Photographer and video producer Kevin Raposo wanted to test how Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone compares to a $6,000 professional DSLR camera. Specifically, Raposo wants to see how the 108MP image sensor in the S21 Ultra compares to the 20.2MP image sensor in his Canon 1DX Mark II DSLR . Can the 20MP full-frame Canon camera keep up with the latest flagship Samsung smartphone despite being seriously outgunned in the megapixels department? In the video below, Raposo compares six different images, each captured by the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Canon 1DX II. He shot portraits and images in challenging to compare the cameras. The video shows a 100% crop from each camera, and you can guess which photo was captured by which device as you watch along. The correct answers are in the video description on YouTube and at the bottom of this article. As Raposo goes through each image, he discusses why image quality relies upon much more than megapixels. Image quality doesn’t just improve as you increase megapixels. To ensure a good comparison, images are unedited or lightly edited. Of the Galaxy images, Raposo writes, ‘Galaxy S21 Ultra pictures are completely unedited, aside from […]
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