I could easily tell this are with very early January software, expect significant improvements with the latest updates.
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I could easily tell this are with very early January software, expect significant improvements with the latest updates.
Hasn't really hit the news yet. Apparently only for the Taiwan s21 ultra Snapdragon model to start so far.
I got it last night.
Zoom feels better on my Snapdragon s21 ultra with March update.
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What's different? Did they improve the lack of colour saturation and ****ty oversharpening?
Are you able to post some samples?
Nope, I'm testing for Arnova. Once he deems it worthy of public release, he will haha.
Less over sharpen, less bloom, less edge softness and noise, better 10x zoom, better low light photos without night mode, and no parts of the picture that are like a total smudge/blur.
Just turn off scene optimizer, and you should be good to go, all of this improvements are in AUB9.
Camera performance
Can someone comment on camera performance, specifically indoor shots with pets. How well does it pick up fur? I've just got the S21 and I'm sending it back because the camera software is pretty bad. Wondering if it's the same story with the Ultra...
This was shot from around 100 feet.
I also recommend to shot in 108MP with SO turned off, and later downscale to around 16Mp, you will get stunning details (for daylight)
Thank you for sharing this, however, it would be great for you if you can recreate the shots each time, so we can have some form of reference, try to remember the angle/position, and check for time of day/light source before taking the shot, its what i do and i got very good idea of improvements, you have PM btw.
Can you post night mode versus stock please?
Ive just check the photos a bit more, holyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, its an DSLR!? its INSANE!
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Very Faraway Fullmoon down in darkness 10x
Stock is still better at very dark scenes because this gcam isn't able to do longer exposures yet. GCam does look good indoors when it isn't too dark though. Here's a comparison with slightly darker indoor lighting. Had to use night mode on stock cam to be able to use the 3x telephoto rather than a crop of the main camera.
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The problem i have with ZGCAM and BSG for Exynos, is that both are destroyed in low light/night mode, and even when there is some light. Is there at least a way to make the zoom cam work on exynos?
+1 on the Zoom, right now no Gcam supports the Zoom-lenses - sounds like a general Samsung/Exynos issue...
True looks like the same for Exynos. For Snapdragon it works imo
Samsung chose to disable RAW for the zoom cam on Exynos for some weird reason. Probably just two different camera app development team.
Stock night mode actually works well enough that even if GCam's night mode works better in the future, it won't bring big improvements. The biggest GCam night-related improvement would be astrophotography mode which would be in pitch black scenarios and ridiculously long exposures. Stock doesn't have that type of mode yet.
You can do up to 30sec exposure in Pro mode. Not sure how the results would compare to GCam astrophotography though.
Will this gcam version work on Exynos too? Do you know when the release is planned?
Im not unsatisfied with the rhe zoom, or night mode, but after seeing your super organic 3/10x DSLR like photos i want it :/
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10Btw guys you can submit these pictures to Samsung through the members app along with the logs the members app generates. They really look into it it seems. I sent the picture I posted above with the noise in the restaurant and they did reply asking for logs as they need to send those to their engineers. We should do this with photos that are off or look bad as it helps them make improvements. To me this is a really positive sign that Samsung are actually listening
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14I don't play with post processing much these days, but AD Photoshop/LR on the mobile is surprisingly good, this is going to be printed to acrylic plate at somepoint.
The dynamic range of the S21U really is quite something, even jpgs allows for post processing to the exact temperature 'look' you want.
The depth and general tone of pictures the S21 U is able to capture really did use to be only possible on 'proper' camera systems, even the x10 lens produces half decent efforts in post.
Add in the fact the entire work flow is possible on the phone, so no peeking on the back of a LCD camera screen, no faff with uploading to a laptop, no LR library to manage, no need to worry about backup due to the cloud, am pretty sure I can also send these file direct to Photobox/Snapfish or similar for large format printing all from the phone.......
From a purely a photography point of view, the S21 U is outstanding, there is no other way to put it.
12Hi all, I would like to share my experience. My wife has a 12 pro Max and I have the 21 ultra. I came from the 12 pro Max. I have the Exynos version. AUB9 version. I've been testing both phones from the last month against each other in many several conditions. I'm an amateur photographer form many years. Being short, I can state two main differences between two phones. Overall image quality is better, more detailed, on the s21 ultra (night mode and day light). The 12 pro max is more consistent on results. Each one of the phones has its own computational photo algorithms, for me I prefer the s21 ultra dynamic range, but this is something personal. The 12 pro max is a point and shot camera, most of the time you get really good results, good pictures. The 21 ultra is not, you need to understand a few photography basics to take all the advantage of the 21 ultra, and here is were it surpasses the 12 pro max, the flexibility you can get with the camera setup. In other words, you can take your creativity more further with the 21 ultra. From what I´ve been reading along this weeks about people comparing this two phones , and about being frustrated not getting the same images they get on the iPhone. They are two different worlds. You need to learn how to use the 21 ultra to achieve all his photo potential. With the 12 pro max you just don't need. You get good pictures right out of the box. For my personal use, the 12 pro mas was more boring to use as a camera. I do prefer the creative way.
On a personal note, the Huawei cameras are the best I've tested. I had all of them until the p40 pro plus. What a phone! I was able to capture the Milky Way on a light polluted sky. I miss the monochrome sensor on the P9.
About DXO mark, the tests I've made, not in studio, only in real life conditions, don't align with the ones they made. I'm quite sure the phone they test are still on a previous firmware. And it is a shame if they didn't take in account the firmware update.
Here is a regular simple picture taken with the 21 ultra that the 12 pro max can't do. The 12 pro max just blow away the sun, even reducing the exposure.
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