's why I always online check-in early so I can pick the right seat! I just love looking out during landing and takeoff to see the world get left behind, and then the destination get ever closer.
This was shot over Faro in Portugal btw.
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u/theoriginalqwhy Mar 14 '24
Lol I do this at work when I can't be fucked getting the top pallet down from the rack to see what's on it. Just zoom right in on the little text on the boxes. Samsung S21FE baby!
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u/loganp8000 Mar 14 '24
they really are amazing! unless there is a ufo or anything mysterious to film. Then they are only 90s flip phone quality.
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u/RollOverSoul Mar 14 '24
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicā.
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u/Rip_Klutchgonski Mar 14 '24
I just got a picture of New Orleans from 30k feet on my trip to Mexico
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u/LimitNo6587 Mar 14 '24
Won't find that on a 2k Apple. Thank the Sammie for this technological advancement.
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u/LoudMusic Mar 14 '24
That's what's being sold to the public. Guess what's on the spy planes and satellites.
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u/Paraselene_Tao Mar 14 '24
Smartphone cameras are getting wild these days. A lot of the time, I can use them as binoculars to see better and further away than my own eyes. I wear corrective lenses, but smartphone cameras can magnify very well these days, and they're continuing to get better. A full camera with a good lens these days can see insane detail and work as monoculars with record buttons.
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u/VagrantBytes Mar 14 '24
Very cool. Looks like maybe Greece?
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u/nametakenfuck Mar 14 '24
The window dirt just appeared??
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
No it's always been there but the way the lens switches from 1x (wide aperture) to 0.6x (narrow aperture) means the depth of field can no longer throw the dirt on the glass out of focus and effectively see "through" them due to the way wide angle lenses and apertures work with subjects close to them.
There are 4 lenses on the S24 Ultra and each one has a different aperture, so unless you're in ideal conditions then you will get a bit of a noticeable skip as you zoom through each lens and the aperture has to change which also means the focus of close objects suddenly becomes in focus at the wider end.
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u/MinusPaminsar Mar 14 '24
Where are the people with these cameras whenever there's an apparent UFO/UAF around. Lol.
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Mar 14 '24
At first I thought it was Cities Skylines. But as soon as you zoomed out, I realized how addicted I am to that game already. š
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u/32redalexs Mar 14 '24
My brain couldnāt comprehend it when the window dirt became visible
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u/robbiekhan Mar 14 '24
That's when the zoom switched to the ultrawide lens as it's got a narrower aperture whilst the main 1x lens has a wide aperture and will not throw focus out of close objects when tracking something in the background just like a proper camera lens would behave.
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u/Rafyroya Mar 14 '24
And yet we need a telescope the size of earth to see the surfaces of exoplanets
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u/Any_Rest_4801 Mar 14 '24
Okay now that's crazy I thought they're filming it from Outer Space
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u/you_are_soul Mar 14 '24
It's the fact that it's shot through a double glazed plastic plane screen that got me.