The Galaxy S23 Ultra has zoom for a reason
Last year, we asked ourselves: what is the point of putting four camera lenses on a smartphone? Reader, I figured out the answer since then. It’s for taking photos from an airplane.
I had fun figuring out what I was flying over on my way back to San Francisco from an event this week. I was struck by how a plane flying parallel to us came out and that I could pick out Apple’s spaceship campus from so high up—and yes, let’s appreciate the beautiful irony of me taking a photo of the Apple campus with a Samsung smartphone.
The Galaxy S23 Ultra isn’t a perfect shooter, however. There were some instances where I noticed the degradation of the shot the further I zoomed in—especially when I went past the 10x optical limit.
