Note 8 Records NYC From Helicopter

[EnemiesInTheEnd]

Samsung apparently took YouTubers on a helicopter flight over NYC so they could test out the video quality with the zoom lens. I wonder if this might sway anyone on the fence. Check them out.

https://youtu.be/Ly2EOGZrRdw

https://youtu.be/4su8-fpVASw

 

[Ca_lvn]

Cool

 

[anon(10305333)]

I watched those last night, very good 4K video from a phone.

 

[SHIVA77]

The first one was unusually clear. Almost DSLR -like, I wonder if the shooter did any post-processing.
The second video is a bit hazy and looks more realistic as far as expectations are concerned.

 

[Rufinoman]

That's The Tech Chap from his YouTube channel. Amazing quality.

 

[sangs]

I don't care what side of the aisle you're on - Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony, HTC, Hawaei, whatever - the fact we can all carry something in the palms of our hands that can do this never ceases to amaze me. I was a teen in the 80's and a 20-something in the 90s, lugging around giant VHS cameras and smaller, but still much larger than a phone, Super-8 cams whenever I wanted to capture video memories. Now, I just slide a bar of glass and metal out of my pocket to produce even better results than those cameras ever gave me. Wonderful times indeed.

 

[Cary Quinn]

I'm swayed... I may have to consider buying a helicopter to go along with my Note 8.

 

[Rukbat]

He had a zoom lens on the camera and didn't add a haze filter to it in that lighting condition? Talk about sending a boy to do a man's job - the haze ruined the effect of half the shots. (Having shot miles of film [yes, we used to use 5284 film by the hundred foot roll at the smallest] over NYC over the years, about the only thing that made any impression on me is that the river seems to have gotten a higher percentage of water and a lower percentage of of pollution than I'm used to. Picture quality? About what I've shot on cheap SLRs when I was just testing for flare and high-light ability [5284 is fairly sensitive film].)

 

[MsBlingberry]

Hahaha