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Galaxy S8 Camera Said to Beat iPhone 7 Plus in Low Light Conditions
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Co-worker has one, the difference in the camera is a bit minimal, the screen is nice but oddly shaped, its very slippery a case is a requirement, i didnt find it all that fast compared to my 7 plus, and he has told me the battery life is terrible, the battery drains fast even in standby not doing anything on the phone. It would take alot to get me to not go iphone i watch 2 to 3 hourlong videos a day, and my phone is down to maybe 40% by the evening.
Because people like us that still shoot with an SLR are a dying group. We live in a pop-culture that is about Snap Shots and Selfies. Not making images. Im fairy certain there are not many in these forums that are hiking up the hill at 5am with a D800, tripod, and bag to catch a one in a thousand sunrise.
In that case, nobody would ever be impressed with phone cameras as they will always be better than the previous
Will this be your reaction if the iPhone 7S/8 is better than the Samsung S8
Exactly! I hate how people only focus on megapixels, the aperture, and MAYBE then pixel size, but they always forget about the sensor.
It's funny how Apple conveniently stopped specifying pixel size in the iPhone's tech specs.
Isn't that highly subjective? It's not like there's some standard test you can run that will prove one smart phone camera is better than another.
So basically we're gonna hear the the S8 is better at everything than the iPhone until the new iPhone comes out right? OK
Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones went on sale today in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and Korea, as the company looks to rebound from last year's Note7 debacle. Samsung will be encouraged by the record one million pre-orders it has already taken in Korea alone, while analysts are predicting global sales to reach at least 45 million units.
The 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch devices cost $725 and $825, respectively, which gets users an OLED screen that takes up 80 percent of the front of the handsets. Online reviews appeared earlier this week praising the phones' Infinity Display, but several marked them down for the relocation of the fingerprint scanner to the rear of the devices, right alongside the camera lens.
The camera itself has received less coverage, as it's actually the same 12MP dual pixel module as the one that appeared in last year's Galaxy S7. However, Samsung has tweaked the software powering the f/1.7 lens in an attempt to improve image processing. To compare the results with those of the iPhone 7 Plus, Tom's Guide posted a selection of side-by-side comparison shots taken with the two rival phones.
Overall, the Galaxy S8 came out on top, but only by a slight margin. Despite lackluster macro performance with the S8, both phones' bright light results were said to be generally equal, but Samsung's new device bested the iPhone 7 Plus in well-lit nighttime and low-light shots, offering "generally richer" colors, sharper subjects, and "significantly more detail" in indoor and outdoor tests.
Despite the higher megapixel count of the S8's front-facing camera (8MP versus 7MP on the iPhone 7), Apple's phone was deemed to take sharper selfie shots with richer colors, while the two phones were tied in 4K 30fps video tests, although the S8's audio was said to be slightly cleaner.
Apple is thought to be testing a new dual-lens camera system similar to the iPhone 7 Plus for this year's upcoming OLED iPhone, which will have a Samsung-made display. Rumors suggest the front-facing camera of the iPhone 8 will use a "revolutionary" 3D-sensing system capable of identifying the depth and location of subjects, which could be used for facial and iris recognition or in future augmented reality features.
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Of course. That's why comparing phones that release 6 months apart seems silly to me. Most Android phones are released in the spring so it's always going to look like iPhone is playing catch up.In that case, nobody would ever be impressed with phone cameras as they will always be better than the previous
That's great because we will hold you personally accountable later if it doesn't. Mark my words.
If the newest iPhone is better than the Galaxy S, people will say "oh, wait until Samsung's newest phone". But if the Galaxy is better than the iPhone, the reaction is "They've beaten them! Apple sucks!"
Even though the phones are 6 months apart, meaning you can't pair them off together like you can with the iPhone and Galaxy Note.
Even though the phones are 6 months apart, meaning you can't pair them off together like you can with the iPhone and Galaxy Note.
I really see so much hype around this phone. And somehow much too positive. I feel most of the S8-pictures are just a bit off in their color. The iPhone is way more accurate. - And then there is the display on which the reflections of the curved sides "cut off" pictures, websites, everything. From a designer or photographers perspective this is not good and looks terrible. I would never buy this phone but I appreciate Samsungs effort. Hopefully Apple will not curve the content in future devices. Just make plain small bezels.
You had to take that with a grain of salt. There were tons of other better phones, the iPhone was just the best for the average consumer.
Blackberries had support for enterprise e-mail and it took the iPhone to achieve that. So if you were a business customer or worked in goverment or anywhere that encrypted e-mail, the iPhone was a non-starter.
If you wanted to play games, the iPhone wasn't for you as it had no third party support. Games were relegated to webapps.
If you needed the phone for productivity, the HTC Windows phones supported Microsoft Office and on the original iPhone you had to forward yourself anything you wrote via e-mail otherwise good luck with using your phone for work.
If you wanted something with 3G, the iPhone wasn't for you.
The U.S. had ****** phones prior to the iPhone. The best phone I didn't have access to was the Nokia N75. That phone had a 5 megapixel camera compared the iPhones 2 megapixels. The phone had third party support, 3G and games. It was great, but we didn't have access to it in the U.S. unless you paid some random internation site to ship it to you.
The iPhone was forward thinking and worked well. It played music, surfed the web and made calls really well and that was good enough for millions of people and why it took off. Apple made many moves only they could have made, but the iPhone was not the end all be all even when it launched.
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I don't think you know what click bait is.
Precisely.
Wow. Samsung's very latest flagship phone seem to take SOME very, very marginally "better" photos (depending on who you ask, apparently), than last year's iPhone.
Ok?
The king of gimmicks & all they could come up w/ is: "well... we tweaked the software a bit"?
Frankly; I'm shocked!
Apple put two cameras on the back of 7+ & they're universally lauded as providing better snaps!
This year they're rumored to include two cameras on the front of iPhone Edition, bringing IR face mapping security & augmented reality hijinx to the masses!
I absolutely FULLY expected "leap frog ya for no reason" Samsung to announce 4 cameras on the back & 4 cameras on the front, or some such nonsense & provide a good laugh.
Instead; they quietly & sedately made some minor (but real) improvements to their cam system w/ out resorting to "spec whore" tricks like upping the megapixel count.
This may not be a "wow" performancewise, as it sounds pretty much on par w/ iPhone 7, but DEFINITELY is interesting as showing a subtle shift in Samsung's overall product strategy.
That photo is crap. You need to take photos of the same area for both phones for a real quick comparison.
The camera on each phone will continue to leap frog over the other year over year. So its no surprise the S8 camera is better than the iPhone 7 camera.
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That was a marketing / sales pitch. As always.
The camera on each phone will continue to leap frog over the other year over year. So its no surprise the S8 camera is better than the iPhone 7 camera.
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That was a marketing / sales pitch. As always.
It's kind of funny to see the people here that instantly point out the 6 month difference to explain why the Galaxy has a better camera, but refuse to do the same thing when the newest iPhone boasts a better camera. Just accept that both have good cameras and since their cycles are half a year apart, the most recent one will pretty much always be better. That doesn't mean it can't be shown how or why one is better than the other.
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In a sense he was very right. Maybe not in all aspects of the phone, but it took other manufacturers a long time to catch up to what the iPhone did and match the popularity. And realistically without Google coming into play and making Android open for all, imagine how long it could have possibly been for many manufacturers out there.
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In a sense he was very right. Maybe not in all aspects of the phone, but it took other manufacturers a long time to catch up to what the iPhone did and match the popularity. And realistically without Google coming into play and making Android open for all, imagine how long it could have possibly been for many manufacturers out there.
What else do smartphones compete on? The apps are the same. The screens are basically the same. The OSes are different but no one is going to jump platforms for a small difference because the OS is so important to the overall experience. That leaves the camera as the only real reason to switch.
That being said, this is the dumbest story I've seen in a while. Firstly, we all expect the S8 to be technically better than iPhone 7+ because they've had 6 months to improve their hardware and software. Secondly, if you are going to really pixel peep, why not shoot color charts in different lighting conditions? Splitting a frame that is not symmetrical in lighting conditions has to be the worst possible test because I can pick out a bottle or texture or shadow on each side that looks better than the other side depending on what I'm looking at in the moment. There is nothing objective about this at all.
This really is the issue. It's a later release item. Now if the next iPhone comes out and the S8 beats it, then you have a story.
I'll wait until there's a direct comparison between the S8 and iPhone 7S or iPhone Edition.
It's meaningless to compare the S8 with last year's iPhone 7.
It's meaningless to compare the S8 with last year's iPhone 7.
Breaking news story! A newer camera beats an older camera.
A more news worthy story would have been if the iPhone still beat a brand spanking new phone. This isn't news but kind of an expected given as phone camera technology continues to improve as very fast rates. The iPhone8 will beat this phone and the leap frogging will continue until the end of time.
A more news worthy story would have been if the iPhone still beat a brand spanking new phone. This isn't news but kind of an expected given as phone camera technology continues to improve as very fast rates. The iPhone8 will beat this phone and the leap frogging will continue until the end of time.
But if they said the iPhone camera was better it wouldn't be subjective to you.
So it has perks over the 7, but can't optical zoom.
Any reports on the video quality? I know 7 plus got amazing scores for its camcorder capability
Any reports on the video quality? I know 7 plus got amazing scores for its camcorder capability
