Click here to read the first part of the review of Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge's camera
Photography
Let's start with the day of shooting. When the weather is good, with sufficient lighting, the camera shows itself at its best. We managed to catch a nice weather with bright sunshine and blue sky with white clouds. The pictures turned out excellent: high detail and natural colors combined with sufficient contrast. Simply put - the day make great pictures. In the application, you can select the focus point and adjust the brightness. Sometimes setting makes the last shot a little better. The image quality is accurate enough to be used in social networks. It will even allow you to print images on A4 sheet and hang it in a frame.
Day shooting outdoors:
Shooting indoors:
With HDR shooting mode flagship Samsung handles brilliantly. Shooting with high dynamic range, by default, is enabled in automatic mode, it can also turn on / off manually. Photos in HDR mode produced very impressive, the colors are natural: the smart phone "pulls" too dark and too light areas.
Recall that unlike most modern smartphones (not just the flagships), Samsung flagship in the second year in a row is single LED-flash. This can be explained only by the fact that the company does not rely on the element of the camera when shooting in difficult conditions, assuming that the smartphone more often used as a flash lamp.
Nevertheless, with the work she does well, correctly highlighting and illuminating the object.
Innovation in the S7 line of cameras - in addition to the usual pan, the device is able to shoot more, and the so-called live view. On your smartphone, it looks very interesting: due to gyroscope image moves forward or backward when the user tilts the device. In this case, if the frame when shooting the action takes place - I went a man ran a dog or drove the car - it will reproduce and "live" panorama. You can save a panorama format video with all the movements, but on a smartphone screen, it still looks much more interesting than a simple video.
The quality of panoramic photos is very high, with capture both day and night:
At night, the camera is at an altitude of Samsung again. As in the past generation, literally nothing to complain about: dostaёsh camera, they focus and shoot. Again, you get high quality pictures that you can print out and hang in a frame - only some minor noise allow to distinguish between a picture taken on the Galaxy S7 edge, from the image obtained with the help of at least a compact camera.
At night, the autofocus works well and misses, the device is adjusted correctly under shooting conditions and gives a snapshot of that and expect to receive. And, it all looks good both on the smartphone screen and the monitor and photo prints.
In shooting modes list is the "Selective Focus". Smartphone makes a series of shots with multiple focal points, after which the program can be selected near or far (thus blurring the background or foreground). And it can be done so that all was in focus. Then take clear and beautiful images.
Shooting the text does not cause any problems at Samsung: all letters are read perfectly.
The front camera of 5 MP takes exactly the same as she did in the line S6 - qualitatively. Now she received a "virtual" outburst during shooting Super AMOLED display illuminates the face of soft white glow that enhances the image.
Video
Select the resolution when shooting video in Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is large enough: VGA, HD, 1: 1 (1440h1440), Full HD, Full HD (60 fps), QHD (2560x1440), UHD (3840x2160). In addition, there are a few special modes associated with the video filming. First of all, it is slow and time-lapse photography. There is also a videokollazh: it allows you to record several short videos, placing them in a mosaic grid. You can create collages with an aspect ratio of 1: 1 or 4: 3, as well as the use of time-lapse shooting. Mode "Live Webcast" allows for online display directly to YouTube. There are also "virtual photography", which allows you to make a video object with the shooting from all sides, but it looks pretty prosaic and not surprising.
Note that when shooting video on the fore a new sensor, a lens with a high aperture ratio and, of course, the optical image stabilization.
Video in Full HD turns out good in the dark. The device produces a high quality image with natural colors and high detail. There is a possibility to record video with the HDR - This function works with Full HD movie recording.
The user can also record Full HD at 60 frames per second, then the motion seem smoother.
When recording with a resolution of 4K becoming more visible fine details. Samsung Galaxy S7 edge copes with the resolution of the video 3840h2160 pixels. An interesting detail - in the video screen smartphone in UHD-as you can zoom in.
New mode - time-lapse photography (Timelapse). It replaced the fast shooting and probably looks more interesting. The user can select the speed from 4 to 32 frames per second, or rely on automatic detection of speed. It is important to say that for the best quality shooting in this mode, be sure to need a tripod and a holder for a smartphone. Video is written in the resolution of Full HD.
Shooting delayed video remained at the same high level as well as its resolution - continues to HD only. It's a bit sad.
results
Samsung has made an interesting move, completely changing the camera after the success of the previous generation. Just trying a new device in case, you know that it happened by chance, and no one in the Korean company had not made a decision to change different module to the one that is worse. In the eyes of ordinary people, four megapixels really lost, but an experienced amateur photographer will tell you that it is not in the number of megapixels happiness. Things that are controversial in the new chamber - an added mode "Food." However, it gives the opportunity to quickly and easily change the color temperature, and can be useful not only for shooting beautiful and delicious dishes. It may also raise questions no dual LED-flash mode and "Live Panorama", or rather his video part. But, as in the past year, we have a camera that will be recognized by most people are one of the best smartphones. Excellent application, a large number of useful modes and a huge opportunity for shooting both day and night, on the street or in the room - all this Samsung Galaxy S7 edge - a new benchmark in mobile photography.
Pros:
Let's start with the day of shooting. When the weather is good, with sufficient lighting, the camera shows itself at its best. We managed to catch a nice weather with bright sunshine and blue sky with white clouds. The pictures turned out excellent: high detail and natural colors combined with sufficient contrast. Simply put - the day make great pictures. In the application, you can select the focus point and adjust the brightness. Sometimes setting makes the last shot a little better. The image quality is accurate enough to be used in social networks. It will even allow you to print images on A4 sheet and hang it in a frame.
Day shooting outdoors:
Shooting indoors:
With HDR shooting mode flagship Samsung handles brilliantly. Shooting with high dynamic range, by default, is enabled in automatic mode, it can also turn on / off manually. Photos in HDR mode produced very impressive, the colors are natural: the smart phone "pulls" too dark and too light areas.
Recall that unlike most modern smartphones (not just the flagships), Samsung flagship in the second year in a row is single LED-flash. This can be explained only by the fact that the company does not rely on the element of the camera when shooting in difficult conditions, assuming that the smartphone more often used as a flash lamp.
Nevertheless, with the work she does well, correctly highlighting and illuminating the object.
Innovation in the S7 line of cameras - in addition to the usual pan, the device is able to shoot more, and the so-called live view. On your smartphone, it looks very interesting: due to gyroscope image moves forward or backward when the user tilts the device. In this case, if the frame when shooting the action takes place - I went a man ran a dog or drove the car - it will reproduce and "live" panorama. You can save a panorama format video with all the movements, but on a smartphone screen, it still looks much more interesting than a simple video.
The quality of panoramic photos is very high, with capture both day and night:
At night, the camera is at an altitude of Samsung again. As in the past generation, literally nothing to complain about: dostaёsh camera, they focus and shoot. Again, you get high quality pictures that you can print out and hang in a frame - only some minor noise allow to distinguish between a picture taken on the Galaxy S7 edge, from the image obtained with the help of at least a compact camera.
At night, the autofocus works well and misses, the device is adjusted correctly under shooting conditions and gives a snapshot of that and expect to receive. And, it all looks good both on the smartphone screen and the monitor and photo prints.
In shooting modes list is the "Selective Focus". Smartphone makes a series of shots with multiple focal points, after which the program can be selected near or far (thus blurring the background or foreground). And it can be done so that all was in focus. Then take clear and beautiful images.
Shooting the text does not cause any problems at Samsung: all letters are read perfectly.
The front camera of 5 MP takes exactly the same as she did in the line S6 - qualitatively. Now she received a "virtual" outburst during shooting Super AMOLED display illuminates the face of soft white glow that enhances the image.
Video
Select the resolution when shooting video in Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is large enough: VGA, HD, 1: 1 (1440h1440), Full HD, Full HD (60 fps), QHD (2560x1440), UHD (3840x2160). In addition, there are a few special modes associated with the video filming. First of all, it is slow and time-lapse photography. There is also a videokollazh: it allows you to record several short videos, placing them in a mosaic grid. You can create collages with an aspect ratio of 1: 1 or 4: 3, as well as the use of time-lapse shooting. Mode "Live Webcast" allows for online display directly to YouTube. There are also "virtual photography", which allows you to make a video object with the shooting from all sides, but it looks pretty prosaic and not surprising.
Note that when shooting video on the fore a new sensor, a lens with a high aperture ratio and, of course, the optical image stabilization.
Video in Full HD turns out good in the dark. The device produces a high quality image with natural colors and high detail. There is a possibility to record video with the HDR - This function works with Full HD movie recording.
The user can also record Full HD at 60 frames per second, then the motion seem smoother.
When recording with a resolution of 4K becoming more visible fine details. Samsung Galaxy S7 edge copes with the resolution of the video 3840h2160 pixels. An interesting detail - in the video screen smartphone in UHD-as you can zoom in.
New mode - time-lapse photography (Timelapse). It replaced the fast shooting and probably looks more interesting. The user can select the speed from 4 to 32 frames per second, or rely on automatic detection of speed. It is important to say that for the best quality shooting in this mode, be sure to need a tripod and a holder for a smartphone. Video is written in the resolution of Full HD.
Shooting delayed video remained at the same high level as well as its resolution - continues to HD only. It's a bit sad.
results
Samsung has made an interesting move, completely changing the camera after the success of the previous generation. Just trying a new device in case, you know that it happened by chance, and no one in the Korean company had not made a decision to change different module to the one that is worse. In the eyes of ordinary people, four megapixels really lost, but an experienced amateur photographer will tell you that it is not in the number of megapixels happiness. Things that are controversial in the new chamber - an added mode "Food." However, it gives the opportunity to quickly and easily change the color temperature, and can be useful not only for shooting beautiful and delicious dishes. It may also raise questions no dual LED-flash mode and "Live Panorama", or rather his video part. But, as in the past year, we have a camera that will be recognized by most people are one of the best smartphones. Excellent application, a large number of useful modes and a huge opportunity for shooting both day and night, on the street or in the room - all this Samsung Galaxy S7 edge - a new benchmark in mobile photography.
Pros:
- accurate and fast autofocus;
- great shooting night;
- quality HDR mode;
- high lens aperture;
- the ability to shoot in RAW.
- single LED-flash;
- reduced the number of megapixels.
Click here to read the first part of the review of Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge's camera
