Samsung Galaxy S23 / S22 Ultra GCAM with natural processing

mu7z · Mar 22, 2023

FlexiPack said:
Fraa32 said:

mu7z said:

Fraa32 said:

Some sample from my recent trip.

Probably is not the best photo quality on the market, but using the Gcam overall I'm very satisfied of the incredibile versatility.

Plus the device is all around the best you can find.

I did many test gcam 12mpx vs stock 50mpx and 200mpx, and i can say that most of the time high res stock is useless. Details are similar or even better with gcam at 12mpx.

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Can you share what setup are you using and xml?

Is it LCM8.4 + S23ultralmc.xml ?

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I'm using this

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/working-gcam-for-s23-ultra.4550019/post-88178597

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In my brief testing (admittedly just in low-light), I found the LMC + Matteo libs gave better results than the set-up by JavaSabr on XDA. Did you compare the two?

Same here. The only annoying thing is you have to disable libpatcher with the Matteo libs. I find the Matteo libs are too dark and are too red/warm, requiring manual color correction after every photo. I wish there is an easier way to correct this.

chaosnightmare · Mar 23, 2023

Im using the LMC app version but after testing many options this worked for me to solve dark pictures:

go into settings > photo processing > main camera > main settings > ISO > and choose the highest available iso level, I think is 60000.

now, I can keep libpatcher on, noise levels barely increase even in low light, and picture brightness is on par with the stock cam. you can repeat the same steps with every camera instead of main camera for similar results.

also, from

photo processing > ( choose any camera ) > color : you could ajust color leves to your prefferences but i would sugest start by making small changes to the primary colors and compare pictures:

here are some samples with the main camera with my configuration after increasing the iso level:

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I also found that in some cases the 200mpx stock can actually take more detailed pictures than the GCAM as long as there's enough light and the exp time is 1/120 or faster, otherewise the 200mpx photo turns into an upscaled poorly processed 12mpx picture. you may also want to keep the picture softneing to medium from the camera assistant (galaxy store ad-on) to prevent the oversharpened mess that samsung produces by default:

200mpx stock with softening to medium:

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mu7z · Mar 23, 2023

chaosnightmare said:
Im using the LMC app version but after testing many options this worked for me to solve dark pictures:

go into settings > photo processing > main camera > main settings > ISO > and choose the highest available iso level, I think is 60000.

now, I can keep libpatcher on, noise levels barely increase even in low light, and picture brightness is on par with the stock cam. you can repeat the same steps with every camera instead of main camera for similar results.

also, from

photo processing > ( choose any camera ) > color : you could ajust color leves to your prefferences but i would sugest start by making small changes to the primary colors and compare pictures:

here are some samples with the main camera with my configuration after increasing the iso level:

View attachment c84e2cd83d804c74bd06ca60b83d978d.jpg

View attachment 4de6935468074ca3996fae40785b68d5.jpg

View attachment 5b13627691f14c7ea746c2f38636bb47.jpg

X3:

I also found that in some cases the 200mpx stock can actually take more detailed pictures than the GCAM as long as there's enough light and the exp time is 1/120 or faster, otherewise the 200mpx photo turns into an upscaled poorly processed 12mpx picture. you may also want to keep the picture softneing to medium from the camera assistant (galaxy store ad-on) to prevent the oversharpened mess that samsung produces by default:

200mpx stock with softening to medium:

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Excellent, thank you for these tips. The only issue is when I enable lib patcher with the Matteo libs, it ends up overridiing some of the defaults from Matteo's libs

Louiscar · May 23, 2023

I've been searching for a surround function for my S22 Ultra and came across this.

However, I have the Exynos version.

I have nevertheless downloaded the files but am wondering when the first post says (Snapdragon only) for the S22 is that because you only tested this on that or there is some other reason why Exynos will not work ?

geleksie · Jun 7, 2023

Does this GCAM work for all zoom lenses on the S23 Ultra?

Drzewoid · Jun 23, 2023

geleksie said:
Does this GCAM work for all zoom lenses on the S23 Ultra?

Yes

FourKay · Jun 25, 2023

Drzewoid said:
Hi,

I'm starting thread, because i had some questions in private messages about S23 Ultra ang GCAM and how to make this phone to take great pictures. Not all GCAM libs give natural good looking output, so i use matteo library - new versions are always available here on Tech on Bermudas https://techinbermudas.com/matteo-gcam-configs-mi11u/

This method work with S23 Ultra and proably in 99% in S22 Ultra(SNAPDRAGON ONLY), so here we go

First we need go to this link and download GCAM

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-shamim/f/dl28/

Package, which works with Samsung is named SGCAM_8.4.400.42.XXX_STABLE_V43_AWEME_PACKAGE.apk. After downloading GCAM, we download ZIP from this link

https://mega.nz/file/3ZoW3SjD#xHbucJ_FQmC-R0m4vAj6vQKWpkSaZuWjZSOSdiwUe6Q

It's archive with SGCAM directory, which must be copied(after unzip) to main memory in phone. If You open phone memory this directory must be there. After this we install GCAM from first link and run app. Then double tap on empty space between shutter button and preview of last taken photo and when new window appear - click S23 Ultran and load XML. In GCAM menu we should select HDR+E and enjoy taking photos.

If YOu have any question, please ask...

Example photo with GCAM, enjoy!

It's crazy how much more "fine grained" and realistic branches and everything looks with GCAM.

These photos remind me of Nokia 808 PureView.

How come Pixel photos don't look like that. And what's the magic with GCAM?

The left one looks so much more realistic. All the numbers and lines don't have that HDR blurriness and bloat to them.

tetsumo · Jul 10, 2023

Any updates on this? I´m currently testing Hasli LMC 8.4 R17 with Javasabr xml v5 and also BigKaka AGC 8.8.224v2, sometimes I like LMC more sometimes AGC wins, but they both are better than stock most of the time, night mode still a challenge for noise.

tetsumo · Jul 10, 2023

GCam works best on Qualcomm, there are versions for exynos but you need to research and test them. That´s the thing with gcam, given that is made for pixel phones, devs decompile it and make it work for different phones. Check out XDA Forums for your phone and search it over there to find a version that works for your mode.

In order to get a good gcam build for your specific device you need to research and test several builds and versions and config files until you get one that works best for your phone, this can take a couple of days and weeks of research, you need to do a lot of tinkering.

tetsumo · Aug 2, 2023

I´ve been testing AGC BigKaka´s port with JavaSabr configs with great results! (AGC8.8.224_V4.0_samsung.apk with JavaSabr v7 configs)

Here a step by step tutorial on how to install.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/working-gcam-for-s23-ultra.4550019/page-113#post-88801873

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