That's what I was saying. Or trying to. I shouldn't have to put a whole lot of effort into getting a good shot. Keep the One on auto and shoot away has been my experience. Good job quoting the one place that thinks the S4 is superior in low light.
Just like the One isn't terrible in daylight situations, the S4 isn't terrible at low light. They just aren't as good as each other in the areas where they are particularly strong. <----I hope I typed that in a way that makes sense.
@warpdrive I guess I can't ask an honest question about something and expect a real answer from someone that seems to have some knowledge on the subject. You seem to think that software is everything, which is fine, but even I'll admit that the Samsung camera app is superior, and obviously so are the post processing algorithms or the low light performance wouldn't be what it is. By your logic Samsung should dominate camera performance all around since they can capture the same amount of light AND have superior software. But they don't. I seriously want to know why. If you can't explain it further then say so. I can probably find out in my own, but thought others might benefit from your knowledge.
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Ah, it's not that you can't ask an honesty question, it's just that now your question has changed. Let me explain.
There are a few reasons why the HTC One can take fantastic low light shots. The first is the f2 lens. It let's in a quarter of an f-stop more light then the Samsung S4 (or 3/4 of an f-stop more then the S3). The next thing is the optical image stability. At slow exposures, this will help with camera shake.
Now I'm not saying that a 4mp censor is not good or helpful in low light, just that it doesn't help in any way to capture more light then say an 8mp censor of the same size.
Clearly we agree that the 8mp censor has 100% more resolution to work with when we talk about capturing detail.
I'm also sure we can agree that on paper, a lower pixel count censor like on the HTC One "should" capture far more dynamic range (think detail in the shadows and highlights). Sadly, due to poor software, highlights (and sometimes shadows) are blown out in reality.
But is it only the f2 lens and optical image stability that helps? No. But ultra pixel technology is not it as well. So what is it that does help?
I personally think what helps the most is that htc switched the auto and night modes to make night mode its default auto mode (and the original night mode does in fact shoot at a higher then normal iso by default). So, under htc's now new auto mode, it shoots by default at a higher iso then any other cell phone. A nice trick, in fact perfect for what most like myself would want from a cellphone regardless of pixel density. This is why even in daylight, the HTC One will shoot at a higher then normal iso as compared to a typical phone. Say iso200 as compared to iso100. This is also why in daylight the htc one also had more noise then other phones in daylight pics.
As for Samsung, if anything they can do the same if they wanted with thier software. It doesn't take much to make the software shoot at a higher iso level.
One more thing, please don't talk about my logic or anything else I didn't say. You are sounding confrontational like in the past and it isn't helping you. If you want to talk facts, then let's do just that.
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