Photos taken with the S7/S7 Edge

[mikepas]

A nice little perspective photo I snapped today.

 

[justin_aga]

 

[throttlehappy]

Artichoke.

 

[GolferChris68]

Greetings from Russia =)

Love the bee shot!

 

[Alanhd]

Flower after the rain.

 

[ggrr8t]

I am seeing some serious differences in the quality of photos here. This and a few others on this page are really crisp sharp looking color, while others are just ok. Are these pictures you posted just point and shoot, or was a monopod or manual shooting involved? Thanks. I am buying for the camera since most other specs are so close on the phones I am looking at. I take a lot of grandchildren and indoor concert pics. I looked at the LG 5 and almost every single picture(including wide angle, and indoor) were amazing.

 

[monicakm]

You're seeing ALL types of pictures here...Auto, manual, handheld, tripod, excellent conditions and difficult ones taken by all levels of photographers. Some are processed and some aren't. You know what you've read and heard about the camera on this phone. You've seen the specs. You've seen some aMAzing photos. Have you Googled side by side comparisons of the S7 and the LG 5? I too bought this phone for the camera and have NOT been disappointed. All it needs is a 50X optical zoom

 

[Alanhd]

I am seeing some serious differences in the quality of photos here. This and a few others on this page are really crisp sharp looking color, while others are just ok. Are these pictures you posted just point and shoot, or was a monopod or manual shooting involved? Thanks. I am buying for the camera since most other specs are so close on the phones I am looking at. I take a lot of grandchildren and indoor concert pics. I looked at the LG 5 and almost every single picture(including wide angle, and indoor) were amazing.

If you mean my flower there is no sharpening or color manipluation applied, all I did was increase the contrast slightly and crop to focus attention on what I want.
The S7 has an amazing camera but remember at the end of the day it is still a phone camera.

That was shot on full auto, I had just jumped out the car at work.

 

[rikken]

 

[Paul Hands]

Mine were untouched - straight from the camera on automatic. The only thing I did was to turn on HDR in settings for some of them.

No tripod/monopod...just point and click.

 

[tracypagedotnet]

Just a few pics

 

[tracypagedotnet]

With and without a flash

 

[tracypagedotnet]

Ummm...

 

[tracypagedotnet]

Eggs

 

[Charger21]

Shot of the sunset in Southern California. Setting: pro, vivid

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[z06mike]

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S7 Edge. It was hard to see the display in the sunlight so all I could do was point and shoot.

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What did you have your display brightness at??

 

[z06mike]

View from our hotel room in Orlando. Filtered up with snapseed!

 

[tracypagedotnet]

Nice eyes app

 

[pizzahhhhhh]

Edit: Forget everything I said... the auto camera/auto color profile in pro mode is indeed extremely accurate in daylight. Still a little too warm/green but not as severe as I expected. So that's cool. Still trying to decide if I want to use a custom profile or not. Just wish I didn't write a novel about it......


Beyond the "water resistance" the camera was the main selling point for me (my username doesn't reflect it but I am a professional sports photographer (MLB, NFL, NHL, NASL, college sports), & I immediately switched it to pro mode & was happy to stumble upon the two custom color profiles.

What a difference. Just got the phone today so haven't taken any photos beyond like soda cans, but I can't believe how bad the auto color profile is. Overly saturated (typical Samsung, but it looks good in some usages), but the main issue for me was the white balance.

Using auto everything: a white wall was of course yellow/orange.

Simply changing the white balance did not resolve this. This wasn't surprising since we're still in the days of the hardware/software being leagues behind actual cameras, and even my 6S Plus had white balance issues.

It may not have helped with it being a bathroom wall under antiquated non led lighting, but I'm so happy we have those color profiles to abuse, because after this experiment my S7 is on-par color wise with any of my actual cameras, whereas the 6S would've needed color correction (among typical things: contrast, sharpness etc.) after taking the photo (using the stock Camera app).

Anyway, that was a crap load of text in an image thread. I do apologize but I wanted to at least provide the setting values I'll be sticking with as they seem to be as accurate to real life color as possible.

Hopefully they work in daylight as it was midnight when I set the color profile & walked around the house comparing the on screen colors of objects to the real life colors lol - struggled with orange objects like cheese & the gatorade cap. Could not color match cheddar cheese, and would have to oversaturate & lose detail to get the proper deeper orange for the cap - while also destroying good balances for other colors. This issue even passed onto my skin tone which is warm/orange in real life under a bedroom light but displays as a dull white on the phone screen.

Needless to say this will not replace an actual camera but it's worth setting a color profile to get the best results it's capable of capturing with only minimal post processing/editing needed for share-worthy images.

I also recommend +.4 EV (this may change in daylight but daylight is 4 hours away so). The metering modes & focus options are never set in stone nor are the main manual controls so no point in writing another wall of text lol (apologies again, folks!)

Surprisingly, I did have to boost the saturation a touch to compensate for the less warm tones taken away by the color temp & tint change.

I’m just amazed how much detail shows up in the tiny condensation bubbles in the Gatorade bottle… I’m not a pixel peeper by any means but it’s impressive to see that detail zooming in with a non-macro shot (was like a foot or so away) compared to the “macro ability” of the 6S line. Can't wait to get out & start using this...

Really wish the quick launch cam could be set to pro mode though. I've already got the pro mode shortcut on the home screen so now I'll wait patiently for Samsung to hook us up (& fix the stupid raw setting turning off all the time... in my current 1 day of ownership lol)

 

[Alanhd]

Flower Taken on auto
Sharpened/ Cropped/ Dropped exposure on the background