S24 Ultra Bad camera quality and other issues

[veljkovic92]

The camera quality is bad, especially noticed when comparing with a year old iphone or other current gen phones.

Photos are washed out, have some noise and are blurry which is immediately noticed once zoomed a bit in the photo. And this is for both daylight and night photos.

The lower gesture bar portion need to have more height because the side swipe gestures to change between apps aren't triggered when using any case that has slightly raised edges on bottom of the phone. It really requires user to dig finger at the most bottom side of the screen to switch them.

The battery life is around mediocre, definitely expected much better battery life from the newest gen phone. Reviewers are still not objective enough when testing the phones.

I waited more than 5 years to upgrade from my Note 10+ and expected much more. Definitely got a better screen and overall performance, but the aspects above mentioned ruin the experience of such an expensive phone. 

[VexRune]

YouTube tech reviewers say a big camera update is coming in August.

[frost8]

yeah I hear it since April.

[Marsilisa]

I just took this for my SiL.

Pro mode. 3x zoom, saturation -6, 12mp, color is still slightly off but veryclose to realistic

Same moment, just slided sideways to change to Photo mode.

3x zoo. 12mp, all post processing is off, auto HDR is off

I have trees and the light is moving with the breeze.

Yellow and and extremely processed 🤮

Ok, i get it its "pretty" but its fake and not real at all.

About the update coming... i have heard it all before. I'm not holding my breath

[slavkog]

Night selfie camera is just horrible. People are blurry and out of focus. 

[Dae0031]

I agree, any pictures taken at night are horrible. I used to be able to take amazing pictures of the moon. All I get now is a white light blob, out of focus

[Michael Bolt]

Hello !  You go by the name star girl,you should know how bad the video recorder is when filming stars ect at night ? Have you tried taking videos of stars in the sky at night ? The S24 ultra is horrible ! ! ! When I start filming,shooting stars at night or other phenomenons in the sky,the image is dark and engulfed in black pixelation,so then I tap on the screen to adjust the brightness slider then I lock it,and then all of the sudden the camera starts going in and out of focus until I zoom in,and then it stays focused until it decides to go out of focus again ! Hopefully they'll remove the little slider and put a real iOS slider that you can adjust before you start filming,because they way they have it now you have to keep adjusting the brightness slider everytime you take a video,this little slider isn't even considered to be a iOS slider in my eyes it's a joke ! What do you think ? 

[urthchik]

I regret getting the S24. Taking photos is very important to me and the quality of photos is much worse than my S10.

[Frankienubs1]

I agree 100% i sold my iphone 15 plus to switch over to the s24 ultra because of the spen etc. I used to have the note 10 and loved it so i was hoping this was going to be an even better experience. while there are a lot of cool things about the phone i was truly disappointed. i owe over 900 on it still and i dont even use it. Funny story, we bought our daughter the zflip 5 for her birthday when i got the s24 ultra. i told her the phone was silly and that i didnt think she would end up liking it over time. i was right. she ended up going back to iphone after a few months. out of curiosity and growing up in the 90s i decided it would be kind of fun to try it out. so i switched everything from my s24 ultra to the zflip 5 and though the battery life sucks and there is no s pen, the photos are better. which blew me away because the flip to me is just a fun gimmicky phone. absolutely not a flagship phone at all. but the fact i can fold it up or quickly respond to a text or email on the outer screen without even opening the phone has me sold and i just felt like i couldn't go back to a bar phone. i recently started feeling guilty that i was paying the 45 a month payment for the ultra and not using it so i spent the last few days fully testing out both phones to decide which one to keep and which one to sell and since im so used to quick replies and app access on the outer screen of the zflip and after seeing the huge difference in quality of the photos between the two phones, i have decided to sell the ultra and upgrade to the flip 6 once the new phone issues and problems have been exposed by users. i try not to buy something for at least a few months after it comes out incase of major issues etc. anyways with that being said its so disappointing that a flagship that costs 1300 cant take photos that are better than a 900 flip phone lol. both are overpriced. the trade in offers lately have really sucked. and as someone who is a huge Samsung fan because of past trade in offers and free products with upgrades, i must say im not sure if i respect them right now. the ultra is a cool phone. the display is beautiful. the battery life is amazing. but none of that truly matters if i cant take good photos or videos and i cant fit it in my pocket lol. can someone invent a ultra flip with good cameras? why is that too much to ask lol. anyways. rant over. ultra camera sucks!!!

[PhoenixJR]

I have the same issue, as a nail tech I take close ups of nails daily and the photos are always blurry around the edges and can only focus on a couple fingers and blurs the rest. I'm now looking at a different brand phone.

[Marsilisa]

Hi  That's because the main camera has a very shallow F-stop unfortunately. To simplify it: the bigger number ＝ wider the focus line. Or even more simple:

F1.7 (main camera) has a focus of 1 cm for example (im using it as just a number, its not exactly that). If you aline the fingers perfectly in line, they will be in focus.

F2.2 (3x Telephoto) has a a 2.5 cm (again, just for the example).

F3.4 (5x super telephoto) will be 3.8 cm. 

1 inch ＝ 2.54 cm.

The camera im working with is usually between F10 and F15 and on a tripod because that wide of an F makes the pictures blurry of you even shake it a little.

Imagine the focus field as a horizontal line with a specific thickness. Everything outside that line will be blurry. Especially if you are too close. No phone (to my knowledge) can focus properly if you are not at least 15-20 cm away from the object.

Try filming with the 5x zoom and see if its better.

Of course with all that said, and with understanding how something works im still unable to make the uber-duper-mega expensive phone take an average picture. The camera has issues and that's nothing to do with technics.

I hope i was helpful. 🙂