Samsung Galaxy Note 3 4k Video

13 MP stills are great

The Samsung Galaxy Note iii comes with the same 13 MP snapper that we establish and loved on the Galaxy S4 but with some additional perks, like the Photo Sphere-similar Surround Shot. The 13MP camera is good for photos of upwards to 4128 x 3096 pixels in its native iv:3 aspect.

The user interface is based on the Milky way Photographic camera interface. A single viewfinder handles both still and video capture, so y'all don't have to switch modes. Still, this is certainly not the most user-friendly solution every bit, if you're shooting full resolution 13MP photos, yous'll have to frame your videos using a 4:3 viewfinder.

The bulk of the settings is located in the pinnacle left corner. Still, there a number of interesting options here like the setting for the book rocker to act equally a all the same shutter key, a video shutter key or a zoom lever. The HDR mode (Rich Tone) tin exist set to salve a normal and an HDR photo or just the HDR one. Some other interesting option is contextual file names - the Galaxy S4 will name photos with your location (the GPS needs to be on for this to piece of work).

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 camera app

Anyway, the cooler settings are found in ii places. The first is the Mode push button under the shutter keys. It brings up a carousel with different shooting modes, each manner comes with a descriptive image and text. When you get familiar with those modes, you tin can switch to the grid, which drops he text but is faster.

The other ane is the arrow at the bottom of the screen, which brings upwards a row of colour furnishings. Each issue gets a live preview, then you lot tin can see what the particular scene will wait like with information technology. In that location's a download button so you tin can grab more furnishings.

Unlike shooting modes

Some of the shooting modes we've seen on previous Samsung phones like All-time Photo and Best Face up, which snap multiple photos and let you choice the best i (in the case of All-time Face, y'all tin can tweak each confront in the photo individually). Beauty Shot does some automated beauty touch upwardly.

Then we become into the more interesting shots. Surround shot is Samsung's proper noun for Photo Sphere, which creates a spherical panorama, like to those in Street View. Eraser helps y'all remove moving objects (e.yard. tourist waling into your shot).

Drama style takes a moving object and clones it several times. Notation that the resolution for this style drops to 1080p. Another way to capture moving objects is Cinematics Photo, which creates cinemagrams. The issue is an animated GIF file.

Audio & shot captures a photo and records ambience audio. It sounds pretty absurd - for example, you tin can hear the sea gulls in a beach photo or the roaring of car engines if you're at a race - but we had bug sharing the shot. All the Milky way Annotation 3 would transport is the nonetheless image, a JPEG, and the sound remains on the phone. Shame that Samsung didn't use the standard Audio annotation characteristic of JPEG photos for this ane.

One important shooting mode that'southward not plant in the carousel is double shot. It snaps a photo with both the forepart and the dorsum cameras, so the person holding the phone can be in the shot likewise.

At present to the near important part - image quality. If you were happy with the Samsung Galaxy S4'south splendid thirteen MP snapper and then you lot will honey the Milky way Note 3 snapper. Images have a lot of particular in them even in less than perfect atmospheric condition (cloudy weather) dissonance is kept well under control. White balance is pretty natural and colors nice and punchy.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 camera samples

HDR stills come up out great as well. The Samsung Galaxy Notation 3 does well to develop the highlights that would otherwise exist clipped, while shadows are but improved slightly, and so dissimilarity is nevertheless not bad and images don't look too flat or unrealistic. HDR images have an excellent amount of fine detail, besides.

Samsung Milky way Note three HDR samples

Panoramas on the Samsung Galaxy Notation iii can get as high every bit around threescore MP but simply if you shoot in portrait mode as the images come out just over 3000 px tall, while in landscape panorama shooting y'all're getting an average of around 1600 px, which isn't platonic. In either manner you can shoot images around 19-20000 px wide. The stitching is seamless and the software uses the gyroscope and accelerometer to guide you lot and warn y'all if you're going too fast or moving off the right line.

Samsung Galaxy Note iii panorama 1

And here's another sample.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 panorama 2

To put the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 camera performance in perspective we did an impromptu shootout between it and the LG G2 smartphone. LG G2 has a like (if slightly wider) field of view and identical resolution so the two are easy to compare.

On paper the G2 has the advantage of OIS, only since nosotros used a tripod for the shots that didn't help information technology here. The two contestants were almost on par, with the amount of detail about even on the ii shots. The Galaxy Note 3 applies more aggressive sharpening, which makes its images appear sharper, but also has a nuance more artifacts. The LG G2 has slightly more than noise too.

Photo comparison tool

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is more capable of conveying its own weight in our Photo Comparing tool. We've selected the excellent LG G2 and Galaxy S4 xiii MP shooters to rival it and the fight is certainly fierce.

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Samsung Milky way Notation 3 in our photo quality comparison tool

4K video recording in a class of its ain

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (the Snapdragon 800 edition) premiers 2160p video capture, more commonly referred to equally UHD 4K or just 4K. It translates to videos of 3840 ten 2160 resolution, or in other words, four times the resolution of 1920 10 1080 FullHD clips. The latter is also available on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in standard thirty frames per 2d mode forth with the smooth 1080p@60fps video recording.

Note that in 4K video shooting you tin can't utilize Dual Shot mode and doesn't permit stills capture during recording, while in 1080p recording you tin snap full-res viii MP xvi:9 aspect images.

30 fps FullHD videos acquit the bitrate of around xvi Mbps, while 60fps movies take about 30Mbps. Audio is captured at 122 Kbps with a sampling rate of 48 kHz with ii channels (read stereo). The more interesting 2160p video recording mode carries a very high 47 Mbps bitrate (almost three times that of 1080p videos) for the same 30 fps framerate. Audio is recorded with a bitrate of 123 Kbps with the same 48 kHz sampling rate.

During 1080p video recording y'all tin can zoom upward to 4x times with the Galaxy Note 3 retaining the same quality up to 2x zoom (because the camera is capable of the double 2160p resolution). Beyond the 2x zoom, things start to downgrade rather chop-chop.

Here goes the 2160p video sample. The detail levels are very high, which coupled with the immense resolution makes the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 truly the best camcorder smartphone out in that location. The quality of the Galaxy Note 3 4K videos is and so good that in good calorie-free each of its frames has more particular than, say, the HTC One's 4 MP stills.

Things follow suit with the 1080p video recording. Aside from the obvious resolution drop the video carries the same corking qualities - loftier item levels and nicely rendered colors besides every bit consistent framerate.

And here yous can check out the zooming capabilities of the Galaxy Note 3 during 1080p video recording. First we zoom all the way up to 4x where things look rather poo, but once we back up to 2x nosotros basically become the same quality as not-zoomed 1080p footage.

And here's an untouched 1080p @ 60fps (5 seconds, 18.9MB) video sample taken straight off the Galaxy Note 3.

Video quality comparison tool

The Samsung Milky way Note 3 enters our video comparison tool to merits the biggest prize - the camcorder crown. We've enrolled it in full 4K glory and in 1080p fashion and so you tin see only how better the 2160p video recording is. Yous can conspicuously see the sort of advantage 4K video recording gives here.

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Samsung Galaxy Note three in 4K and 1080p celebrity in our video quality comparison tool