Question Camera performance

dazed1 · Jul 24, 2013 894 237

pafc66 said:
These are from my Snapdragon s21 ultra.

I could easily tell this are with very early January software, expect significant improvements with the latest updates.

dazed1 · Jul 24, 2013 894 237

pafc66 said:
March update was for the Snapdragon model S21 Ultra (Mines the Hong Kong 9980 model) not the Exynos model, that's still on the February security update I believe.

Where is info for this update?

pafc66 · Oct 13, 2014 386 96

dazed1 said:
Where is info for this update?

Screenshot_20210226-124727_Software update.jpg

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.

pafc66 · Oct 13, 2014 386 96

Zoom feels better on my Snapdragon s21 ultra with March update.

pafc66 · Oct 13, 2014 386 96

dazed1 said:
I could easily tell this are with very early January software, expect significant improvements with the latest updates.

What's different? Did they improve the lack of colour saturation and ****ty oversharpening?

Are you able to post some samples?

beserker15 · Sep 21, 2009 527 277

piyush7243 said:
Looking nice. Are these taken using BSG private version?

Nope, I'm testing for Arnova. Once he deems it worthy of public release, he will haha.

piyush7243 · Aug 15, 2008 523 101

beserker15 said:
Nope, I'm testing for Arnova. Once he deems it worthy of public release, he will haha.

Any lens halo in night or dark shots?

dazed1 · Jul 24, 2013 894 237

pafc66 said:
What's different? Did they improve the lack of colour saturation and ****ty oversharpening?

Are you able to post some samples?

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...

forum.xda-developers.com

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)

dazed1 · Feb 26, 2021

pafc66 said:
Zoom feels better on my Snapdragon s21 ultra with March update.

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.

beserker15 said:
Covid vaccination drive through area. Mix of 3x and 10x photos with unreleased GCam test version. Snapdragon.

Can you post night mode versus stock please?

Ive just check the photos a bit more, holyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, its an DSLR!? its INSANE!

Anima14 · Feb 13, 2021 72 82 Vienna

Very Faraway Fullmoon down in darkness 10x

dazed1 · Jul 24, 2013 894 237

Anima14 said:
Very Faraway Fullmoon down in darkness 10x View attachment 5233371

Can you post full res? ty.

beserker15 · Sep 21, 2009 527 277

dazed1 said:
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!

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.

dazed1 · Jul 24, 2013 894 237

beserker15 said:
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.

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?

s3axel · Mar 4, 2013 492 233 Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra

dazed1 said:
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...

piyush7243 · Aug 15, 2008 523 101

s3axel said:
+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

beserker15 · Sep 21, 2009 527 277

dazed1 said:
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?

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.

Maddmatt · Aug 10, 2010 399 51

beserker15 said:
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.

iamnotkurtcobain · Oct 30, 2010 12,601 4,312 Vienna

beserker15 said:
Covid vaccination drive through area. Mix of 3x and 10x photos with unreleased GCam test version. Snapdragon.

Will this gcam version work on Exynos too? Do you know when the release is planned?

dazed1 · Feb 26, 2021

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dazed1 · Jul 24, 2013 894 237

beserker15 said:
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.

Im not unsatisfied with the rhe zoom, or night mode, but after seeing your super organic 3/10x DSLR like photos i want it :/