This is how Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s 200-megapixel camera enhances every experience 

It wasn’t that far in the past when smartphones first gained the ability to take photos. And it wasn’t that long before then for digital photography to become the standard, with clunky sizes and a handful of megapixels. Fortunately, the past few decades of progress have delivered professional-level photography into the palm of one’s hand.

With its 200-megapixel camera, not only does the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra pack the latest cutting-edge photographic technology within its slim aluminum case, but it also leverages AI technology to enhance the photos that you take: whether they’re zoomed into faraway details, aimed at landscapes or portraits, or taken in any lighting condition. Here are some of the most advanced features of the camera that is built into every Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra.*

Megapixels are the standard measurement of digital photography: The more megapixels that your camera contains, the higher resolution you’ll get, and the more details can be captured at any level of zoom.

With 200 megapixels in the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s main camera, there’s almost no detail that you’re likely going to miss at its standard range — but even when you zoom in or out, its Ultra Wide and Telephoto lenses still deliver 50 megapixels of photo quality. In any mode, you’ll get crisp, clear images that are both worthy for displaying on a screen, or blown up and printed. This is how far today’s phone photography has come — and it’s being led by the flagship Samsung smartphone today.

In addition to a powerful default lens, Samsung’s Galaxy AI delivers so many ways to enhance your photos at any distance and in any condition. For example, AI stabilises your view with 100x Zoom, which enhances clarity instantly and seamlessly when photographing at distances 100 times farther from where you’re standing.

Another AI-powered enhancement delivers Super Steady with horizontal lock:** This uses the phone’s internal gyroscope and accelerometer hardware to provide cinema-quality video and real-time motion tracking during intense, fast-paced action or extreme sports sequences.

And like every Galaxy S26 smartphone, the Galaxy S26 Ultra comes with a high-resolution screen that leverages Samsung’s mobile Digital Natural Image engine (mDNIe): This boosts visual graphics as they were meant to be seen, leveraging improved image processing to deliver more lifelike colours.

No need to turn on a bright light or wish that the sun hadn’t set already. If you’re shooting in low-light environments, the Galaxy S26 Ultra sets a new benchmark for night photography: Its Wide camera features a 47 percent brighter aperture that opens to F1.4, while the Telephoto camera opens to F2.9 for 37 percent improved brightness.

At the same time, integrated noise reduction ensures that each frame remains sharp and vibrant for when you’re shooting video at night. This allows you to record more details than ever before — whether you’re taking selfies while on the town, or capturing a stunning sunset every minute of golden hour.

If you’re looking to get creative with your images, use Photo Assist to turn sketches into images, convert portraits to cartoon avatars, or delete distracting elements.† Create a Generative portrait from photos of yourself or your friends: Select from available styles such as Comic, 3D cartoon, or Watercolor. Use AI Erase to eliminate unwanted elements, such as distracting background elements with just a few taps: Use your fingers to outline what you want to erase, and Galaxy AI will fill in the missing parts.

Lastly, if you want to move an element in an image, Generative edit lets you shift or delete objects, then fill in the background. Similar to AI Erase, you begin by drawing around the object to be edited, and then moving it to the right location. You can even adjust its angle through the slider at the bottom of the screen.

Even with all of these instantaneous, automatic tools, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra still fosters manual creativity. By unlocking Pro mode, you can take direct control of the camera’s settings and express your fullest photographic abilities.

Set your own shutter speeds, aperture settings, and ISO limits while shooting at night to capture subjects artistically in low light, reducing motion blur and avoiding excessive noise. Adjust white balance and fine-tune colours, while locking the camera’s focus into any sector of the screen to capture your subject in brilliant focus.

With so much versatility built into the impressive camera of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, you can decide how much control you want over the images you want to capture, while also taking advantage of the best that Galaxy AI has to offer. Learn more about the camera and other advanced features of the Galaxy S26 Ultra.

^{* Requires network connection and Samsung account login.}

^{** Super Steady results may vary depending on editing method and/or shooting conditions.}

^{† Requires network connection and Samsung account login. A visible watermark is overlaid on the saved image to indicate it was generated by Galaxy AI. Accuracy of output not guaranteed.}