In all the arguing about lag, screen and firmware issues I haven't seen any actual discussion on the Galaxy's camera. I have yet to compare it directly to the iPhone 4's camera, but I'm really impressed with this one coming from an iPhone 3GS.
I have been taking some sample shots over the last few days to see how it looks, most of them have been slightly processed with phone apps like photoshop mobile and vignette, but I feel every photo needs to be retouched and no camera takes perfect pictures on its own.
I'm not able to post full links yet, but copy and paste this on a different tab to see my samples.
yfrog.com/ea4801795350300f4ca828bjx
If you guys have taken cool shots with the Galaxy please share
You can see in this thread pics and videos taken with it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704578
woops, didnt see the thread, ignore this one then
Wow, I didn't expect this. Phone arena done a test where users have to vote for which they think are the best photos taken with three smart phones and a digital camera. They were not told which photo is taken by which device. The results were really suprising as I thought my Samsung had the best camera among Android smart phones!
What do you guys think?
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Smartphone-camera-comparison-you-choose-the-winner-Results_id20750
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Seriously??? I wasnt expecting them results either! Perhaps its just the screen on the S2 which makes the images look better than they actually are. Damn shame that!!!
Too bad there wasn't a Arc in the Game. It takes really great pictures, but the Galaxy doesnt do a bad job either. But if you take a picture with the iphone it uses HDR This is why the iphone images has more details on it.
I have no complaints about taking pictures with the phone, it's a phone not a camera. It is getting better (look 5 years back).
another great site for comparing pictures is gsmarena look at the following link http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=3621&idPhone2=3275&idPhone3=3619
Ex iphone4 user here, and these results just make me lol.....
Set the S2 to iso100 in daylight and it DESTROYS the iphone 4 camera.
Indoors and low light is probably not its strong point though, same as most phone sensors.
I haven't seen any pictures taken by the sensation but the sensation pics look like how my sgs2 takes pics (ie colors a little oversaturated)
I didn't spend too long looking but in the outdoor tests doesn't the S2 photos look most like the canon photos? The other two camera phones distort the image more compared to the samsung.
The flaw in this study has been pointed out in the comments on the website. They just asked for the best one and so as this was obviously the canon the results for the camera phones don't mean too much. They need to do another test just between camera phones.
I expected this anyway. The saturation, white balance, etc are not that satisfactory. My previous phone Nokia N80 produced much better images.
Well, for me this is the one of the weaknesses on SGS2. I hope Samsung will improve it on the next Samsung Galaxy S series. Other than that, this phone is really spectacular.
benjatt said:
I didn't spend too long looking but in the outdoor tests doesn't the S2 photos look most like the canon photos?
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Exactly ... in the outdoor tests the S2 even outperformed the Canon, because it shows more shadow detail.
This review only shows one thing ... not the best cam, but that the voters have been idiots, who don't know nothing about photography
What I find strange is, that my S2 shows a much better indoor white balance, as shown in these test shots. It seems Samsung fixed it in the latest updates?
looking at the pics, the canon is the best overall, and the SII comes very, very close (sometimes better outdoor, and slightly worse indoors).
the other 2 phones are far from their level of detail, balance and overall quality.
that's what I expected, too, and i checked the device names only after looking. the iphone level of detail is very disappointing.
one difference however is that the htc and the iphone both do heavy color correction (thats also a reason why they lose a lot of detail) while the SII and the canon do much lighter correction.
lastly if they're using HDR on the iphone and take front light pics it would be logical to use the free HDR apps on android and do offline HDR rendering on the canon, but that's not the case here
from that pic its easy to determine which phone is the iphone4 and thats probably why it has most of the vote there, since every iphone owner knew which one was the iphone ;-)
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looking at the pics, the canon is the best overall, and the SII comes very, very close (sometimes better outdoor, and slightly worse indoors).
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But the Sensation is the only one where you can see the guys pores in the outside pictures, all the other ones his skin just looks even
I'm starting to doubt the credibility of the comparison. Allaboutsymbian done a comparison between the Arc and the Galaxy S2 and the S2 came out on top.
wwwdallaboutsymbian.com/features/item/13021_5_Top_Smartphone_Cameras_pitch.php
Now I look at the photos again, I think the results are chosen from what initially appears the best image (from untrained eyes) and what appears the best to a technical photographer. The Galaxy S2 are noisy, outdoors but do contain more detail. Whereas other phones have more noise reduction at the expense of details but at first look most people would choose the less noisy photo.
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I'm starting to doubt the credibility of the comparison. Allaboutsymbian done a comparison between the Arc and the Galaxy S2 and the S2 came out on top.
wwwdallaboutsymbian.com/features/item/13021_5_Top_Smartphone_Cameras_pitch.php
Now I look at the photos again, I think the results are chosen from what initially appears the best image (from untrained eyes) and what appears the best to a technical photographer. The Galaxy S2 are noisy, outdoors but do contain more detail. Whereas other phones have more noise reduction at the expense of details but at first look most people would choose the less noisy photo.
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I can see a lot more detail in the sensations pic, like I said I can see the guys pores in the pics taken with the sensation but the other sensation pics are better too
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I can see a lot more detail in the sensations pic, like I said I can see the guys pores in the pics taken with the sensation but the other sensation pics are better too
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But at the expense of the detail on the tree at the right of him.
HTC Sensation captures what seems to be a smudge of green, while in the GS2, you can make out the leaves. And his skin looks unnaturally red.
So the SGS2 decided to focus on the tree instead of the subject and instead of the subject looking slightly more tanned he looks like a shining ghost
The fun thing with this test:
If a voter would be good in recognizing quality pictures, they would most likely choose the real (Canon) camera 1st. The mobile camera that is the best, right after the Canon, would then have reasonably less chances of being picked as 'best', since the voters nót picking the Canon as best have proven to be bad quality-recognizers.
Thus the best camera-phone will have the highest chance of ending with the least of all votes
(as pointed out by several commenters already)
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Interesting article....
I have both devices, I'll take a pic with each and post to see which one you all think is better. I would post an iPhone as well but my wife is out and about.
Here's unbiased review, including the camera.
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/samsung-galaxy-s2-en.shtml
Blind test picture quality
am i the only one who can see that pureview sucks compared to GS3 and iphone 4s camera shots, unlike what the auther says???? i mean i tried multiple times looking at crops and full pictures and find pureview tobe blurry and dull compared to GS3 and iphone 4S...
what ya think !
The Olympus pictures are (as expected) by far the best, followed by the GS3.
The iPhone pictures are pretty bad IMO and the Nokia pictures are somewhere in between.
Why is this in the Galaxy S II section? None of the blindly tested cameras were the i9100?
Nothing to do with the GT-I9100
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Hi all,
It's here! There is only one winner... yet, I will not spoil your surprise! Before I let you judge for yourself just a couple of technicalities:
IMAG*** pictures are HTC Camera
IMG_201710*** pictures are Google Camera either v4.0 (for daylight pictures) or v3.8c (modded for night HDR)
IMG_*** pictures are iPhone 8 Camera or ProCamera v10.3.2 (695) for iOS or ProCam v10.0.2 for iOS
95% of all shots are HDR (forced) the rest are proprietary mods from ProCamera and ProCam apps.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pI6S09Ny16FjnbI63
So.... ENJOY!
dehnhaide said:
Hi all,
It's here! There is only one winner... yet, I will not spoil your surprise! Before I let you judge for yourself just a couple of technicalities:
IMAG*** pictures are HTC Camera
IMG_201710*** pictures are Google Camera either v4.0 (for daylight pictures) or v3.8c (modded for night HDR)
IMG_*** pictures are iPhone 8 Camera or ProCamera v10.3.2 (695) for iOS or ProCam v10.0.2 for iOS
95% of all shots are HDR (forced) the rest are proprietary mods from ProCamera and ProCam apps.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pI6S09Ny16FjnbI63
So.... ENJOY!
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from which phone are the photos on the right side? photos from the right side definitely look better and is the clear winner
chamitobear said:
from which phone are the photos on the right side? photos from the right side definitely look better and is the clear winner
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Look at the file details to know which phone took it
u11 have best camera....i think in dxo mark should have 100 score and first phone
dehnhaide said:
Hi all,
It's here! There is only one winner... yet, I will not spoil your surprise! Before I let you judge for yourself just a couple of technicalities:
IMAG*** pictures are HTC Camera
IMG_201710*** pictures are Google Camera either v4.0 (for daylight pictures) or v3.8c (modded for night HDR)
IMG_*** pictures are iPhone 8 Camera or ProCamera v10.3.2 (695) for iOS or ProCam v10.0.2 for iOS
95% of all shots are HDR (forced) the rest are proprietary mods from ProCamera and ProCam apps.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pI6S09Ny16FjnbI63
So.... ENJOY!
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I think u11 image by Google camera is great.
Please if you can share with us your config and Google camera mode link.
I tested many Google camera mode and use this : GCam5.1.018-Arnova8G2-V1.4
Because in this mod , portrait and hdr+ is working and also motion auto in some config
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