Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra vs Galaxy S24 Ultra camera shootout, part 2

23 January 2025
We take the S25 Ultra and S24 Ultra on a photo tour of San Jose.

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  • Anonymous
  • MpL
  • 24 Jan 2025

Where is camera shootout S25 and S25+?

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    • Anonymous
    • PxV
    • 24 Jan 2025

    WOW S25 Ultra look so much better here 😍 (about 0.5% better)

      Tech, 24 Jan 2025Professional photographer here. Garbage update, Samesung, g... moreI'm rather sure Samsung does have voice trigger fir camera.

        Anonymous, 24 Jan 2025No, the performance won't be the same. You can read reviews.It will be fine and has been fine on previous phones versus gaming phones, too.

          xPandamon, 24 Jan 2025Samsung can also trigger the camera by saying smile. Frankl... moreLook at the trees on the left on the second ultrawide image. The S24 Ultra does a poor job and very noticeable sharpens the image, while the S25 Ultra keeps a natural level of sharpness. This isn't even a subtle change, it's a straight up fix to an issues that both Samsung and Apple smartphones had for years.

            Tech, 24 Jan 2025Professional photographer here. Garbage update, Samesung, g... moreSamsung can also trigger the camera by saying smile. Frankly, stop talking about stuff you know nothing about. Also the S24 Ultra camera does oversharpen, it's a known fact and as a "professional photographer" you should know that, too. It's easy to see on images like the plant, where there's a white outline to the leaves aswell as a sort of halo effect when zooming in. The camera here is simply more true to nature, more like actual cameras.

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              • Anonymous
              • 70d
              • 24 Jan 2025

              xPandamon, 24 Jan 2025Are you sure about that? In what sense? Besides something l... moreNo, the performance won't be the same. You can read reviews.

                AHE, 23 Jan 2025The differences are so minor that Samsung "could"... moreNo, they can't just do this via a software updates. The fact that multiple people upvoted this comment gives me a headache. The ISP is different, it's hardware, not software which changed the image here.

                  Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025They're gaming phones. S25U can't compete with th... moreAre you sure about that? In what sense? Besides something like the shoulder buttons not being there, the performance will be practically the same.

                    Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025As someone with no clue about the actual art/photography sc... moreThat's because the S24 Ultra just like the S23 Ultra oversharpened images. The images of the S25 Ultra look more natural, there's less artificial processing done to the image which is good. You can always sharpen images after taking them, but it's hard to turn that down afterwards

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                      • Prateep
                      • Emn
                      • 24 Jan 2025

                      Delia, 24 Jan 2025Costlier than S24 launched price, Minor upgrade CPU, camer... moreAgree with you absolutely. I own S24 ultra and will wait for S26 ultra next year.

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                        • Delia
                        • DpY
                        • 24 Jan 2025

                        Costlier than S24 launched price, Minor upgrade CPU, camera but lesser pen functionalitiy? Not fully Qi2 charging of the same rating, battery, RAM and OOB offering? Stick to 24U for this year.

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                          • Chirag
                          • CbE
                          • 24 Jan 2025

                          Means s25 ultra can't match x200 pro oh Samsung give x200 hardware to ultra models

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                            • Pxh
                            • 24 Jan 2025

                            trqhsn, 24 Jan 2025I hate Samsung for their display issue. It is pretty much g... moreThis is very nice application for that about me thanks you

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                              • Art
                              • XHV
                              • 24 Jan 2025

                              Nameless, 23 Jan 2025Cyber is right. GSMA is years in this bussiness and to call... more10x is a sensor crop, not digital zoom because it doesn't zoom beyond pixel-per-pixel level !
                              The Nokia 808 first used this technology.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • CbI
                                • 24 Jan 2025

                                trqhsn, 24 Jan 2025I hate Samsung for their display issue. It is pretty much g... moreOnly OnePlus have that problem. All of the samsung phone we have are more than 2 years old and have no problem.

                                  I hate Samsung for their display issue. It is pretty much guaranteed you will have green line within 2 years time period and they will not take any responsibility's.

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                                    • Artem
                                    • XHV
                                    • 24 Jan 2025

                                    What about the new AI Zoom that comes with One UI 7? Does it make past 10x shots look better?

                                      wow, a good downgrade for S25 Ultra! Amazing how details on S25 Ultra looks worse than S24 Ultra or S23 Ultra!

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                                        • 24 Jan 2025

                                        Nameless, 23 Jan 2025Cyber is right. GSMA is years in this bussiness and to call... moreHere is one more amateur fail - "In the dark, the older model produces noticeably noisier images – no surprises here, noise reduction is one of the advantages of pixel binning."
                                        The only on-paper advantage of new hardware in the dark is f/1.9 vs f/2.2. The sensors have equal sizes.

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