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The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has an unimaginable digital camera that is among the many greatest you’ll find on any of in the present day’s top-end telephones. (It could also be topped by the rumored Galaxy S22 Ultra, however solely time will inform.) It’s able to taking superb zoomed-in photographs and rivaling the iPhone 12 Pro Max and probably the iPhone 13 in its total picture high quality. It’s filled with nice options to assist each novices and professionals alike take sensible pictures when out and about. While it might not be a dramatic overhaul from the Galaxy S20 Ultra (with headline specs such because the 108-megapixel sensor and 100x zoom being frequent throughout each telephones), there are some new methods to find out about. Read extra: Samsung’s Galaxy S21 is the no-brainer improve phoneLet’s dive in to see what options are new and find out how to use them.

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Single Take Single Take is a operate that enables the telephone to seize a number of pictures and video clips — every with a unique impact utilized — simply by urgent the shutter button as soon as. Its purpose is to can help you seize an entire number of fascinating photographs and movies of, say, your baby unwrapping a birthday current, with out having to determine prematurely on a specific fashion, zoom lens or filter. It was a characteristic launched on the Galaxy S20, however it’s been expanded to supply much more results. It sounds complicated, however utilizing it is vitally simple. To begin, faucet into the Single Take digital camera mode within the mode dial subsequent to the shutter button. Then, all you should do is faucet the shutter button and await the 10 seconds it takes to seize every thing. The concept is that you will transfer round, perhaps pan the digital camera between faces, in order that the telephone has extra materials to work with to create all of the totally different choices for you. 
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Once accomplished, you possibly can head into the gallery and discover your Single Take file and swipe as much as see the totally different gadgets it is produced. There’ll be nonetheless pictures, totally different cuts of movies, GIFs — all of which may have results utilized. You can save all of them or choose your favorites to share with family and friends.
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Using the zoom The S21 Ultra has a 3x optical zoom, a 10x optical zoom and might take digitally zoomed pictures as much as a whopping 30x and 100x. Using them is lifeless simple. In the usual digital camera mode you may see small leaf icons subsequent to the shutter button. A single leaf means zooming in (i.e. getting nearer to the leaf); the icon with three leaves means utilizing the tremendous large lens (i.e. capturing extra leaves in a single shot). Tapping the icons will take you shortly to 3x or 10x zooms, however you may also faucet on the numbers that pop up subsequent to them as properly. 
It works simply the identical whether or not you are zooming in when taking a nonetheless picture or whether or not you are recording video. 
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Night mode The correct Night mode on the S21 Ultra will be irritating to seek out should you’re new to the telephone and chances are you’ll not even know it is there at first. The telephone can take nice low-light pictures in its commonplace digital camera mode, however when issues get actually darkish, scroll to More on the mode panel subsequent to the shutter button and you will see an entire number of totally different taking pictures choices. One of them known as Night and is represented by a picture of a moon. In this mode the telephone will take a picture over a number of seconds so as to seize extra mild. While it makes use of picture stabilization to maintain the shot as sharp as potential, you possibly can assist it additional by conserving as regular a hand as potential, and even higher by stabilizing your fingers on a close-by wall or different object to attenuate hand shake. 
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Director’s ViewA brand new characteristic for the S21, Director’s View is a video characteristic that reveals you thumbnails of what the scene you are taking pictures will appear to be utilizing the totally different zoom lenses. You’ll discover it in the identical menu display as Night mode (faucet More on the mode choice wheel). Once there, you may immediately see the totally different thumbnails and might faucet on them to start out recording video in every zoom size. Director’s View has a further characteristic, nonetheless, that permits you to file video with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently. The concept is that you could movie a scene in entrance of you, whereas additionally capturing your individual response to it. When in Director’s View you may see a sq. field on the prime proper of the display (when held in portrait orientation, or on the prime left if held in panorama). Tapping this may can help you choose the way you need your front-facing video to be displayed; as a split-screen view the place your face takes up half the display, or as a smaller picture-in-picture fashion, the place you seem as a small window overlaid onto the principle view. 
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Tapping both of those will convey your face into the image and hitting file will allow you to seize video with each side directly. Remember although that the telephone completely bakes each movies right into a single file, so do not shoot with the back and front cameras directly hoping to separate them into particular person movies later. 
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108-megapixel picturesThe 108-megapixel decision of the principle digital camera sensor is big and whereas it is the identical decision because the S20 Ultra, it has been given some software program tweaks to enhance it, so it is value testing if you have not already. To activate it, begin off in the usual digital camera mode and you will see some icons alongside the highest of the display (or the left, should you’re holding it in panorama mode), one in every of which shall be for the side ratio and shall be indicated with numbers reminiscent of 3:4, 1:1 or Full. Tap it and you will see the 3:4 108MP possibility. Tapping that may activate the excessive decision mode, however take into account that with that energetic you will not have the ability to use any of the zoom lenses because it depends solely on the principle digital camera’s picture sensor.
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12-bit uncooked  Samsung has apparently given the S21 Ultra a lift in its uncooked taking pictures abilities with help for 12-bit uncooked information. Raw information are basically “digital negatives” that do not save info like white stability or digital sharpening, giving a greater base picture for modifying the shot later. Raw information are sometimes utilized by professional photographers who need the utmost management and high quality from their pictures. 
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12-bit uncooked information, in principle, seize extra dynamic vary that means extra element within the highlights and shadows. It’s a professional characteristic maybe, so it is no shock that you will want to enter More after which activate the Pro mode. This will convey up all of the guide settings for publicity, white stability and auto focus, so it is solely value experimenting with should you’re assured along with your pictures information. Activating uncooked mode takes a further step although; faucet the settings cog, go into Format and superior choices and activate RAW copies, which is able to enable the telephone to take a uncooked picture in addition to a typical JPEG. Keep in thoughts, although, that uncooked information take up much more house than JPEG pictures, so should you’re working low on house, be sure to’ve not left this mode switched on and are unintentionally filling up your gallery with high-resolution uncooked pictures of your pet. Unless that is what you are into.

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