{"id":12744,"date":"2022-08-20T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/20\/the-galaxy-z-flip-4-is-my-favorite-camera-to-shoot-with-right-now\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:43:59","slug":"the-galaxy-z-flip-4-is-my-favorite-camera-to-shoot-with-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/20\/the-galaxy-z-flip-4-is-my-favorite-camera-to-shoot-with-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galaxy Z Flip 4 is my favorite camera to shoot with right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve had the privilege of taking photos with some incredible smartphones this year. I\u2019ve been wowed by the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra\u2019s 10x zoom<\/a>, marveled at the massive sensor and gorgeous portraits from the Xiaomi 12S Ultra<\/a>, and I\u2019ve seen the Google Pixel 6A<\/a> accomplish the impossible: take sharp photos of a rambunctious toddler in dim light. I could reach into my cabinet drawer, take out any of these phones right now, and use them as my primary camera. But I shan\u2019t! Right now, I\u2019m rocking the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4<\/a>, and I\u2019m here to tell you it\u2019s a friggin\u2019 joy to take photos with.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. The foldable you saw advertised with flashy colors and catchy pop music while you were watching AEW Dynamite<\/em> is my ride-or-die camera right now.<\/p>\n

The camera hardware is wholly unremarkable. There\u2019s a 10-megapixel camera on the inner display, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a vaguely upgraded 12-megapixel main camera. Samsung\u2019s promotional materials say the sensor is \u201c65 percent brighter,\u201d which is actual nonsense<\/em> \u2014 a sensor collects light; it cannot be \u201cbrighter.\u201d What Samsung is trying to say is that the pixels are a bit bigger, so they might collect light a little better. Anyway, this is all to say that the reason I\u2019m digging using the Z Flip 4\u2019s camera doesn\u2019t have a lot to do with… the cameras.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the folding action. I must be a sucker because I\u2019ve tried shooting in all of the ways that Samsung\u2019s commercials promote using the Z Flip 4, and reader, I like it. I propped the phone open in its L shape on top of the microwave and filmed myself making a latte. Why? I don\u2019t know. But I sped it up in the camera app, set it to The King Khan & BBQ Show\u2019s Love You So,<\/em> and published it on TikTok. To my utter despair, it\u2019s been viewed over 200 times. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019ve really accomplished here, but it was fun.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d love the 3x zoom, but this is fine.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Flip is also an absolute gold mine for generating content for grandparents. I can set the Flip up on a table \u2014 safely out of the reach of grubby toddler hands \u2014 and film the grandchild doing precious things, like bashing cups together whilst yelling and farting loudly. Grandparents love that shit. <\/p>\n

The Fold is helpful here because I don\u2019t have to a) try to film this selfie-style b) fiddle with some other mechanism, like PopSockets, to prop it up and c) I can adjust the angle precisely to get the framing right. When I\u2019m done, I can just (gently) slam the thing shut to stop recording \u2014 though the end of your video clip will<\/em> feature the phone closing in on itself, so maybe trim that bit out.<\/p>\n

This is all very fun, but if you don\u2019t have a toddler and you have no desire to show off your latte art skills on TikTok, then I probably haven\u2019t convinced you that the Flip 4 camera is actually good. But consider this use case: with the camera app open and the phone in an L shape, you can tap an icon to move the image preview to the lower half of the screen. You\u2019re shooting what\u2019s right in front of you, but you\u2019re looking down at the image preview, kind of like an old-school twin-lens reflex camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is a candid photo of my friends, who are ghosts.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This also means you can take pictures comfortably from a lower angle or shoot candid social photos without sticking your phone out in front of your face and making everyone self-conscious because you are obviously taking pictures of them. Please note that I\u2019m not condoning being a creep or a weirdo to strangers; it\u2019s just nice to get photos of your friends without taking everyone out of the moment so abruptly. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a big selfie-taker either, but it is nice to be able to use the phone\u2019s main cameras when I want to take one. Sure, you have to compose it on the cover screen with an image preview that\u2019s the actual size of a postage stamp, but I\u2019ll take that tradeoff for the much better image quality, especially if lighting conditions are dim. And who knows, maybe my home espresso bar is really going to take off on TikTok and I\u2019ll need to up my selfie game. If it does, you can bet I\u2019ll have the Flip 4 at the ready.<\/p>\n

Photography by Allison Johnson \/ The Verge<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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