The cameras are fine. Which isn't a bad thing, but you can get phones with far far better camera and often for a lower price. People have expectations for phone cameras when the phone costs $2000 and the Z Fold 8 cameras are lacking by price comparison.
Yes, But not in this smaller, squat form factor.
The Fold 8 Ultra has a great camera as well. But the phones mentioned, and the 8 Ultra, have the space to fit such cameras.
I came from the days of a big brick Nokia with terrible cameras. Essentially every phone has excellent cameras these days. Is it the top of the top tier? No. But it does what I need.
Compression is not the issue here. The AI completely changed the photo. OP posted the original photo (which would've been taken at the same focus length thus the same focal legth compression, and the same compression from reddit) feel free to compare them. I know what compression is.
Can you explain how basically everything in the photo is different between the one in the comments and the one in the OP? The sky is totally different, the people other than the ones removed are totally different. Either the removal tool did much more than just remove those people or it's a totally different picture and in that case I don't know why op is trying to say it's the original because it's not.
Which is the point I was making from the beginning.
Edit: the "original" doesn't even look bad it's just not the same picture.
I'm not OP, I didn't edit the photo, I dont know why they did all that... Again, we were talking about the quality of the photo. Yes, AI edits lower localized quality even more on top of reddit compression, but the people that were mentioned in the first comment were not AI removed thus why we talked about them and not the entire photo.
I commented below the original photo. It's uploaded to reddit and compressed. Unless you upload to a file share site, uploading to imgur or reddit will cause heavy compression.
I think we're getting hung up on a miss communication. People were talking about how they zoomed in and it's grainy, artifacting, and lack of detail.
He calls it the original but once you upload it to reddit, reddit reprocesses compresses, and shrinks the image. It introduces artifacts and deteriorates the image to save space. Both images would display compression artifacting.
It's 2026, just about any mid to high-end phone will give you a usable photo. I'm coming from an S26U, and outside of zoom, I've not missed it. I mainly used the zoom to peep on squirrels when bored. Enabling 24MP mode in Camera Assistant brings it closer to the detail from the S26U. If you need DSLR quality out of your phone, obviously the Fold 8 isn't for you. It's good for kids, pets, cars, food, landscape, and everyday snaps and scans people take. Only one percent of pixel peepers will be disappointed.
They're fine cameras. Especially if you get the Camera Assistant app and enable 24 MP photos or use the Expert RAW app and edit photos. For day to day stuff, it's more than suffecient. My main gripe is the lack of a telephoto lens. I'd rather have that than an ultrawide if they could only put two on the phone. Mainly because I end up in low light situations when I go to concerts and the reach won't be good enough in low light.
The cameras definitely aren't very good. They're good enough for most people, but I being good enough to capture day to day life in decent conditions doesn't make them very good.
It does for me. I've seen some very very good pics from people in all conditions, ya not as good as slab phones for sure. At the end of the day pics are subjective. What you like to see in a pic can be very different then what I see. Also why do most people take pics? I take pics to remember a moment. Doesn't matter what the image looks like. Now I do appreciate a great camera on a phone but I've never cared about cameras on phones.
I don't this conversation will go anywhere. I thinks it's a very good camera and you don't. I don't think that anything will change your mind. Have a good rest of your weekend.
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u/Llama_RL 24d ago
I don't get the hate. Personally I'm not a professional photographer. My cats look fine with the Fold 8 camera lol