I just bought the ultra S25 after having the s21 for a few years and I am terribly disappointed. I already replaced the phone once because of dark camera. New phone camera selfies make s21 camera look like a beauty camera. No apps compare. I want to replace my phone but I didn't want iphone. I was hoping samsung would address, but they're not. And I checked other models.Many new phone cameras are horrible compared to the old. I'm surprised samsung would do this. Now I have to look at iphones, but I do like the ultra s25 size and features. But camera matters.
It'll be nice to speak with a expert. But even Samsung employees don't help with camera. I realize Samsung knows that the quality of the camera changed and that's why they require you to add a camera app. I thought iPhone was a rip-off but Samsung clearly is trying to get more money out of their customers by offering downgrades unless quality devices. Ugh! Samsung users can only hope for software upgrade addressing these complaints. Or they are going to lose all their loyal customers. 🤷
AFAIK the S25 selfie camera is 12MP (the front camera on the same side as the screen). The S21 selfie camera was 10MP and the iPhone 17 Pro has a 18MP selfie camera, for example, but none are anywhere near as good as the 50MP and 200MP rear cameras on a S25U when used well.
The S25 selfie camera should be high dynamic range (HDR) so should handle Sahara noon sunlight to midnight small town streetlights with detailed results. The S21 also has HDR cameras but I understand they aren't "exercised" as well as on the S25. It's possible for HDR frames to look a bit faded on some displays but not others. The phone has lower screen resolution than even the selfie camera so you can often see better results by maximizing the zoom when viewing and scrolling around the picture. One effect of scaling the whole frame to fit the screen size will be pixel merging for view purposes only but that reduces detail in a way that can make a frame seem dim or faded or even with incorrect colors, hence you might see more detail by viewing any frame with maximum zoom and get 1:1 pixel view but have to scroll around to get the whole picture (sic).
You can always force a brighter shot with exposure compensation, set it up at most once and leave it, there's a camera app Settings option to make it perist across closing and restarting the camera app but the compensation adjustment might require re-setting to your preference if you change the camera in-use or the shooting mode but it takes a second to set to a preferred value anyway. In the default still camera it's a circular button with a +/- symbol in it. In other modes that have it they usually call it EV. Increase it in steps of positive 0.5 (perhaps steps of 0.3) but I doubt you'd need to use more than +1.0 (which should be a doubling of the image lightness). Other items in the scene can make it necessary to use exposure compensation, taking a sefie with a source of light behind you for example. Trying a different composition of a single scene can make a big difference.
Same here,I'm looking into iPhones,and I hate apple but man Samsung products lately suck,as the customer service is just terrible, I'm so disappointed at Samsung
I'm experiencing the same thing you experiencing right now. I'm super disappointed in the S25ULTA. I am non-white person and the camera makes me look pale. And on WhatsApp video calls it shows me like I'm wearing makeup. What the **bleep** is that? We're you able to fix this?
