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mib1800

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What's funny is look at the image stabilization section. About 2:30 into the video The Galaxy is clearly worse and the video is jerky vs the iPhone video.

The guy say "hands down I have to give it to the Note 4..." Anyway, it looks like the Note has a nice camera and it should for being 16mp. This video is hokey though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arah2K_xvCk

There is a companion video to this which they compared the Note4 and ip6+. At about the 18.45 mark in the video you can see more of the camera part. The video of the Note4 looks more stable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQr1LraahA

I think they did quite a good comparison with pretty neutral comments unlike some video reviews which exaggerate with over-the-top bias comments.
 

Zwhaler

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Jun 10, 2006
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This kind of test doesn't use color accuracy as a criteria because the voters were not there. So, it would make sense that the voters on the Internet might be swayed by over saturated images from a Note 4.

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Can you spare us having to watch a 30 minute video and give us the main reason?

30 minutes? How about less than 4 and a half ... watch the video and learn something about the 2 cameras
 

The Game 161

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Dec 15, 2010
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Touchwiz looks much improved from what I've seen. Think will give touchwiz a go instead of using a launcher
 

Rangomango

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Jun 25, 2012
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The video can't be independently verified.

Supply pictures (original) w/ full EXIF. One needs to be able to evaluate the noise. The dynamic range and detail.
There is no doubt a higher MP will have better detail but that is not an indicator of quality. Noise, linear steps of dynamic range are quantifiable objective metrics.

Secondly, his low-light is nowhere to what I call "low-light"

Go outside at 4AM and take a picture and come back to me.
Take a picture of some kids running around a 10x10 room w/ a 20 watt bulb in the middle.
Take pictures of mix exposures. A subject against a back-lit window. This will test the metering of the camera's software. the IP6 plus shines here.

These are tangible tests.

I agree, I would prefer if people tested real world situations

I was amazed by reviews of the s5 camera. But once I got the phone, I found that low light pictures were super noisy. I also found the focus to be inconsistent on closer up objects. It does take great daytime photos though.

Software quirks were there too, I did miss a few good shots due to lag. Hopefully these are fixed with the note 4.

EDIT:
Just watched the video above, why do the iphone pictures look super hazy? Did he have a fingerprint on it or something? The colors on the front iPhone 6 cam are definitely better than the note 4. The note 4 does have more detail, but thats expected as it is ~3x the resolution.
 
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Jibbajabba

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So both phones are good enough to make stupid looking selfies, pictures of cats sleeping, babies yawning and friends falling over. Got it.
 

MRU

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Touchwiz looks much improved from what I've seen. Think will give touchwiz a go instead of using a launcher


You should... It is much improved on both the S5 & Alpha so see no reason the Note 4 shouldn't be the same. I don't mind the launcher, however still wish I could move app drawer icon to the centre of dock.
 

Oohara

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Touchwiz looks much improved from what I've seen. Think will give touchwiz a go instead of using a launcher

It definitely seems a bit more tasteful now. I'd probably use NovaPrime anyway just to get the gestures, but for this version of TouchWiz I could actually see myself using some of the TW widgets and stuff - those posted earlier in this thread actually looked quite nice!
 
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