Samsung truly created a world of wonder w/ the Galaxy S6. From its design, performance, and even down to the camera. It is so good that they used it again for both the Galaxy Note 5 & the Galaxy S6 edge+. It has the same 16MP f/1.9 rear-facing lens w/ OIS and single LED flash.
We had no real gripes about that one and now moving onto the late 2015 Galaxy devices, there are some new abilities/features involved. Good time to see if that either improves or take away from the camera experience. Our camera test for both devices kindly await you below.
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Samsung made sure to add a few new features to the mix like a higher ISO range and shutter speed toggle within Pro Mode. As well as the option to shoot photos in RAW and access OIS for videos. For our atypical camera test, we shoot everything in Auto mode as a quick photos off of the hip to demonstrate its abilities in its basic settings.
Kicking it off w/ the rear 16MP shooters, you still get great photos in well-lit situations. The sensor Samsung utilizes continues to hold you down for all of your photo/video needs. Fast capture, awesome dynamic range, superb color reproduction, and I'm really loving the new ability to adjust exposure before taking your shot. However on the software side of things, their photo rendering still over exposing in really dark low-light & other weird lightning situations like it did on the Galaxy S6. But it doesn't dismiss this as being great shooters - especially against the likes of the G4.
Moving on to the front wide-angle 5MP shooter, it is still a great selfie camera despite the lower MP. If you using sunlight or have great lighting, you will have zero complaints here. Aspiring vloggers, periscopers, Snapchatters will absolutely appreciate it. Having the ability to livestream directly to YouTube from the camera app is a great feature. Just make sure if you do use this for a long time, keep your charger nearby.
Although its not perfect, Samsung gains the title for the best shooter in Android w/ this one.
So for the most part Samsung more or less did some slight fine-tuning w/ the same shooters from the S6 as they brought it over to the Note 5 & S6 edge+. A few bells & whistles in regards to the camera features. I would have liked to see a bit more attention to handling low-light environments. It is the same as on the S6 which isn't bad but for their flagships for later half of 2015 would've been great to see some improvements.
