S25 Camera is Rubbish

[Tech_Ak]

I'm really disappointed with my S25 cameras, I noticed the downgrade in quality VS my S23 straight away. I then put it to the test and was massively disappointed with how bad the S25 is. 

No compression. Shared via quick share so no loss in quality. There is next to no detail in the S25, the worktop the kiwi is sitting on his out of focus, when you zoom into the kiwi, there is no detail on the s25. 

I'm praying an update comes in sorts this out otherwise I'm returning the phone. 

You can see on Reddit that I'm not the only phone who is experiencing this..I can't believe I "upgraded" my phone yet my camera is worse!

S25 x1

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S23 x1

S23 x2

[svgno3x]

I've just moved from S23 ultra to the S25 ultra. I find the camera lacks clarity of focus too. It's a struggle getting clear focus. The changed interface doesn't let me tap to focus on where I want, rather decides for me. Not liking it so far.

[bluestaff]

I'm so disappointed about the camera myself it's the worst picture quality my s10 is better than this and that was ***** to see the least my grandaughter has a very old iPhone like from one up from XR and that's old as my s10 and that's even better than anything I've seen on a Samsung the colour isn't nearly so vivid as the subject

[bluestaff]

The last part was relating to s25

[Zarfilg]

Same here - My Pixel 7 destroys this camera in detail and over all quality. It's sad that I have to reach my old phone to take good pics of my pup. 

Everytime I take a pic and magnify there is a clear and significant reduction in over all detail and quality when compared to the Pixel 7.  Not sure if this is Samsung can fix with software... hopefully because as it stands the camera is indeed "rubbish".

[Randi003]

I am with you on this! The samsung sensors are absolute trash, just like their exynos cpu's. Since I had my S9 plus I noticed that all photos taken in low light with samsung sensors have always had a magenta luma noise pattern. To this day, their GN sensors behave the same way. You want to see something truly shocking? Here are two photos. The lower one is from the 50 MP GN3 of samsung S25 and the first one is from the 40 MP Sony IMX600 of Huawei P20 PRO from 2018. Both have been taken with ISO 2000. I can tell you in all honesty that the real colors are from the P20 PRO. The clarity is also on Huawei's side. 

 

[Didymus]

I tested the camera in a low light setting tonight and it is APPALLING compared to my old Pixel 7 Pro. The images are clearly being processed by AI. The 200mp setting is useless if the photos look this bad.

[Lucas_TM]

Know this Is an old post, but glad (i guess) to see I didn't get a defective unit and this is actually an issue, and hope it can be solved via software.

I noticed this camera quality issue the first time I had to use the camera, and it's not just the back cameras, the selfie camera is terrible too. Absurdly overexposed, and If you turn exposition down and fix it, you gotta turn it back up for certain scenarios, meaning you can never just point and shoot.

The worst part is the grain, jesus christ this camera is grainy, the second you zoom into any picture, or try to do anything in low light, the image just goes to s***, I can't even do proper video calls on this thing.
For comparison, I put it up against my old Iphone 12 Pro Max (a phone from 2020) and the image clarity/sharpness was WAY better on the Iphone, not to mention it was useable in low light without absurd levels of grain and blockyness.
From some posts I've seen here and on other forums, even Samsung's own A series, which uses Sony sensors, seems to have much better image quality, weird decision to put the better sensor on their midrange phones.
Edit: My best guess is that AI is doing waaay to much and overprocessing images, causing this level of grain seen on sample shots posted here.