Question S22 Ultra Exynos camera issues, (potentially BIG processing issues aswell?) - Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

I've had my phone for close to a month now my model is (SM-908B/DS) and I have been experiencing an issue that I'm hoping it's just software and it would be fixed next updates and not hardware which is when I'm in a dim light/low light place and I try to take a picture of anything this is pretty much the resulting image:
Indoors Normal Camera:
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Indoors 108 MP Camera + Detail enhancer:
Can you guys tell me if this is typical S22 quality in daylight or am I not seeing something here:
Outdoors picture Main Camera:
Outdoors 108 MP daylight + Detail Enhancer:
Same here, white light situations have been improved with the july update but that 108mp shot just doesn't feel like a 108mp shot:
Main Camera white light
108 MP + Detail enhancer white light:
This has been happening since the June update (which is when I got the phone), and the july update made somethings better but overall the problem is still there, camera looks good in daylight/outside but whenever I go in my house where the light is dim or white all pictures look noisy and bad like this and the preview is choppy aswell, here's what I tried so far:
- Clearing cache partition
- Re-optimizing apps
- Factory reset from settings
- Hard factory reset using ODIN
- Updating to the July update and clearing cache which didn't fix my problem
This problem has been going for a while, I didn't seem to care at first because mostly ill want to take pictures outside but I found myself wanting to take pictures inside my home and it's just doesn't feel right anymore, if any of you guys can relate to something similar to my issue lmk down below, I just hope samsung fixes this with software updates :/

There's an article also talking about this issue with Exynos cameras but it was back in april..
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Another problem I found is the camera really acts strange in white light for some reason, this only happened once to me, but it just shows that the camera really needs improvement still on exynos, and most of the time I don't take pictures in white light in my room as they all look fuzzy or have a lot of noise just like the low light/dim light situations:

From the pictures you attached, I can only see, some have 0,8 MP others 108 MP. No Exif data, so the exposure time is not clear and what is the "normal camera" (first picture)?
The subject (dog) usually cannot be captured without motion blur, especially in low light conditions.
For a systematic comparison identical conditions are needed.
Finally, do not expect too much from 108000000 pixels put on a sensor so small. Heavy image processing will not make it better sometimes. But Pixel binning works not bad, just use the far more flexible 12 MP mode. Especially in low light conditions the results are comparatively good.

I got the S22 Ultra from EE on Saturday and the image processing is absolutely dreadful, even on 108MP mode it aint great... I returned my Pixel 6 Pro as I was having constant issues with the software and and I'm honestly about to just go back to it. I hope this along with other issues with the Exynos chip can be fixed with software updates.

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Yellow Tinted Pics Fix (Fuze)

I have read in a few place that the Sprint cam is better because ATT added some kinda film over the lense to protect it and its yellows our pics.
Here is a picture with stock settings from the Fuze.
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Now if you go to the setting menu, chage the White Balance of of Auto and put it to the light bulb. Now you get a picture that looks like this.
I thought it would be cool to add some pictures from other sources I think the Cam on the Touch Pro (Fuze) is amazing.
Here is an 8.1 Megapixel Digital Cam.
Here is a pic from my Cingular 2125 (Tornado maybe?)
Here is a picture from my ATT 8525 (Hermes) 2.0MP.
I just figured this out as well. I know on my Tilt and my Vogue (with Sprint), I had to put it on the moon to get rid of that yellow tint.
I went through and tried all the settings and I think the light bulb one is the best.
EDIT: I think someone should add this to the WIKI.
Agree that the camera on the fuze is really good. I took my Kaiser to SEMA a few weeks ago and that did pretty well, but the fuze camera seems far superior.
I usually just run everything through photoshop, but I've been using photoshop for almost 10 years. I did notice the response of the Fuze camera is MUCH improved over the Tilt camera.
Yeah I got mine also on light bulb. I remember the Tilt had the same problem too.
As always, these HTC cams are not "one setting > all". The reason there are different options is because some are better for different lighting.
Auto stinks, I'll agree with you on that. For standard incandescent lighted indoor subjects, the light bulb would be the correct option (as you have stated noticed here). However, in other indoor-situations as well as larger lit areas the fluorescent (looks like a rectangle with light beams) is a better choice. I found that outdoors, the light bulb option is worse than any of the others.
In fact, my personal experience (at least with my current phone, HTC Titan 2mpix) is best results are acheived with the flourescent setting, but first aim the camera at a bright light source (sun, light bulb, etc) so it automatically lowers the auto image gain and give you more realistic color.
Here's a pic I took near Boston using this method:
Now, I know the image isn't the sharpest, but that's a function of the titan camera quality. I'm talking about the color balance. Its damned near perfect. You can probably get the same results with the fuze.
Thanks for the tip!
I'm having an issue where even the slightest movement creates a blurry picture like the camera is on nightshot (shutter open longer). Is there a way to fix that?
Phone cameras are usually horrible i never bothered with them. But my digi cam just died and i was looking for another when i decided to try the fuze cam. WOW, it is not bad at all, so much so i am deciding if i even really need to buy another digi cam.
Of course a 10mp sounds great, but without spending a dime i can have near perfect 3mp photos

[Q] camera quality [SOLVED BY FACTORY RESET]

Hi everybody,
lately I've been very not satisfied with the quality of photos from my sensation,
I'll upload three examples and explain afterwards:
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basically in all photos the sharpness is very poor, in the first photo you can see my face is very much blurred and in the second photo the whole forest is very blurred, also my car looks blurred and the colors are very weak..
in the third one you can see the structure is smudged and very blurred as well as can be seen best on it's lower left side.
some info -
sensation is not rooted and has the 2.3.4 update.
photos were taken with auto settings.
tried setting the ISO to 100 and all the way up, the blurriness is present still.
camera is set to 8 MP.
car photo weighs 1.65 MB, mine weighs 704KB and the third ones weighs 354KB.
restarted the phone several times.
reset the camera settings.
*cleaned the lens only after taking these photos but it wasn't foggy or dirty.
I get this blurriness when taking pictures outside at daytime or in sunset, photos at night are really terrible and look like they were taken with a 10 year old nokia crap.
sometimes I can get really nice photos, macro looks great, took a photo in my garage of the concrete ground with water on it in low light conditions and came out nice.
photo of the car was taken an hour before sunset with quite sunlight outside, did not use flash, and all of the photos in that session came out blurry and very low quality.
thoughts???
P.S. I'll add the original photos to the thread too, the blurriness can be seen better in the originals.
Try to play with some setting ect. download a couple of camera app's from the market, and play with those settings.
HTC compresses the photos a lot for some reason, that's why they come out bad at times. You might want to try a camera mod.
HTCs seem to always have this white washed out picture look.
Even my HTC hero did not produce images this bad D:
SOLVED
Factory reset solved the quality issue, camera now again takes amazing photos
FACTORY reset of all phone or ??
I have same problem, but I don't want to wipe all
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FACTORY reset of all phone or ??
I have same problem, but I don't want to wipe all
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Yeah.. I used the 'factory data reset' in settings > sd and phone storage.
shouldn't be too much of a hassle, just make a list of your most important stuff and re-install it.. a factory reset does only good I'm very pleased with the phone now, even more than before
I need to try a reset I think. The photos taken with my XE are shockingly bad, so much so that I'm wondering if I have a duff camera.
Yeah that's exactly the blurriness I was experiencing, try a hard reset and let me know if that helped.
Take in mind that the sensation's caera does decode the pictures to a mind blowing small size photo so maybe that's the issue..
Well, it hasn't helped, worth a try though.

Improve Night Photography with Snap Camera HDR

I came across this thread on reddit yesterday, by user Chlastek, about how low light photography could be improved on the P2. It's basically a simple process as long as you're rooted. I was skeptical initially because I have previously tried several camera apps (open camera, oneplus, etc...) and didn't quite see the purported "noticeable improvement". I checked the sample photos he provided and was surprised that they were really from the P2. I tried it out myself and the photos came out less grainy, sharper, and just better overall.
Check his thread on reddit for more details. All credits go to him; I'm just the messenger.
1. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
2. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
3. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
4. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
This Camera app is a great upgrade for our p2 but not a magic application... unfortunately.
After different tests, we can have good results and "correct photos" in the worst conditions :
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Thank you so much for sharing this!
I've been trying out the various camera apps and ports for a while now, but results were always disappointing!
This one is absolutely awesome, and by my tests it works pretty well on daylight too.. if you zoom the pictures taken in auto mode with low light mode on you'll notice they don't have that terrible high-contrast post processing you get with the other apps
Just in case someone's having trouble finding "low light mode" (like I was), in settings - other - Use Camera2 API -> On
Hi
I installed as above but was getting the legacy warning for api2 and read the below which is from the xda thread for the snap camera app.
So not sure if it actually works better (on Lenovo p2) ?
Qte:
I'm almost certain that your phone won't support Camera2, if you get a message about being in "legacy" mode when switching to it then you should never use camera2 mode.
Edit: disregard above had a typo in the command line of build.prop. now there is no more warning about legacy more. Installed also Google camera her+ with same tweak in build prop
medwatt said:
I came across this thread on reddit yesterday, by user Chlastek, about how low light photography could be improved on the P2. It's basically a simple process as long as you're rooted. I was skeptical initially because I have previously tried several camera apps (open camera, oneplus, etc...) and didn't quite see the purported "noticeable improvement". I checked the sample photos he provided and was surprised that they were really from the P2. I tried it out myself and the photos came out less grainy, sharper, and just better overall.
Check his thread on reddit for more details. All credits go to him; I'm just the messenger.
1. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
2. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
3. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
4. Stock Camera vs Snap HDR
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Yup I have been using snap cam HDR for low light..... It's superb with less noise and more details....

Mi 10 Ultra - Camera quality issues

I've had my Mi 10 Ultra, running the xiaomi.eu ROM, for nearly a year or so. I've found the telephoto camera quality to be very good with still subjects, but introduce any kind of motion to the scene, and it is far worse than the Motorola One Zoom I had before.
Here's an example, a slightly cropped photo from the 5x camera, tracking a moving car:
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What exactly is going on here? The panel gaps between the doors as well as at the base of the A-pillar have multiplied! Likewise, there's ghosting right by the door handles! My hypothesis is that the camera takes multiple exposures and then haphazardly merges them into one. This makes the camera absolutely useless at photographing anything moving. Hell, I get better quality using stills from a video with the 5x camera than by taking an actual photograph!
So; is there any way to turn this crap off? The photo above is taken in Pro mode with manual settings, and all AI things are turned off already...
Have you tried using the "Pro" mode to set custom shutter speeds yourself?
I find it usually works well, although sometimes I need to turn HDR off to stop the multi-exposure capture if the object is moving too fast.
The attached photo was taken in Pro mode, no HDR.
I don't believe this is an exposure time issue, as parts of the car are sharp, and anyway these flaws look a lot more akin to what you'd find in a poorly stitched panorama. You can also see the pattern on the road surface looks weird, as if it was clone-brushed or something.
Aonsaithya said:
I've had my Mi 10 Ultra, running the xiaomi.eu ROM, for nearly a year or so. I've found the telephoto camera quality to be very good with still subjects, but introduce any kind of motion to the scene, and it is far worse than the Motorola One Zoom I had before.
Here's an example, a slightly cropped photo from the 5x camera, tracking a moving car:
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What exactly is going on here? The panel gaps between the doors as well as at the base of the A-pillar have multiplied! Likewise, there's ghosting right by the door handles! My hypothesis is that the camera takes multiple exposures and then haphazardly merges them into one. This makes the camera absolutely useless at photographing anything moving. Hell, I get better quality using stills from a video with the 5x camera than by taking an actual photograph!
So; is there any way to turn this crap off? The photo above is taken in Pro mode with manual settings, and all AI things are turned off already...
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You should try gcam. It becomes a real photo camera... Xiaomi processing is very poor compared to Google's.
I have GCam installed, but rarely use it due to the lack of manual settings. Perhaps I'll give it a try with moving subjects, though. Thanks for the idea.
EDIT: tried it, GCam doesn't produce these exposure fusion artefacts at all.
Stock camera:
GCam:

Question Terrible front camera performance (Colour balance + Saturation)

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else experienced this, I quite often make pictures with my front cam and the camera is such a downgrade from my 4 year old Xiaomi Mix 3! The colour balance is all off, almost like they forgot to make a profile for the front cam.
The back camera is just fine, but the front camera often looks like a $20 toy camera just because of this terrible colour balance. I can fix most of my selfies in Google Photos by using a combination of adding warmth (Colour Balance) and adding saturation which makes them look just fine.
For a phone this expensive... this shouldn't be needed. I'd say most mid-level phones even make better selfies then this.
I've tried cleaning the lens but this makes no difference, the Samsung camera app just fails to properly process the colours in the front camera's images.
Because I apparently don't value my privacy, here is a picture as taken by the Samsung camera, and the same picture after adding warmth and saturation.
The original image makes me look lifeless with the skin being very pale, like a zombie almost. It was a nice and sunny day, why do I look like I'm 10 seconds away from my death?
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Anyone else with this issue? Does a modded version of the Samsung camera exist with the possibility to manually define post-processing settings? I just need to have it add more saturation and offset the colour balance
I'm searching for a solution myself, google's Gcam camera is great but I can't find a way to make it use the front camera. I'll be back if I find a way..
beanbean50 said:
I'm searching for a solution myself, google's Gcam camera is great but I can't find a way to make it use the front camera. I'll be back if I find a way..
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I've searched high and wide for a way to make another camera app the default one to get a better front camera selfie (even by disabling Samsung camera) but it seems like the cover screen and Samsung camera are intertwined and cannot be separated.
What we really need is a developer to have a look at the system framework or whatnot and see if something can be done to change the default camera, but they (developers) are a rare breed nowadays.
But on the bright side, if they ever do a remake of the movie weekend at Bernie's I'm pretty sure they'd offer you a part with photos like that..!

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