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Camera / Photo examples?

Can any of you lucky Galaxy S owners provide real life examples of the camera capabilities please? Ideally some shots in different lighting conditions.
Thanks.

This would be good to see as i have only seen videos​

MacaronyMax said:
This would be good to see as i have only seen videos​
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picture samples
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilegear/sets/72157624154501863/
reviews with camera samples and 720p videos:
http://www.mobile01.com/newsdetail.php?id=9422
http://www.mobile01.com/newsdetail.php?id=9390

Are those real i9000 photos?
The colors look great, much better then the examples from the gsmarena.com review.

According to the websites, yes.

Thanks for the links Archius.
Seems that the camera is ok for snaps (I have been spoiled by the Carl Zeiss optics of the Nokia N Series) but then I guess the camera is not what you would buy this phone for!

Here are two of my photos I've taken.
Normal light conditions
i47.tinypic.com/2qd3kns.jpg
Darker conditions (yeah I know my room is a mess)
i50.tinypic.com/ak7fbr.jpg

kenny326 said:
Here are two of my photos I've taken.
Normal light conditions
i47.tinypic.com/2qd3kns.jpg
Darker conditions (yeah I know my room is a mess)
i50.tinypic.com/ak7fbr.jpg
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What camera settings did you use?

Great pictures, much better then my HD2 HD2 performs awful in the darkness - overexposes every picture with the leds. So I won't miss the led except for flashlight purposes

at least we can see under low light xD
the normal light picture is not bad, much better than HTC's quality and everything seems clear enough for a phone cam.
but it doesn't capture the sunlight that well, it makes a "whitish" effect in the picture lol not sure how to describe. but it ruins the real colors.

holy crap. in decent lighting those stills looks pretty darn good for a phone.
and the video is REALLY impressive for a phone.
it appears that it doesnt do well in low light, but still... im impressed.

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What camera settings did you use?
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Default camera settings when it came out of the box (superfine etc).
Edit: This is what it looks like with Night Mode.
i47.tinypic.com/2yjrf4n.jpg

kenny326 said:
Default camera settings when it came out of the box (superfine etc).
Edit: This is what it looks like with Night Mode.
i47.tinypic.com/2yjrf4n.jpg
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Thank you so much!
Hmm, if the camera is similar to that on my Omnia I then I’d recommend manually setting the ISO rather than leaving it on auto. Also, I’d be curious if manually focusing on a specific object would perhaps result in a sharper low light photo (my Omnia has problems auto focusing in low light/low contrast situations).

If you want me to take some specific shots I can try. I've been messing around with the settings i.e macro, iso etc.

I took this today on the Galaxy S, I didnt check the settings, its still all on default. It was taken freestanding so could probably be sharper, but was pretty much just point and shoot. Its not edited apart from the 50% reduction to make it viewable on here. Colours are as they were captured, and not bad for a camera phone.
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That's enough for me

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That's enough for me
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same here !!
very nice sky also, and nice colors compared to other phones.

video shots @ 720p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7bQC3J_Pg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ZrSkXGHIU

zenkinz said:
video shots @ 720p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7bQC3J_Pg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ZrSkXGHIU
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Those look great and the dog is very cute! Thanks for posting!

Thanks a lot guys for the camera samples. I think we would all agree that the daylight photos and videos are excellent.
Could we please have some more samples of low-light photos and video?
Many thanks.
Mario

camera quality

I got my note and it is really great but the camera is very bad I think it is a matter of configuration, because the Colours are very poor in the photos and the contrast very low

I've got Galaxy Note on 11 Nov 2011, I noticed that when switching on Camera, targeting any white wall, I notice Columns / Bars of shadows are moving like curtain or Smoke from left to right of the screen specially in a low light places, also a pink spot in the middle of the screen.
Is this normal? if not, What I have to do?
I have Galaxy Note GT-N7000 - 2.3.6 JPKK2
Kernel Ver: 2.6.35.7-N7000JPKK2-CL726640
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tito17182 said:
I got my note and it is really great but the camera is very bad I think it is a matter of configuration, because the Colours are very poor in the photos and the contrast very low
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Ahem, I would return that unit, take a look at this picture taken yesterday, all default values on camera, untouched, uploaded directly from phone.

Hello,
First of all, be sure that you are using the 8MP / 3264x2448 resolution.
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Second, clean the camera, Maybe there is a fingerprint or dust on it.
And lets see how it goes with you =)

off topic, but I only noticed today (after 2 weeks of ownership) that there is a transparent plastic film over the lens which I never spotted when I unboxed it. I've taken quite a few photos and I had not noticed any quality issues - in fact I was very pleased with the crisp clear images it was producing.
I'm actually considering leaving the film in place for now as it protects the lens (which is otherwise pretty exposed). I figure that until I start to notice image problems due to the film getting roughed up, it's doing no real harm I guess I should really try the cam with the film removed to see what photos are *meant* to look like before I decide on that course of action though!

The camera works best with abundant light. The outdoor picture posted earlier in this thread looks great for a cellphone camera. However my indoor pic with low light and no flash is grainy and lacks contrast.
Pic here: imgur . com/3w2wi

Hogun said:
The camera works best with abundant light. The outdoor picture posted earlier in this thread looks great for a cellphone camera. However my indoor pic with low light and no flash is grainy and lacks contrast.
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You can not expect good non-grainy pictures in low-light from any camera that it's smaller than a SLR. It's a fundamental law of nature (quantum variations and Poisson distribution of photons). You need a big sensor and big lens to capture more light, something you are not going to get on a phone.
But the camera is good for daylight and captures colors very well (oversaturated, but you can lower that and get a more natural look).
Just to add some numbers, check this image from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SensorSizes.svg
Most superzoom / cheap cameras have 6 mm wide sensors. The biggest you're going to find on a compact (retractile lens) camera is 8 mm. Big cameras use APS-C (23 mm wide).
A cellullar phone has 1 mm-wide sensor. Galaxy Note camera has 8 mpixels, but each pixel is hundreds of times smaller than the ones on a SLR. So much more noise. This can NOT be solved in any way.

vcespon said:
This can NOT be solved in any way.
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How did the nokia n8 solve it?

inurb said:
How did the nokia n8 solve it?
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By using a 1/1.83" sensor; almost the same size as the sensor found in well-regarded compact cameras like the Panasonic LX3/5, the Olympus XZ-1, the Canon G12, S90, S95, and S100.

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).
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

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 Sony XA2 Ultra 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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The rear camera is nothing special in my opinion, however the front facing camera takes excellent, wide angle selfies.

Rear camera is good, not stellar. Poor pics in low light. Can't compete with the Samsung's or the Pixels. There is also an annoying shutter lag and is not spontaneous.
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I was out tonight...Lantern festival thing.
figured high contrast in dark would be hardest thing to pull off..full size picture warning.
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I'm not the biggest perfect picture taker, but it seems to me the sensor is plenty well able to pick up everything, but there's crap for software HDR to put it all together. If I focused on the grass, the ground was much brighter in the picture than where I was standing, however the lights were all washed out. If I focused on the lights, that's all you can see. There is plenty of noise in the picture, but I could forgive noise if some manner of HDR could merge different light levels.
Speed: (another large image warning)
I know guns are a hot topic presently, but if we can move past guns good/guns bad, and agree stuff coming out of guns moves pretty fast. This was the best timed shot I think I ever managed. Focus is sufficient up front but suffers at multiple distances. The ejected shell from the shotgun is in air, the wad (part of an assembled shotgun shell) is seen flying away from the gun. Zoom in on the upper center of the picture and the orange target can be seen broken into 3 pieces. I was very impressed that while focus was an issue, there didn't seem to be any movement distortion in the picture.
...after describing the details and looking closer at my images in the post, it seems my pictures are getting cut down somewhere along the line. I'll try to update later with a full size link.

Bad Video quality
I have purchased 2 of these phones about 3 months ago, I personally think the camera quality is terrible, video quality is horrible, and Im not even a big camera user. My wife uses her phone camera constantly, and video is horrible try zooming in on a face from a distance and its all washed out. I have tried different camera apps as well no difference. Today I contacted Sony, and man are they worthless, Im not sure if its a software issue or hardware issue? I thought Sony was one of the main suppliers of cell phone cameras for many different phone manufactures, maybe I'm wrong on that? Anyone have any suggestions, or are we just stuck with a junk camera phone?

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I have purchased 2 of these phones about 3 months ago, I personally think the camera quality is terrible, video quality is horrible, and Im not even a big camera user. My wife uses her phone camera constantly, and video is horrible try zooming in on a face from a distance and its all washed out. I have tried different camera apps as well no difference. Today I contacted Sony, and man are they worthless, Im not sure if its a software issue or hardware issue? I thought Sony was one of the main suppliers of cell phone cameras for many different phone manufactures, maybe I'm wrong on that? Anyone have any suggestions, or are we just stuck with a junk camera phone?
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Yeah the camera is definitely very mid-range-ish. Probably about like a Samsung J7
I agree Sony support is very unhelpful to. Insisting I must pay to send it to an "authorized technician" smh

li0nh3art3d said:
Yeah the camera is definitely very mid-range-ish. Probably about like a Samsung J7
I agree Sony support is very unhelpful to. Insisting I must pay to send it to an "authorized technician" smh
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Its possible that some of the issues are due to software, I know that my cameras were better before all the Sony updates. I did read that XA2 Ultra will get the 9.0 update probably 4th Quarter 2018 and its not even guaranteed that will fix and any camera issues.

Photo quality

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Stock cemera app image proccess is extreamly bad

Taken from my ROG II in Portrait Mode

Those are not bad at all. Asus seems to be taking mobile stuff a bit more seriously now, so hoping the app - or GCam - improves things.

Here are two long exposure night shots of the sky on a moonless night (single images, no alterations). First one is 16s exposure at iso800 and second one is 16s at iso1600. Main camera is able to do up iso3200 and up to 32s exposures but I noticed slight star trails starting at 20s

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Here are two long exposure night shots of the sky on a moonless night (single images, no alterations). First one is 16s exposure at iso800 and second one is 16s at iso1600. Main camera is able to do up iso3200 and up to 32s exposures but I noticed slight star trails starting at 20s
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Wow, those came out better than I would've expected. Then again, I'm use to my V20, which looks bad at anything above ISO 400. I'm surprised you started to get star trails with that focal length too. Get a handful of those in a row and that could make for a good composite with long trails.

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Wow, those came out better than I would've expected. Then again, I'm use to my V20, which looks bad at anything above ISO 400. I'm surprised you started to get star trails with that focal length too. Get a handful of those in a row and that could make for a good composite with long trails.
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Yeah the star trails weren't really that bad, more like just not pin point stars anymore. Here is a photo at 20s and iso800. When zoomed in you can see very slight trails.
Edit: this was also taken on a different night and the moon was just coming out if I recall correctly.

bluegizmo83 said:
Yeah the star trails weren't really that bad, more like just not pin point stars anymore. Here is a photo at 20s and iso800. When zoomed in you can see very slight trails.
Edit: this was also taken on a different night and the moon was just coming out if I recall correctly.
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Gotcha. I like doing night photos and light painting, so I was anxious to put this phone through its paces if I bought it.

What do you yall think is better 48mp without hdr or 12mp with hdr

typical photo, nothing special.

bluegizmo83 said:
Here are two long exposure night shots of the sky on a moonless night (single images, no alterations). First one is 16s exposure at iso800 and second one is 16s at iso1600. Main camera is able to do up iso3200 and up to 32s exposures but I noticed slight star trails starting at 20s
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Not effing bad for a phone, ISO 800 looks ok, the 1600 not so much ahah but it's not a reflex after all

Coming from a Pixel 2XL, i REALLY miss the ois ...

Daylight photos are fine but low light is junk. Garbage would be too kind to describe it. The ONLY thing wrong with the phone. It is still my phone off the year though... And I've used them all.
Photos below comparing low light pixel 4xl and pixel 3xl to it. Daylight (pixels first in each collage) was good but not premium. Colours a bit muted.
Asus need to really do something about the camera quality. It's a premium priced product (although accessories included here in Australia for $1699aud) with a mid range camera (although the pixel 3a kills it).

Agreed, coming from many years of Samsung phones the camera is straight up trash !
You can't depend on it and in most cases i am not in a bright sunny environment but indoors, cloudy environment, etc.
Gcam mods kinda work but i find them to be kinda slow and therefore i lose the moment to capture a moment quite often.
Asus really NEED to spend serious time on this after the Android 10 release and come out with a MAJOR camera update.
Love pretty much everything else of the phone but the camera is a real let down and should not have been released this way.
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What do you yall think is better 48mp without hdr or 12mp with hdr
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Great Question, i have been wondering about this myself.
Tried both but i have not really seen which is better due to the camera not really being consistent.

Dutch-Leo said:
Agreed, coming from many years of Samsung phones the camera is straight up trash !
You can't depend on it and in most cases i am not in a bright sunny environment but indoors, cloudy environment, etc.
Gcam mods kinda work but i find them to be kinda slow and therefore i lose the moment to capture a moment quite often.
Asus really NEED to spend serious time on this after the Android 10 release and come out with a MAJOR camera update.
Love pretty much everything else of the phone but the camera is a real let down and should not have been released this way.
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Great Question, i have been wondering about this myself.
Tried both but i have not really seen which is better due to the camera not really being consistent.
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Folks who are on 10 beta say the camera has vastly improved: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ro...camera-mod-t3970371/post81801449#post81801449

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