new Galaxy S20 phones are Samsung’s first to record 8K video

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According to Samsung, the videos will be enhanced by its Super Steady technology, which now offers anti-rolling stabilization and AI motion analysis. Users will be able to edit the videos right on the phone, something we saw for ourselves in a demo. And from anywhere in a video, they will be able to grab a 32-megapixel still photo.

They will then be able to easily show off those videos either at home or out on social media; specifically, on YouTube. If you own a 2019 or 2020 Samsung QLED 8K TV, you will be able to stream the 8K videos directly from the Galaxy S20 to the TV. Samsung has partnered with YouTube to allow you to directly upload 8K videos to the service (assuming that your carrier can handle the bandwidth).
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/...ltra-8k-video-recording-quality-unpacked-2020


 
But, if you must shoot in 8K, you can upload the videos to YouTube in their full resolution or downscale them to either 4K or 1080p. There are also improvements to video stabilization, which looks great from the brief videos I recorded during my time with the phone, and there are a host of other new video features. But like testing the stills camera, I'll give them a closer look in the final review.
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https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-galaxy-s20-ultra-hands-on/
 
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All three Galaxy S20 phones can film 8k video at 24p, as well as 4k or 1080 at 30 or 60p; I’d prefer there to be more frame rates available, especially 24 or 25p for 1080 and 4k, but let’s not let that ruin the fact the S20 phones can now actually film 8k seemingly without compromise, with no apparent crop or time limit beyond memory as far as I could see. Yeah, this is it recording 8k and nothing appears to be melting so far.
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https://www.cameralabs.com/samsung-galaxy-s20-review/

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I can't wait to see if there's any surprises at NAB this year, surely phones won't be the only affordable source for 8K video until 2021! ;)
 
They're really pushing the envelope here, wow. But also 220g, wow. No limits anywhere anymore in the mobile phone market.
 
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced its next-generation 108-megapixel (Mp) image sensor, Samsung ISOCELL Bright HM1. With a spectrum of light-enhancing technologies spanning from Nonacell and Smart-ISO to real-time HDR, ISOCELL Bright HM1 allows brighter and more detailed 108Mp photographs and crystal-clear 8K videos at 24 frames per second (fps), even under extreme lighting conditions.
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https://www.samsung.com/semiconduct...ages-with-industry-first-nonacell-technology/
 
Samuel H said:
They're really pushing the envelope here, wow...
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Which is how Samsung ships almost 300 million units - let that sink in for a second - annually. The company dipped its toes in the camera pond, didn't make much of a dent, quickly decided it wasn't worth it anyway and reassigned its engineering staff on something useful. The only thing to worry about for all the movers and shakers is the next step. In other words, after a 48 MP zoom and a 108 MP wide, what else is there?
 
It's wild to me with their resources in sensor R&D, fabs, computational photography, experience in image sharing and basically having the ability to make a non-incompetent version of Snapbridge, it's amazing to me that the Samsung NX was such a failure. It's interesting especially because a lot of us armchair critics of the "old" camera companies think a lack of exactly those things are why CIPA numbers are delivering the doom and gloom that they do, but if Samsung couldn't do any better....
 
The photo-video camera industry is a (rapidly) sinking market. The only way for Samsung to have made a splash would have been to release a bunch of bodies with the same mount, including the high end full frame sports/action in the 1D X/D4 class, cinema/pro models in the C100-300 class and a bunch of fixed mount camcorders and point&shoots. That would have required both the large engineering staffs and large marketing/sales staffs globally. In a sinking market, it's a dilution of scarce resources. Knowing the technical development of the smartphones, they moved on.

PS. They may or may not have known what CorePhotonics was doing in Israel or how close they were to succeeding with the periscope zooms and computational imaging. That ended up such a key technology, Samsung bought CorePhotonics outright a year ago for $155M.
 
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