Camera settings

[Hadron]

Something I was wondering : do Samsung let you control the amount of sharpening applied to images? I always find that Samsung, like many manufacturers, over-sharpen their images. That's not a problem if the user can turn the sharpening down (as HTC let me), but I've never seen anything that suggests that Sammy offer that option. However that's a level of detail that few reviewers go into, so I thought I'd ask people with experience of recent Samsung camera apps whether they have such a control?

Of course there would alway be the option of shooting raw, but since the main (IMO only) point of a phone camera is convenience I'm interested in whether it's possible to control this in-camera.

 

[El Presidente]

Mrs Presidente has the S7 and I'm pretty sure I saw an option for changing the sharpness.

She just got her Nougat update this morning so I'm not sure if this has changed though. I'll have a look when I get in from work.

General query or are you contemplating the S8?

 

[El Presidente]

One of the boys at work has the S7, so confirmed, in Pro mode, there's a setting for changing sharpness.

 

[Hadron]

Excellent - thanks .

I'm considering it, in a large part due to it being much narrower than other high-sided options at the moment. Fragility and audio quality remain concerns, but that's one I can cross off now.

 

[El Presidente]

No problem!

I'm in a similar position. I'm looking at either the ZX Premium or the S8+. I'm not fussed about fragility as I'll use a case and glass screen protector, but I am worried about audio quality.

I'm half resigned to the fact that I won't be rooting whatever handset I get so I won't have the option of Viperaudio if audio is sub par.

 

[El Presidente]

Incidentally, Mrs Presidentes handset doesn't appear to have a setting to alter sharpening...

 

[Hadron]

OK. Guess next time I'm near a shop I'll just dive into the camera settings and see if I can find anything.

 

[El Presidente]

According to the Android Police Review, it doesn't shapen as aggressively as the S7/S7 Edge -

I was a fan of the camera on the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, though I do still have my critiques as they've aged: colors are exaggerated and processing can be overbearing. Samsung claims that while the camera in the S8 and S8+ is the same one found in last year's phones, they've done work on the processing side to increase image quality. What does that mean, exactly? For my eyeballs, it means less aggressive sharpening.