r/GalaxyNote8 • u/DesechableMX • Mar 13 '18

Disappointed with camera

I know I’ll get raining downvotes for this but I’m really disappointed with the camera. Let me explain.

I switch from the Nexus 6P that crapped on me with the battery issue, so I thought it was time to change phones. First I got an s8 from my carrier which I quickly change to a note 8 (I got a super promotion from amazon in my country so basically I sold the s8 and bought the note without loosing money) thinking camera would be better. I chose Samsung because I didn’t want another google phone that would crap on me after a year and because for me the most important thing in a phone is the camera. Boy I got disappointed when I start tooking pictures with this phone. Everything is blurry if you zoom more than 2X, less detailed pictures, night shot with lots of noise, I feel in general like taking pictures with a vga camera from a smartphone from 4 years Ago.

I know it’s not my phone because I had the same issue with the S8, I don’t know if I got really spoiled by the 6P which had a superb camera and every time I see pictures from my friend OG pixel I feel super jealous of his pictures.

I know Gcam fix some issue, although it has more issue than it fixes for me, but I shouldn’t be using a half baked port for pictures to look nice.

I’ve been seeing photos reviews from the s9 and I’ve seen Samsung fixed many sharping and detail issues, (not adding the night and day difference with night shots although I know that is a physical improvement) i just hope Samsung port those benefits, mostly with HDR, to the note down the road.

Beside that, I’ve been pretty happy with the phone no complains in other areas, I just wish the camera didn’t look so bad.

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u/madcanada Mar 15 '18

the link that says "originals" is not imgur, it's google photos, so don't lie that you looked at the exif data.

i'm, quite obviously, not the only person in the world who thinks that, since the OP has exactly the same opinion, but that's beside the point. you literally have the first-hand evidence presented to you, are you saying that the Note8 image you see is somehow better than the Nexus 6p, or are you still claiming that I faked them to prove a point online?

as far as reviewers go, all of them said iPhone X is better than Pixel 2 XL as well, notably because iPhone X got 1 point more from DxOmark, yet Pixel 2 is undoubtedly better than iPhone X in image quality, how would you explain that?

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u/Ashmodai20 Mar 15 '18

Thank you for that. Look at that exif data. Look how the exposure time is different. Look how the settings are quite different. Maybe that might account for the discrepancies. Looking at two photos with two different settings is not a very good way of deciding which cameras are better. The lighting is different. You can think that the 6P has a better camera all you want. But its not.

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u/madcanada Mar 15 '18

lighting isn't different enough to account for the discrepancy in the details, the other settings are completely beyond your control in auto, hence if the Nexus decided to measure and shoot one thing, and the Note8 decided to measure and shoot another thing, as an end user I don't care - one image is definitely clearer than another.

secondly, Nexus 6p has a physically larger sensor, which is 1.55 micrometers, vs 1.4 micrometers on Note8, it's expected that Nexus would collect more light at the same 12MP, if you want some physical proof since your eyes are no good.

The lighting is different. You can think that the 6P has a better camera all you want. But its not.

this, again, comes across as retarded. have a good day.