i received my S7 Edge very late Monday evening, around 8pm (!) via UPS, February 29th.
after trying it out and rather satisfied by this excellent phone, something entirely odd happened today: i moved some pictures from my device memory to my sd card memory, these are the pictures from my camera. oddly, the "AUTO HDR" no longer is functioning! it would take NON-HDR pictures even though during the taking of the picture itself, the HDR auto words would appear on the screen just a split second prior to me taking the picture!
this is very distressing because when i actually change the mode from AUTO HDR to "HDR ON", the HDR does indeed really turn on. i took two pictures of the identical high contrast scene and i proved that my suspicion is indeed correct based on previous pictures. i proved it by taking several experimental pictures of the SAME high contrast scene with Auto HDR engaged versus HDR ON engaged.
i'm a big photography hobbyist and this camera is superb, hence part of my excitement about the S7 Edge. it was the moving of the pictures from my Device Memory to the SD card memory, and thus leaving no pictures on the "Camera Folder" on the device memory itself, that triggered this anomalous behavior!! this is really distressing.
i don't want to have to reset my entire phone as it would mean an entirely start from scratch set up (UGH), a lot more work than what i had to do when i transferred the contents from my previous S6 Edge+ to this S7 Edge via the USB OTG cable and adapter plug!
essentially, i now have an expensive phone and camera WITHOUT the Auto HDR functionality which is a huge part of what makes this camera a great camera under many challenging circumstances.
after doing more experimenting, i think that with HDR off, of course we get no HDR. with HDR at Auto, one gets a little of HDR implementation, but when you actually turn HDR to the "ON" position, you get the MOST HDR. so Auto HDR is really only part way HDR, not fully as one would expect.
not pleased and distressing.
after trying it out and rather satisfied by this excellent phone, something entirely odd happened today: i moved some pictures from my device memory to my sd card memory, these are the pictures from my camera. oddly, the "AUTO HDR" no longer is functioning! it would take NON-HDR pictures even though during the taking of the picture itself, the HDR auto words would appear on the screen just a split second prior to me taking the picture!
this is very distressing because when i actually change the mode from AUTO HDR to "HDR ON", the HDR does indeed really turn on. i took two pictures of the identical high contrast scene and i proved that my suspicion is indeed correct based on previous pictures. i proved it by taking several experimental pictures of the SAME high contrast scene with Auto HDR engaged versus HDR ON engaged.
i'm a big photography hobbyist and this camera is superb, hence part of my excitement about the S7 Edge. it was the moving of the pictures from my Device Memory to the SD card memory, and thus leaving no pictures on the "Camera Folder" on the device memory itself, that triggered this anomalous behavior!! this is really distressing.
i don't want to have to reset my entire phone as it would mean an entirely start from scratch set up (UGH), a lot more work than what i had to do when i transferred the contents from my previous S6 Edge+ to this S7 Edge via the USB OTG cable and adapter plug!
essentially, i now have an expensive phone and camera WITHOUT the Auto HDR functionality which is a huge part of what makes this camera a great camera under many challenging circumstances.
after doing more experimenting, i think that with HDR off, of course we get no HDR. with HDR at Auto, one gets a little of HDR implementation, but when you actually turn HDR to the "ON" position, you get the MOST HDR. so Auto HDR is really only part way HDR, not fully as one would expect.
not pleased and distressing.
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