V30 camera reviews?

[RapidTurtle]

I'm thinking about trading in my LG G5, and going with the V30. I really want a great camera on my next phone. One thing I don't understand is the V30 camera reviews. Many of them seem to have the V30 performing better than the Galaxy phones, and some of course prefer the S8's. Many of the users on here seem to say that the auto mode is just ok, but when I look at posted photo's, I personally think many of them look great. I looked at photo's on the S9's thread, and some actually seem out of focus, so all of this info leaves me a little confused about which is best.
One of my peeves about the G5, is taking a photo indoors, any light coming in through a window or from a T.V. screen, seems to cause focus problems on the subject and really wash out the whole photo, where my sons Note 8 handles those situations a lot better.
I guess I am asking, is the V30's camera a huge upgrade over the G5, and is it on par or even better than the S8's camera?

 

[jamielov]

I had the G4, and I've said often, since then, each camera I have tried (V20, V30) has been a downgrade. I am not sure what hardware or software exactly caused this, but I've never been able to get the quality I did with the G4.

Like most camera phones out there today, the camera does function great in good lighting or with stationary objects, but even in good lighting, with a object even slightly in motion, I'll get blur in some part of the photo. An example I can give is a guy playing a guitar. Most of the photo will be amazing looking and crystal clear, but the strumming hand will always show up blurry, every time. Just a bit of a bummer.

As always...these are just my own opinions.

 

[RapidTurtle]

Thanks, I also had a G4, and thought maybe it was just me, but I always said that camera was better than the G5.

 

[ManiacJoe]

Yes, the G4 had a great camera system.

I like the V30 camera, but I always have low expectations for any phone camera. While other phone cameras may be better, the V30 camera in auto mode does fine by me; I have no problems dropping into manual mode to get better images. Of course, if I want a great shot then I will grab one of my DSLRs.

All phone cameras seem to suffer from the same bad marketing decisions: lots of megapixels on a tiny sensor is a bad thing for image quality.

 

[RapidTurtle]

It's mind boggling. I watch the review videos, and I don't know if they are done by so called fanboys, or if they are biased, but they seem to be all over the place. I do think my sons note 8 takes nicer shots than my G5, but I'm really not crazy about the curved screens of the Samsungs. They just seem annoying. But if the V30 isn't going to produce much better pics than my G5, it may not really be worth the price of the upgrade.

 

[rfan8312]

I agree that the reviews on YouTube seem all over the place, and everything I know about the camera on v30 is all over the place.

I'd seen YouTube reviews, before I got the device, that had me thinking the camera is the best feature of the v30. Those reviews mentioned endless functions and features and LOG capabilities, for post work. And on Android Central forum there's a thread where people have posted astounding photos they've taken with v30, some even were just in auto-mode IIRC.

My experience has been disappointing and easily the worst feature of the phone for me, so far.
But, maybe it can be a good camera although without the effortless auto mode experience of my previous Samsungs.

Plus, I've been hearing since day one of people getting Google Pixel Camera port from something called XDA. Apparently in this case it works wonders and creates two apps, one for auto mode and one for manual, I think or maybe one is for wide angle.

 

[RapidTurtle]

I tired the google camera app on my G5, and wasn't impressed. Is it a lot better with the V30 hardware?

 

[L0n3N1nja]

I had the G4, and I've said often, since then, each camera I have tried (V20, V30) has been a downgrade. I am not sure what hardware or software exactly caused this, but I've never been able to get the quality I did with the G4.

Like most camera phones out there today, the camera does function great in good lighting or with stationary objects, but even in good lighting, with a object even slightly in motion, I'll get blur in some part of the photo. An example I can give is a guy playing a guitar. Most of the photo will be amazing looking and crystal clear, but the strumming hand will always show up blurry, every time. Just a bit of a bummer.

As always...these are just my own opinions.

It's because the small camera sensor cannot capture enough light to freeze the image and prevent the blur of the hand. Faster shutter speed would fix that, but it would make the image darker.

 

[OLD_HATCH]

On "auto" mode the Google pixel Camera in my V20 takes better pictures about 50 percent of the time. The other 50 percent they are on par with each other. I use the pixel camera most of the time unless I want manual controls I'll use LG camera.

 

[irvine752]

On "auto" mode the Google pixel Camera in my V20 takes better pictures about 50 percent of the time. The other 50 percent they are on par with each other. I use the pixel camera most of the time unless I want manual controls I'll use LG camera.

That's going to change. The new AI cam on the V30 is pretty impressive.

 

[RapidTurtle]

New AI cam? Is there an update for the V30 coming?

 

[Mike Dee]

That's going to change. The new AI cam on the V30 is pretty impressive.

I hope so because the results I had in auto mode we're really bad.

 

[rfan8312]

I got the update. Very nice. Still cannot find dual audio in Bluetooth on it but AI cameta is cool. It can guess what you are pointing at, food, people, pets, electronics and adjusted camera for best results.

I've been hugely disappointed with the pictures I've ended up with on the v30+ auto-mode, but if future updates and personal tweaks could fix it in time that would be amazing.

 

[NationalTrust]

Isn't the camera AI update going to be in 8.1?

 

[ffejjj]

Isn't the camera AI update going to be in 8.1?

I have it on 8.0.0

 

[ffejjj]

New AI cam? Is there an update for the V30 coming?

Forgot to mention in your original post. My opinion but I think you'll love the V30 vs the G5.

I've had every G phone and the V30 is my first V phone. And I'm really liking it.

 

[RapidTurtle]

I'm going to try and make it in to a store to check out the V30 and some others this weekend. Then I can see if it's worth it to go for an upgrade now or wait.

 

[irvine752]

I'm going to try and make it in to a store to check out the V30 and some others this weekend. Then I can see if it's worth it to go for an upgrade now or wait.

I would wait till the upcoming 2018 model is confirmed or ready for release. That should force some price drops for the older models.

 

[NationalTrust]

I have it on 8.0.0

Still confused about the new camera AI. I don't see any new options in the mode menu after getting Oreo (8.0.0 on Verizon). My splash screen hasn't changed to V30S Thin Q, as some have said. I think it's 2 separate updates.

 

[ffejjj]

Still confused about the new camera AI. I don't see any new options in the mode menu after getting Oreo (8.0.0 on Verizon). My splash screen hasn't changed to V30S Thin Q, as some have said. I think it's 2 separate updates.

The update I got was almost 1.7gb (largest update I've ever had on a phone) but I'm on Sprint so they could be handling it differently.