A few days ago, Samsung proposed an interesting challenge to us: embark on a journey without a digital camera, only with the Galaxy S23 Ultra. The idea was to visit different places and capture photos with the highest possible quality, all without professional equipment.
When you go on a trip, you want to be comfortable and have everything focus on enjoying the places you visit. Taking pictures is almost mandatory to preserve the memory of the places you have visited, but it cannot become the main activity. Traveling with a professional camera has its advantages, but none of them are associated with comfort.
You have to worry about choosing the right equipment, making sure it fits in your travel bag, charging its batteries, choosing the storage you will take, and so on. All of this before leaving on a trip. With the mobile, there is no need to worry about all of the above.
Comfort is also present during the trip, because the professional camera is a bulky device that takes up a lot of space. You must always carry it with you wherever you go, and be aware of not losing it or anything happening to it. Once again, with the mobile phone, all of this is solved: you already carry a smartphone, so the photography equipment is included in it.
We are very used to traveling with a camera, because on occasions we need to take pictures and videos with the highest possible quality, but comfort in being able to carry all the equipment in your pocket may be the most important factor in this entire article.
Carrying a high-quality camera integrated into the smartphone and not including extra space and weight is a major advantage when traveling using only your mobile phone as a camera device.
One of the other things we appreciate more when traveling with the Galaxy S23 is speed. You just need to take out your smartphone from your pocket, open it, and take photos. This process with a digital camera is not as simple and requires a lot of preparation time. The simple fact of taking out the camera from its case, removing the lens cover, and turning it on could be enough to make you lazy and prevent you from taking a picture.
We realized that using a mobile phone allows you to take far more photographic photos than with a camera, because the setup is almost non-existent and in a few seconds the shot can be ready. Using a digital camera, you can get more quality, but the process is much more tedious.
However, a 200-megapixel camera for the Galaxy S23 Ultra makes you dispense with the digital camera. It is possible to leave it at home, forget about it during your entire vacation and take with you an album filled with much higher quality than the album you would have made using a professional camera.
This is not something that can be done with any smartphone, but Samsung has managed to obtain photographic quality in its modern phone that really makes you dispense with digital cameras.
