Samsung’s hidden gem in its most powerful smartphone

That the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra enters the top five of global premium mobile phone sales is no coincidence, it does so with arguments: it is equipped with a series of specifications that help make your experiences go on another level. One of its hidden gems is the astrophotography that we were able to test in SPANISH | The Free Android | The Spaniards on the island of Terceira in the neighboring country with Europe, Portugal.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra’s new 200MP sensor has been one of the Korean manufacturer’s best hits in recent years, as is the case with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip that covered the experience of the Samsung flagship with a substantial improvement in performance and battery life.

It is precisely this second aspect that allows you to use the mobile much longer in order to take photos of the sky in total darkness; indispensable for astrophotography, which can be take each of the photos for 4 to 10 minutes. You have to rely on the screen on all the time, as does the camera app, so the strain on the battery is more than noticeable. The objective is that the most powerful elements of the mobile can be used without sacrificing autonomy, The Qualcomm chip works with a spun version for the South Korean brand.

catch the stars

And it is that Samsung’s Expert RAW mode available in its flagships offers very important extras to add to the superb photography that already serves the owners of this new mobile from the Korean brand. Thanks to this application available in the Galaxy Store, you can access a mode practically unknown to many: photograph the stars at night.

Expert RAW’s astrophotography mode is made up of various settings that allow you to access photography that would otherwise be very difficult. It allows you to choose between three durations for the plan: 4, 7 and 10 minutes. The idea of ​​the company is that everything is easy, a process which, with a camera in use, would be much more complex with your mobile, it’s sew and sing.

For this, you can activate the ‘Sky Guide’ mode which allows you to view the starry sky at night with its constellations. This mode is precisely linked to the rotation of the planet in order to adjust the captures as the stars move.

This way the constellations appear in the viewfinder exactly as the camera sees them and how they will look in the final photo. This mode also allows you to design the right and ideal framing.

Right after configuring these two settings, there is a great value tool that indicates the horizontality of the frame. Here you have to be very careful place the mobile in the precise position. Since the tripod is going to be used, it is placed so that the frame is as horizontal as possible. Once everything is set up, all that remains is to press the shutter button to start capturing the starry sky at night with a timer that indicates the time remaining for the shot.

Movable position, key

In addition to all the capabilities of this Android mobile and the astrophotography mode, the user can use an essential accessory to take better night photos: a good tripod. The mobile is adapted not to receive any movement that could spoil the photo, although it can also be taken by hand and spend 4 minutes waiting for the pulse to be stable enough for a good photo.

There are several circumstances that must be taken into account with this type of photos. One of them is the environment in which the Galaxy S23 Ultra is going to be placed. In the examples given taken from Terceira, that night the wind was the protagonist like a ship fishing on the coast. Of course, an open sky helps, and we were lucky that it was clear, even though the clouds were closing in from the west and east, so get a good understanding of the particulars of the area or the weather. environment, the framing that will be used to capture this type of photo is very important.

It must be said that even with a strong wind, capable of overturning the tripod, the small wobble that occurred at all times (the mobile had to be placed horizontally to reduce the effect of the wind), indeed disturbed a little the shots, but even so, the photos that were taken with this mode are of high quality and they allow you to see perfectly the constellations that are emerging in the night.

That is, on a quieter, windless night, the 4, 6, or 10 minutes that the Galaxy S23 Ultra can use to take screenshots to compose a final one, the photo final would have been of better quality, but even Thus the photos taken are the best witness to the capacity of this mobile for astrophotography. It must also be said that the fishing boat used a high power focus that its beam illuminated almost a third of the photograph that was taken.

A unique type of photography

Many might think that why do you need to use astrophotography if it’s not your hobby or hobby, but you need to be clear, this type of photos can be taken —as shown by the examples made by El Androide Libre | The Spaniard— so that these stars appear in the background at night and in the foreground any element you want. In the examples given, a row of stones and the small hill to the right appear, which even improves the photograph, since a single full of stars may make less sense.

Taking the stars in the background and the house itself in the foreground, or a beach in the background where the vacation was spent, or wherever that best identifies the photo, gives it another very different and special. In short, with a “cleaner” environment, and without those minutes in which the ship illuminated part of the scene, the photos we share would be even better. Even so, this mode invites everyone to pick up their Galaxy S23 Ultra and on a night without a full, waning or waxing moon, try shooting to find yourself pleasantly surprised.

Low light photos too

Another experience in Terceira with Samsung was low light photography in the Christmas grotto. An exciting environment resulting from the creation of a lava tube inside the islandjust integrated into the Serra de Santa Bárbara and Mistérios Negros Natural Forest Reserve. There, it was possible to witness the excellent work done by Samsung for this low-light photography which is the battle front of all phone manufacturers.

The tripod has again become an essential element for this type of photography. Placing the Galaxy S23 Ultra on this accessory so that it does not move one iota, allows the scene to be captured with great sharpness and digital photography to do its job of imbuing the photo with as much light as possible. It even allows you to afford one luxury more than another when reducing camera app viewfinder brightness so that in this way give more importance to the contrasts.

If you manage to reduce the brightness, it is because the 200 Mpx sensor captures a lot of light in the scene, so this simple fact already shows the degree of quality in this type of photography with the latest flagship of the Korean manufacturer. And it is that practically in automatic mode this Samsung mobile is in charge of doing all the work. THE the only adjustments were to lower the lightness a bitalways taking into account the scene to be captured, and use the two-second timer so that the terminal is practically immobile at all times.

Nail Hidden gem that owns the Galaxy S23 Ultra and that anyone has on hand to generate other types of photos that can receive many “likes” on social networks surprising their own and strangers. It is not new in mobiles, since Huawei in this sense has been the one that has burst in with a means that is also very capable of making very finished photos. Now Samsung is taking over with a skill that nicely mirrors the photos shared by El Android Libre | The Spaniard.

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