Nighttime photography is fascinating, and when it comes to phones and brands, what differentiates a good nighttime photo from an average or bad one is actually the quality of the light that comes into the lens.
The higher the lens the more light it lets in, and this is what makes a huge difference.
Samsung has a 50M lense on all its lens, a brand like Xiaomi comes with 200M on most of its flagship phones, but the difference is that that brands like Samsung does a lot of better processing, but tne 200M of the Xiaomi helps a whole lot when it comes to nighttime photography.
However, I prefer hardware and better processing on a phone, and that's what the Vivo and iPhones offer even better, but the Samsung gives you a better processing ability.
Overall, the Samsung experience is better, and it is not limited like the iPhone or the Vivo.
The shots
So I was out yesterday night and decided to take some experimental zoom shots, it was nothing fascinating.
It was the image of the moon, but my aim wasn't to test the quality of the camera, it was to test the zoom capacity, the AI processing and to just satisfy my curiosity.
The pictures aren't overall bad, they were expectedly soft, but unable, I like how the AI processing tried to replace the moon shots at x30 zoom with its own version, although I didn't choose this because I wanted a natural moon shot that's real and not something that's doctored.
As we all know that light is photography, and this shots proved that the smaller lenses of the Samsung aren't built for nighttime, but the processing makes up for this, which is a really decent trade-off in my opinion.
Let me say again, not everyone will go around taking pictures in the middle of the night, it's not a habitual thing even though it's possible and happens occasionally.
The idea of big lenses on mobile phones is to push the abilities of these phones when the conditions are not favorable for photography..
So basically I took shots with the normal lens, then the remaining shots were of x10 and x30 zoom. (The S25 Fe maxxes out at 30x zoom, I don't know of the standard S25, the pro and ultra)
What do you think of these shots?