Long time Samsung user and photographer.
Samsung heavily processes their jpegs but they have a "pro" mode that allows manual control and RAW capture. This will actually give you an unprocessed RAW and a processed jpeg, helps make it obvious how much Samsung actually tweaks exposure and saturation among other things. Pro mode should offer the same manual controls as LG does.
HDR is set to auto by default when shooting in auto configuration but can be disabled in settings. HDR isn't available in Pro mode.
Those shutter options must be an LG thing, I've got no idea what they are, haven't used an LG since the V20.
thank you for this! i'm a film photographer. so i appreciate the manual controls and the lack of processing on my 2 or 3 year old LG.
'whiskey' or 'kimchee' shutter allowed you to trigger the shutter just by saying 'cheese' or anything that sounded like it. i suppose most people used it to take group shots. but i would use it to take sneaky street photos. it was especially useful in china, where i would often get scolded for raising my phone to take a picture...i would open the camera, hold the phone to my ear and say kimchee a bunch of times like i was on the phone. most of the shots were unusable but occasionally i'd get lucky. it was best used standing next to an interesting looking stranger.
i've thought about shooting RAW on this iphone to circumvent the processing but when i checked the files were 35MB. i'm worried i'll run out of storage fast.
have you ever tried oneplus or xperias? are you generally happy with the S21 camera?
thanks again!