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My S24+ camera disappointed me today.

(Topic created: 09-12-2025 08:10 AM)
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gopalko3
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So I sitting by a friend who has a 16 pro max. And i was telling him why Samsung is better and how AI is light years ahead than Apple.

So we took a picture in his phone of his bike which was in front of us and his phone caught fast moving objects clearly in the background. Btw the objective was to see which Magic Eraser works better. Although Samsung's eraser was sooo much better... but on a different picture. Because my camera couldn't capture one vehicle in the background clearly.

I do have Quick Tap Shutter on and Prioritize Focus over speed off. I thought Samsung could do better because it's pretty much iPhone 15 or 16 equivalent. Idk I thought camera was kinda close to iPhone but phone cameras, i think iPhone wins hands down.

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FreddyFresh
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Only the ultra has cameras that compete or better then the iphone pros
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maird
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While the ultra cameras are better you should look up the focal length and field of view for each of your phone's cameras on your favorite AI question answerer. Something moving fast in a narrow field of view will tend to be more blurred than the same object moving at the same speed in a wide field of view shot at the same time and at the same shutter speed. The normal workaround photographers use for this is called panning.

Using any of the cameras outside of their optical zoom range will reduce the field of view so it's also worth asking AI for the optical zoom range for the S24 Plus cameras and try to avoid shooting outside the optical zoom range of any camera.

A higher frame resolution will also help.

You'd probably get the best results by ensuring you are using the 50MP (W)ide angle camera and only within it's optical zoom range then cropping the frame to your preferred scene in a different app from the camera (Gallery, Photos, Lightroom, etc.). That camera has optical image stabilization (OIS) that will reduce camera shake but can have an effect that blurs some scene areas when there is a fast moving object in them, but it shouldn't happen if the bike is the subject in focus....but you never know.

Higher ISO can reduce picture detail by making it more "grainy".

This isn't a guaranteed solution, it will depend also on the distance to the bike relative to the distance to the background fast moving object. The quality is improved by thinking of the phone as the center of two circles, one with a radius at the bike, the other with a radius at the fast moving object. The focal length, field of view and sensor area in use due to zoom adjust the impact of these circles. The telephoto lens makes the difference in radius much less of an effect but the 10MP sensor has pretty poor detail at greater distance even restricted to the optical zoom range. Hence the suggestion to use the 50MP camera only within it's optical zoom limits.

The best 16 pro max camera is 48MP Wide angle with OIS, but the optical zoom range on it's 12MP camera is much better than any S24+ camera.

There's not a lot between their highest resolution sensors and images on the iPhone 48MP W and S25+ 50MP W are the most comparable.

Any terms I used that you don't know can also be explained by the AI tool that gives you the camera specs.

For the record, all of the above is pretty standard photography art/skill method so it's nothing new and there'll be lots you can read about anything I'm saying. You'll actually get the best pictures by considering the scene and your equipment alone then compare your best result with the other phone pictures.

FWIW, the AI tools you can use after taking pictures can be useful but the AI that gets applied as you take pictures I find unhelpful and turn it all off.
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