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Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Samsung Galaxy S7's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
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best low light device on the market ...

Period.
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sometimes laggy

frooss said:
sometimes laggy
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Well, that's how photography in low light works. The shutter speed is increased sometimes up to 1/8 s, which roughly translates to 8 fps. That ain't smooth.

the rear camera's quite well, but I hate the fix focus on the front camera.

way tooooooooooo much sharpening in Auto mode......I got the Samsung sensor.

Got a stunning shot of the stars with a 10s exposure. All I can say about this camera is wow.

I think the camera in low light (almost without light) works pretty well.
you can look at this, I was amazed ...
postimg.org/image/refmvvrwr/

It's good but it doesn't touch the LG G4/G5 in low-light, especially since max exposure is 10 seconds on this compared to 30 on the LG devices.

Very good in photos, good in videos but only at 30fps (that's normal, physics applies :3)
The only feature I'd love to get is to use for example 4 pixels for each pixel when recording at 1080p, like that, each pixel is 4 times bigger and gets 4 times more light. It also could be useful in photos but the quality loss will be noticeable (but not in videos)

Very good.

S7 8.0 oreo exynos
The low-light capture capabilities are very nice! I've compared with an iphone x, and it blows it out of the water in dark sceneries. Not bad for an old phone ...

I did the same comparson
carlocristi said:
The low-light capture capabilities are very nice! I've compared with an iphone x, and it blows it out of the water in dark sceneries. Not bad for an old phone ...
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I would not say it blew it out of the water buts it's a shame to see apple using what I believe to be the s7 camera sensor in the new iPhone XS

With the latest Google hdr cam with the right settings it does wonderfully
ZanDyne said:
I would not say it blew it out of the water buts it's a shame to see apple using what I believe to be the s7 camera sensor in the new iPhone XS
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This phone should still be hot for a phone it may not have custom roms buts overall it's better than most mid rangers

I prefer the gcam port, but I'll sometimes use the Samsung camera for the long exposure. Here are 2 photos I took with the s7 (edited in photoshop).

Looking good
ifellouttabed said:
I prefer the gcam port, but I'll sometimes use the Samsung camera for the long exposure. Here are 2 photos I took with the s7 (edited in photoshop).
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Have you tried night shot Google camera hdr port

S7sadly said:
Have you tried night shot Google camera hdr port
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I searched but I can't find what you are talking about. Link? I'm interested to test.

Look in this thread it's the first one that says night mode
ifellouttabed said:
I searched but I can't find what you are talking about. Link? I'm interested to test.
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This is the link for the apk https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/

Did u try it out
ifellouttabed said:
I searched but I can't find what you are talking about. Link? I'm interested to test.
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Broke my lens got the best replacement I could find

Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the LG G5's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
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A Bit too Dim
In low light the phone is a bit too dim with auto settings. Similar to the G3.

Missed a chance for a great camera to be amazing!
Ita reliable, fairly stable and of good quality.

XDA_RealLifeReview said:
At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the LG G5's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
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a little bit too noisy and green toned when you take a picture in low light condition or in night with artificial light (like yellow street light)
but in manual mode you can set properly the setting (especially the ISO) to remove the noise problem or the green light factor.

Hum maybe we can take pics and post them here but only low light pics

bolillo said:
Hum maybe we can take pics and post them here but only low light pics
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I think this link has better quality:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-D1R0L7NVDIdk42Zld1UWtDUVdsd0ZzRlB2R3lkc2thdEFB
Hi, just sharing as someone asked. It wasn't meant to be a nice image, just a low light example. There are a lot of details and I think it did a good job. Photo is handheld, no flash, auto, main camera.
Note: the acene is actually a bit darker than represented in the photo.

eco_eco_eco said:
a little bit too noisy and green toned when you take a picture in low light condition or in night with artificial light (like yellow street light)
but in manual mode you can set properly the setting (especially the ISO) to remove the noise problem or the green light factor.
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Can you recommend the settings to use? I am new with this phone and have a concert on Wednesday to goto and I would like to get good pics. On my htc one m8 I was able to keep the camera on iso400 and the pics were alright.

batkinson001 said:
Can you recommend the settings to use? I am new with this phone and have a concert on Wednesday to goto and I would like to get good pics. On my htc one m8 I was able to keep the camera on iso400 and the pics were alright.
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depends,
it's manual,
each situation has its own specific settings,
you should study a bit about photography, i'll help you but the guides I know are all in Italian,
alternatively ask someone you know some information, nowadays there are a lot of skilled photographers.
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bolillo said:
Hum maybe we can take pics and post them here but only low light pics
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good idea

Was at the Primal Fear show last night at the mod club in Toronto Canada and zoomed in pics all look like garbage... . Worse than my old HTC one m8. The videos fared a bit better once I got the focus to work, but still aren't perfect, the sound didn't turn out great, must have been way too loud for the phone in its life proof case.

batkinson001 said:
Was at the Primal Fear show last night at the mod club in Toronto Canada and zoomed in pics all look like garbage... . Worse than my old HTC one m8. The videos fared a bit better once I got the focus to work, but still aren't perfect, the sound didn't turn out great, must have been way too loud for the phone in its life proof case.
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Make sure you lens is clean. I keep a cleaning cloth with me all the time. It really makes a HUGE difference.

galr said:
Make sure you lens is clean. I keep a cleaning cloth with me all the time. It really makes a HUGE difference.
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My phone should be pristine in its life proof case. . Does having the camera accessory make a difference?

batkinson001 said:
My phone should be pristine in its life proof case. . Does having the camera accessory make a difference?
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No it doesn't make a difference in quality.
The fact that your phone is in a case doesnt dismiss you from cleaning some glass. Convert smudges makes photos look pretty bad.
Edit: wait.. Which camera accessory? If camera module then no.

The low light performance is alright on Auto mode but if you know how to take picture on Manual mode then it's a lot better especially with a tiny touch of Snapseed for sharing.

I had to change the camera because the OEM camera began to malfunction with it's zooming. I think it's ok now as the replacement was supposed to be OEM.

Need normal lighting for photos only and autofocus want quickly

Lotta noise in low light-very disappointing, but yes, has good details and yes, clean the camera glass often, it really makes a difference.

Very bad quality, the fault is in lg camera app. With Gcamera the quality is very good, but with this app I cannot save in sd only in internal

xxmarkosxx said:
Very bad quality, the fault is in lg camera app. With Gcamera the quality is very good, but with this app I cannot save in sd only in internal
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Except you can save to the sd card and the app itself is decent. Quality too (although it varies from really bad to good)

drmilosh said:
Except you can save to the sd card and the app itself is decent. Quality too (although it varies from really bad to good)
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you can save in sdcard with Gcam? I know with lg's camera app you can do that, but I don't use it anymore. It's like the internet explorer in g5.

Help
Hi Guys any help regarding google camera in low light i'm seeing this artifacts even while i'm taking some
pictures using google cam in low light i can see this artifacts also at Messenger/IG at rear cam
btw im using LGG5 H830 or maybe this is a hardware issue?

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the OnePlus 3T 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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Great photos :good:

Enviado desde mi ONEPLUS A3003 mediante Tapatalk

I would like to share this

Some photos from dark Finnish winter. "ok" photo quality.

Valistaja said:
Some photos from dark Finnish winter. "ok" photo quality.
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Use HQ mode for low light still shots, I find this helps a lot with noise and overexposure, HDRa for all others. Also if you are interested you can shoot raw and develop them with snapspeed. The photo on the left I took was a raw image developed by snapspeed. Pure raw lack any post processing so look awful but allow might greater image tuning due to not being compromised to jpeg.

Camera is very acceptable (not that of My S7 Edge) however it is to my liking....
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Decent quality for a phone, low light need improvement

Like this camera, Dont take to many pictures, just messing around with it!

Not bad, all shots in auto HQ
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Few more on Auto HQ

What is better, hq or hdr?

Outdoors are fine. 2 stars because as soon as you are shooting moving subjects, even tiny moves, the pictures become unusable, blurry mess

vicusbass said:
Outdoors are fine. 2 stars because as soon as you are shooting moving subjects, even tiny moves, the pictures become unusable, blurry mess
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Agreed. Photo quality of moving objects is horrible (probably the biggest flaw of OnePlus 3T) and indoors (regular everyday lighting you have in indoors) is quite ****ty. Most of the pictures come out quite blurry. Outdoors is fine!
I actually have discovered that in order to get better indoors pictures you have to set Flash to always ON as it really helps to improve image quality, especially regarding the sharpness, blur and better detail overall.

jemeljsh said:
Agreed. Photo quality of moving objects is horrible (probably the biggest flaw of OnePlus 3T) and indoors (regular everyday lighting you have in indoors) is quite ****ty. Most of the pictures come out quite blurry. Outdoors is fine!
I actually have discovered that in order to get better indoors pictures you have to set Flash to always ON as it really helps to improve image quality, especially regarding the sharpness, blur and better detail overall.
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I know, but using flash when there's plenty light and any other phone I tried has no difficulties...

EmreSo said:
What is better, hq or hdr?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3Ow6AEwLU
I think HD got renamed to HQ which we have now.
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But basically HDR tries to get both bright and dark areas in the pictures to shown without them being totally black or white. Doesn't always mean that picture is better quality tho, can be a lot worse what it comes to noise etc.
Not sure is this correct but found that HQ mode will reduce the noise when taking pictures in dark.

jemeljsh said:
Agreed. Photo quality of moving objects is horrible (probably the biggest flaw of OnePlus 3T) and indoors (regular everyday lighting you have in indoors) is quite ****ty. Most of the pictures come out quite blurry. Outdoors is fine!
I actually have discovered that in order to get better indoors pictures you have to set Flash to always ON as it really helps to improve image quality, especially regarding the sharpness, blur and better detail overall.
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vicusbass said:
Outdoors are fine. 2 stars because as soon as you are shooting moving subjects, even tiny moves, the pictures become unusable, blurry mess
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That concerns me... With kids (and dogs) I rarely have a still target 😯
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YankInDaSouth said:
That concerns me... With kids (and dogs) I rarely have a still target 😯
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Turn off HDR and HQ (which increases the shutter speed to pick up more light) also manual controls are there to help.

LMcR92 said:
Turn off HDR and HQ (which increases the shutter speed to pick up more light) also manual controls are there to help.
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While that may help, often times with kids there's no time to play with settings... Just point and shoot.
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YankInDaSouth said:
While that may help, often times with kids there's no time to play with settings... Just point and shoot.
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Good point. I mainly need phone camera to take pictures of my kid and I can say that it's pretty much impossible to get good/decent quality indoor pictures while taking a picture of a kid (HQ, HDR modes), except if you set the flash to always ON, where even moving objects come out are pretty good.
If with all my previous phones (no particular order, but phones with which I had no issues taking fast quality pics of my kid -> Iphone 7, xiaomi mi5, galaxy s6, nexus 5x, xperia Z3, xperia Z3 compact) I had no issues getting a decent quality picture of a moving object, with 1+3T its either impossible or very hard to do. It's a fact. Camera is average at most.

jemeljsh said:
Good point. I mainly need phone camera to take pictures of my kid and I can say that it's pretty much impossible to get good/decent quality indoor pictures while taking a picture of a kid (HQ, HDR modes), except if you set the flash to always ON, where even moving objects come out are pretty good.
If with all my previous phones (no particular order, but phones with which I had no issues taking fast quality pics of my kid -> Iphone 7, xiaomi mi5, galaxy s6, nexus 5x, xperia Z3, xperia Z3 compact) I had no issues getting a decent quality picture of a moving object, with 1+3T its either impossible or very hard to do. It's a fact. Camera is average at most.
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Appreciate the honesty... That being said I think I may cancel my order and grab an international S7 (SM930F) - It's $500 on Amazon ATM so very similar pricing.
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Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Moto Z2 Play 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 moto z2 camera has a lot of noise in anything except the brightest light. Seems like it uses a very high iso

rickykemp said:
The moto z2 camera has a lot of noise in anything except the brightest light. Seems like it uses a very high iso
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Normally under not-so-good light conditions the night mode kicks-in and it helps a lot. The noise is hardly noticeable then, it can be seen only on specifically coloured surfaces like dark furniture.
That's why I went for Hasselblad mod, its xenon flash (if you know how to use it, of course...) allows to take great photos. But it requires some time to learn how to use manual settings and control flash strength; then it's possible to get nice, not overexposed photos with nice light balance in them.

Looks like it has quite good image stabilization. Just did this movie today and I am impressed.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/smaqUb8zPgXuG8fE9

The Z2 Play has a pretty good camera but I expected as such: it's using a rebranded sensor that's just the camera sensor from the Galaxy S7 without OIS. F/1.7 means a nice wide aperture for some good bokeh without really needing to add artificial lens blurring a la portrait mode that everyone seems to really love nowadays.
The lack of OIS, Snapdragon 626's only decent image processing, as well as the fact that Motorola still kinda sucks with image processing on their end holds the the Z2 Play from having a great camera. It's still good however and with great lighting and a still hand, you can take some really nice shots. Night shots are alright though the lack of OIS means you'll be better off using a tripod or gimbal if you don't want your photos going all noise city on ya.

I have the same sony camera as "better photo quality" solution.

Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Samsung Galaxy S11's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Pink supermoon, S20+, 30x, handheld.

Night shots are...adequate. No better than my Note 10, and nowhere near as good as Pixel or iPhone 11. Don't buy this phone expecting phenomenal low light capability. Daytime shots are excellent, though.

Nighttime shots have been superb for me. One of the best out there in dynamic range and exposure although it could be better with colour accuracy.

Night mode with ATCT is really crap
22 march with ATCH
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VnbBTA381v2RfZwB6
Today 15.04 with ATCT
https://photos.app.goo.gl/g4nPWjkPqFznbf288

try to update the camera from the Samsung store. this may fix the problem haven't tried it yet, let me know how it goes.:good:

freevil said:
try to update the camera from the Samsung store. this may fix the problem haven't tried it yet, let me know how it goes.:good:
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EDIT: Don't bother, it is still crap. WAY to go, Samsung!

Lol this phone has produced some of the best low light pictures from professional reviewers of any phone on the market. At worst it's about even with comparable phones. Anyone saying the camera is "way behind" others is just bad at taking pictures.

TheNetwork said:
Lol this phone has produced some of the best low light pictures from professional reviewers of any phone on the market. At worst it's about even with comparable phones. Anyone saying the camera is "way behind" others is just bad at taking pictures.
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i totally agree with you

This night mode is a complete joke. I am coming from Hauwei P30 Pro and Pixel before that and Samsung before that. I take many star photos/night photos. Since I got the S20 Ultra I had to take manual photos at night because it does SUCH an awful job on auto/night mode. I got a year old GoPro 8 today and decided to compare them and it's really sad for a phone as expensive as the S20 Ultra
S20 Ultra Wide - https://photos.app.goo.gl/cLT7xBR9hHW83Z4s9
S20 Main Lens - https://photos.app.goo.gl/AHxWz9GiXSPSFpPR9
GoPro 8 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/agbbm6AtdYoHSQC5A
I tried to put them in the same position. The only difference is about 20 seconds to swap out the phones.