S24 Ultra 12MP photos are pretty good but 50MP (especially 5xzoom) and 200MP procesing still needs to be fixed

[muzzz]

I really love this phone and I have probably already taken few thousand pictures in normal mode with minimal optimalization. 12MP photos are pretty solid and predictable (you get what you see on camera preview) but high resolution photos can be really frustrating as you can never know with what you are gonna end up. Latest 23 feb updated didn't changed that.

First 200MP photos optimalization can destroy photo by adding weird artifacts around clounds on blue sky. Also they focus point most of the time is really small so most of the photo is usually blured comparing to other modes and they are also so much colorful then the rest but I guess I prefer that over wash out colors from 5x zoom 50mp photo optimalization.

5x zoom 50MP are photos unpredictable, you can never know what final result will be. Photo can look good or can look worse then in 12MP with less detail. Even when setings are on minimum optimalization the diference in light, shadows, color in pictures taken by the same camera with just diferent resoluton is huge. 12MP quite often looks better and more natural, saving more detail in light and shadow area.

5x zoom 50MP photos can have almost black shadows:

People faces sometimes are to bright and flat:

12MP camera can preserve more detail then 50mp photo:

In less light enviroment 5xzoom 50MP optimalization can make very noisy backgroud and change almost whole photo:

Hope soon there will be some updates for how adaptive pixel and high res picture optimalization works.

Also I wish preview screen in photo mode in camera app worked so fast and seamless as preveiw in video mode

[muzzz]

I have to hold my breath and close my eyes because I do not know what's coming next

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haha exactly ;D

[Haytch]

I actually think the 50mp looks better in this instance.. It's always a hit and miss. Sometimes u will get an incredible result and then other times you will get the most unflattering overly hdr processed image

[Haytch]

Took this 200mp image today

[muzzz]

Yeah, there is definitly room to improve. In 5x50MP postproces contrast is becoming to high, so is the noise and this yellow all over the photo making 5x12MP photo looks better.

[K Dimov]

If you open it in a new window, you will see that the contracts and brightness of the 50MP is increased. But the details are lost compared to the 12MP one - check the cola can and the part of the winter hat stripes on the right for example.

[Haytch]

How do you open in a new window?

[K Dimov]

Click on the image and when it opens, right-click and open image in new tab. It will open with its proper res

[Haytch]

Ohhh I'm actually using my smartphone not using a laptop

[K Dimov]

If you use Chrome on Android, just tap-hold on the image after you open it, it will open the menu. The option is there

[AdrianaSV]

I have the same issue 😥 I want my old s23u back 😓 I cannot get over, it's so disappointing to see how bad quality the new s24u pictures can have 🙈 I'm creating content and I was very excited about the new s24u and thinking I'll have a better picture quality, but no. 🤦🏻