You can limit this in two ways.
First method - use pro mode and save photos in raw format. NOTE this only works in 50mp and 12mp unfortunately.
Second Method - go into gallery, select the 3 lines at the bottom, settings and disable super hdr. This turns removes alot of that post processing.
If you check the attached photos they show how to get there as well.
First method - use pro mode and save photos in raw format. NOTE this only works in 50mp and 12mp unfortunately.
Second Method - go into gallery, select the 3 lines at the bottom, settings and disable super hdr. This turns removes alot of that post processing.
If you check the attached photos they show how to get there as well.
I am having a similar issue as well for all cameras, although the 12mp processing seems to be speedy enough that I can't visually compare sometimes. It's clear to me that what I see on my screen and how the picture shows up is quite different, unwanted, and frankly ugly and way too bright and saturated. Faces in perfectly fine daylight turn different colours (e.g., reddening), auto brightening everything when I don't want that, smoothing objects out, halos, sometimes moving the framing around, heightening the saturation and contrast, sometimes making subjects blurrier(?), among other small things. One time I noticed it change my jawline (and I really don't like how smartphones automatically distort and change faces to be more "beautiful" or "smooth"). All of these changes occur within a few seconds of a photo being taken and there is NO WAY to turn this feature off. I am frustrated and disappointed.
I have changed Pro image format to RAW, Intelligent Optimization is at minimum, there are no Gallery settings about HDR so there's nothing I can do there... This even occurs in the Expert RAW app and there is no difference between Auto settings (ISO, EV, or shutter speed) and manually selecting/changing these. It's clear that no matter what, these pictures are not truly RAW. They automatically apply the above mentioned "corrections" to the photos. The only thing that somewhat works is using 12mp camera in Expert RAW with Multiple Exposure turned to 2+ and set to Avg. overlay. Also, Portrait mode and selfies dont seem to go through the same automatic over-processing. The auto-refining seems to occur regardless of Photo mode, Pro mode, or using the Expert RAW app.
I would really like to be able to have just normal actual raw picture data instead of having an AI (that you can't turn off!) do a bunch of stuff to my photos that I desperately do not want it to do. I don't want to have to do arduous post-editing just to remove unwanted AI optimization after I take pictures. I want to take photos as I see them on my screen and edit them myself if I want to. Sometimes I want a heavily saturated, bright photo, yeah! But not all the dang time, for every single picture I take. I would much rather use an editing program to edit my pictures myself. Just give me the raw photo!
I really do hope that they can fix this or make this feature an opt-in kind of thing, like HDR or other settings for example, because one reason I invested in this phone (S23 Ultra) is so I could take great pictures with this small device. It's convenient and really cool to think that these large MP cameras and good capture customization with Pro and Expert RAW can fit into this small of a device. But it's all pointless if the photo gets absolutely wrecked automatically by unwanted processing with no way to truly fix it or turn it off!
I just want a solution. Here's to hoping that there's some kind of update that works to address this.
EDIT: I added before and after photos of auto-processing of some indoor plants to show what happens to simple photos like this. (Taken with 50mp standard Photo mode in the Camera app.)
Before ^
After ^
Again, this wasn't edited by me! I took the picture, I could see the raw image for a few seconds, and then it brightened, saturated, and smoothed everything. Imo, it's waayyy too much processing. It looks like it's been edited and filtered, and it saves to the Gallery like that, as if that's how it really looked through the viewfinder. But I didnt take that picture that saved to the camera roll. That's not what the real photo looks like. I want to take, see, and save my real photos that are taken with the physical camera lens and hardware. PLEASE fix this.
