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hey what's up guys I'm Kapiti here and this is the samsung galaxy s 9 plus as a couple days after the announcement we've had our chance to sort of soak it in and think about it for a little bit and it's become pretty clear actually that it seems like this whole event this announcement was saved from being called the exact same phone as last year by one major feature upgrade the camera so that's what we're all kind of looking at right now so while we have it before it actually comes out let's take a deeper look at what exactly will make this phone apparently different from every other phone out there let's take a deep look at the camera so the galaxy s 9 has a single 12 megapixel optically stabilized camera with a variable aperture and the galaxy s 9 plus we have here has dual cameras so the same primary camera and an additional secondary 2x telephoto camera fixed at F 2.4 so the biggest change obviously at least on paper is that valuable aperture so as I mentioned briefly in my impressions video of this phone with a couple exceptions pretty much every single smartphone camera out there is a fixed aperture lens which means the aperture doesn't change it doesn't open or close they're letting in a certain amount of light every time to hit that sensor and most new phones are around F 2.0 sometimes F 1.9 or F 1.8 pixel to one of the best smartphone cameras ever has a fixed F 1.8 aperture lens so the galaxy s 9 has this dual aperture lens it can physically switch between F 1.5 wide open which is incredible or F 2.4 depending on how much light is in the scene so basically it'll shoot almost everything at F 2.4 by default and auto but when you get down to about a hundred Lux Samsung says which is actually pretty low light it'll open up wide to F 1.5 but if you ever actually want to make sure you're using one aperture or the other you can go into pro mode and that is where one of the toggles is 1.5 or 2.4 now as far as the difference between the photos I'm still evaluating that but I have started taking back-to-back photos with the f15 and f2 4 and I've shared some on Twitter already so you can make that call if you see a difference right now I think showing them back-to-back is what makes it more obvious but the full analysis will be in the review for sure so that is a pretty promising new development with the camera that we're messing with but definitely not all that's new also new and the camera is an improved composite HDR mode so it's now taking 12 frames and turning in photos with great dynamic range and reduced noise and better contrast that's all in Auto HDR though so you don't have to do anything special for that there's also the whole new sliding UI of the camera kind of like what we've been seeing in the iPhone for years I think it's definitely an improvement it kind of encourages you to swipe around and explore all the different modes that you might not have even known have existed in the samsung camera app for years and one of the most important ones is of course this pro mode not a whole ton to say about it of then it keeps getting better you can change pretty much everything here so if you're in photography you know your shutter speed ISO manual focus white balance and even of course that toggle for switching manually between f15 and f2 for that's what I've been using to take the back-to-back comparison shots but also new with the camera is this super slow-motion video mode now if you jump into the camera settings there's actually already a ton of video frame rates to choose from you can shoot at 4k 30 or 4 k 60 frames per second you can shoot quad HD or 1080p even super wide screen at 18 and a half by 9 and there's also a high efficiency video codec you can toggle on or off and you might have also heard about 1080p at 240 frames per second but that's actually hidden by default it's strangely difficult to find you have to go into the camera settings edit camera modes and on the rear camera and then you got a tick regular slow motion for some reason it's unchecked and hidden by default online but when you do that's where the 1080p 240 FPS is the more you know but what we're really interested in of course is that new 960 frames per second at 720p other phones have done this there's been so many phones to do near a thousand frames a second but this is new to Samsung so this will turn a zero point two second video clip into a six second smooth video also it will only record for 0.2 seconds so here's how it works first of all it crops in a lot so you're gonna have to backup for your framing be prepared for that and then there's two ways to do it manually or automatically because it's super hard to time something that's that fast to press the shutter button at the exact right moment and you can try and that's what manual mode is for but that might take a while to get the perfect action but the automatic mode is pretty cool it puts a box on the screen that you can move around and then you hit start and it'll wait until something some movement enters that box to trigger the super slow motion so you can get some pretty cool clips if you place the box perfectly where you expect to action to happen it's not bad alright next up in the camera is something called a our emoji I like I said in that impressions video it's basically an emoji but not as good this one relies entirely on the front-facing camera no extra depth sensors or anything like that and it's closer to like snapchats bitmoji than anything else but it's so worse than that so you take a picture of yourself and it analyzes it for like a minute or so and then turns you into a sort of a animated character and then you can further customize your character to look just like you kinda unless they don't have your hair and then you have your air emoji it's pretty creepy if I'm being honest but I I didn't actually appreciate how smooth and accurate Apple's an emoji was until I went back after this and tried it again and it's like way better but I don't see many people using AR emoji past the first few days or two maybe just for fun but you know here it is it exists now so the last thing it's new at this camera is Bixby vision so yes Bixby is still a big part of Samsung's efforts but also a Bixby vision can probably be pushed in a software update to other things like the note and the s8 but this is what's new with that you go into the camera app and you see this little eye you click the eye and it'll go into this sort of recognition mode where it can offer a couple different things QR codes those are pretty self-explanatory it'll read those wines will literally read wine bottles and tell you more about them very specific places will identify where you're at and you can look around sort of find nearby places and landmarks and then shopping will try to identify a product by related product shots it finds on the internet and then lets you maybe buy them images just tries to reverse image search whatever you're looking at to find out what it is so the closest thing to what you're looking at on google images text is pretty interesting it uses Google Translate and will live translate any text in front of you which could actually be helpful in real life and the makeup section which just switches to the front-facing camera and puts makeup on you lets you try a bunch of different products and then gives you a link to buy them directly and that's it that is everything that is new with the galaxy s 9s camera and the s 9 plus it still has all the old stuff it still has live focus with the dual cameras for taking portrait mode shot still has some of the stickers and things but that's that's your camera reimagined now this isn't the full review of the whole phone so we'll wait till then to put conclusions on everything and see if it's actually worth it all but you could probably come to a lot of conclusions yourself I mean looking at sample photos we already know this is going to be one of the top smartphone cameras of this year it's just a matter of whether it falls at number one or number two or number three but stay tuned to places like Twitter and Instagram where all be posting sample photos as I take them and as I use this phone more coming up to the full review but until then thanks for watching talk to you the next one peace