Hi all. I received Android Lollipop 5.0 a couple of months ago here in Australia on my Galaxy S5. Before that I was running Android 4.4.2 Kit Kat. Now as far as photography, the Galaxy S5 in outdoor shots was always absolutely fantastic. I believe the absolute best outdoor mobile phone camera before the S6 came along. Very detailed images that you could pan zoom A LOT before the image started to degrade. I remember the ads for the Nokia Lumia 1020 showing a large amount of pan zooming with almost no image loss as the showcase for its 41MP sensor. I had this phone briefly before I returned it because battery life was absolutely horrid. But the Galaxy S5 outside was IMO equal to it.
Low light was different. Even in good light, there was noise and grain. Before Lollipop, I had to go to manual settings, go down to 6MP, take the +/- exposure value to +2 and then choose the lowest ISO for the lighting conditions. I found the auto low light mode not particularly useful.
What a massive difference I have noticed with low light photography now with Lollipop!! No need to do all those manual exposure adjustments. Even shooting at the full 16MP settings with very low light, there is very little noise and grain. There is a LOT of automatic post processing I notice when you choose the auto night detection mode. You take a picture then preview it. And the phone actually takes a second or two to do its post processing. I notice that for a couple of seconds, the image is a little blurry and then the whole image comes into focus. As I say, a hell of a lot of post processing involved.
I am just blown away at the massive improvement in low light imaging performance from Kit Kat to Lollipop. Anyone else noticed this too?
Great job Samsung btw.
Low light was different. Even in good light, there was noise and grain. Before Lollipop, I had to go to manual settings, go down to 6MP, take the +/- exposure value to +2 and then choose the lowest ISO for the lighting conditions. I found the auto low light mode not particularly useful.
What a massive difference I have noticed with low light photography now with Lollipop!! No need to do all those manual exposure adjustments. Even shooting at the full 16MP settings with very low light, there is very little noise and grain. There is a LOT of automatic post processing I notice when you choose the auto night detection mode. You take a picture then preview it. And the phone actually takes a second or two to do its post processing. I notice that for a couple of seconds, the image is a little blurry and then the whole image comes into focus. As I say, a hell of a lot of post processing involved.
I am just blown away at the massive improvement in low light imaging performance from Kit Kat to Lollipop. Anyone else noticed this too?
Great job Samsung btw.
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