Samsung and Discovery create a short documentary on tigers using a Galaxy S21 Ultra

08 December 2021
The documentary was shot in Ranthambore National Park and is called "Eye to Eye With a Tiger".

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How's that even possible with a phone this hot ? I regret buying it when it came out. Soo expensive just to realize i can't shoot anything for more than 20 minutes plus I have to let it cool down,charge up and allow me to used it. Worst phone i ever owend

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    • Bunnu
    • 7k4
    • 12 Dec 2021

    Anonymous, 08 Dec 2021Tigers are native from Eastern Russia, China, Koreas, India... moreMost of them are in india.

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      • Anonymous
      • ucy
      • 12 Dec 2021

      10x optical zoom on the phone roughly translates to 240mm full frame equiv. That's... honestly, not very far for wildlife photography. It's JUST enough reach for some very large animals, and definitely not large enough for magazine-quality shots. I use a 45-150mm micro 4/3 lens (300mm max) and even then I often have to crop a little bit further into the 16MP sensor.

      Though I must give credit for the fact that most people have never touched anything that zooms past 3x, this will feel like literal magic - you'll be seeing things you've never seen before. I'm just concerned that people get this misconception that wildlife photographers are going to ditch all their gear for the phone, which won't happen.

      1) The aperture of the 10x zoom lens isn't that bright at all, and paired with a phone-grade sensor your shots in anything but perfect lighting will be a soft, blurry mess for moving animals.
      2) 10MP is perfectly fine for social media but not for wildlife where you have to crop in deep to reframe your shots after taking them

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        • Priyanshu probal gos
        • rJm
        • 10 Dec 2021

        Cool story telling

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          • Anonymous
          • tZ4
          • 09 Dec 2021

          Ivo., 08 Dec 2021Much better than the stupid Apple movies! The 8K video of t... moreare u bring up apple name so everybody can know that u hate them ?

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            • Anonymous
            • IJK
            • 08 Dec 2021

            Anonymous, 08 Dec 2021“The best camera is the one that’s with you” - Chase JarvisCool story

              Wow, must be very smart tigers. What did they use it for? Taking selfies after a hunt?

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                • Anonymous
                • q}X
                • 08 Dec 2021

                Guru, 08 Dec 2021No professional would ever use a phone, no matter how advan... moreTarget audience isn't professionals. It's to show average consumers the possibilities.

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                  • Ivo.
                  • jMx
                  • 08 Dec 2021

                  Much better than the stupid Apple movies! The 8K video of the S21 Ultra is amazing! No such thing on the crappy iPhones! And forget about 10x zoom, too!

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                    • Street Puppy
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                    • 08 Dec 2021

                    Bad focus, too much flare

                      Seems white/magenta tigers are a new specie! Horrible color management, like always in a crapsung and its HDR on own sensors!

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                        • Guru
                        • U{0
                        • 08 Dec 2021

                        No professional would ever use a phone, no matter how advanced it is. You can't beat physics, that is, large sensor size in professional cameras. At best, professional may fiddle with a cameraphone and then get back to using the professional gears. Photos from smartphones are overly post processed, well most modern smartphones to give a enhanced look but when you view them on a professional calibrated monitor, you see the flaws. I myself being a photographer, having handled quite a few flagship phones this year, couldn't convince myself to use any of them for my work.

                          I like Samsung, but I still feel, Samsung needs better optimisation of Apps, and it needs to create more Samsung Exclusive Apps like Expert RAW Camera.
                          Samsung should work with developers to get Cinema DNG RAW on its Flagships, like this one.
                          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=slUvVN3VqJY&feature=emb_title

                          The above RAW video is limited to 10-bit, though it's not sharpened or doesn't have profiles or other things baked into the image. If Samsung works with independent developers like these, it could have a lot more stable video than this one, and it could do video comparable to much larger cameras. Right now iPhones and some Flagship Android phones do 10-bit video, but it doesn't hold up too well in post.

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                            • Sausama
                            • L1q
                            • 08 Dec 2021

                            T-Dizzle, 08 Dec 2021Tigers are amazing! The phone part of this didn't real... moreI second that ♥️🐯🐅😍

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                              • Anonymous
                              • t7F
                              • 08 Dec 2021

                              Anonymous, 08 Dec 2021Pretty cool, but no phone camera is as good as a pro camera“The best camera is the one that’s with you” - Chase Jarvis

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                                • T-Dizzle
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                                • 08 Dec 2021

                                Tigers are amazing! The phone part of this didn't really matter to me, but I'm grateful that GSM Arena posted the article, for the tigers alone.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • JT5
                                  • 08 Dec 2021

                                  zillion, 08 Dec 2021Really? I never heard any tigers lives in Texas before.Tigers are native from Eastern Russia, China, Koreas, India and few places in Southeast Asia.

                                  Only Bengals can have white offspring.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • JT5
                                    • 08 Dec 2021

                                    zillion, 08 Dec 2021Really? I never heard any tigers lives in Texas before.Zoos and sactuaries (those that rescue animals and take care of them).

                                      AlienKiss, 08 Dec 2021Did you know that there are more tigers in Texas than in th... moreReally? I never heard any tigers lives in Texas before.

                                        The big question is what will gonna be if those tigers was recorded with Mi11U? Especially at the night? It will be the best documenter ever as our legacy for our next grandchildren!