The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is the South Korean electronics giant’s latest flagship smartphone. It comes with some eye-catching basic specs: there’s a huge 6.9-inch AMOLED display, a high-end Exynos 990 chipset (Snapdragon 865 in the USA), and a massive 5000mAh capacity battery to keep you shooting all day.

The S21 Ultra packs more photographic possibilities thanks to a quad-camera configuration that features an additional time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensor, a higher- resolution primary camera, and a longer focal length tele-camera. The S21 Ultra’s primary camera offers an updated version of the 1/1.33-inch 108MP-resolution sensor. It now uses 3×3 pixel binning, combining 9 pixels into one “super-pixel” that results in a bigger effective pixel size of 2.4µm to help improve image quality in the 12MP image output. The primary sensor is coupled to a standard wide-angle 26mm-equivalent lens with f/1.8-aperture. The S21 Ultra’s rear quad-camera features an additional depth sensor. Activated in Portrait mode, the 0.3MP depth sensor uses ToF 3D technology to help improve subject segmentation when applying a bokeh effect.

The newly-designed sensor on the primary camera now enables 8K video capture on the S21 Ultra at 24 frames per second. While 24fps is the only frame rate available for 8K video, drop to 4K and you can capture videos at 30fps or 60fps. Frame rates of up to 960fps are available at 720p resolution. Video features also include Samsung’s HDR10+ video processing that promises improved dynamic range, color, and contrast. For stabilization, both gyroscope-enabled electronic image stabilization (EIS) and optical image stabilization (OIS) are activated in all of the S21 Ultra’s video formats.