Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 is a capable camera phone that can also let you edit and share your photos and videos without having to export anything. You don’t even need to make your own edits if you don’t want to, thanks to Galaxy AI.
If smartphone photography is important to you, then pay attention to Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8. Here’s four ways that it can act as an all-in-one photo/video production machine.
TL;DR:
- Unlike most editing devices, Galaxy Z Fold8 can take its own photos with a quartet of built-in cameras.
- Check your shots and easily share them between apps with Galaxy Z Fold8’s Main Display and Multi-Window feature
- Smart video stabilisation and tracking features mean recording clips is just as enjoyable as taking still shots.
- Galaxy Z Fold8’s powerful editing tools can be used manually or with the help of Photo Assist prompts.
1. Powerful cameras
Galaxy Z Fold8 has plenty of cameras to choose from when shooting photos and video.
- 50MP wide camera
- 50MP ultrawide camera
- 10MP inner selfie camera
- 10MP outer selfie camera
All of these cameras feed into Samsung’s AI Image Signal Processor within Galaxy Z Fold8. This processor takes the raw photos and enhances them further, so you can more easily capture minute details without any extra effort.
It’s worth mentioning here that you don’t have to be holding Galaxy Z Fold8 to take photos. Pair it with a Galaxy Watch9 or Galaxy Watch Ultra2, and you’ve now got a wrist-mounted remote shutter button. No need to be left out of your own photos anymore!
2. A beautiful viewing experience
Galaxy Z Fold8’s 7.6-inch Main Display is a far larger canvas for viewing photos and video than any viewfinder window on a DSLR camera, or any non-folding phone.
The inner screen is ideal for us with Galaxy Z Fold8’s Multi-Window feature, which allows you to use multiple apps together and drag items between them. You could have both the Gallery app and your group chat open, then simply drag the gang’s favourite photo into the chat for easy sharing.
Samsung has accessories that can enhance this part of the experience too. Applying Anti-reflecting Film to Galaxy Z Fold8’s Cover Display will help keep that screen visible even in bright light, while clipping on the Carbon Standing Case provides a stable way to view and share your images hands-free.
3. Pro-grade video tools
Galaxy Z Fold8 comes with Super Steady Video with Horizontal Lock and My FanCam to help you make the most of your video.
When enabled, Super Steady Video with Horizontal Lock keeps your video stable, even with extreme movement. Even if you’re running around with Galaxy Z Fold8’s camera running, or have strapped the phone securely to the front of your downhill bike, you’ll find smooth footage once you open up the Gallery app to check it.
After you’ve recorded a clip, and you perhaps feel like you want it to focus on a particular performer on-stage at a concert rather than the whole group, then that’s the time to use My FanCam. Galaxy Z Fold8 will give you the option of who to follow, then adjust your video to make it a fitting tribute to your idol of choice.
4. Hands-on or hands-off editing
Galaxy Z Fold8 comes with a full complement of photo and video editing tools, including:
- AI eraser
- Subject moving and resizing
- Generative Edit
- Cropping
- Rotation
- Filters
- Light/colour balance
- Drawing and text tools
- Stickers
- Portrait effects
- Photo style
- Audio eraser
Alongside typical cropping and colour filter tools, Galaxy AI offers even more possibilities for your edits. You can move and resize your subjects, generate new scenery, remove unwanted elements with just a tap or redraw your image in a specific art style, or enhance the audio of a video clip to make the background noise fade away.
If that sounds like too many to choose from, then you can instead make your edits with Photo Assist. Using Galaxy AI intelligence, you can simply speak or type out the changes you want to make to your image or video, and Galaxy Z Fold8 will take care of it.
FAQs
Can the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 replace a laptop for quick photo and video edits?
Galaxy Z Fold8 has a large Main Display and versatile editing tools to allow it to act as an effective laptop replacement when editing photos or videos.
With a large but portable screen to review the results of your day’s shoot, and powerful tools like Photo Assist and My FanCam, you can easily make commonly required changes to your shots and clips on Galaxy Z Fold8 without offloading your files to a different device.
Can My FanCam make shooting and editing social videos easier on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8?
Galaxy Z Fold8’s My FanCam is an automatic, AI-powered video tracking tool that can be applied to any video to easily edit and reframe it for social media.
With My FanCam active (found within the AI tools menu in Gallery) you can then scrub through your video to find a suitable subject for My FanCam. Once you have selected the subject and the horizontal or vertical aspect ratio you’d like to use, Galaxy Z Fold8 will reprocess the video to track them. You can then review the output and save it as a separate clip if needed, ready to upload.
How does Photo Assist make editing photos easier on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8?
Photo Assist lets you tell Galaxy Z Fold8 what you want to change, without you having to make the alterations yourself. Simply give text or voice commands in a photo's Galaxy AI editing menu in the Gallery app, and Galaxy Z Fold8 will make it happen on your behalf. When it's done, you can then accept the changes, have them saved in a separate image so you can keep an intact original copy, or ask it to try again to refine your vision.
If you think the Galaxy Z Fold8 is the right choice for you for flexible camera features then please visit the Samsung website for more info.
