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if there's one thing that the Galaxy S nine brings to the table that is probably revolutionary it would have to do with the camera and we're gonna take a closer look at it for those of you who only want to see what these camera features are it's jaja for gara what's going on everybody and these are the new features for the cameras of the galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus let's go ahead and start off with just some fun here slow motion is not really a new feature as it appears in a number of recent Samsung releases mainly in the form of 120 frames per second video but with the updated camera of the s9 4k footage can be captured at 60 frames per second making it a beast for videographers but when you do the math you're able to get 120 frames per second at 1080p and then go all the way down to 720p at 960 frames per second however Samsung has put in an auto mode that allows the camera app to figure out when the motion is happening and then it begins capturing that super fast motion we tried this one or two times and the video that came out of it was quite enjoyable when you go to it inside of the gallery it'll actually add music or even a couple of effects before you actually share it with anybody else and then here come the AR emoji one for all of those people that have an emoji envy Samsung has brought its own brand of special emoji to the galaxy s 9 and they are quite customizable using either camera faces can be captured and transformed into an avatar that resembles kind of like a bitmoji if you are a snapchat user the face capture results in more of a caricature rather than a really accurate depiction and even then people can customize the AR emoji to be beyond recognition for example there are a ton of hairstyles and you can change the colours to a number of different options and I was able to get my long hair back because of that and lunch just wanted to have bright white hair so that was his prerogative there's a variety of eyewear and all colors can be changed to what you want clothing options were a bit sparse but we're sure that updates will provide even more settings for this and we want to be surprised if there were themed or even sponsored elements of the AR emoji that people can use as you've seen with other avatar creation systems once you're happy with your AR emoji just hit save and the camera will save all the options so that when you use let's say the front-facing camera it will provide you with your AR emoji and you can actually move your head around make the face do things like raising your eyebrows or opening your mouth and making it make faces that you are actually making in real life but that's not all the mode will actually save over a dozen different gifts that are locally stored for easy sharing again this is probably something that will grow over time as more gifts can be created by this mode and Samsung can easily just update this feature in the future and we go from that into the nitty gritty the stuff that real photons might actually really be excited about and we're talking about aperture it doesn't sound all of that fun but it's a little bit more technical and when you think about it inputs this smartphone closer to proper DSLRs than ever before as you can see here the opening of the lens is either wide open or closed down depending on the setting in aperture terms the closed setting is f 2.4 and the open setting is f 1.5 let that sink in for a second you're able to choose between these two aperture modes this is a hardware solution where as you would see the same effect in a lot of software solutions in the past but in order to get more light into the lens you can go to F 1.5 and you'll also get much finer depth of field focus but if you have a wider scene like let's say a landscape the F 2.4 will be better suited for that but it won't allow as much light to get into the lens purists will probably be happy that not everything is relying on soft or for once but of course if you want to do that soft focus is still a mode that is available and finally let's talk a little bit about multi frame processing this is something that you might have seen in mainly the Google pixel phones with HDR plus it's the same general idea but of course Samsung doesn't have the massive machine learning library that Google does hit the shutter and at any moment the camera will capture 12 photos usually in three groups of four and all of the frames will be processed for their detail for their contrast and for how much noise needs to be reduced or just in general processed we were told that this has done a few different times in a split instant made possible by the memory the DRAM built into the actual camera module itself the results are hopefully going to be exceptional though we're sure that the camera will still be a high performer given the track record of the Galaxy S line you're seeing some examples of these pictures right now but of course we will give you even more of our thoughts and you can give us yours after we give our full testing in our full review and so there you have it a specific look at the cameras of the galaxy s 9 and the s 9 plus by the way the s 9 plus camera does have the telephoto lens on there now bringing some note 8 flavor to the line but the rest of what we've covered above is available in either phone which is a great prospect for users who don't really need the zoom but don't want to feel like they're missing out on anything else by picking the smaller of the two devices let us know how you feel about these camera updates and if it might be enough for you to actually pick up the latest Samsung device yourself keep it tuned to Andrew authority for more about this phone and we're gonna be pitting it against a lot of other devices just to see where it stacks up against the competition keep it tuned here to Android authority and don't forget to head on over to Andrew 30.com for even more from MWC because we are your source for all things Android