S25 ultra camera takes blurrier pictures than the S23

[Retcon]

 

I went from S23+ to S25 Ultra, tell me what I'm doing wrong. The lighting from the window is all just white when I used my previous phone it picks up on outside, also idk I've read a lot about the blurriness from others but I can tell things are blurrier than S23. Maybe I have something wrong but here is a comparison. I have tried all sorts of settings. 

[Retcon]

OK then what?

[patriciostarr]

It looks like s25 has too much light

[meself]

Light

[patriciostarr]

Light

[meself]

Nice

[Retcon]

I took the same thing with s23 

[Retcon]

They both had the same amount of light

[meself]

In optimization setting choose minimum

[maird]

I agree with setting optimizations to the minimum and have some other things you might experiment with relate to the fact that what you are seeing is pretty normal on professional cameras and typical methods of adjusting are similar to what I describe.

* The framing is slightly different the S23 has more of the floor and doesn't extend to the curtain rail. That can make the outside more "scene" content on the S23 frame than in the S25 frame. If a different back camera was used for each as a result there are a couple of things that might make them differ
* Choose a point to use for exposure, press on the screen at the bright point to make it the point for exposure selection. In this case press on the window before releasing the shutter. Though it's hard to do that and keep it accurate when handheld
* You can use the EV control with a negative setting, probably between -1.0 and -2.0 to make the exposure darker, which might reduce the flaring at the window
* In Expert Raw mode you can use the Neutral Density (ND) filter for a similar effect, a higher value will dim the scene

You should be able to tell on the screen if any of those settings is helping before you release the shutter.

Something you might have to consider is whether there is any cloud, the S23 shot might look so much better if it was taken on a different day with different dispersion of sunlight from cloud. The S25 frame might be on a day with no cloud and the shadow direction suggests the camera is close to facing the sun in both frames. If they were taken in different seasons the same effect might occur due to the altitude of the sun alone.

If the room ends up too dark using any of those approaches you should probably tolerate it and fix it in other software, Gallery, Photos, Lightroom, etc. But the dynamic range of the sensors is very high so I wouldn't expect the room to become too dark by underexposing the frame by one to two "stops" (reducing the brightness to between a half and a quarter).

On a higher standard of camera it would be common to use a UV filter and polarizing filter to try to prevent the flaring. It wouldn't always work but most of the time would just require rotating the polarizing filter on the front of the lens. As a humurous equivalent, you might try replacing the windows with ones that have UV/IR reflective glass it wouldn't give you polarization but would be a UV/IR filter.

If I was in the room and deciding how to take the shot these are the things I'd try using Pro or Expert Raw mode in the camera app:

1. Start with the W (200MP) camera and set the zoom to 1x but move myself to/away from the window to set the preferred vertical scene. Press on the window on the screen to set the exposure point and/or set any -EV or +ND filter that helps then later crop out a perfect horizontal frame from the full one using another app (Gallery, Photos, Lightroom, etc)
2. Repeat 1. using the T (50MP) camera limiting zoom to between 1x and 5x only.