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CAMERA: Photo Quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Note5 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).
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Hands down the camera on the Note5 is the best of any smartphone I've ever used. The one weakness is fast motion: I often get blurry results when a subject is moving rapidly. I realize there is a dedicated camera setting for this, but I tend to leave the software on Auto because to be honest I never know when my subject is going to be moving quickly, like when photographing my hyper-active 2-year-old

I would say best camera user experience I've ever had with a smartphone. Very fast, very easy to use and almost always successful pictures. Image quality only beaten by my old Lumia 1020, but that thing takes 3 seconds to take a picture

Pro mode and RAW (DNG) conversion can give some stunning results:
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one word awesome
I'm not a pro at taking pics,but yet the results are breathtaking more over the camera Ui has improved drastically,speed,ease,

One of the best cameras on a phone out there now. With some RAW processing, the quality is breathing taking.

Since i had the G4 before i know what good camera is about, G4 wins easily at low light situations, they break even in daylight but at times the Note produce more accurate colour than G4.

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https://flic.kr/p/z6f35G

the camera is very good really like it.

Fenix said:
Pro mode and RAW (DNG) conversion can give some stunning results:
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Hi mate, this picture is amazing, how do you the .dng file? you convert directly the image to .jpg with photoshop? I'm not a pro in photosgraphy but I want to get images like that.
Thanks in advance!

Miniprepumen said:
Hi mate, this picture is amazing, how do you the .dng file? you convert directly the image to .jpg with photoshop? I'm not a pro in photosgraphy but I want to get images like that.
Thanks in advance!
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Its a setting in the camera app

fkofilee said:
Its a setting in the camera app
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Yes I know mate, I mean what do you do with the .dng, you copy the image to a PC and you add some filter, change contrast brightness?
Thanks
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Apple I 6 users jealous
My girl is so jealous because she will send me a picture she snaps on her I-6 and when viewed on the "God Phone" (aka Note 5) it looks 10x better than hers. Love this phone. Other phone users share the same jealousy.

simply its amazing
i love it , but when i wanna take longexpo shots i realized that you have to be so far away from any light source
otherwise you'll get blown up image,
ofc after all its smartphone camera. so its wonderful

shong84 said:
The photo is not real ,I guess
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raw file makes the picture wonders. really really like it camera preset option come a lot handy. Does anybody have a link for tutorials for the pro i really want to learn this thanks in advance...

svetius said:
Hands down the camera on the Note5 is the best of any smartphone I've ever used. The one weakness is fast motion: I often get blurry results when a subject is moving rapidly. I realize there is a dedicated camera setting for this, but I tend to leave the software on Auto because to be honest I never know when my subject is going to be moving quickly, like when photographing my hyper-active 2-year-old
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Can you share that setting you have for fast moving objects

Im trying to figure out what i can do with the raw settings. Havent been able to decompile the smali enough though to understand it

Best camera phone i have used till date
These are the pictures from an aquarium at Bangalore, India.
I found the noise to be minimal. I have used HTC Camera port for Z1 on my N920G with Dr.Ketan's Rom and it's simply amazing. I found the sharpening of stock camera app high and tweaked it with the HTC app and added little saturation and contrast. I needed to set it only once and i was simply stunned by the photos i got from my phone. This is my first Samsung phone and i'm totally loving it

Made me satisfied

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Huawei Mate 10 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).
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Here are my first batch of photos taken with the Mate 10 Pro.
https://jmcomms.com/2017/10/17/huawei-mate-10-pro-camera-images-part-1/

Superb work

dayum, it really looks like a step up from the Mate 9. Just read the in-depth DxOMark review, any chance we can see some extreme low light shots that would require flash?

Did some comparisons:
Huawei Mate 10 Pro vs. Mate 9 - https://touchit.sk/fototest-huawei-mate-10-pro-medzigeneracne-porovnanie-s-huawei-mate-9/139031
Mate 10 Pro vs. Galaxy Note8 vs. iPhone 8 Plus - https://touchit.sk/fototest-dualnyc...-samsung-galaxy-note8-vo-dne-aj-v-noci/138438
Sorry it is in Slovak language, but I hope you can get the point from pictures themselves

This is great. Which do you think was better

Here is another gallery with shots from BMW Welt and BMW Museum - https://photos.app.goo.gl/CClLDNmkeyXnf2a93

A Look at Huawei Mate 10's AI-Assisted Low Light Photography
https://fstoppers.com/originals/look-huawei-mate-10s-ai-assisted-low-light-photography-201821

Huawei Mate 10 Pro vs Google Pixel 2 XL https://wylsa.com/google-pixel-2-xl-vs-mate-10/

Grigorijs said:
Huawei Mate 10 Pro vs Google Pixel 2 XL https://wylsa.com/google-pixel-2-xl-vs-mate-10/
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Mate 10 wins on all pics!? Have I got them the wrong way round? Mate 10 on left?

mwatson said:
Mate 10 wins on all pics!? Have I got them the wrong way round? Mate 10 on left?
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Yes, you're right - Mate 10 Pro on the left side.
For me Mate 10 Pro is better on three photos, except the photo with "Danger"

Grigorijs said:
Yes, you're right - Mate 10 Pro on the left side.
For me Mate 10 Pro is better on three photos, except the photo with "Danger"
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Yeah I agree with that, You can see the texture of the sign board more on the pixel. Decision made, Gotta get the Mate 10 P, I just hope they keep up with the updates :fingers-crossed:

Well got it delivered today (10 Pro) so tested out the camera
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I was a little surprised to find the RGB camera isn't 12mb like advertised too, it's 11.8

Comparison between P10+ & Mate10 at ISO1000. Mate10 noise reduction is too strong until lost of colors & some details has been smoothen. P10+ handle it much better & more natural. Hope Huawei will improve in this area.

I am also dissapointed by mate 10 photo quality. In daylight its worse than my old galaxy s4!
Noise reduction is too strong, sharpening is just way too strong and contrast is too strong. Pictures look completely artificial.
JPG are almost useless on 4K good screen.
On the other side - raw files are great.

My Mate 10 arrived yesterday, sampled out the camera this morning. I'm so impressed with the entire Phone so far, but the camera is really something.
The forum has reduced the quality of these quite a bit.

Is possible some of our camera are defective? I haven't been impressed at all with it. Especially in low light the pictures look a bit rubbish. The u11 and original pixel xl looked a lot better

Reuben_skelz92 said:
Is possible some of our camera are defective? I haven't been impressed at all with it. Especially in low light the pictures look a bit rubbish. The u11 and original pixel xl looked a lot better
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I agree. I've been comparing the Note 8 and M10 Pro... and when i send them to people to tell me what they think, most of them come back to me by telling me the N8 is much better. I am using the Zero camera mod on the N8, and it seems that it really makes the pictures better. Honestly i was expecting much better.
Did you try the M10 on "moving subjects"? like babies, dogs, cars... for me it just has a hard time focusing. Of course, this on auto mode... on pro, and when you take still pictures it looks really nice. I also realised that the color isn't very warm, tends to go on the blue cold then warm.

SAO said:
I agree. I've been comparing the Note 8 and M10 Pro... and when i send them to people to tell me what they think, most of them come back to me by telling me the N8 is much better. I am using the Zero camera mod on the N8, and it seems that it really makes the pictures better. Honestly i was expecting much better.
Did you try the M10 on "moving subjects"? like babies, dogs, cars... for me it just has a hard time focusing. Of course, this on auto mode... on pro, and when you take still pictures it looks really nice. I also realised that the color isn't very warm, tends to go on the blue cold then warm.
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I haven't really taken loads of pics outside mainly low light... But what I have taken is a bit washed out and haven't been impressed.
I think the hardware is as good as the other flagships and I heard you can get better pictures in pro mode. The software side obviously isn't doing a very good job and needs updating

Photo quality

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Another one:

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What do you think about this one
ISO: 50
Aperture : F 16

And this one too Same location actually, and yes it is salt
ISO: 50
EV: -2.6
Aperture: 2.2

Nice shots!

More photos attached

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Good shots as well man! Love the first one! :good:

Also here's one shot on low light of my lamp I think it looks cool, the lamp was handmade by me some years ago in a Japanese festival
Aperture : 2.2
ISO: 50
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Nice photos

Some low light photos.

ghty said:
Some low light photos.
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WOWY! Did you really took that first one with Huawei P20 Lite? GOSH that is perfect.

ars_chelsea said:
WOWY! Did you really took that first one with Huawei P20 Lite? GOSH that is perfect.
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Yes I did I used "Night mode" to take that photo of the fountain at night. That mode requires some kind of a tripod or something similar because it is like long time exposure photo, so it took 55 seconds so the phone has to be stand still. Try it on Your own you will be amazed

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Yes I did I used "Night mode" to take that photo of the fountain at night. That mode requires some kind of a tripod or something similar because it is like long time exposure photo, so it took 55 seconds so the phone has to be stand still. Try it on Your own you will be amazed
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True I know how the mode works, just saying it ended up pretty good.
Here's my ultimate night shot of the stars which are pretty hard to capture

3 more photos. I think the P20 lite is not too bad when we speaking about camera

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3 more photos. I think the P20 lite is not too bad when we speaking about camera
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I love crocodiles OMFG, and that photo is really neat :good:
Also I think these Huawei P20 series take seriously excelent photos at night and with those light trails on the first pic!

Sunrise taken using night mode.

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Sunrise taken using night mode.
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Really? With night mode? This came out really good, good colours not that dim! Quite detailed for a camera of a 400€ smartphone. I think if you used Pro mode you coulded've got a better result, this is still pretty good tho for a digital and not OIS camera.

Twice exposing
Have one or more P20 lite owners experienced that the camera takes 2 or more pictures, when it only should take one picture? It happens periodically when I take pictures in dark environment, specially when is a weak light source as f.ex neon light on a street shop at night and I dont hold the phone still enough. It looks like it takes an extra or more pictures when the first picture has poor quality. The camera in my P20 lite has basic settings, nothing is changed

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How will you rate the following image taken by my Nokia 8.1?
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shots in daylight are good, although if u zoom in too much there's some softness n waterpaint effect going on, probably a software issue, hope it gets fixed soon.
but in night this phone is simply outstanding, no phone in it's price bracket come even close to it, will upload a sample tomorrow, but the detail, noise level, lights, everything is perfect in its price range

Some shots I took(no edits) and they are definitely way better than 7 plus

This is a low light selfie,street light is yellow,no beauty mode ,just default settings

Nokia 8.1
Stock Camera App
Bokeh
by Aleksandar Nađ, on Flickr
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I have been using this device for a month and here are my findings on its cameras,
1. Back camera works superb in every aspect except the image size which is always to be 7 to 8 MB whether its day time shot or low light or shot in night. So image compressing is not as good as Nokia 7 Plus has.
2. Front Camera is a total flop. Yes I mean it. I take many selfies and they are always much grainy (in all conditions) with and without beauty modes. I don't think so Nokia put a really 20MP sensory at the front instead from the images quality it looks like a 5 MP sensor. Even the Gcam port shows it as 5 MP sensor. Again Nokia 7 Plus take very very great selfies without any filters or 3rd party camera app.
I upgraded from Nokia 7 Plus but after one month I realized That Nokia 7 Plus is far more better than Nokia 8.1 with respect to Cameras and image quality/size.

Styleshman said:
I don't think so Nokia put a really 20MP sensory at the front instead from the images quality it looks like a 5 MP sensor. Even the Gcam port shows it as 5 MP sensor. Again Nokia 7 Plus take very very great selfies without any filters or 3rd party camera app.
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Just FYI, number of megapixels has nothing to do with image quality, it's just the size of the image. Gcam takes a 5 Mpix photo with any 5+ Mpix front facing camera because it works that way.
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where is photo ?

Photos off the selfie cam are a bit rubbish, way too sharp and often exposed badly. Photos from the rear camera are fine (if a touch too sharp for my liking), i have found it works much better turning the AI detection off, it seems a bit thick for an AI and often just makes everything really blue. Low light performance is very good (coming from a Nokia 8), you do get some loss of detail once the ISO ramps up but that is all the processing to get rid of the noise, on the bright side at least you get a photo and not a blurry mess like with the Nokia 8. I tried a Pixel 2 with nightsight against the Nokia 8.1 and to be honest the pixel wasn't that much better at all when the scene was very dark, it was better but not "oh wow" better.
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2. Front Camera is a total flop. Yes I mean it. I take many selfies and they are always much grainy (in all conditions) with and without beauty modes. I don't think so Nokia put a really 20MP sensory at the front instead from the images quality it looks like a 5 MP sensor. Even the Gcam port shows it as 5 MP sensor.
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That's because the front camera uses pixel binning.

Just to add i have been comparing the Nokia 8.1 low light photos to some taken with a Galaxy S9 and the Nokia 8.1 makes a better job of it from what i have seen.

mantap

https://flic.kr/p/2mmcaR9

https://flic.kr/p/2mnuBuw

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The camera is the weakpoint of this phone. For the price you pay for it, I would have expected a much more decent camera.
Attached photo was done in a bright room but you can clearly see that the noise is present and the details of the wooden floor disappear.
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In order to be able to compare the quality of the above photo, I added another one that was took using an iphone 11. Same room, same light.
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I know it's not fair to compare it to a phone that costs the same as almost two s10 lite phones but I'm guessing that the SE 2020 which is on the same level will beat it.
The screen is nice though ...

Honestly fine.
I dont know why people gave this a low rating. I feel like people are expecting to much from Phone camera's.
For an average human being that takes a pics for memories or casual photo albums its more than fine. Enough options to choose from.
I do miss the lack of tap to focus, unless i missed it somewhere in the settings.

Hi people,
The cams are ok in good light situations i think for the price of the phone!
Only in low light situations it will have not so good performance. The aperture is only 2.0 so for that aperture is not so strange. Try to get as much as light as possible and your photo's will be ok!

I have a question, is this camera able to take RAW photos? And can you use a third party app to change the shutter speed?

Al3xxxinho said:
The camera is the weakpoint of this phone. For the price you pay for it, I would have expected a much more decent camera.
Attached photo was done in a bright room but you can clearly see that the noise is present and the details of the wooden floor disappear.
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In order to be able to compare the quality of the above photo, I added another one that was took using an iphone 11. Same room, same light.
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I know it's not fair to compare it to a phone that costs the same as almost two s10 lite phones but I'm guessing that the SE 2020 which is on the same level will beat it.
The screen is nice though ...
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It's a reaaaally huge difference dude! I am disappointed, I was thinking to get the lite for me, maybe not after see that pics.

One area that the camera impressed with was digital zoom (8x). Daylight pictures from 20 feet away were good. Guess that's one advantage of a high megapixel count.

SkullDeath said:
One area that the camera impressed with was digital zoom (8x). Daylight pictures from 20 feet away were good. Guess that's one advantage of a high megapixel count.
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Also macro is really impressive, i use it al lot and its not disappointing either. As long you have enough light the cams are fine!

got it for 450euro, 128gb, white
for that, i give 4stars. im fine with the camera. macro is surprisingly good. gcam works...whatelse i want?

I pass loll

Seen gcam pictures on youtube, difference night and day on the details and brightness.
https://youtu.be/xXlFN8jl2s4
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Now that i have the phone i think its very disappointing, can't make sharp pictures. Whatever camera app i use, zoomed in to the picture its not sharp, compared with ipad pro 2017. Everything is soft. People complain about it allot with s10 series. I didnt expect miracles from this phone but it is just ridiculous if every photo is to soft.