Never have I been more disappointed by a camera on a phone ever. Foliage looks terrible, 48mp photos during the day aren’t any more detailed than the 12mp photos on my S8 while having strange artifacts, lens smearing, and terrible video outdoors and in very dark scenes (indoors in semi-ideal conditions is the only time it’s good). The 12mp photos should be the go-to but they’re a disaster, 8mp level of detail. And you can sort of fix this by turning off noise reduction but this phone is not designed for custom camera apps in mind so camera2api support is limited. Why does samsung solely give quality control checks on their flagships only? Do they truly believe people can’t just buy second hand phones from the used market and get the same level of quality control?
It’s a budget phone. S8 was great for its time before AI and stuff.
In some conditions it could take decent images but yes, at the end of the day it’s still a budget phone that can’t take photos like other mainstream or high-end phones.
For that, can’t blame them. For not making S23 series more “natural” and improving their quality, yes. That’s just the way that companies work these days.