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Best photo you've taken on the GS2

As the topic suggests, what is the best photo you've managed to capture on your Galaxy S 2?!
Examples would be great.

I'm not proficient with photography by any means, but these came out pretty good for a phone camera. I'm starting to find the following:
1) Low light pictures don't look good at all, seems this camera really needs a good amount of light to put out decent looking pictures. But, many standalone point and shoot digital cams have issues with low light as well, so this isn't all that shocking.
2) Pictures taken with flash look really off colorwise sometimes. Many times, the pictures come out with a blueish purple hue.
3 pictures: Macro, close range, and medium to far away.

cmd512 said:
I'm not proficient with photography by any means, but these came out pretty good for a phone camera. I'm starting to find the following:
1) Low light pictures don't look good at all, seems this camera really needs a good amount of light to put out decent looking pictures. But, many standalone point and shoot digital cams have issues with low light as well, so this isn't all that shocking.
2) Pictures taken with flash look really off colorwise sometimes. Many times, the pictures come out with a blueish purple hue.
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Awesome pics, finding the same with low light, not with the flash issue though. Well I recently went to my sister's wedding and took what has been said to be the best photo of the happy couple...
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This is probably the best photo i've taken on my GSII.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=635956&stc=1&d=1308949101
It's of my mates old LG phone after a crowbar "accidentally" got dropped on it a few times....

My son playing in the fountain in the town centre square in Sundsvall, Sweden. Standard settings on the phone. In bright conditions. Lovely detail in some shots with this camera in the right conditions.
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I still find it hard to believe my SGS2 took a photo of an ant standing ON a bubble of water. Has to be that!
"One Giant Step For Ant Kind"
{click picture for the full version - too big to post full size!}

Awesome thread, I've been amazed at the results i'm able to achieve with the SGS2 Camera. It may not be a DSLR but it's damn good for a phone camera. Anyway, I'll have plenty of pictures to post as time goes on......

ive taken many, dont think the missus would take so well to be posting them up mind

Some great photos here you should get them in my flickr group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sgs2/

Please don't let this thread die!
With the heatwave now in force I'll be making the most of the outdoors today and adding some more pics later. Surely there some other photographic gems out there.
Share!
Regards.

Great thread
This is a macro shot of some lavender...pretty good for a phone cam, huh?

ghostdog276 said:
Great thread
This is a macro shot of some lavender...pretty good for a phone cam, huh?
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How to enter in macro mode?

Razer(x) said:
How to enter in macro mode?
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Open up the camera app and then click Settings -> Focus-Mode...
hope that's the proper translation as i have a german device...

I took this one when I went hiking with my girl and my dog.

A little bit offtopic, but, just little!
Video, instead of photo : Put Full HD on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7RUS-j5Z24

Just taken in my zafira.... Macro mode at about 2inches from gear stick....
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best pic of my sgs2 so far

Did somebody say macro?! Resized so as not to blow your mind with detail, you still get an idea of the quality with this.
Regards.

freshly smoked...

Took these today
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Galaxy SII wins Best Camera Phone for class ~ Andoid Magazine Issue 3

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If anyone is interested.... It is of no surprise the Samsung Galaxy SII has been voted Best Camera Phone of class in this months 'Android Magazine'.
This is the line up:-
HTC Sensation ~ 3 Stars
Produced some passable shots although sometimes lacking detail, while video motion could be jerky.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc ~ 4 Stars
A great screen and camera features, let down by lower-spec video recording and a lack of editing software.
Samsung Galaxy SII ~ 5 Stars
The most consistent results of all the cameras tested, with some nice editing software to top things off!
LG Optimus 2X ~ 3 Stars
Can produce some nice macro shots with accurate colour matching, but let down by its video quality.
Android Magazine asked independent users to pick out the best prints from the batch they had.
Tests also included outdoor brightness conditions which favoured the SGS2 very well.
Final test included the ability to not only take a shot/video but editing which again the SGS2 won admirably.

Nice to see GSII winning it but I've used ARC and maybe only me found the Camera a bit better than ours.
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for me sony did a better job with camera thingy. they always have ever since the k810 cybershot model. haha~~

Arc is good but video not on par with SGS2.

LuffyPSP said:
for me sony did a better job with camera thingy. they always have ever since the k810 cybershot model. haha~~
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They did make good camera's but that was till nokia came out with the n95.
since then the sony ericsson module has never been on the top.

Don't know which N95 you had, but the one I had was never in a million years better than my k810i or indeed my xperia x10 for pictures. Nokia pics, certainly on N95 seemed much like Iphone shots, cartoony and over bright etc.
Right now i'd say the Arc is a better camera than the Galaxy S2 but the video lets the Arc down.
N8 I don't know, the pictures i've seen on it look marvelous, but its not android so doesnt count lol

biffsmash said:
Don't know which N95 you had, but the one I had was never in a million years better than my k810i or indeed my xperia x10 for pictures. Nokia pics, certainly on N95 seemed much like Iphone shots, cartoony and over bright etc.
Right now i'd say the Arc is a better camera than the Galaxy S2 but the video lets the Arc down.
N8 I don't know, the pictures i've seen on it look marvelous, but its not android so doesnt count lol
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yes k810i ftw!!! mine is still functioning and still taking good pictures with it.

cool man .!!!!!1

I know is android mag, but it would have been nice to see it go againts the iphone camera. Since i am a current ios user and always looking to see how Android has improved to a possible change over.

So the famous 'pink spot' maybe is not that significant after all. Personally, I hardly notice anything of this artifact in day to day photos...unless of course I'm snapping my white wallpaper.
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pink spot is a killer for me...complete fail for photos in light situations. winner my arse...xperia ARC wins hands down.

Sony Xperia S Camera comparison vs Arc

I went to a Sony Mobile "Insider on Tour" event tonight and got the chance to have a look at the S, P, and U.. I also took 2 photo's one with my current arc, and one with the S.. I've stuck them together, side by side and here's the result.. The camera on the S is incredible.
[EDIT : FYI - I took both pictures with default settings.. and the S photo was taken from standby to test the quick shot feature.. it took the photo in under 2 seconds.. easily. The 2 photo's were cropped and I used the left hand side of each to make this image, no post processing on the image quality at all.. just cropped and added the labels.]
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Interesting. Look at the seat numbers, and the seats at the back... The Arc resolves them, the S does not.
The S may have better shadow noise, but it looks like the Arc has better detail. Of course, for the S, you did not have that bright spotlight in the frame to throw off metering either

Rashkae said:
Of course, for the S, you did not have that bright spotlight in the frame to throw off metering either
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I think he cropped that out of the S' photo.

Not a fair comparison IMO. Would be a much better one without those light sources.
Anyways, it does seem the picture taken by arc to have more resolved detail.

Haha, Arc seems better!

Could you post some more pics, please?
Snapdragon S3 keeps me away from the new devices, but the camera might change that.
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I did crop the two photos...just took the left side of each.
The handling of the light sources was what made it such a good comparison..
I only had it in my hand for 2 minutes so only managed to take that photo and Bluetooth it to my arc..
The s handled amazingly well.. And the camera really was very impressive..
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I have unfortunately read a review for the Xperia s that states the camera as having the same jpeg compression as the arc s, ray and neo. I truly hope this isn't the case as I was extremely let down but the quality from the arc s camera.
I believe this review might have been posted on Engadget today?
If anyone has some proper hands on experience with some outdoors shots compared to arc s, iPhone 4s and sgs2, please post your findings on which has the better detail and quality, megapixels withstanding.

Flo95 said:
Could you post some more pics, please?
Snapdragon S3 keeps me away from the new devices, but the camera might change that.
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What's wrong with that? It's a decent chipset.

harlz said:
I have unfortunately read a review for the Xperia s that states the camera as having the same jpeg compression as the arc s, ray and neo. I truly hope this isn't the case as I was extremely let down but the quality from the arc s camera.
I believe this review might have been posted on Engadget today?
If anyone has some proper hands on experience with some outdoors shots compared to arc s, iPhone 4s and sgs2, please post your findings on which has the better detail and quality, megapixels withstanding.
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There are some photos posted in xperia s forum. One user posted there a link for full size images captured by the device. Haven't checked in 100% magnification though.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1530157
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doomed151 said:
What's wrong with that? It's a decent chipset.
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New flagship devices use the S4 (like HTC One X). It's as fast as the Tegra 3. Also the rumoured Hayabusa/Mint from Sony (autumn flagship) will have the S4.

sdk16420 said:
New flagship devices use the S4 (like HTC One X). It's as fast as the Tegra 3. Also the rumoured Hayabusa/Mint from Sony (autumn flagship) will have the S4.
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Maybe because of time constraints to test S4 platform for Q1 release? Xperia S is now on sale. HTC S4 devices will come this Q2.
Waiting for an S4 device with Sony branding!

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S4 chipset is as fast as Tegra 3, so the S3 chipset is slow in comparison.
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The quality doesn't look much different. Maybe a bit, but I think the arc is still pretty decent.

Are there any more comparisons?

N8 camera owns arc& xperia s cameras - sad, but true . N8>X10>XS>arc

5mp camera taking better pics than s2

Hi
I got my s2 few days back and it's upgraded to 4.0.3.. I'm happy with the performance but very very sad bcz of camera.. My old nexus is taking back better pictures than this s2.. Here are two same pictures taken in same time and same place..
Picture taken from nexus
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Direct link ; http://db.tt/a6rd2pAF
Picture taken from s2
Direct link ; http://db.tt/BEvocqYV
Please suggest me whether it's ICS problem or camera problem? Should I downgrade it to gb or go for camera replacement?
It's Indian version I9100
Thank you

Megapixels != camera quality.
If you want to take decent photos, buy a good camera.
P.S. Taking landscape photos at night without a tripod = blurry.

here is the photo taken with sgs2
IMG_20120311_115720 by Nomi Omi, on Flickr

are my eyes weird cos the s2 pic looks better to me

or dear just go in this link and you will find more best picture taken by sgs2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139591

So my camera doesn't have any problems right? Cause in nexus photo asyou can see texts look good and clear in those boards even after zooming but in s2 photo it doesn't and s2 photo is so dull compared to nexus.. And I took few photos in night party where we used to hangout.. Picture which was taken in nexus was better than s2.. Like faces were looking clear without so much noise and blurry.. So I thought there might be some problems and posted here

On both photos it looks like you're trying to take a landscape night photo with the flash on (lolwut?). I really think you need to learn how to use a camera, specifically the operating range and capability of a flash and what ISO and shutter speed are.
I love seeing people out at night getting out there pocket camera (or even worse, phone), pointing it at a scene 200 metres away and expecting their flash to automagically make an awesome photo.

Thank you.. I'll learn how to use camera.. I don't have enough experience dealing with cameras.. I just used to do as you said... I'll try my best to learn about it.. So there is no problem about camera right?
And it was took around 6...

ancilary said:
Thank you.. I'll learn how to use camera.. I don't have enough experience dealing with cameras.. I just used to do as you said... I'll try my best to learn about it.. So there is no problem about camera right?
And it was took around 6...
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the difference you see is purely settings-derived

Picture is due to posting I the wrong forum .How the f222 can you manage to use the phone .
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If you look at the store under the "uninor" banner, SGS2 pic is clear while the nexus overexposes it. So it's the exposure setting that's different between the two photos that makes you think the SGS2 is taking darker photos.

Turn on night scene on the S2, problem solved.

I hate all this current selling lark that more == better. So many ppl simply look at a number and think "wow that's high it obviously better".
I've played with a 8mp camera phone and it got totally pissed on my a 3mp nikam proper slr. Always remember you are not going to take the best pictures on a cameras whoes Lens is smaller than a screw head.

As someone already said, megapixels are not a measure of the picture quality. Don't get confused with it. Pictures you have taken are generally bad because of the environment. If you want to take city pics at night then it is not a great idea to use phone for that purpose. Galaxy SII has wonderful camera that can beat almost every other phone's camera on the market. Here is the proof Best photo you've taken on the GS2

ancilary said:
So my camera doesn't have any problems right? Cause in nexus photo asyou can see texts look good and clear in those boards even after zooming but in s2 photo it doesn't and s2 photo is so dull compared to nexus.. And I took few photos in night party where we used to hangout.. Picture which was taken in nexus was better than s2.. Like faces were looking clear without so much noise and blurry.. So I thought there might be some problems and posted here
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But in galaxy picture the motorcycles are much more in focus. You can't really compare them, it depends on what you wanted and how you set the camera. I am no photographer but I once had a camera where you could manually set aperture and shutter time (apart from the focus) and both shots could have come from the same camera with different aperture/shutter settings

You can try to use some camera hacks, some custom roms have it.

I think something's wrong with the sgs2 camera hardware... A long time ago, when I still had my sony ericsson k800, I remember it taking much better pics, even though it only had a 2mp cam...

Lechium06 said:
I think something's wrong with the sgs2 camera hardware... A long time ago, when I still had my sony ericsson k800, I remember it taking much better pics, even though it only had a 2mp cam...
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Well, if you can not solve your problem with flashing Stock Roms or Custom Roms maybe something is wrong with your hardware as you say.

Lechium06 said:
I think something's wrong with the sgs2 camera hardware... A long time ago, when I still had my sony ericsson k800, I remember it taking much better pics, even though it only had a 2mp cam...
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id strongly suggest you have a faulty gs2 if thats the case.

darker photos means less noise , brighter photos means higher noise value thus this will result in lowering the quality of the picture. but i think i have to agree with you on this. GB camera setting is abit better then ics . well for me anyways because i tend to take pictures with my phone (before i got a DSLR that is). now when i try to take the same picture with ICS its doesn't looks as good as the GB camera days.
I think its maybe the camera firmware.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Vs Nikon D5000 DSLR

Samsung Galaxy S3 Vs Nikon D5000 DSLR
Why?
I have a week off this week and while my fiancee is working, I thought I wpould charge my camera battery and have a practice. I am a really amateur photographer. By that I mean I own a nice DSLR (Upper Entry-level) and a couple of lenses but I've never really taken much time to get used to it. Today was a great oppurtunity.
Whilst I started taking snaps, i thought "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and here we are.
Disclaimer - Scientific conditions.
Mode:
Whilst I am only an amateur, I am familiar with my camera and its modes. Although I usually shoot in manual mode, adjusting the aperture and shutter speed as I see fit, for a reasonable degree of accuracy, I decided to use Auto mode. This is also what I used on the SGS 3.
Where as I tried to maintain Automode, I did slip into landscape mode a couple of times on the DSLR. Unfortunately I do not recollect which images were taken in each mode. It was mostly Auto though.
Zoom:
I stuck to my 18-55mm lens on the Nikon and used digital zoom on the SGS3. Although these can never be compared, as this is more a "look what the SGS3 can do" thing, I didn't think that should matter.
MegaPixels:
I set both top their top resolution. The DSLR is 12MP so obviously the detail is better when shown on a huge billboard. On a screen which is smaller than that, it shouldn't be noticable. remember, a HD display (1920x1080) is less than 2.1MP
Galaxy Resolution - 3264×2448 pixels
D5000 Resolution - 4310×2868 pixels
Image format:
The SGS3 takes images in .JPG format by standard. The DSLR took them in .NEF (Nikon RAW) and was converted afterwards. Converting RAW to .JPG on a computer (I used UFraw command line tool on Linux) gives a little bit better quality than letting the camera save as .JPG directly
Conclusions
Obviously this test was just for fun and was never intended to show that the SGS3 would be better than an upper entry level DSLR which even now, 3 years after release, can cost upwards of £500 GBP with a basic 18-55MM lens. Well guess what?! It's not better than the DSLR but hey, we never expected it to be.
What you can tell from the images is that where some of the DSLR images were a bit dark in auto mode, the SGS3 had some nice and bright shots. You can clearly see the difference in quality on some shots, but in others, not so much. I was very surprised at how well the SGS3 took pictures and how nice some of them did look, even compared to the superior DSLR, some of the pcitures the SGS3 took looked nicer, if not better.
Slightly related, but the experience of previewing the image taken was MUCH more enjoyable on the SGS3 with its bright and vibrant screen. You can instantly tell if the image will come out blurry or not, which with the DSLR was really tricky. You cna onyl really check if the photo is framed as you expected.
All in all, the SGS3 is a fantastic little camera. It may not be able to keep up with the big boys but it was never intended to. I would never be disappointed whipping it out of my pocket to capture an "of the moment" photograph. I am very impressed.
Further diclaimer
As mentioned, I am not a photographer. I am sure there are others out there who can do much better than I did with both devices. Remember this is just for fun.
I haven't scientifically analysed the outputs of both devices and used any software or anythign like that. If anyone is into that, please feel free to post results here. I would definitely be interested. All I have done, is used my eyes.
The Images
Each photo tells you if its SGS3 or Nikon from the properties but essentially, the first image is always the SGS3, the second is always the D5000
https://picasaweb.google.com/101616642112510848507/SamsungGalaxyS3VsNikonD5000DSLR
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Have you try another phone like nexus 4 or htc one x?
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glossywhite said:
Was this a joke post? lol.
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?? I think its a good post showing off the gs3 camera well done op
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glossywhite said:
Was this a joke post? lol.
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You didn't have to quote the entire first post! Geez!!!!
I think it's good. I'd love to see comparison results!

I think it's a Inovative idea to Compare s3 and slr but really a daft comparison
The whole point of an slr is control, and whether Full frame or cropped and the list goes on. Quality of sensor.
As much as the s3 has a reasonable lens it is no comparison to a good slr or even a simple slr.
I've been am-tog for over 25yrs from good old 110 days, 35mm film, med format and digital.
S3 auto exp
Canon 50D 10mm-22mm lens and 580ex flash.... Full manual
Taken in almost complete darkness with strobe and coloured lighting.
There's absolutely no way a camera phone could produce this.
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It is a daft comparison. The real aim was to show by removing the element of control, given that the lens and sensor are not of the same quality, the s3 really isn't that bad at all.
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rootSU said:
It is a daft comparison. The real aim was to show by removing the element of control, given that the lens and sensor are not of the same quality, the s3 really isn't that bad at all.
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In the street almost all photo good - camera it is or Nokia 1100
Try make photo INside, at home - and you WILL see REALLLL difference