Can I take a number? Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 108MP camera compared to 20.2MP Canon 1DX II

Photographer Kevin Raposo decided to show how the built-in camera of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is comparable to the professional DSLR Canon 1DX II. Recall that only one wide-angle module of the main camera of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has a resolution of 108 megapixels, while the resolution of the only image sensor installed in the Canon 1DX Mark II is 20.2 megapixels. Can Canon’s full-frame camera keep up with Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, despite being seriously outnumbered in megapixels?

Can I take a number?  Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 108MP camera compared to 20.2MP Canon 1DX II

Kevin doesn’t impose his opinion. In the video, viewers are asked to independently try to determine which camera captured each of the images in six pairs. Along with the snapshot, a fragment of it is displayed at a scale of 1: 1.

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra camera is equipped with 13, 26, 72 and 240 mm EGF lenses. For the Canon camera, the most similar lenses in this parameter were chosen.

To provide a more accurate comparison, images were not processed. More precisely, the pictures taken by the Canon camera were color matched to the pictures taken by the smartphone. The pictures taken with the smartphone were only cropped.

In the second half of the video, its author explains why there will always be a fundamental difference between a tiny sensor in a smartphone and a full-frame sensor in a camera (the difference in area is 12 times), which is amplified by the difference in lenses.

Of course, higher resolution has its advantages, but it is wrong to associate it with higher quality, to which consumers are encouraged by manufacturers who single out only resolution from all camera parameters.

If you haven’t tried to determine which camera the pictures were taken with, stop, because below is the answer.

So, in the first pair, the image captured by the Galaxy S21 Ultra is located on the right, in the second – on the left, in the third – on the right, in the fourth – on the right, in the fifth – on the left, in the sixth – on the right.

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