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Most high-end terminals, and also some mid-range ones, allow video recording in 4K resolution and 60 fps. With this we get a higher image quality, more detail and a more fluid movement. The Galaxy S allow recording in this resolution, but it seems that the South Korean company is going to change this feature in the Galaxy S20. We can record video with 4 times more resolution than 4K.
Thanks to a past leak, we already knew the specifications of the cameras of the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra. But we did not know why Samsung changed the resolution of some sensors. For example; the Galaxy S20 Ultra has a 108 megapixel main camera, while the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20 Plus will feature a 12 megapixel sensor. However, in the telephoto sensor, the Galaxy S20 Ultra will have a resolution of 48 megapixels, and the S20 and S20 Plus 64 megapixels.
Why this difference in cameras?
Everything indicates that the telephoto sensor of the Galaxy S20 Ultra will be better than that of the normal models, since it will have a more powerful zoom. However, the resolution is higher for a very interesting reason: 8K video recording. Yes, it seems that Samsung's flagships will record video with 4 times the resolution.
As SamMobile explains, to record video in 8K you need a sensor with a minimum resolution of 33.2 megapixels. The main camera of the Ultra model has a resolution of 108 megapixels, enough to record in 8K. While the 8K video recording of the Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus will be done with the telephoto camera. As the camera of these two models is not a periscope, what it will do is capture at 64 megapixels, and depending on the zoom we include, the terminal will crop and zoom the image. As the resolution is very high, we would not notice any loss of quality.
The question we ask ourselves is, isn't it early to record 8K videos? The mobiles barely have 4K resolution, and many of the televisions are Full HD. However, Samsung could include this resolution to make it compatible with its latest high-end televisions, which are 8K.
