Samsung Galaxy S10 Camera Review

The three cameras in a lane

Samsung Galaxy S series is known for the high-quality optics phones, and the S10 is not an exception. The handset has a very nice 12-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization(OIS), an ultra-wide-angle 16-megapixel camera with a 123-degree field of view and a bonus 12-megapixel telephoto lens which enables 2X zoom.


Likewise LG’s similar V40 phone’s cameras, one can swap between these lenses with a finger touch at a button. Samsung will also save your efforts as you can simply scroll in and out more like a traditional camera, and the smartphone will automatically switch the lenses as appropriate. The interface is more easy to grasp and comes loaded with modified extras, including an enhanced panoramas and a Pro mode. There’s even a setting that allows Samsung’s algorithms to work automatically to suggest a better angle.

In-short, you won’t need the plethora of extra modes to click a great photo. The Galaxy S10 captures better shots than almost any phone out there in the market. It's in the same league with the handily outperformed: the OnePlus 6T iPhone XS and Google Pixel 3.

Though, the Night shots cannot match the Pixel 3’s new Night Sight mode, but they’re comparably far better than most else. The combination of lenses did a great job pulling in more light and color than we expected on a particularly brisk evening walk through a park.

The automatic scene effects did let us down in a few shots, for instance, Samsung's algorithms decided that each and every street lamp must sparkle like a star. At first that was charming, then we had to turn off the camera's Scene Optimizer to eliminate the sparkles.

On the contrary, we had fun with the Live Focus mode, which worked particularly great for selfies. Particularly, it finds your face and lets you blur the background in different manners.