Extremely Disappointing Image Quality?

[B0WIE]

seems like whichever mode/settings I use when I zoom in the quality of the pics are very grainy. never had this issue with my Samsung phones. I feel like the camera is the biggest fail of this phone. With that sad I would never go back to a Samsung just for the camera. To me this phone is night and day so much better than any Samsung flagship I've ever had.

This is a 50% crop (same as zooming 2x) that I did a couple hours ago and the details aren't too bad. It's auto mode too because I was leaning over and could barely click the button. You definitely want either ample light or have a very steady hand in low-light to avoid blurring and grain. I think the sharpening (grain) kicks in when there is a combo of low light and blurring, as an effort to correct it. That's been my experience thus far anyway as daylight pics have been very crisp and unmolested.



One thing about this cam worth noting is that it's sometimes better left to focus on it's own. Seems like the last 2 gens of flagship smartphone cams have a tendency to do odd things with the focus if you tap to focus. In the past, and currently with cheaper phones, you always want to make sure you tell the cam what to focus on. With the G7 and certain others though, if the subject is in the center you're sometimes better off letting it focus on it's own as the cams sometimes get a better depth of focus than when you tap to focus and it starts hyper-focusing on a very narrow depth of field, blurring everything else.

 

[towngirl]

I have found this to be even better than I hoped. Awesome pix!

 

[bracque]

how would one tell if an lg g7 was a chinese knockoff?

 

[Tech1999]

I just shipped mine back,.. my Pixel XL does a better job!

 

[Ian Bower]

If auto mode is your thing download Google cam APK and rest easy! Best of LG combined with Pixel style auto pictures.. Adds another dimension to a great phone.

 

[Koi102465]

Here is one of mine

 

[mmaestro]

When it's bright out, depending on what you're photographing the results can be OK, but I'm finding oversharpening a lot which is really producing some poor results for me. I can sometimes work around it with manual settings, sometimes not, but it's disappointing because it feels like the sensors are good and being let down with poor software. My old iPhone 6S which I replaced with this takes far better pictures on auto, it's not even close. I've taken to carrying a decade old point and shoot with me if I expect to take pictures when I'm out.
Apart from that it's a great phone, but LG really needs to fix the software, it's bad.

 

[jjm86m]

UPDATE: Try turning HDR to OFF instead of AUTO. My G7 came with it set to AUTO as the default and I noticed slight improvement when turning it off.

To OP. I moved from the G4 to the G7 1 week ago and have noticed that certain situations the G4 does a better job processing pictures than the G7.

Sunsets and other high contrast settings tend to be have overblown highlights and over processed sharpness creating an almost painted/banded/blurred look. I would agree that it is disappointing. I will eventually do a side by side comparison to check the differences. You're right that for a camera that is 3 gens newer the results don't really indicate that.

You can see the sunset picture I took below. Even with the blown out highlights (which is normal for a sunset picture, there is some banding within those highlights)

 

[DamianP]

Since the V35 has the same main camera, here is a quick comparo.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=902548&p=6300737&viewfull=1#post6300737

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=902548&p=6304716&viewfull=1#post6304716

 

[Morty2264]

UPDATE: Try turning HDR to OFF instead of AUTO. My G7 came with it set to AUTO as the default and I noticed slight improvement when turning it off.

To OP. I moved from the G4 to the G7 1 week ago and have noticed that certain situations the G4 does a better job processing pictures than the G7.

Sunsets and other high contrast settings tend to be have overblown highlights and over processed sharpness creating an almost painted/banded/blurred look. I would agree that it is disappointing. I will eventually do a side by side comparison to check the differences. You're right that for a camera that is 3 gens newer the results don't really indicate that.

You can see the sunset picture I took below. Even with the blown out highlights (which is normal for a sunset picture, there is some banding within those highlights)
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These are very beautiful pictures! Thank you for sharing.

 

[jjm86m]

These are very beautiful pictures! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks, but my point was that the quality of the picture was not that great as opposed to showing off a nice sunset.

 

[sata]

I also recently bought a G7 ThinQ (upgrading from a G4) and only now I took some pictures with it. I notice blurry images in the results as well. Compared to my older G4... its just not sharp...
Here are some shots I took (2 with G4 and 2 with the G7 ThinQ), check which is which from the file names.
I uploaded the original untouched pictures I took (JPEGS)
Please tell me is you think there is something wrong and I might have a faulty device

G4_Auto_Foilage - https://ibb.co/cZCi5U
G4_Auto_Sea - https://ibb.co/bEsGQU

G7_ThinQ_Auto_Foilage - https://ibb.co/mzghzp
G7_ThinQ_Auto_Sea - https://ibb.co/bwgeC9

 

[felix lgrandmaison]

My g7 take really bad photos to. I'm a professional photographer by the way. I had the lg g5, lg g6, lg v30 and they were all better at one very important thing HDR images the g7 is really good at capturing normal .jpeg and .dng(raw) but the HDR is worst then ever. if you want to take good images with the g7 you have to take them in non hdr(hdroff) and edit them I do that anyway but this is unacceptable from lg

 

[Munter2]

Turn on AI and it will look great. The camera is way too dark without AI on.

 

[Ian Bower]

Agreed, HDR on gives inconsistent results..I use the Pixel Cam for those kind of pictures, but G7 can produce results that you could never get on a Pixel 2!