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Galaxy S8 Camera Said to Beat iPhone 7 Plus in Low Light Conditions
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Not sure about the battery, charged mine last night took it off charge at 5am played with it most of the morning (new toy syndrome) and the battery is still 60% but this is for another thread.
I can't say what the cameras like yet as not used it but overall impressed so far. My iphone 7 is still around just in case.
I've found it easy to hold even with hobbit hands as easy as my 7 was.
I hate the oversharpened and de-noised Samsung images and always have from very early models iPhone has had noisier more true to life images with better colour science. That being said both are great and you have to pixel peep or go out of your way to find difficult situations they can't cope with. I would however never think about dropping a proper DSLR camera in favour of these phone snappers. You cannot beat physics and a full frame DSLR is always going to be a far better option. I also wanted to mention that none of these are RAW photos from the sensor and are heavily processed after the fact and the only way to actually compare the two would be to bypass that processor and get the raw data from the sensor. I suspect the quality of both would shock you as being terrible before all that de-noising and sharpening they look no better than very early digital cameras in the 4-5 MP range from the late 90s.
The iPhone camera was never insanely great, it was always better than the competition and now is better than the competition in most aspects.
The 7+ takes excellent video. One thing I like about iPhone cameras is that they seem to focus faster than other phones I have tried. I think that most of the high end phones have good cameras and the slight differences between them are personal preference when it comes to image quality.
I thought the s8 back camera still using the hardware as the s7 which was 6 months earlier than 7.
This camera comparison just came out and I would say the results id quite surprising.
Exactly. They should have just done side by side shots. The way they did this, given the uneven lighting of the scene itself, completely blurs the comparison. (pun intended).
This video comparison is the best I have seen so far. My reading is the S8 camera is definitely superior especially in dynamic range and sharpness. The autofocus is truly amazing. Thanks for the posting.
Reviewers favor the new phone as being "less old". Then again, writers gotta write...
The s8 is flawless in my opinion...there are so many little Features that come in handy...there messaging app blows alot of other rivals away too....loving my s8 Plus currently
I find it laughable that people like to trott out this tired excuse.
Please stop with this idiotic, grade school level nonsense, that somehow, just because this came out 6 months after the iPhone 7 that somehow technology has advanced LEAPS AND BOUNDS ahead in just a few months that of course it's not fair to compare. There's no way. A device released a few months later would automatically be better. Of course!
You don't think the iPhone 8 is already built and parts sourced? So does that mean in the fall "there's no way we should compare the iPhone 8 to the Galaxy S8?"
The phones are developed during the same time frame, irregardless of whether one is released a few months before or after the competing product. These products aren't developed in a vacuum and using mystery, truly "proprietary" components - despite what the marketing hype says.
What's your excuse for the iPhone 7 Plus camera not being better/on par with the Galaxy S7 or the Google Pixel? Especially since it came out months later than those devices? I don't recall anyone using this excuse then.
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Hmm, the highlights look better on Samsung (less blown), images are less over-processed too. I wonder what resolution was used for video recording on Samsung for front camera. Did he compare Full HD (iPhone 7 Plus) with 4K (Samsung)?
The Galaxy camera is better than the iPhone camera in almost every aspect, IMO (and per my use). The portrait mode on iPhone good, but that alone is not going to keep me using the iPhone. If this years iPhone doesn't up the ante, it will be the Pixel 2, or the S8 for me (I've had every iPhone and it's getting boring).
So, here's to hoping the iPhone8 kicks butt!
So, here's to hoping the iPhone8 kicks butt!
Same. Hobby photographer.
When i'm out and about on my daily life, my SLR is at home. But if I want to grab a shot or two?
The Best camera is always the one I have on me
there's a reason this statement gets repeated a lot
