You’ll see that a yellow circle goes around the virtual shutter button while the effect is being applied - you can then see the image in playback. In order to use it, you need to point the phone at something within 50cm and take the photo. Selective Focus is the S9’s “shallow depth of field” effect, which you can use to create a fake bokeh type look. Along with Auto, there’s also Selective Focus, Pro, Panorama, Food, Super Slow mo (video), AR Emoji, and Hyperlapse. In order to move between them, simply swipe in the main app area. With this, the phone will automatically decide on the best settings for you, meaning you can’t adjust the aperture yourself - you should find that if you’re shooting in low light, it will automatically switch to the wider setting.Īlong the top of the app (or to the left when shooting in landscape mode), you’ll see the various shooting modes that the S9 camera app offers.
By default, the app launches in “Auto” mode, which is fine to use for the majority of shooting scenarios. At the top of the phone is the SIM card tray, which also contains space for a MicroSD card - you can expand the inbuilt memory by adding your own SD card here - this marks it as a point of difference from several other high-profile phones currently on the market, such as the Google Pixel 2, iPhone X and the Huawei P20 Pro.įrom the lock screen you can access the native camera app by swiping upwards from the bottom right hand corner of the screen. While this means the phone doesn’t maximise the available space, you may be of the opinion that the look is cleaner, or uninterrupted.Ī fingerprint sensor is found on the back of the phone, which you can use to unlock the phone, or you can set up face unlock or an unlock pattern. There is a bezel at the top and bottom of the screen - Samsung hasn’t followed in the footsteps of Apple and Huawei by adding a “notch”. As is pretty common these days, it uses a display which goes all way to the edge of the screen, being slightly curved for an attractive design. The S9 uses a 5.8-inch Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass screen. 4K video recording is available at up to 60fps, as well as super slow-motion video at 960fps (720p resolution).įor the purposes of this review, we have been loaned the Samsung Galaxy S9 by Vodafone, which offers the S9 on a variety of different contracts. It uses phase-detection autofocus, has optical image stabilisation, and has an 8 megapixel front-facing camera with an f/1.7 lens. The standard S9 has one camera/lens, a 12 megapixel sensor, with a 26mm (equivalent) f/1.5-f/2.4 lens. You can choose between f/1.5 and f/2.4 depending on the lighting condition, or the camera itself will choose the aperture automatically depending on the shooting mode you’re in.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 sits alongside the S9+ as the latest flagship smartphones from Samsung.īoth phones are notable in that they are the first smartphones to offer cameras with a variable aperture lens, that is one that you can control yourself.
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