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Original image on S20 Ultra

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Crop. Notice the halo around tree branches (as if they glow), an artifact of aggressive oversharpening

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Original image on S10 Plus

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Crop. Notice lack of aggressive oversharpening

If like me, you shoot a lot of photos using portrait mode (Live Focus), you'd find that the Ultra makes one quite big compromise here: since there is no 2X lens, it will use digital zoom to give you that 2X magnification for portrait shots. This in turn means that Live Focus photos sometimes look worse than on other phones. The digitally zoomed photos don't have as much detail and quality as earlier Galaxy and are the biggest regression in this camera. Notice in the images below how the sun from the side is way too bright for the S20 Ultra and it has burned the face of our beautiful model: