Galaxy S5 Image Review

that's not bad for a phone. better than my mini cam i keep on me. which makes it a lot easier if you only have a phone on you.

iphone - has a new camera thing you can get - its from Flir - you can see thermal images. it's being used for stealing people's pin numbers. i wanted it for my phone, but they don't have it. of different toys that would be something worth considering, if it was not a phone base camera (sorry to side track it to that, but it kind of fits).

---Mike Savad

It does....

Kinda mushy on close inspection. No?

they say to prevent someone from reading your pin, if your at a store, cover all the buttons with your hand each time to make the other buttons warm. because the photo it takes only shows the heat of where you pressed, and by looking at the shades they can guess the number. they are promoting this flir one as a tool for home owners, but it only clips into the iphone. it won't make me want to buy an iphone, but i still want this thing. its pretty neat.

---Mike Savad

my sony camera is really really mushy up close. but for a phone sensor, you can see the railing, which isn't bad. compare it to a full frame and it's not great. but if they can improve the quality for phones, that will trickle down (used to be up), to cameras. making them cheaper or better. (provided they don't stop making them so they can make phones)

---Mike Savad

Yupp, mushy would be how I would discribe it as well. That is the biggest drawback with the small sensor, well, that and no real low light capability.

On the flip side, it would probably print fine at 24 inches.

Decent color especially for a scenic (long distance). I've noticed generally the color being very weak for phones on long distances like two shades down from a better and bigger sensor.

Personally, I'm more excited about medium format technology coming down in price then cell phone technology becoming cheaper. Now if I could get a nice 4x5 sensor and dust off my old Graflex, that would be cool.

Something's off somewhere. The S5 phone pixel spec is listed at 4640 x 3480, but you have a 5312px image. Did you enlarge? Are there in-camera settings for enlarging beyond the physical pixel count? The image looks over-cooked or over-sharpened, which may have happened in the FAA conversion.

My S4 (and yours too) was leaps and bounds ahead of cell cameras when it came out 18 months ago. The S5 phone specs are better, but this doesn't seem better....


Dan Turner
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FLIR camera is junk, resolution is horrible

flir isn't designed to be main stream, it's used for thermal leaks. it sees heat. so it won't look sharp because heat doesn't have defining borders. you would use it to see if you have too hot a line in your wall, see where the pipes go, see if there are animals lurking about. you would shoot a room and see where the air is leaking out, and if there is insulation in a wall, leaking around a light and such. that's what its designed for. how i could twist it for art, i don't know, but i still want one.

---Mike Savad

Hmmm, don't know. I emailed it to myself and uploaded.

I have the same phone and I agree JC, not bad picture quality for a cell phone. But, for me I don't think I could ever try to take "professional" quality pictures with my cell. It will always be treated as a snapshot camera. Oh, and for the record (in case you haven't done it yet). The phone is waterproof as it's market. I've taken under water in the pool pictures and a video standing under Bridal Veil Falls at Niagara Falls. And, the phone still works.

I love the photos out of my S5...we have a ton printed. Between it and our Canon S110, we never take our DSLR's for family outings anymore. Has alot to do with that being "work" though.

Sure it won't hold up at large sizes, but 11x14's look great out of an S5....we have quite a few.

https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10468020_10100112443260373_7165285911574218639_o.jpg

That is linked off of Facebook, a photo my wife took with the HDR mode. It has the horrible facebook compression.

Yupp, not taking the 6D out of October's budget but for times I don't have it these really aren't bad.

Waterproof was the big selling point for me.