My recent experience with the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s camera during a concert was far from stellar. It was terrible, to say the least. The phone’s sluggish response time made capturing moments a frustrating task, and the super slow shutter speed resulted in consistently blurry images. Comparatively, a friend using a much older iPhone 14 Pro Max effortlessly captured sharper shots because of its faster shutter speed. While the phone obviously excels in daylight photography, it struggles in low-light conditions and with moving objects. The lingering question is: Why hasn’t Samsung addressed these performance issues promptly?
I wish I could post the comparison pictures between hers and mine pictures. All the pictures I took of the artist looked like she was made of wax. It’s mind-blowing how a 200mp camera was unable to take better pictures than a 12mp camera. And we were both front row, so the artist was less than 5 feet away from us.
For video, it worked great. For pictures, not so much…
Turn off auto night shots when you see it in the bottom right corner. It over brightens a lot of pictures with the post processing.
If you want a good camera look at the results from dxomark next time.
My photos are generally excellent. In low light conditions I get better photos by holding the photo button down to start a brief video from which a photo can be extracted.
MP aren’t everything. And as said the 200mp camera isn’t for low light settings.
I didn’t use 200mp, though. I used the regular 12mp shot. But still, super slow shutter.
Il be honest I don’t really rate Samsung cameras, always look to be good on paper but not necessarily in practice.
I feel like the camera is amazing in ideal situations, but not in other situations. iPhone Cameras are more reliable, despite not always shooting the best pictures
Yeah they can be decent. Pixel takes the cake generally for me along with iPhone.
It’s hard to say without knowing what settings you used. Did you set it to 200MP mode? If so that’s meant for kind of a perfect daytime lighting situation.
There are settings to make it shoot faster by default and a Pro mode to adjust the shutter speed manually too
Grab Camera Assistant from the Galaxy app store and turn off auto-HDR (camera assistant settings) and Adaptive Pixel (High Resolution settings). If you switch between normal photo mode and raw/pro mode you’ll need to set this for each mode. The post-processing on these phones is diabolical. You’ll see a marked improvement as soon as you turn these off.
You can also set the camera to prioritise quicker shots instead of higher quality shots which is a little poorly named as you’ll get better low light performance with the quicker shooting mode as it speeds up the shutter. This option is under Advanced Intelligent Options and just set it to minimum.
Dont listen to folks here. Honestly, Samsung camera is inferior to its competitors in this department. iPhones and Pixels are best low light shooters because of faster shutter speeds.
During daylight, S23U can compete with them. Nightshoots yes, but if objects are moving, no.
Your best chance is to manually lower shutter speeds in pro mode, but you will loose auto HDR and other sw settings.
Unfortanetly, Samsung is #4 place in photography.
- iPhones
- Pixels
- Huawei
- Samsung
Yeah the shutter speed has been slow for almost a decade. You can download Camera assistant to make it faster, but the image won’t look as good.
It might be user error. S23 Ultra takes gorgeous pictures. I upgraded from S22 Ultra, and the improvement was very noticeable. S23 Ultra and Iphone 14/15 Pro Max are neck to neck.
It’s not user error. It just has a terrible shutter speed. I can’t even take pictures of my dog in auto mode.