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Glad it's not just me. I just got the phone yesterday, I'm extremely disappointed, 1199 down the drain. I'm going to return it and power up my s9+, better quality pics...
12-02-2021 08:37 PM - last edited 12-02-2021 08:44 PM
Same thing here...my 5 years old xiaomi almost takes better pictures. If I could only return this brick I would.
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02-03-2021 02:08 PM - last edited 02-03-2021 02:14 PM
I have the snapdragon S21 Ultra. Very inconsistent camera. Some photos turn out amazing, others, actually most I'd say, turn out pretty horrid. For indoor pictures, with typical kitchen/ living room lighting, I can get maybe 1 decent picture out of every 10 I take. Pictures of my kids/cats, forget it. They'd have to be completely asleep to get a semi acceptable picture. Blurry mess, nearly every picture(yes, even with single take and burst shots). Also, I can get amazing detail in macro shots of something that is still, like a flower or a plant, yet my kids faces look like plastic dolls with no detail even in outdoor light. Its as if the phone is taking raw pictures and forgetting to process them, or just smudging the heck out of them. I've reset camera settings and a bunch of other 'fixes' thinking I had a defective device/software issue, but have read plenty of the same story. Oddly enough, selfies look great!! Natural/no smoothed out skin tones. Id prefer the front facing camera to be on the rear instead of the 108mp sensor in all honesty! I love everything else about the phone, so much so that I'm willing to keep mine and just pray for enough updates to fix the camera/ processing issues. My old S9 takes 100% better pictures in almost every scenario. Even if the colors are oversaturated on the s9(Samsung did do a lot better with controlling the over saturation in the s21 series), the detail in photos is so clear even when cropping into a photo as opposed to the S21 which is just blurry and most photos have an unacceptable amount of noise. And my wife has a Pixel 4a, a $350 phone that just absolutely smokes the S21 in the photo quality department. No shutter lag, consistently good photos, amazing portrait mode. I don't know what they heck they gave to every youtube reviewer that managed to get great photos in all situations with the S21 ultra, but its not the same phone that I got. I'm actually exchanging my 128gb for the 256gb model which should be here any day so I'll come back here to see if its any different.