The Galaxy Note 20 Plus should upgrade the camera and improve on the Galaxy S20 Ultra's ambitious shooter; the S20 Ultra's 108MP main sensor was able to capture incredible detail, but often struggled to focus on nearby objects the S20 Ultra's 108MP main sensor, which could be used to capture more detail. Fortunately, not only is that optics rumored to return in the Galaxy Note 20 Plus, but the company may have a solution to that pesky focusing problem.

Details of the cameras on both the Note 20 and Note 20 Plus were revealed by Twitter user @Kuma_Sleepy via NotebookCheck. According to the tweet, the standard Note 20 simply repeats the three optics used in the S20 and S20 Plus, with the exception of the time-of-flight sensor. That is, a 12MP (ƒ/1.8) primary lens, a 64MP (ƒ/2.0) telephoto lens (with 3x lossless zoom), and a 12MP (ƒ/2.2) ultra-wide angle lens.

The Note 20 Plus, however, could be different; Kuma_Sleepy says it will carry over the S20 Ultra's 108MP (ƒ/1.8) main shooter and the 12MP ultrawide camera found on all S20 models.

However, the S20 Ultra's 48MP telephoto will not be featured on this range-topping phablet. Instead, the Note 20 Plus is rumored to have a 12MP sensor behind the telephoto and a laser autofocus system that will assist the 108MP sensor in locking onto nearby subjects.

On paper, the 12MP telephoto may seem less impressive than the S20 Ultra's 48MP one. But in reality, you only get so many megapixels, especially when most smartphone camera sensors combine the pixels of the image sensor to capture more light. Typically, the S20 Ultra's 108-megapixel camera combines nine pixels into one to produce a 12-megapixel image.

But that's not to say it doesn't have the ability to take such high-resolution shots when the situation calls for it; the S20 Ultra's main sensor is tuned to 108MP mode, allowing it to crop the center of the image forever before blur begins to be a concern. The results are impressive, but on the flip side, you are missing out on most of the phone's post-processing capabilities, since it is not reusing the wealth of information collected to selectively improve a portion of the frame, but simply tweaking and spitting out what it sees.

Overall, the Note 20's camera repertoire does not differ significantly from that of the S20 series, and it follows the tradition of the strategy Samsung has taken over the last few years: the Note series has taken the camera technology introduced in the Galaxy S series and tweaked it to Known for making modest improvements, given that the S20's camera had a lot of potential but struggled at every turn, the upcoming Note devices may finally realize that potential.