Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra - What's The Problem?

All right, so welcome to day two. I guess what's gonna what's gonna be isolation vlog

plus camera test of some of the hottest smartphones on planet earth to hopefully distract you from

the fact that you are trapped indoors avoiding certain other activities. As far as an update

The vlog portion, the virus portion, around here we have now a state of emergency requiring a shutdown of restaurants and public spaces and gyms and all kinds of different venues

And where they're not requiring it, they are requesting it, essentially telling people to stay home

The world leaders were back going over their plans, their game plan going forward

I heard some numbers getting passed around in terms of when this thing will peak in North America

And there was a number they were talking about 45 days. I mean, they didn't want to commit to that number, but that's a big number

And it totally has to shift your perspective on just what this undertaking really is

What the commitment level has to be from individuals who really people like myself, yourself, we're just getting started with this thing

like it's not we're at the entry point still which is kind of a crazy thought because it hasn't it

feels like we've been doing this for a while now even though obviously that's not the case well this

is day two for the studio yes it's an empty place the idea if you recall from the last video the

coronavirus update unbox therapy studio staff is staying home update video i came up with the idea

of passing the time publishing videos around some popular smartphone camera tests. I set up some

objects across the way, and I'm gonna flip the camera around right now. And over there you can

see on that table there are there's a bizarre variety of objects over there. The way this idea

goes, I will be picking a different smartphone. There's a whole, I have a whole stack of them

each phone is going to have the same circumstance. Each phone is going to shoot the same objects

going to have the same lighting, the same environment. So the variables will come from the phones themselves

And then you can watch in an attempt to cure your boredom. I can't make any guarantees that that will happen

And you can compare that with other phones that we'll test in the future on these isolation updates

Tomorrow, we'll pick another smartphone tomorrow. So you can actually suggest what that smartphone should be

right now in the comment section. Another thing I want to ask you just before we get started, where are you in the world and what is your current status

The country or the city and whether or not you're trapped indoors or if it's not that severe where you happen to be at the moment

I'm curious and I think the comment section could actually be kind of interesting and maybe make people feel slightly less isolated seeing that there's a lot of other people experiencing the same thing

Okay, as far as the camera settings are concerned, this is a video camera test

And as far as the video settings are concerned I using the highest resolution and frame rate possible while maintaining video stabilization So in the case of the S20 Ultra here that means 4K at 30 frames per second If you step above that the stabilization feature gets grayed out if you go up to 60 frames

So we're going to shoot 4K, 30 frames per second. I'm going to flip the camera around and there you have it

And we are going to approach our variety of objects which are placed in order of value

from the least valuable to the most valuable. It's such a bizarre, such a weird, it's such a weird variety of things

I think it's kind of fun. Anyways, so we're going to start over here on the far side of the table

This is a highlighter. And one thing you're going to notice with this camera right now in automatic mode

it's kind of jumping around a little bit with the color temperature. Now, I can't blame it

There's some different light coming in here. We have the outdoor light and the artificial light

And this, I mean, this is just a realistic test. This could happen to you

You're asking a lot of your camera here to be able to automatically determine the color temperature

And we're also getting a sense for the autofocus and how it can struggle at times to pick up objects like this when they are competing with the surroundings

And it's amazing how much that blue color on the highlighter changes depending on the color temperature shift

Now, if you were outdoors with a single light source, you probably wouldn't experience that

But it's important to know that this is how these cameras operate. And we'll compare this to some other phones to see if they do a better job of maintaining a particular autofocus

Okay, so that is the highlighter. I'll now move to the zoom

Now, by default, this takes you up to 5x, and that's pretty impressive

And surprisingly stable. At least in my monitor right here. This one is also..

Oh, it lost focus up there. It's grabbing the floor and then it gets it back 0.5 ultra wide

And maybe I'll just move in a little bit. And each of these cameras performs quite a bit differently

And of course, it's a combination of software and hardware at play to create what you see

This is a $1 bill. Now I put this here for the purpose of trying to focus on this text

Well, there you have it. Obviously, it's focused quite a bit now, even up close

almost macro borderline macro this note is legal tender for all debts public and private

that's pretty cool that actually looks good on the stock camera there is your zoom of course i

gotta move back there we go that's how far back you're gonna have to be quality looks pretty good

but it hunts a little bit for focus, stressing out. 0.5. This is the wide

Wide. Obviously, you probably want to use the stock camera for something up close like this

I mean the default lens. Boom. That's your best look. That color balance is really all over the place

Our outdoor light over there competing with artificial light. Even though they're pretty close in color temperature

This is a reality of shooting indoors where you have mixed colors This is where cameras and the software inside of them and the various processing that takes place it aims to kind of alleviate some of that This is the world famous green plant which cannot come there it is It in focus now A video test is

good because it kind of simulates what would be happening to you. Your viewfinder or the

screen is sort of like a live video feed and a lot of what the camera is doing with color

temperature and autofocus is something you may very well experience in the photo mode

Here is the unbox therapy knife. Some reason that red doesn't really pop as much as I would have expected it to

It's the Samurai unboxing knife. What if I pull it out of there

Bring it closer. How about now? Color temperature, yellow. That looks pretty cool

Very nice. So outside of the color temperature hunting, some pretty cool results going on

I'm leaving that on the table. We have a red iPhone because it's red

I mean, that's really the reason I picked it. It's just vibrant and red. And I'll spin it around a little bit

Now, I know some of you are probably saying that color temperature shift is driving me crazy

But it's a reality of the situation. Most people are just going to shoot this video in automatic mode

And this is a reality they may very well face. And I kind of hate it

I think it happens too aggressively on so many smartphone cameras where like I mean it's hunting

it's jumping around there with color balance and I'm not even moving. I wish that this was a bit

more subtle but it just it's pretty gross. Now obviously you have the pro mode for video and

that allows you to lock that white balance but in automatic mode I think it's it's worth ysis

to see how it behaves since this is how so many people are going to shoot video and you can see

the white of that speaker that's the famous DVLA bluetooth speaker one of the most loved unbox

therapy videos I don't know people see me in the street they always tell me that they're like the DVLA speaker how does that thing sound I'm like well you saw the video you know wide

boom you get that big kind of like effect going on and you probably notice we've been going up in

value with our objects in this particular test we are now on the Sony a9 with a 24-70 f2.8 lens

this particular this mannequin head goes way back to two studios ago to the old old office somehow

useful for autofocus testing I can see it's not getting focused which is crazy okay it's got it

now and it's got it there and when it's in focus it looks pretty good but you feel like because

it's a face it should grab it and track it and not easily lose it it's got it now she is wearing

my favorite headphones in the world right now those are the sennheiser hd 820 can we focus

bam and then the most valuable thing of all of course i had to throw it in these are

lysol look at this disinfecting wipes for for something that's supposed to be the top dog right obviously this this camera this smartphone

supposed to be the top dog there a couple things you notice and note and and maybe i have a better handle on this as we move through this test with other phones The white balance hunting is very aggressive The autofocus leaves something to be desired

This is not news though. This has been talked about from the time the smartphone launched

Samsung even addressed it I think and said they were going to put out a software update. It's been nothing substantial

And still the autofocus just feels a little bit clunky or a little bit slow somehow

and that's demonstrated really well when you're doing a video test like this. When you have the

main camera locked on focus you're going to get some some incredibly detailed images. Look it is

what it is. That's the test. It's in automatic mode. I'm going to treat all the other cameras the same

They got to perform in automatic mode and the reason I'm choosing to do that is like I said I

think that's the way the majority of users use these devices. You can give Samsung a few extra

points in the background just because of the fact they give you the pro options they make those

options available in the menu if you do want to dive a little bit deeper and if you do want to

lock things like white balance and kind of override the automatic behavior image stabilization

yeah there's a little walking test for that walking and talking of course the front facing

camera i'm actually pretty impressed with so that's a part of it too the cool thing about these tests

is that the entire video that you're watching, audio and video, is coming off of the device that you're yzing

So it's Tuesday. It's day two. Being indoors, mostly. Well, I've been indoors for longer than two days, but I mean, being at the studio alone

it is a weird feeling. It's a weird vibe. I'm not used to it yet

You're probably not used to whatever your situation looks like yet. We're kind of... We're up against something here

Obviously, it appears to be a fairly terrible thing that we're up against

It's an unfortunate thing. Nobody wants this thing to exist. It's a collective battle

And there's probably some, I don't know, there's probably some type of upside in that

Well, maybe I'm just optimistic in general, but maybe there's some sort of upside that it sort of brings people together

Gets people thinking about what matters to them. helps people connect, not physically, but connect on the internet that wouldn't have otherwise

connected around a shared experience. Who knows? Yeah, I'm probably just trying to see the bright

side when in reality, it's pretty grim right now. It's weird. So many places, so many cities are

just ghost towns, kind of a shell of what they were. And we're already living in a time where

people are feeling increasingly isolated i think you just got to make the best of it in general

we only have so much control over over circumstances and situations so you try that's it you try i'm

trying can't you see all those strange objects over there i mean if that's not trying i i don't

know what is anyways all right that's our first camera test galaxy s20 ultra leave a comment down

below for what you want to see in tomorrow's test and we'll also chat a little bit about whatever

develops in the crazy world that we're living in in 2020