My recent experience with the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s camera during a concert was far from stellar. It was terrible, to say the least. The phone’s sluggish response time made capturing moments a frustrating task, and the super slow shutter speed resulted in consistently blurry images. Comparatively, a friend using a much older iPhone 14 Pro Max effortlessly captured sharper shots because of its faster shutter speed. While the phone obviously excels in daylight photography, it struggles in low-light conditions and with moving objects. The lingering question is: Why hasn’t Samsung addressed these performance issues promptly?
I wish I could post the comparison pictures between hers and mine pictures. All the pictures I took of the artist looked like she was made of wax. It’s mind-blowing how a 200mp camera was unable to take better pictures than a 12mp camera. And we were both front row, so the artist was less than 5 feet away from us.
For video, it worked great. For pictures, not so much…
Grab Camera Assistant from the Galaxy app store and turn off auto-HDR (camera assistant settings) and Adaptive Pixel (High Resolution settings). If you switch between normal photo mode and raw/pro mode you’ll need to set this for each mode. The post-processing on these phones is diabolical. You’ll see a marked improvement as soon as you turn these off.
You can also set the camera to prioritise quicker shots instead of higher quality shots which is a little poorly named as you’ll get better low light performance with the quicker shooting mode as it speeds up the shutter. This option is under Advanced Intelligent Options and just set it to minimum.