Samsung working on camera fix

[I Can Be Your Hero]

The camera issues are real, and very annoying. I took a video of my son and the phone spent nearly 40% of the video trying to refocus.

Pictures are ok with facial smoothing, I actually have more problems with the color. It takes the ambient color quite a bit and applies to face. In my house, this makes everyone's skin look significantly orange.

The phone was, according to Samsung, designed entirely around the camera. I'm not sure they succeeded here in making this work really well. With this much hardware power behind the camera, at $1400, the pictures and video should have beat the iPhone and Pixel without question.

Right now, it is sitting at a solid #3, which is the exact same position they were last year. Arguably, the S10 is taking better pictures some of the time.

I don't know if the 10+ is better than the S20, I certainly hope it isn't, because I don't think the S10's camera is great.

I hate that face smoothing cannot be turned off completely. I have the S10+ and wanted to take a really nice, detailed shot of my grandfather, and the phone smoothed his skin so much, it looked like a horrible amateur photoshop botch job.

Worse is when I take photos of my dog, all the fur is smoothened out and it looks like she has no fur. The moment it detects a face, the face smoothing kicks in and I get plastic looking people as results.

Then photos outdoors, the phone blasts the saturation so that the skies are crazy blue, grass and trees are extremely green and then also cranks up the sharpening. Just makes it look artificial with oversaturation and over-sharpening. It tends to struggle with contrast too with brightening things too much rather than keeping them dark.

I'd like to see Samsung completely overhaul their image processing on their phones. Or at least offer options to remove certain things completely (like skin smoothing). I like the phone a lot, but the camera to me is just not where it should be.

 

[DanielLoreti]

Got the update yesterday. Auto focus is much improved. Good stuff.

 

[mustang7757]

Got the update yesterday. Auto focus is much improved. Good stuff.

Good to hear!