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While the super-sized display and battery certainly
set the Ultra apart from its S20 siblings, the main
reason to drop £1,199 on it is the camera. And for
that sky-high price, you also get a bit of unsightly
‘Space Zoom’ branding on top of an already
unappealing camera bump.
While it has the same 12Mp, f/2.2, 120-degree
ultra-wide camera as the S20 and S20+, the wide
and telephoto cameras are quite a bit different. Here
are the specifications:
Galaxy S20/S20+
Wide (main): 12Mp, f/1.
Telephoto: 64Mp, f/2.
Galaxy S20 Ultra
Wide: 108Mp, f/1.
Telephoto: 48Mp, f/3.
That’s not a typo. The S20 Ultra has a ridiculous
108Mp sensor, which is a bit of marketing bluster.
Any photographer will tell you that megapixels don’t
make a great camera, but Samsung has done some
pretty cool and innovative things with the sensor.
Using a process called ‘nona binning’, the S20 Ultra’s
main camera merges nine pixels into one to create a
12Mp image using the entire 108Mp sensor.
In real-life results, that means the S20 Ultra’s
pictures will have more detail in full light and less
noise in low light. Samsung says the Ultra’s camera will
dynamically switch between the full 108Mp and 12Mp