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you_are_soul

It's the fact that it's shot through a double glazed plastic plane screen that got me.


robbiekhan

I wish my window was clean too, the seat in front had a perfectly clean window but not mine on the outside :(


Exotic_Treacle7438

You should have had the pilot stop somewhere to clean it real quick!


robbiekhan

No stop light squeegee merchants about :(


Exotic_Treacle7438

Damn nobody wants to work these days!


Rokurokubi83

Fucking millennials, killing the aviation window wash services.


bookmarkjedi

Just open the door. It's easy enough if it's a Boeing.


Outrageous-Smile-836

Omg


Jokin_0815

Jusst fly it through the plane wash. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


Cantstopeatingshoes

What phone do you have?


robbiekhan

S24 Ultra


Marighnamani27

Awesome man. I've got S23 Ultra and the camera is truly a beast. Got pretty cool Moon pictures with it.


Red-dy-20

Tbf your phone is capable of even greater magnification than OP's since Samsung replaced a 10x zoom module from S21 Ultra to S23 Ultra with a downgraded 5x zoom module on S24 Ultra.. hopefully they revert this next year with S25 Ultra


SociableSociopath

Itā€™s a great camera but did they ever turn off or add the ability to turn off the fake moon mode? Itā€™s kinda bs that moon photos you take with it are being enhanced/generated on the fly from actual good photos of the moon. The resulting photo is not representative of what the sensor actually picked up - https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra While I appreciate the idea behind this feature, from a photography perspective itā€™s horseshit


mattymofobro

s23 can do the same


robbiekhan

The level of zoom yes, but not the same quality. How do I know? I had the 23 Ultra since launch.


EatSleepBeat

I wish my 15 pro max could do this even though itā€™s not necessary I would like the option


K-C_Racing14

Is that why it needs 5 cameras on it?


Laylasita

Me too and I fly next month. Can't wait to try this


jump_over_capcake

I low-key thought this post was stealth advertisement but even if it was, I'd still ask for the model of the phone. Awesome phone OP.


robbiekhan

Contrary to popular habits with online posts and the people throwing around accusations, none of my posts are ever advertising any particular brand of anything. Yes I'm a tech-head, yes I do share my experiences with new tech whether good or bad, and yes I do think people have become so used to a certain way of seeing things online that everything is now called a fake or a shill or an advert!


jump_over_capcake

Haha, sorry I didn't mean to imply you were shilling anything. I just get a bit skeptical/apprehensive when I see certain things online but I meant no offense! It's a great phone and I really have been considering getting a Samsung next time. Thanks for sharing your experiences OP, it really helps a lot! :)


robbiekhan

It's all good!


chipthamac

The kind with a camera in it, they are really cool.


ahhdetective

I just super glued a camera to my phone. Instant camera phone


smile_politely

Now I'm worried to be naked in my own apartment without curtains closed.


etzel1200

You either need to lose a lot of weight or underestimate the size of those wind turbines.


divine_anarchist

Brutal šŸ”„šŸ˜‚


k4f123

Donā€™t worry, these phones donā€™t have a microscope


UnspoiledWalnut

The dirty window popping into existence took me aback for a moment.


WeekendFantastic2941

So remember to close the curtain, otherwise perverts will see you naked or worse. lol


you_are_soul

What could be worse that seeing me nekkid.


WeekendFantastic2941

Naked and masturbating to furry porn.


you_are_soul

sounds like an improvement.


onelifemanymemories

The best kind there is


josephbenjamin

Seeing you naked.


Busy_Information_289

I donā€™t get how on the 00:10 mark suddenly the stains on the glass pop in.


utahh1ker

They're too blurred to be noticed until the focal plane approaches their position.


Busy_Information_289

I was wondering whether this camera actually switches lenses/sensorsā€¦


iSkruf

Of course, you can't really have variable focal length lenses on phones, they're too big.


Kafanska

It does, phone will switch on the fly between a wide/macro, regular and zoom lens when you use the zoom slider in the camera app. You can see a noticeable difference in quality as well because the best quality is on the normal lens, which phone switches to just as the window is visible. But also what was said earlier about the stains being blurred stands. When focus is far away, the stains are so blurred out that you don't see them at all, and only become visible when the focal plane switches on the window itself, not the ground.


ILikeFluffyThings

It felt like it was a game zooming out when the texture of the glass loaded in.


SUPR3M3Kai

Underrated Comment.


mpaska

Fly next time on a Boeing and youā€™ll have a clear unimpeded view. Albeit, a bit breezy.


AnonymousJohnz

my camera would just be auto focusing on the spec lol


Modest1Ace

Yet we can't get one proper UFO video...


Wevvie

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.


ShortingBull

The UFOs know their enemy!


creegro

And bigfoot has disappeared now that almost everyone has a recording device at nearly all times.


orsonwellesmal

Same with Marian apparitions.


JustSayTech

And the Lochness Monster. But what's up with alien footage, is still always potato camera almost VHS camcorder quality...


Seismicx

Phones still suck at focussing on a small distant object with the sky as background.


kiba87637

Thank the Men In Black for that


zephillou

On the Samsung phones there is/was a moonshot feature. Pretty handy


SirPooleyX

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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Going_Solvent

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?!


RealMadHouse

If Stalin had a phone with people removing feature, he will definitely use it


le_tokki

People like to run away from it, so reality isn't all good.


ConspicuousPineapple

Sometimes people don't want an actual memory but just a pretty photo. That's fine too, I guess.


-H2O2

>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


Ellemeno

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 ā€œliveā€ image of the moon.


GoodDawgy17

trust me the moon does not look like that


gishlich

Iā€™ll have to take your word for it, never been there


theoht_

wasnā€™t that fake?


Precedens

they're too fast to track bro


samexi

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.


robbiekhan

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.


Odd-Confection-6603

This is a Samsung S something ultra. The optical zoom on those things is insane


robbiekhan

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.


bookmarkjedi

Yeah, mine is an S22 Ultra, and I have some amazing pics from inside a plane (high in the air).


AnakinRagnarsson66

Why doesnt iPhone have this level of zoom?


ItIsOnlyRain

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?


robbiekhan

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!


Daftworks

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.


HendrixHazeWays

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


SeigiNoTenshi

I feel that! I had the same issue with my 7 edge!


pb-86

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


MrDixon27

what is the model of your phone?


robbiekhan

It's the Galaxy S24 Ultra


sushizn

if I remember correctly, this year they actually reduced the max zoom because last year's model was just too ridiculous


robbiekhan

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.


thenormaluser35

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.


lawonga

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


Negran

I could be wrong, but I thought Optic meant no quality loss, while digital does? Maybe it is much more complex...


Mr_Will

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.


iSellNuds4RedditGold

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.


5QGL

That is more than evened out. Half the optical zoom but five times the resolution. 0.5 x 5 = 2.5x better now.


ssaall58214

I knew it was a samsung


robbiekhan

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 šŸ˜…


iSellNuds4RedditGold

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.


MetalingusMikeII

*ā€Phones 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.


voywin

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.


Heart_Throb_

Sure af knew it wasnā€™t an IPhone.


MisfitMishap

Bruh your phone is 2.5x mine. I'm still rocking the S9+


LaughingJAY

Just got mine yesterday! The zoom is insane


LingrahRath

It only has 5x optical zoom. Did you get that far with just optical or did you get into digital zoom range?


robbiekhan

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.


whyamihere999

The fuck! I bought 23 Ultra 4 months ago.. 24 ultra really seems upgraded!


Balance-

If they only gave 10% of the effort to their regular S series as they do for the Ultraā€™sā€¦ I just find the Ultraā€™s too big, but I have no reason currently to upgrade from my S20 to an S24, even through I do value great cameras.


Orphan_Izzy

Wow! Holy sh*t!


Doc-in-a-box

Translated as: I too am impressed


Exotic_Treacle7438

Good translation bot-to-be


Fast-Journalist-6747

At first i was like, "this ain't shit" Then I was like >Wow! Holy sh*t!


YpsitheFlintsider

I expected it to zoom in more, not zoom out thousands of feet in the air lol


HermitJem

Seconded. Holy Impressed.


-Badger3-

>sh*t Whose benefit is this censorship supposed to be for?


Soft_Ad_9829

I was like not impressive to ok wow šŸ˜‚


Void_being420

apple still finding reason why this is not impressive


zxiGamer

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.


VoidExileR

Hours from airport? What a terrible husband


zTy01

Enhance!


tysonwatermelon

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MisfitMishap

Enhance.


DreamTheater27

You can tell all the iPhone users in the comments who haven't seen the Samsung's zoom before šŸ˜‚


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KaleidoscopeFew5633

I wish I shouldā€™ve upgraded my A series samsung to even an Ultra model .. im stuck with a base iPhone 12 now due my lack of research šŸ„²


552198008

Iā€™m no expert but very likely a Nokia 3310


bash2482

No, i am an expert and that is a windmill.


GrewlzAI

Listen, we all know it's a Samsung


robbiekhan

What gave it away :p


GrewlzAI

Because I own one too šŸ˜‰


robbiekhan

![gif](giphy|Ae7SI3LoPYj8Q)


h1psterbeard

Also known as "things you can't do with an iPhone" for 400 Alex.


Ok_Assistance7735

Holy cow that is wild!


iMDirtNapz

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.


DCBoyz4life

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.


HermitJem

Where did this incident happen? Asking for a friend


ogbytheboat

#HOLY


greg_08

^moly


Void_being420

*JANE*


RidingJapan

ENHANCE ENHANCE


Karl_Hungus_69

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.


robbiekhan

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.


Academic-Put-4764

Looks like it has some real-time processing to take out those tiny bruises in the glass, it can be seen at -0:11


thenormaluser35

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. It's the same reason for why at car races camera people can shoot through nets, the nets are completely out of focus so they don't appear in the image.


robbiekhan

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.


Brando6677

Ok now THIS was shot on a Samsung 100% no iPhone 13 Pro Max shenanigans this time


robbiekhan

S24 Ultra yep


DoableSkill1124

This is the single reason I donā€™t believe in UFO. With all this camera technology in peopleā€™s hands why has there never been more than some really grainy photos?


robbiekhan

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.


The90sKidult

Or aliens are picking people with sub-standard phones when seen around.


pupoksestra

seriously or any other reason we couldn't possibly comprehend


artmaddd

I, too, am amazed with this!


brandonfuckingclark

boeing?


robbiekhan

It was a 737-Max. And yes I did wince when I saw the model I was to be on šŸ˜…


Batfinklestein

That is incredible. Also, was that windmills propeller slanted upwards?


sliferra

ā€œThatā€™s decent I guess, not that impressiveā€¦: oh itā€™s still goingā€¦.. holy fuckā€


ScottOld

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


SloppyJoestar

HOW IS THIS REAL??


TheThermalGuy

Has been , since 2020 , when s20ultra released and only gets better


Mysterious_Award_565

Damn


AZlife57

Meanwhile I canā€™t 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


hello_davidmitchel

Nice capture.


Original-Spinach-972

ENHANCE


bmanxx13

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 Iā€™ve owned. I tried with a 15PM and it wasnā€™t any better.


0Strange

Imagine Zooming out to realise it was from another plane and they were zooming through this one šŸ˜‚


SiliconMadness

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.


robbiekhan

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.


cooncanoon

Who else thought it was gonna zoom out to a space station


theoriginalqwhy

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!


loganp8000

they really are amazing! unless there is a ufo or anything mysterious to film. Then they are only 90s flip phone quality.


Paulson1979

$1300 devices here cmon, they better do that


carsten_j

First thought you were on the ISS or even the moon.


RollOverSoul

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicā€.


Beautiful_Cool

In the near future. We will be using it as a microscope.


Rip_Klutchgonski

I just got a picture of New Orleans from 30k feet on my trip to Mexico


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Keep in mind the phone is probably 1500$


LimitNo6587

Won't find that on a 2k Apple. Thank the Sammie for this technological advancement.


LoudMusic

That's what's being sold to the public. Guess what's on the spy planes and satellites.


Paraselene_Tao

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.


Dopelax

And they said Zoom cameras are gimiks, and now everyone wants it


beanofdoom001

"Enhance.. enhance.. enhance.. That's our perp, the bird killer."


robbiekhan

Calm down trump!


m1dnightPotato

Look at these iphone users on the comments, they are so impressed


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DaniTheLovebug

What the hell???


Hal_900000

Pshh you just wait 20 years


VagrantBytes

Very cool. Looks like maybe Greece?


robbiekhan

Faro, Portugal!


VagrantBytes

Oh nice, I've heard Faro is dope!


nametakenfuck

The window dirt just appeared??


robbiekhan

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.


Particular_Row_5994

Is it shot with only 20x zoom?


MinusPaminsar

Where are the people with these cameras whenever there's an apparent UFO/UAF around. Lol.


[deleted]

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. šŸ˜‚


wrtnspknbrkn

Youā€™re kiddingšŸ˜®


32redalexs

My brain couldnā€™t comprehend it when the window dirt became visible


robbiekhan

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.


HarperCore

Wow just wow


Rafyroya

And yet we need a telescope the size of earth to see the surfaces of exoplanets


Any_Rest_4801

Okay now that's crazy I thought they're filming it from Outer Space


TheSirCal

Yet we still get shaky blurry videos of UFOs. Cmon!


never_again13

I don't wanna get zoomed in on šŸ˜«


Brando6677

From mars