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I'm not one to defend Apple when they pinch pennies by offering lower specs for the same price (RAM in all devices, SSD in Macs). But megapixels have been a bogus marketing number for well over a decade. The real test will be what Samsung's image processing can do with all that data - and I wouldn't be surprised if they do a pretty good job based on past years' comparisons. But it won't be because of the megapixels. That's just for marketing.
 
A photographer gets 40MP on a 35mm sensor and then wrings their hands over whether they need to replace their thousands of dollars of glass to make use of that resolution.

Samsung slaps 200MP into something the size of a finger nail and calls it a camera.
 
Samsung plans for the next year be like:
 

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I think I'll wait to judge when I see side-by-side comparisons of photos from these, the iPhones 14, and the Pixels 7. Megapixels only tell a portion of the story.

I'm still carrying an iPhone 12 Pro Max around, I think all of these flagships are now at the point where upgrading annually or even bi-annually is even less worthwhile. Still, it is reassuring to know they're constantly pushing the state of the art for the one feature that ever gets me to upgrade.
 
🙄 200? What're they needing to take pictures for, a billboard?

Completely unnecessary. It's just gonna be condensed down to 12 MP.
Not even useful for billboards. Have you looked at a billboard up close? The resolution isn't any better but you're looking at it from further away.
Just guessing, but those 200Mp might be pretty useful for low-light photography. If you are 'condensing down to 12MP', you can 'bin' pixels (average the signal around the pixel that you're interested in) - this would be noise-cancelling for CCD's at the extreme end of their sensitivity.
If you're going to bin the pixels together, you're better off using bigger pixels. Binning is a compromise to try to get resolution when you have a lot of light and lower noise when you don't. Since nothing is going to be able to resolve all those pixels you're just wasting light collection ability between the micro lenses, making the sensor hotter with all the energy to read it out which adds thermal noise, and making each pixel smaller which limits dynamic range.


I dunno. Samsung knows that the web is going to be pixel peeping and trying see if Samsung achieved anything here, so they must think they've accomplished something, but I can't figure out what.
 
If Apple made a phone with no notch or pill and almost flat cameras at the back of this quality, most of the commenters on here would go nuts for it. Because it's Samsung all you can do is trash it. I've been an iPhone user for years now and am totally fine admitting these are better looking and more capable devices than an iPhone. Bravo, Samsung, hopefully this will push Apple to stop these stupid camera bumps and notch crap.
 
So silly it’s impossible to get 200mp from a camera phone lens the higher mp doesn’t mean better quality I am a photographer and my dslr is 22 and has a huge sensor
Yep. The smaller the pixel, the less light it gets, the more noise you get when trying to make an image. The sweet spot for pixel size keeps shifting with technology, but there is a reason that full-frame cameras are currently tapping out around 100mp and you won't find anywhere near that on a 4/3rds or APS-C camera. Though I doubt Samsung really cares about image quality - they only care about selling phones (and I suspect they're doing "fancy math" to come up with that number anyway).
 
I wonder if it will be better than the S22? The UK version was borked with Samsung’s Exynos processor (which is because they have a deal with Qualcomm in the USA over modems) and suffered from terrible shutter lag making it useless for taking pictures of anything moving (like your kids)
 
If Apple made a phone with no notch or pill and almost flat cameras at the back of this quality, most of the commenters on here would go nuts for it. Because it's Samsung all you can do is trash it. I've been an iPhone user for years now and am totally fine admitting these are better looking and more capable devices than an iPhone. Bravo, Samsung, hopefully this will push Apple to stop these stupid camera bumps and notch crap.
The Galaxy have camera bumps..
 
If Apple made a phone with no notch or pill and almost flat cameras at the back of this quality, most of the commenters on here would go nuts for it. Because it's Samsung all you can do is trash it. I've been an iPhone user for years now and am totally fine admitting these are better looking and more capable devices than an iPhone. Bravo, Samsung, hopefully this will push Apple to stop these stupid camera bumps and notch crap.
If Apple made a phone designed like the one with that supposed 200mp camera on it, people would be pretty peeved. Look down at that shape of the bottom and how that's going to dig into your hand. Hard No on that.
 
Even though Samsung Galaxy is considered premium alternative to iPhone, it still feels like a mass produced brand with its ultimate goal of how many can we spit out. Apple is the same, but I feel like I get more value for money in the long run. Well integrated ecosystem, guaranteed software updates, healthier, vibrant app ecosystem, it just works and hardware just last darn long.
 
I'll say this, the back of the models is clean and flat, it's a major improvement over some of the big brands of Android phones that have huge and weird camera islands and over-the-top design details (even Google's once plain jane Pixels have gone awry) - Samsung actually is going with a clean look I can appreciate.
 
This, of course, means absolutely nothing for actual image quality.
 
In double blind tests the iPhone performs regularly quite badly, definitely worse than Samsung or pixel phones. At this point picture quality is definitely not iPhone strongest suit.
I wonder why professional photographers and cinematographers have used iPhones for commercial projects including parts of and at times all of theatrical movie releases to prove the exact opposite of you claim. That doesn’t happen on the lines of Samsung, because the output is heavily processed and colored instead of being accurate.
 
$1200 for an S23 Ultra with 200 MP... but will the pictures look noticeably better than the ones taken on a $449 Google Pixel 6A?

(And for some reason, even high-end Android flagships struggle to take better videos than a $429 iPhone SE 😅)
 
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