cdmagurus.com
02-25-2018, 09:27 PM
Samsung just announced its first dual-aperture smartphone camera—and our very early testing shows that the Galaxy S9’s wider f/1.5 aperture does help in low-light conditions, but the f/2.4 setting is no slouch either in capturing detail in the very same lighting.
Head on over to your high-resolution desktop display, and click (and expand!) the video above for the full story. The Histogram at the top right of the screen clearly indicates the aperture mode of each photo we review.
Below we share our testing approach, as well as some top-line first impressions.
How we testedAll of the photos in the video were taken during a 90-minute Galaxy S9/S9+ demo last week. For our Last Cam Standing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMMznK7v0vc&t=609s) series, we always compare the latest smartphone cameras to our current camera winner (in this case, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3238030/android/huawei-mate-10-pro-review.html)), but Samsung didn’t allow us to take comparison shots with other phones. We even had to put stickers over the cameras of our personal smartphones (to prevent press leaks, and not necessarily to deny comparative testing).
To read this article in full, please click here (http://cdmagurus.com/article/3257675/mobile/galaxy-s9-camera-test.html#jump)
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Head on over to your high-resolution desktop display, and click (and expand!) the video above for the full story. The Histogram at the top right of the screen clearly indicates the aperture mode of each photo we review.
Below we share our testing approach, as well as some top-line first impressions.
How we testedAll of the photos in the video were taken during a 90-minute Galaxy S9/S9+ demo last week. For our Last Cam Standing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMMznK7v0vc&t=609s) series, we always compare the latest smartphone cameras to our current camera winner (in this case, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3238030/android/huawei-mate-10-pro-review.html)), but Samsung didn’t allow us to take comparison shots with other phones. We even had to put stickers over the cameras of our personal smartphones (to prevent press leaks, and not necessarily to deny comparative testing).
To read this article in full, please click here (http://cdmagurus.com/article/3257675/mobile/galaxy-s9-camera-test.html#jump)
More... (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3257675/mobile/galaxy-s9-camera-test.html#tk.rss_all)