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Ultra main camera, familiar auxiliary cameras
The camera system on the Galaxy Z Fold7 gets a solid upgrade this year, the first one in a while too. The most important upgrade is the main camera. It now adopts Samsung’s flagship 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor used in the Galaxy S25 Ultra and the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s a considerable upgrade over the smaller 50MP sensor from last year.
- Wide (main): 200MP Samsung ISOCELL HP2 (S5KHP2, 1/1.3″, 0.6µm-2.4µm), f/1.7, 23mm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; 8K@30fps, 4K@120fps
- Ultrawide: 12MP Sony IMX 564, 1/2.55″, 1.4µm, f/2.2, 13mm, AF; 2160p@60fps
- Telephoto, 3x: 10MP Samsung ISOCELL 3K1 (1/3.94″, 1.0µm), f/2.4, 69mm, PDAF; 4K@60fps
- Cover: selfie 10MP Sony IMX 374 (1/3.0″, 1.12µm), f/2.2, 23mm, fixed focus; 4K@60fps
- Internal selfie: 10MP Sony IMX 374 (1/3.0″, 1.12µm), f/2.2, 18mm, fixed focus; 4K@60fps
Additionally, the ultrawide camera gets autofocus, but retains the same hardware. The autofocus feature was a notable omission in previous generations, and it now allows you to shoot crisp, close-up macro stills.
The internal selfie unit has also been replaced. It now uses the same 10MP shooter as the one on the cover screen, but employs a wider lens with an 18mm focal length. Still fixed focus, though.
Daylight photos
Main camera
It’s perhaps no surprise that the Galaxy Z Fold7 main camera produces virtually identical photos to the Galaxy S25 Edge and the S25 Ultra. We are looking at excellent stills with impressive dynamic range, plenty of detail and excellent sharpness.
Main camera daylight photos
Samsung’s recent shift to a more restrained post-processing is obvious here as the phone offers rather accurate and conservative color reproduction. They are far from muted, though.
Compared to other foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold7 is now finally competitive in this regard, but overall quality is still a tad lower than what you’d expect from a 2025 flagship.
The unbinned 50MP and 200MP photos aren’t bad and are relatively okay, but we can’t think of a reason why you’d use those modes. They provide a bit more detail but are very soft and have a more limited dynamic range.
50MP main camera photos
200MP main camera photos
Here are some portrait photos too.
Portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode
2x crop zoom
As expected, the 2x crop from the primary sensor is pretty good for the most part. We see minimal loss in sharpness and detail in close-distance objects, but foliage or fine detail in the distance is often smeared away, possibly due to the noise-reduction algorithm.
2x crop zoom daylight photos
Still, the crop is more than decent, and it’s okay to use it in many scenarios.
2x zoom portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode
3x telephoto camera
The 3x telephoto camera offers strong performance outdoors during the day, but fails to impress in slightly more challenging lighting conditions. In broad daylight, the camera resolves fine detail equally well in both close and distant objects, but as the light levels drop, quality starts to deteriorate.
3x telephoto camera daylight photos
We’ve seen better 3x telephoto solutions from competing foldables, mainly because the Z Fold7’s telephoto sensor is quite small, posing a big hardware limitation.
3x telephoto portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode
Ultrawide camera
Even though the ultrawide camera doesn’t sound impressive on paper, it produces solid stills, matching the main camera’s overall processing. The dynamic range might not be as wide as on the main camera, but it’s surely one of the better ultrawide solutions, even on a flagship phone. The autofocus helps with sharpness and captures plenty of fine detail on close-distance objects.
Ultrawide camera daylight photos
Considering the wider field of view that this camera provides, compared to most ultrawides out there, sharpness is actually impressive.
Macro mode photos
The autofocus also enables macro mode. Colors are conservative but not bland by any means, sharpness is good, and fine detail is aplenty. It’s definitely a good implementation, and it feels like there’s an improvement in how the software switches between the ultrawide and the main camera when detecting a close object. We found it a bit finicky on the S25 Edge, but not here.
Selfies
The big upgrade to the selfie camera on the inner display is apparent. Interestingly enough, it’s now better than the outer one. Even though the two sensors are supposedly identical, the only difference is the lens (the inner selfie gets an ultrawide lens with a wider FoV). Most often than not, the inner shooter produces more likable colors and more accurate skin tones.
Selfies: Cover screen selfie • Inner screen selfie
The outer selfie often seems to miss the right color temperature at times, giving the subject more pale skin, and colors can sometimes be bland.
Low-light photos
Main camera
In typical Samsung fashion, the Auto Night mode rarely kicks in when using the main camera, so you’d have to force it using the dedicated Night mode manually if you are looking for better results.
The non-Night mode stills are lacking fine detail and look straight up soft. We also observe a tendency for a cold white balance, which turns some light sources greenish. Contrast also needs adjusting. We like the naturally darker shadows, though.
Main camera low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
The Night mode makes a whole lot of difference in most scenes. In places where there was plenty of light, the Night mode barely made any difference, but in most of our low-light scenes, the dedicated mode fixed the contrast, added some much-needed sharpness, albeit artificial, and produced better colors overall. The white balance is also better, and colors look much closer to the real ones. Noise also sees improvement.
2x crop zoom
The 2x crop zoom mode at night produces good results when the Night mode is active. Otherwise, the issues we observed with the non-Night mode 1x photos are amplified here. Always force the Night mode where possible, even though it takes more time.
2x crop zoom low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
3x telephoto camera
This is where we see the limitations of the small telephoto sensor. The non-Night mode stills are extremely noisy, lack fine detail and are way too soft to our taste. Luckily, the Night mode fixes most of the issues – clears up the noise, boosts sharpness and brightens up the scene. However, even with Night mode enabled, we find the stills to be a bit on the soft side.
3x telephoto low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
Ultrawide camera
With the ultrawide camera, the software is much more generous with the Night mode. It’s almost always active, but it takes a bit too much time to take a photo. However, the results aren’t half bad. Images are generally clean, with a wide dynamic range and about as sharp as most ultrawide images we’ve seen from competitors.
Ultrawide low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
Video recording
The Galaxy Z Fold7 supports video recording at up to 8K resolution at 30fps with its main camera, while the rest of the cameras cap at 4K@60fps. The Pro mode unlocks 24fps video recording.
Additionally, the Galaxy Z Fold7 offers 10-bit HDR video recording, and it’s enabled by default. It’s a step up from last year’s 8-bit HDR videos. The Galaxy Log video has also been added in case you want to do the color grading of the footage yourself.
The AI Audio Eraser feature is now a thing on the new foldable. It’s a useful tool in the Gallery app and allows you to adjust the volume of certain types of sounds in your videos after they’ve been taken – you get a choice of speech, music, wind, nature, crowd and noise.
Let’s get on with the actual video footage.
You can check out the playlist below, which includes multiple video samples.
The main camera produces excellent-looking footage, leaving nothing on the table. The video appears clean, offers a wide dynamic range, and has an impressive amount of detail. Colors are punchy, much livelier than on the stills, and the contrast is just right.
Even the 2x crop zoom video is pretty solid. There’s a noticeable loss of sharpness, but the fine detail is retained. We can definitely see someone using the 2x crop zoom video mode.
The 3x telephoto camera’s video recording capabilities are more than alright. The clip provides a good level of detail and generally aligns with the main camera’s overall processing. It’s maybe a bit more contrast-y, but that could be due to a cloud passing by.
Although the ultrawide camera can’t record videos of the same quality as the main camera, the footage is still great in its own right. Compared to other ultrawide cameras, this one produces more detailed videos with wider dynamic range. However, it leaves a bit more to be desired in terms of sharpness, especially around the edges.
The low-light footage from the main camera is decent, albeit a bit noisy. The trade-off for the noise is that the system resolves plenty of detail in the shadows and retains a rather sharp rendition. The same cannot be said about the ultrawide camera, which produces rather fuzzy, dark and too noisy videos.
The 2x zoom video at night isn’t bad either, despite the obvious loss in sharpness compared to the 1x footage. However, the 3x nighttime video is abysmal – it looks flat, fuzzy and completely lacks fine detail.
We also tested out the EIS on the main camera in 4K, and it’s excellent.
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Ultra main camera, familiar auxiliary cameras
The camera system on the Galaxy Z Fold7 gets a solid upgrade this year, the first one in a while too. The most important upgrade is the main camera. It now adopts Samsung’s flagship 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor used in the Galaxy S25 Ultra and the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s a considerable upgrade over the smaller 50MP sensor from last year.
- Wide (main): 200MP Samsung ISOCELL HP2 (S5KHP2, 1/1.3″, 0.6µm-2.4µm), f/1.7, 23mm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; 8K@30fps, 4K@120fps
- Ultrawide: 12MP Sony IMX 564, 1/2.55″, 1.4µm, f/2.2, 13mm, AF; 2160p@60fps
- Telephoto, 3x: 10MP Samsung ISOCELL 3K1 (1/3.94″, 1.0µm), f/2.4, 69mm, PDAF; 4K@60fps
- Cover: selfie 10MP Sony IMX 374 (1/3.0″, 1.12µm), f/2.2, 23mm, fixed focus; 4K@60fps
- Internal selfie: 10MP Sony IMX 374 (1/3.0″, 1.12µm), f/2.2, 18mm, fixed focus; 4K@60fps
Additionally, the ultrawide camera gets autofocus, but retains the same hardware. The autofocus feature was a notable omission in previous generations, and it now allows you to shoot crisp, close-up macro stills.
The internal selfie unit has also been replaced. It now uses the same 10MP shooter as the one on the cover screen, but employs a wider lens with an 18mm focal length. Still fixed focus, though.
Daylight photos
Main camera
It’s perhaps no surprise that the Galaxy Z Fold7 main camera produces virtually identical photos to the Galaxy S25 Edge and the S25 Ultra. We are looking at excellent stills with impressive dynamic range, plenty of detail and excellent sharpness.
Main camera daylight photos
Samsung’s recent shift to a more restrained post-processing is obvious here as the phone offers rather accurate and conservative color reproduction. They are far from muted, though.
Compared to other foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold7 is now finally competitive in this regard, but overall quality is still a tad lower than what you’d expect from a 2025 flagship.
The unbinned 50MP and 200MP photos aren’t bad and are relatively okay, but we can’t think of a reason why you’d use those modes. They provide a bit more detail but are very soft and have a more limited dynamic range.
50MP main camera photos
200MP main camera photos
Here are some portrait photos too.
Portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode
2x crop zoom
As expected, the 2x crop from the primary sensor is pretty good for the most part. We see minimal loss in sharpness and detail in close-distance objects, but foliage or fine detail in the distance is often smeared away, possibly due to the noise-reduction algorithm.
2x crop zoom daylight photos
Still, the crop is more than decent, and it’s okay to use it in many scenarios.
2x zoom portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode
3x telephoto camera
The 3x telephoto camera offers strong performance outdoors during the day, but fails to impress in slightly more challenging lighting conditions. In broad daylight, the camera resolves fine detail equally well in both close and distant objects, but as the light levels drop, quality starts to deteriorate.
3x telephoto camera daylight photos
We’ve seen better 3x telephoto solutions from competing foldables, mainly because the Z Fold7’s telephoto sensor is quite small, posing a big hardware limitation.
3x telephoto portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode
Ultrawide camera
Even though the ultrawide camera doesn’t sound impressive on paper, it produces solid stills, matching the main camera’s overall processing. The dynamic range might not be as wide as on the main camera, but it’s surely one of the better ultrawide solutions, even on a flagship phone. The autofocus helps with sharpness and captures plenty of fine detail on close-distance objects.
Ultrawide camera daylight photos
Considering the wider field of view that this camera provides, compared to most ultrawides out there, sharpness is actually impressive.
Macro mode photos
The autofocus also enables macro mode. Colors are conservative but not bland by any means, sharpness is good, and fine detail is aplenty. It’s definitely a good implementation, and it feels like there’s an improvement in how the software switches between the ultrawide and the main camera when detecting a close object. We found it a bit finicky on the S25 Edge, but not here.
Selfies
The big upgrade to the selfie camera on the inner display is apparent. Interestingly enough, it’s now better than the outer one. Even though the two sensors are supposedly identical, the only difference is the lens (the inner selfie gets an ultrawide lens with a wider FoV). Most often than not, the inner shooter produces more likable colors and more accurate skin tones.
Selfies: Cover screen selfie • Inner screen selfie
The outer selfie often seems to miss the right color temperature at times, giving the subject more pale skin, and colors can sometimes be bland.
Low-light photos
Main camera
In typical Samsung fashion, the Auto Night mode rarely kicks in when using the main camera, so you’d have to force it using the dedicated Night mode manually if you are looking for better results.
The non-Night mode stills are lacking fine detail and look straight up soft. We also observe a tendency for a cold white balance, which turns some light sources greenish. Contrast also needs adjusting. We like the naturally darker shadows, though.
Main camera low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
The Night mode makes a whole lot of difference in most scenes. In places where there was plenty of light, the Night mode barely made any difference, but in most of our low-light scenes, the dedicated mode fixed the contrast, added some much-needed sharpness, albeit artificial, and produced better colors overall. The white balance is also better, and colors look much closer to the real ones. Noise also sees improvement.
2x crop zoom
The 2x crop zoom mode at night produces good results when the Night mode is active. Otherwise, the issues we observed with the non-Night mode 1x photos are amplified here. Always force the Night mode where possible, even though it takes more time.
2x crop zoom low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
3x telephoto camera
This is where we see the limitations of the small telephoto sensor. The non-Night mode stills are extremely noisy, lack fine detail and are way too soft to our taste. Luckily, the Night mode fixes most of the issues – clears up the noise, boosts sharpness and brightens up the scene. However, even with Night mode enabled, we find the stills to be a bit on the soft side.
3x telephoto low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
Ultrawide camera
With the ultrawide camera, the software is much more generous with the Night mode. It’s almost always active, but it takes a bit too much time to take a photo. However, the results aren’t half bad. Images are generally clean, with a wide dynamic range and about as sharp as most ultrawide images we’ve seen from competitors.
Ultrawide low-light: Photo mode • Forced Night mode
Video recording
The Galaxy Z Fold7 supports video recording at up to 8K resolution at 30fps with its main camera, while the rest of the cameras cap at 4K@60fps. The Pro mode unlocks 24fps video recording.
Additionally, the Galaxy Z Fold7 offers 10-bit HDR video recording, and it’s enabled by default. It’s a step up from last year’s 8-bit HDR videos. The Galaxy Log video has also been added in case you want to do the color grading of the footage yourself.
The AI Audio Eraser feature is now a thing on the new foldable. It’s a useful tool in the Gallery app and allows you to adjust the volume of certain types of sounds in your videos after they’ve been taken – you get a choice of speech, music, wind, nature, crowd and noise.
Let’s get on with the actual video footage.
You can check out the playlist below, which includes multiple video samples.
The main camera produces excellent-looking footage, leaving nothing on the table. The video appears clean, offers a wide dynamic range, and has an impressive amount of detail. Colors are punchy, much livelier than on the stills, and the contrast is just right.
Even the 2x crop zoom video is pretty solid. There’s a noticeable loss of sharpness, but the fine detail is retained. We can definitely see someone using the 2x crop zoom video mode.
The 3x telephoto camera’s video recording capabilities are more than alright. The clip provides a good level of detail and generally aligns with the main camera’s overall processing. It’s maybe a bit more contrast-y, but that could be due to a cloud passing by.
Although the ultrawide camera can’t record videos of the same quality as the main camera, the footage is still great in its own right. Compared to other ultrawide cameras, this one produces more detailed videos with wider dynamic range. However, it leaves a bit more to be desired in terms of sharpness, especially around the edges.
The low-light footage from the main camera is decent, albeit a bit noisy. The trade-off for the noise is that the system resolves plenty of detail in the shadows and retains a rather sharp rendition. The same cannot be said about the ultrawide camera, which produces rather fuzzy, dark and too noisy videos.
The 2x zoom video at night isn’t bad either, despite the obvious loss in sharpness compared to the 1x footage. However, the 3x nighttime video is abysmal – it looks flat, fuzzy and completely lacks fine detail.
We also tested out the EIS on the main camera in 4K, and it’s excellent.