Here are several ways the Galaxy S24 Ultra lets anyone feel like a true photography pro.

Everyday Pro

A true pro photographer has the power to capture the magic in any situation and the intelligence to turn any moment into a masterpiece. That’s what the Galaxy S24 Ultra enables you to do with a high-resolution camera and a wide range of shooting modes, even without profound experience.

• The 200MP wide-angle and 50MP telephoto cameras: You can take high-resolution images in bright conditions and when it’s darker, the adaptive pixel sensors with improved tetra squared pixel binning technology enhance the brightness and details. Now, you have the freedom to decide the type of photo you want to take, with no need for a full-scale professional lighting setup.
• Quad Tele System: Professional photographers rely on bulky telephoto lenses to capture stunning shots from great distances. But with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, you can achieve the same impressive results right from your pocket. Its Quad Tele System delivers optical-quality images at 2x, 3x, 5x and 10x magnifications.
• AI Zoom ensures clearer, sharper shots, especially when zooming between 2x, 3x, 5x and 10x or beyond 10x. The details can be restored for crisp images — even at an astounding 100x.

This marks a new era for concert photos and videos, where anyone can take pride in their zoom shots. Even from a distance, you’ll shoot like a pro.­

Nighttime Pro

Capturing nighttime moments with loved ones can be challenging for most, as the lack of light often makes it difficult to do the scene justice. True pros know that mastering the art of light is essential and with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, you too can make the night your ally.

Nightography naturally enhances details and brightness in low-light conditions, making those elusive nighttime shots easier to capture than ever before. Equipped with advanced sensors, optimized pixels, precise shutter speed and enhanced stabilization capabilities, the Galaxy S24 Ultra was engineered for the dark.

Advanced algorithms on both the front and rear cameras reduce noise, a common problem in low-light environments. While professionals have traditionally relied on tripods to steady their shots at night, the Galaxy S24 Ultra eliminates that need.

• AI analyzes gyro data to distinguish between your movements and those of your subject.
• Wider optical image stabilization (OIS) angles allow enhanced hand-shake compensation to ensure clearer, faster shots from any distance.
• Improved image signal processing (ISP) analyzes segments of an image to understand what’s going on in the scene so it can apply sophisticated editing and fine-tune specific aspects of the image such as sharpness, skin tone and noise reduction while also enhancing details. Both the front and rear cameras are equipped with a dedicated ISP block for noise reduction when recording videos in poor lighting conditions.

Now, you can leave the tripod at home and still capture stunning nighttime photos like a pro.

Cinema Pro

Visually stunning movies have traditionally required a crew to produce, but the Galaxy S24 Ultra puts that cinematic power in your hands. Now anyone can produce captivating, pro-grade videos without a Hollywood-sized budget.

Pros know that shooting in high resolution allows their content to shine on any screen, no matter the size.

• Video recording in 4K at 120fps and 8K at 30fps: The Galaxy S24 Ultra opens up new possibilities by recording high-resolution videos in 8K or super smooth 120fps videos in 4K. Everything you shoot will be ready for the big screen.

But a true professional filming experience goes beyond just shooting in high resolution. It’s also about capturing every detail and bringing creative visions to life.

• Portrait Video Mode with AI Stereo Video Bokeh harnesses AI to blend data from two cameras. This creates a clear separation between the foreground and background, allowing your subject to truly stand out.

Editing Pro

Capturing brilliant photos and videos is only step one. Most professionals will tell you that the magic truly happens in post-production, where the finishing touches can elevate your work to the next level.

While professionals might spend hours perfecting a single shot in editing, the Galaxy S24 Ultra simplifies the process without sacrificing quality.

• Edit Suggestion: Galaxy AI automatically identifies potential issues in an image, such as unwanted reflections or shadows, and suggests suitable tweaks
• Generative Edit allows you to reposition people or objects within a photo and fill in the space where they originally were with a perfectly blended background.

Editing has never been easier. With the Galaxy S24 Ultra, achieving a polished, professional look is within everyone’s reach.

Social Pro

The last step of the creative process is sharing, and professionals often turn to numerous apps to make the most of their photos and videos before posting them on social media platforms. That’s because social media apps don’t fully utilize the native camera app’s capabilities. That changes with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, which integrates the ProVisual Engine into Instagram.

• Super HDR (high dynamic range): In the Instagram app on the Galaxy S24 Ultra, you can directly shoot photos and videos in HDR for a more lifelike range of brightness, contrast and color.

That means social media-ready shots without the need for hours of post-processing. Now that’s better than pro.

Until now.

With the Galaxy S24, Samsung continues leading camera innovation to make these limitations a thing of the past for Galaxy users. Thanks to Galaxy’s ProVisual Engine — a suite of AI-powered tools — photographers can maximize their creative freedom every step of the way, from shot to setup to backend editing. Fueled by enhanced NPU performance and bolstered by an extensive library of more than 400 million image datasets, the Galaxy S24 ensures you can snap the best shot every time, no matter your experience level.

Never Miss a Moment, Regardless of Capture Mode

With Galaxy S24, gone is the need to tinker with camera modes or look for the best settings to capture a great shot:

• First up, the Quad Tele System ensures you get optical quality zoom at 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x and every step in between. This feature allows you to effortlessly capture every detail of a performance, wedding or even graduation ceremony, no matter how far away you’re sitting.

• Nighttime is often a memory-making time with friends and family, especially in the warmer months, but dim lighting conditions can make capturing these moments a challenge. Galaxy S24 Ultra’s powerful Nightography capabilities mitigate this very struggle even from a distance. Compared to the previous model, its sensor has nearly doubled in size from 12.52 square millimeters to approximately 24.47 square millimeters, helping Galaxy S24 Ultra capture details with even more precision. It also has bigger pixels — nearly 60% larger and measuring 1.4μm on each side of the pixel at 5x zoom.¹ Combined with enhanced AI ISP, this means the Galaxy S24 Ultra can capture more light and create brighter, less noisy images. What’s more, the photo shutter speed is 30% faster and the telephoto camera’s optical image stabilization angle is wider. That means you’ll capture clearer images more quickly, even if your hands are a little shaky.

• Or maybe you’ve already captured your shot, but it’s not quite right. This is where Generative Edit takes the stage, harnessing generative AI to adjust objects and generate a perfectly blended background in their place. You can perfect the moment you captured, creating the ideal memory to look back on. Generative AI enables edits such as straightening and resizing, then harnesses in-painting and out-painting techniques to fill any gaps in the image. AI then determines the suitability of the results and handles any necessary post-processing.

Capture Expert-Level Results With Precision Tools

For amateur and expert photographers alike, Expert RAW enables the creation of professional-quality images. Using AI, Galaxy S24 features 24MP fusion, which combines images to get the most out of different resolutions. High resolution 50MP images provide more detail, while 12MP images provide multi-frame synthesis, which improves noise and dynamic range. Put together, they create the most incredible photo in any scenario. Add in HDR, which offers a more balanced range of brightness, color and contrast, and these tools let you edit like a pro to capture your best image yet.

Pro-Grade Editing for Amateurs and Experts Alike

Finally, for those wanting to take their photography chops to the next level, Enhance-X, Galaxy’s companion editing app, gives you even more creative control.

The latest version of Enhance-X arms you with a new feature: Camera Shift. Moments are fleeting and sometimes you only have a second to take your shot, which can leave the final result less compelling than you intended. Shooting from above can have the effect of making a subject seem smaller, while shooting from below can make it seem bigger or more powerful, and a straight-on angle makes a subject seem more relatable. Camera Shift lets you shift your photo’s perspective after you take your shot. Now you can focus on capturing the moment without worrying about having the perfect angle or camera position. Once you’ve taken your photo, Camera Shift lets you achieve the effect you want by using AI to adjust the angle and perspective.

¹ Size comparison of the Galaxy S23 Ultra 10x and Galaxy S24 Ultra 5x’s sensor and pixel capabilities. Dimensions are measured to the nearest integer.

Whether it’s K-pop group TXT taking the stage at the Gocheok Dome during January’s Galaxy Unpacked livestream or the intimate moment when rings are exchanged at a wedding, Galaxy S24’s ProVisual Engine uses upgraded hardware and new AI capabilities to bridge the gap and get you that incredible zoom shot every time.

Introducing the ProVisual Engine — Galaxy S24’s Imaging Powerhouse

Newly introduced on the Galaxy S24 series, the ProVisual Engine is a suite of AI image capture and editing tools dedicated to enhancing every step of the creative journey, from setting up a shot to taking and editing it. It includes Nightography, AI Zoom, Instant Slow-mo, Edit Suggestion, Generative Edits and Super High Dynamic Range (HDR).

While AI is front and center on the Galaxy S24, it has been playing a role in enhancing content creation since the Galaxy S10 series, which applied AI models, Neural Processing Units (NPUs) and large-scale datasets. Compared to those initial capabilities, the Galaxy S24’s ProVisual Engine sports 112 AI models — 28 times more than Galaxy S10 — and 13 times the NPU performance for an intelligent Galaxy photography experience like never before.

Optimized Zoom Every Time With the Quad Tele System

Think about how problematic distance can be when you’re hoping for a memorable photo. Say it’s graduation time and you want to zoom in on your daughter on stage to capture her excitement, but you hesitate over fears of a blurry image. And do you even have the optimal settings? With the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s versatile Quad Tele system, you get optical quality zoom at any magnification up to 10x without needing to worry about which lens or mode to select. Just zoom and capture the moment — your ecstatic graduate, diploma in hand.

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How the Quad Tele System Works

Research shows that among users, there is a strong demand for greater flexibility between the 3x and 10x zoom range. That’s why the Quad Tele System was created, enabling optical quality images at 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x and every step in between — so users can enjoy the best image no matter where their zoom slider comes to rest. Samsung utilizes different techniques and technologies to achieve this for each magnification level.

• 2x & 10x – Pixel binning, specifically tetra binning, works by combining four smaller pixels into one larger pixel. This technique allows the ProVisual Engine to convert a huge 200MP image into a refined 50MP image. It intelligently crops out a 12MP section, resulting in a detailed 2x zoom photo derived from a high-resolution 1x image. Likewise, for a 10x magnification optical quality, a 50MP image at 5x zoom is reduced to 12MP, producing a 10x zoom shot with rich, clear detail. Here, AI-powered super resolution enhances clarity while creating the 10x image. At every step of the imaging process, across all ranges, AI-powered multi-frame processing (MFP) is applied to ensure crisp, accurate shots.
• 3x & 5x – At 3x and 5x, the Galaxy S24 Ultra uses dedicated optical lenses. At 5x, thanks to a new 50MP sensor twice the size of previous models, much more detail is possible. It can also take clearer and less noisy shots in the dark thanks to 60% larger pixels.
• Enhanced ISP – Great zoom isn’t just about magnification. It’s also about clarity, and that’s where the Galaxy S24’s improved Image Signal Processing (ISP) comes in. Applied to both front and rear cameras, this improved ISP analyzes segments of an image to understand what’s going on in the scene so it can apply sophisticated editing and fine-tune specific aspects of the image such as sharpness, skin tone and noise reduction while also enhancing details. Hardware-based ISP is used for optical quality images at 2x, 3x and 5x zoom. Previously, AI ISP was only applied to 30x zoom and higher; however, now AI ISP also enhances the clarity of digital zoom at levels in between 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x and all other levels.