iPhone5 disappointed by photos! Galaxy Note is super!

billorg · Sep 30, 2012

I really was hoping for a jump in quality from my 3Gs to the 5 - and yes, it is a little less grain, but the color is off, also pale and it does not come close to the worst P&S. Today while in the ATT store, I shot a picture with the Samsung Galaxy Note and OMG it was like a good P&S!! SO different than the mush of the iphone 5. I also took one with the Galaxy 3S, it was very "ghosty" but it is very possible the lens was dirty so I would have to clean and re-shoot with it to be fair. But I was SO impressed by the Note - and it's 1/2 the price. Click to enlarge each.

iPhone 5:

Samsung Galaxy Note:

lanef · Sep 30, 2012

The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Robert McGovern · Sep 30, 2012

I prefer th color of the IPhone over the Note, your skin tome looks more normal. Note makes you look orange

Mark B. · Sep 30, 2012

Robert McGovern said:
I prefer th color of the IPhone over the Note, your skin tome looks more normal. Note makes you look orange

I have to agree; I don't like the color balance of the Note photo - too much yellow.

seeblue · Sep 30, 2012

In the first one it looked like the photog moved.

The second one has an overall yellow color-cast.

One of the disappointing features of some smart phone cameras is a color-cast which seems to rear its head rather unpredictably. It seems like it's either yellow or magenta casts that I see around this forum.

relate2 · Oct 1, 2012

lanef said:
The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Look at the T shirt the Galaxy Note is way sharper than the iPhone photo.
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relate2 · Oct 1, 2012

I have a Galaxy Note and for me the video is even more impressive than the still images.

Here is one of my videos using my galaxy note.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQOfWomVQCU
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Menneisyys · Oct 1, 2012

The iPhoto shot is blurred because of the low shutter speed. Therefore, this photo is not really a good example of its capabilties. (It's certainly better than one would think based on the shot. Of course it doesn't come close to even the Nokia N8.)

relate2 said:
lanef said:

The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Click to expand...

Look at the T shirt the Galaxy Note is way sharper than the iPhone photo.
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relate2 · Oct 1, 2012

Menneisyys said:
The iPhoto shot is blurred because of the low shutter speed. Therefore, this photo is not really a good example of its capabilties. (It's certainly better than one would think based on the shot. Of course it doesn't come close to even the Nokia N8.)

And you know the shutter speed is low how?

There is no exif information attached to the image.

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Menneisyys · Oct 1, 2012

Just look at the white letters on the yellow background in the left of the shot - they are blurred and not because of defocus / bad lens / grease.

(The iPhone 5's camera is definitely not THIS bad.)

relate2 said:
Menneisyys said:

The iPhoto shot is blurred because of the low shutter speed. Therefore, this photo is not really a good example of its capabilties. (It's certainly better than one would think based on the shot. Of course it doesn't come close to even the Nokia N8.)

Click to expand...

And you know the shutter speed is low how?

There is no exif information attached to the image.

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relate2 · Oct 1, 2012

Menneisyys said:
Just look at the white letters on the yellow background in the left of the shot - they are blurred and not because of defocus / bad lens / grease.

(The iPhone 5's camera is definitely not THIS bad.)

Sorry I don't see any motion blur in those letters or the EXIT sign. I do agree the iPhone 5 is not usually this bad.

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ryder78 · Oct 3, 2012

I don't know what you guys are seeing. The Note's image is way sharper than the iPhone's image. Look at the text on the T-shirt and the background. The iPhone seems to have trouble getting the focus right, producing a soft and slightly blurry image.

As for colour rendition, the iPhone appears to have a more orange tinge than the Note. Not too sure which is more accurate but overall the image on the Note is of higher quality and resolution.

Mark B. · Oct 3, 2012

ryder78 said:
I don't know what you guys are seeing. The Note's image is way sharper than the iPhone's image. Look at the text on the T-shirt and the background. The iPhone seems to have trouble getting the focus right, producing a soft and slightly blurry image.

The iPhone moved ever so slightly when the photo was taken. Either that, or the camera on the iPhone used is defective. My iPhone doesn't take blurry pics like that.

ryder78 said:
As for colour rendition, the iPhone appears to have a more orange tinge than the Note. Not too sure which is more accurate but overall the image on the Note is of higher quality and resolution.

To each their own. I don't like the yellow cast on the skin in the Note photo.

lanef · Oct 3, 2012

relate2 said:
lanef said:

The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Click to expand...

Look at the T shirt the Galaxy Note is way sharper than the iPhone photo.

Ok, this is a portrait right? What is the most important part in a portrait?
The eyes, they are sharper in the iPhone shot.
And look at the eyebrows in the first shot, they are not really sharp.

relate2 · Oct 3, 2012

lanef said:
relate2 said:

lanef said:

The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Click to expand...

Look at the T shirt the Galaxy Note is way sharper than the iPhone photo.

Click to expand...

Ok, this is a portrait right? What is the most important part in a portrait?
The eyes, they are sharper in the iPhone shot.

I am going to have to stop commenting on Apple products. When people are still saying the Apple maps work fine for them and there is no problem, it is a waste of time pointing out any minor camera problem.
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Mark B. · Oct 3, 2012

relate2 said:
lanef said:

relate2 said:

lanef said:

The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Click to expand...

Look at the T shirt the Galaxy Note is way sharper than the iPhone photo.

Click to expand...

Ok, this is a portrait right? What is the most important part in a portrait?
The eyes, they are sharper in the iPhone shot.

Click to expand...

I am going to have to stop commenting on Apple products. When people are still saying the Apple maps work fine for them and there is no problem, it is a waste of time pointing out any minor camera problem.
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I think the sharpness is a user problem - it simply looks like the iPhone got bumped when the photo was taken.

ryder78 · Oct 3, 2012

Menneisyys said:
Menneisyys wrote:

The iPhoto shot is blurred because of the low shutter speed. Therefore, this photo is not really a good example of its capabilties. (It's certainly better than one would think based on the shot. Of course it doesn't come close to even the Nokia N8.)

I think the low shutter speed of the iPhone combined with moderate lighting in the store may have contributed to the soft or *slightly* blurry picture instead of shaky hands. Most phones fail in low to moderate light, and perhaps this was the case with the iPhone which shows its weakness in these conditions. Although the Nokia N8 fails in low light by producing a lot of noise, the picture quality is still better when compared to most cameras, especially the iPhone. Well, just stressing a point although this post is about the Galaxy Note vs iPhone5.

lanef · Oct 3, 2012

relate2 said:
relate2 wrote:

lanef said:

relate2 said:

lanef said:

The iphone photo is a bit greenish but sharper. May be you have to use a photo app.

Click to expand...

Look at the T shirt the Galaxy Note is way sharper than the iPhone photo.

Click to expand...

Ok, this is a portrait right? What is the most important part in a portrait?
The eyes, they are sharper in the iPhone shot.

Click to expand...

I am going to have to stop commenting on Apple products. When people are still saying the Apple maps work fine for them and there is no problem,

My opinion about the maps, the worst map navigation I have ever seen. Gave it a try yesterday travelling from a friend's place to my house, the map would get me to drive pass my house and turn on the next set of lights where there is not street to my residence. Also if you change route the maps do not recalculate and get stuck on its initial route. So it is the worst of the worst.

ryder78 · Oct 3, 2012

lanef said:
lanef wrote:

My opinion about the maps, the worst map navigation I have ever seen. Gave it a try yesterday travelling from a friend's place to my house, the map would get me to drive pass my house and turn on the next set of lights where there is not street to my residence. Also if you change route the maps do not recalculate and get stuck on its initial route. So it is the worst of the worst.

A friend who travels more on the road than sitting in the office uses Garmin maps and navigation whenever she wants to get to an unfamiliar place. She owns the iPhone 4S. She never mentions about the maps but I guess the big screen does it for her.

Note: We are not located in the States.

MrScary · Oct 7, 2012

I don't own either and probably never will because of the cost...

But to me, the Note is better..Funnily enough, most people in other parts of world prefer the more Warm Orangey look, whilst most in UK prefer the cooler look.

In Competitions if a person is Orange looking it gets downpointed..

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