OIS seems to kick in when zoomed for stills
I see no evidence of that, myself.
Sounds ridiculous, but I feel like for a phone that is $300 on upgrade, SURELY the quality of a photo should be better than this? I get low light won't always produce a good picture--But I don't consider my kitchen low light at all. My GS4 (and GS3 for that matter) took better photos than this. The rest of the phone is SO nice! I'm so disappointed. Having two young kids, the camera is the first thing I look for in a phone. Well, aside from battery life... Boo. Anyone able to help me out? I recorded a video of my daughter singing the ABCs and the quality was deplorable.
I'd really like to see people post some pics of their motion shots without blur. Please.
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I'm not posting this to be obnoxious, but on some other forum I recall seeing a post where someone hadn't noticed the extra piece of peel-off protective plastic covering on the camera lens of a new N4. Would have been easy enough to do.
Funny how the op joins up and moans about the camera and hasn't said a word since.
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Quite the opposite here...Face the truth, we have two note 4's and 1 iphone 6 plus in the house and we all agreed the iPhone camera is better than the note 4, regardless the note 4 documented double the mega pixel of the iPhone.
I've used the note series from 1-4.
There was a link that was given on all places the MacRumours forum that showed me some really excellent camera features or how to address some of the blur for fast moving pics etc. This is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_g9gAZd6zw
The plastic isn't an issue because there is a cut out around it which allows the lens to be unobstructed or uncovered with the plastic.
Maybe she doesn't have time to obsessively scan forums. She does have kids from what she says, or perhaps she found another fix on another forum.
But to address the OPs issue, if the link on utube I posted doesn't help, seriously consider returning the unit. I had something of the same issue with my GS3 when I first got it. One of my coworkers had the same phone and side by side my photos were crap. Sometimes you just get a bad unit.
I have been getting VERY impressive photo and video with this phone, have no complaints at all. However, it does not shine during low light night time.
Samsung just isn't able to build a camera that delivers sharp and crisp photos, unlike Apple.
iPhone camera crushes the android competition, thats the only reason why I'm a bit jealous at iPhones.