**Comparing the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Note 5 Cameras**

The focus is more towards the center and it sorts out as you move along the edges of the photo. If you zoom in on something like the Tomato here for example, which has some water droplets on it, you can see a little bit more of the water and the detail on the Tom on the S7 Edge than you can on the Note 5. This is another one of those situations where it's a very clear point of focus, a very clear subject, and I think the oversharpening actually is more of a good thing than it is bad.

When people really want to know is how much better is the S7 in low light because of those larger pixels. Taking a look at these two nighttime shots here, there's actually a lot of differences. The first one that I noticed right away is how much more yellow the S7 Edge photo is compared to the Note 5. They're both really yellow photos, but it's a lot more dramatic on the S7. The second difference is in the highlights. If you zoom into this lamp here, you can see that the Note 5 is a little bit more overexposed there's a bigger halo effect within the highlights. The same thing can be seen if you go over to this McCormick and Schmick sign here, you can see that there's a much bigger halo effect.

The last difference that I see is just in the brightness of the photo. This one is probably not too surprising but the S7 Edge is a much brighter photo overall. You can see the buildings up top a lot easier than you can on the Note 5. This is probably due to the larger pixels and also because you're dealing with a much brighter lens on the S7 edge, with an f1.7 aperture.

**Nighttime Shots**

Another outdoor nighttime shot but this one is of some flowers and neither one of these photos really look that great to be honest. But there are a lot of differences between these two photos. With the Galaxy Note 5 you actually have a much more colorful shot, but it's also very very yellow and you don't really get a whole lot of detail. Whereas on the S7 Edge, there's a lot more detail the photo looks a lot sharper overall. But the colors are extremely, extremely washed out.

But you'll notice that it's a much Brighter Image which allows you to get a lot more detail. You can see a lot more in the concrete on the ground here and you can see the left side of the flowers a lot more. Whereas on the Note 5, the whole entire left side of that image is pretty much completely blacked out.

**Indoor Shots**

The last photo that we're going to take a look at here is an indoor shot of an Android figurine on my desk and the only thing illuminating this photo is the Philips Hue Lights in the background. There's no office lights on there, no studio lights on and there's no lights coming through the windows because it was actually taken at nighttime.

Right off the bat you'll notice that the S7 Edge is a much Brighter Image if you look at the Android figurine, you can see him very clearly whereas on the Note 5 you can't really see him quite as well because it's a lot darker. The same thing can be said about the background so if you take a look at the toy car on the left there you can see the toy car pretty easily on the S7 Edge whereas on the Note 5, you can really only see about half of that car.

**Conclusion**

So did Samsung make the right decision here by going with fewer megapixels in favor of larger pixels and personally I think they did. I think it was worth the tradeoff. The camera still takes fantastic looking images in pretty much all lighting conditions. And the nighttime shots are a lot brighter there's a lot more detail and it handles exposure and the highlights a lot better.

They're still not amazing but they're definitely an improvement over the Galaxy Note 5 or the S6 from last year. But that's really going to do it for this video, guys hopefully you enjoyed it and found it helpful if you did please give it a thumbs up down below we definitely appreciate it and also subscribe to the channel which is also down below if you haven't already.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmy neck is hurting this camera angle is not working for me what's up guys lawn here from Android authority and this year Samsung made a pretty interesting move by going with fewer megapixels in favor of a larger pixel size in the Galaxy S7 but was it a good decision and how much of a difference does it actually make over something like say the Galaxy Note 5 let's find out if bigger pixels is actually better than more pixels and if it's worth the tradeoff the whole idea behind the reduction in megapixels is to create for larger pixels for a better lowlight performance and we saw Google do something very similar with last year's Nexus phones but we're going to take a look at a variety of different lighting situations between these two phones just to see exactly what other differences there might be now I want to preface this by saying that both phones were shot at their maximum resolution so 16 megapixels on the Note 5 and 12 megapixels on the S7 and they're both shot in complete auto mode with HDR mode turned on just to keep things as level as possible all right so the first photo that we're going to take a look at here is just a simple outdoor shot with a camera facing upwards at a building Towards the Sky um this is the Galaxy Note 5 here on the left and this is the S7 Edge over here on the right um and as far as the actual colors the level of detail and just looking at these photos as a whole they both look like really great shots uh but when you look at the colors and the sharpening that's where you'll notice a lot of differences so if you look the sky here on the Galaxy Note 5 versus the sky on the S7 Edge uh they're two very different shades of blue the Galaxy Note 5 is just a little bit deeper whereas the S7 Edge is a slightly lighter shade of blue um it's not a huge deal but it is a difference that you notice and I sort of prefer the lighter shade of blue on the S7 Edge I think it looks a little bit better um but that's just a personal preference and the second difference is uh this Valencia Play sign here the reds are actually very different um they're a lot deeper and much more vibrant on the Note 5 whereas on the S7 Edge they're a little bit more washed out not quite as a not quite of a Punchy red so I definitely like the way the reds are being handled here on the Note 5 a little bit better now if I were to zoom in at these two shots and take a closer look at the details on the buildings uh like the windows for example you'll notice the S7 Edge is a lot more oversharpened in comparison to the Note 5 you can see an oversharpening halo effect on the S7 Edge That You Don't See with the Note 5 and I'm not entirely sure why Samsung uh chose to be a lot more aggressive with the oversharpening I don't know if that's their way of sort of uh compensating for the fewer megapixels uh and in some situations I like the oversharpening and we'll talk about what some of those situations are when we take a look at some more photos uh but sort of in wider shots or landscape shots where there's a lot of stuff going on the oversharpening actually hurts the photos uh more than it helps the second photo that we're going to take a look at is a close-up shot of a flower and unlike the building photo that we just took a look at I actually don't notice too much of a difference between these two photos uh in terms of their color representation and the depth of field they look nearly identical so you can see the yellows and the greens here uh don't really look all that different between these two shots and they're both again really great looking photos uh now if you zoom in on the flower here you'll notice that uh the S7 Edge is slightly more oversharpened compared to the Note 5 uh but in close-up shots or macro shots where uh there's a very specific point of focus actually think the oversharpening is a lot more beneficial in these types of photos so here's another example of a close-up or macro shot and again these two photos look very very similar uh but the major difference here is again in the sky you can see that they're two completely different shades of blue and the Galaxy Note 5's image is actually ever so slightly Overexposed the Shadows are a lot lighter and you can see that the highlights are a little bit more blown out in the background here you can't see quite as much detail as you can on the S 7 edge here is another close-up shot but this one is of a sandwich and it's indoors and right away you can already see the oversharpening in effect on the S7 Edge uh if you take a look at the sandwich the entire sandwich is actually in Focus whereas on the Galaxy Note 5 uh the focus is more towards the center and it sort of bcus out as you move along the edges of the photo and if you zoom in on something like the Tomato here for example which has some water droplets on it you can see a little bit more of the water and the detail on the Tom on the S7 Edge than you can on the Note 5 and this is another one of those situations where it's a very clear point of focus a very clear subject and I think the oversharpening actually is more of a good thing than it is bad what people really want to know is how much better is the S7 in low light because of those larger pixels and when taking a look at these two nighttime shots here there's actually a lot of differences and the first one that I noticed right away is how much more yellow the S7 edges photo is compared to the Note 5 uh they're both really yellow photos but it's a lot more dramatic on the S7 uh the second difference is in the highlights so if you zoom into this lamp here you can see that the Note 5 is a little bit more Overexposed there's a bigger halo effect within the highlights and the same thing can be seen if you go over to this McCormick and schmi sign here you can see that there's a much bigger halo effect uh the last difference that I see is just in the brightness of the photo uh this one is probably not too surprising but the S7 Edge is a much brighter photo overall you can see the buildings up top a lot easier than you can on the Note 5 um and this is probably due to the larger pixels and also because you're dealing with a much brighter lens on the S7 edge with an f1.7 aperture here is another outdoor nighttime shot but this one is of some flowers and neither one of these photos really look that great to be honest but there are a lot of differences between these two photos uh so with the Galaxy Note 5 you actually have a much more colorful shot but it's also very very yellow and you don't really get a whole lot of detail whereas on the S7 Edge uh there's a lot more detail the photo looks a lot sharper overall um but the colors are extremely extremely washed out uh but you'll notice that it's a much Brighter Image which allows you to get a lot more detail uh you can see a lot more in the concrete on the ground here and you can see the left side of the flowers a lot more uh whereas on the Note 5 the whole entire left side of that image is pretty much completely blacked out the last photo that we're going to take a look at here is an indoor shot of an Android figurine on my desk and the only thing Illuminating this photo is the Philips Hue Lights in the background so there's no office lights on there's no studio lights on and there's no lights coming through the windows because it was actually taken at nighttime um but right off the bat you'll notice that the S7 Edge is a much Brighter Image if you look at the Android figurine you can see him very clearly whereas on the Note 5 uh you can't really see him quite as well because it's a lot darker uh the same thing can be said about the background so if you take a look at the toy car on the left there you can see the toy car pretty easily on the S7 Edge whereas on the Note 5 uh you can really only see about half of that car so you have a much Brighter Image on the S7 Edge a much more welld detailed image and uh this is where having those larger pixels and that wider aperture that f1.7 apture really makes a difference in low light so did Samsung make the right decision here by going with fewer megapixels in favor of larger pixels and personally I think they did I think it was worth the tradeoff um the camera still takes fantastic looking images in pretty much all lighting conditions uh and the nighttime shots are a lot brighter there's a lot more detail and it handles exposure and the highlights a lot better they still aren't amazing but they're definitely an improvement over the Galaxy Note 5 or the S6 from last year uh but that's really going to do it for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it and found it helpful if you did please give it a thumbs up down below we definitely appreciate it and also subscribe to the channel which is also down below if you haven't already and check out our social media on Snapchat Twitter Instagram go+ and what have you and feel free to follow me on Twitter as well those links are all down here below me right now and once again thank you so much for watching keep tuned here to Android authority because we are your source for all things Android chmy neck is hurting this camera angle is not working for me what's up guys lawn here from Android authority and this year Samsung made a pretty interesting move by going with fewer megapixels in favor of a larger pixel size in the Galaxy S7 but was it a good decision and how much of a difference does it actually make over something like say the Galaxy Note 5 let's find out if bigger pixels is actually better than more pixels and if it's worth the tradeoff the whole idea behind the reduction in megapixels is to create for larger pixels for a better lowlight performance and we saw Google do something very similar with last year's Nexus phones but we're going to take a look at a variety of different lighting situations between these two phones just to see exactly what other differences there might be now I want to preface this by saying that both phones were shot at their maximum resolution so 16 megapixels on the Note 5 and 12 megapixels on the S7 and they're both shot in complete auto mode with HDR mode turned on just to keep things as level as possible all right so the first photo that we're going to take a look at here is just a simple outdoor shot with a camera facing upwards at a building Towards the Sky um this is the Galaxy Note 5 here on the left and this is the S7 Edge over here on the right um and as far as the actual colors the level of detail and just looking at these photos as a whole they both look like really great shots uh but when you look at the colors and the sharpening that's where you'll notice a lot of differences so if you look the sky here on the Galaxy Note 5 versus the sky on the S7 Edge uh they're two very different shades of blue the Galaxy Note 5 is just a little bit deeper whereas the S7 Edge is a slightly lighter shade of blue um it's not a huge deal but it is a difference that you notice and I sort of prefer the lighter shade of blue on the S7 Edge I think it looks a little bit better um but that's just a personal preference and the second difference is uh this Valencia Play sign here the reds are actually very different um they're a lot deeper and much more vibrant on the Note 5 whereas on the S7 Edge they're a little bit more washed out not quite as a not quite of a Punchy red so I definitely like the way the reds are being handled here on the Note 5 a little bit better now if I were to zoom in at these two shots and take a closer look at the details on the buildings uh like the windows for example you'll notice the S7 Edge is a lot more oversharpened in comparison to the Note 5 you can see an oversharpening halo effect on the S7 Edge That You Don't See with the Note 5 and I'm not entirely sure why Samsung uh chose to be a lot more aggressive with the oversharpening I don't know if that's their way of sort of uh compensating for the fewer megapixels uh and in some situations I like the oversharpening and we'll talk about what some of those situations are when we take a look at some more photos uh but sort of in wider shots or landscape shots where there's a lot of stuff going on the oversharpening actually hurts the photos uh more than it helps the second photo that we're going to take a look at is a close-up shot of a flower and unlike the building photo that we just took a look at I actually don't notice too much of a difference between these two photos uh in terms of their color representation and the depth of field they look nearly identical so you can see the yellows and the greens here uh don't really look all that different between these two shots and they're both again really great looking photos uh now if you zoom in on the flower here you'll notice that uh the S7 Edge is slightly more oversharpened compared to the Note 5 uh but in close-up shots or macro shots where uh there's a very specific point of focus actually think the oversharpening is a lot more beneficial in these types of photos so here's another example of a close-up or macro shot and again these two photos look very very similar uh but the major difference here is again in the sky you can see that they're two completely different shades of blue and the Galaxy Note 5's image is actually ever so slightly Overexposed the Shadows are a lot lighter and you can see that the highlights are a little bit more blown out in the background here you can't see quite as much detail as you can on the S 7 edge here is another close-up shot but this one is of a sandwich and it's indoors and right away you can already see the oversharpening in effect on the S7 Edge uh if you take a look at the sandwich the entire sandwich is actually in Focus whereas on the Galaxy Note 5 uh the focus is more towards the center and it sort of bcus out as you move along the edges of the photo and if you zoom in on something like the Tomato here for example which has some water droplets on it you can see a little bit more of the water and the detail on the Tom on the S7 Edge than you can on the Note 5 and this is another one of those situations where it's a very clear point of focus a very clear subject and I think the oversharpening actually is more of a good thing than it is bad what people really want to know is how much better is the S7 in low light because of those larger pixels and when taking a look at these two nighttime shots here there's actually a lot of differences and the first one that I noticed right away is how much more yellow the S7 edges photo is compared to the Note 5 uh they're both really yellow photos but it's a lot more dramatic on the S7 uh the second difference is in the highlights so if you zoom into this lamp here you can see that the Note 5 is a little bit more Overexposed there's a bigger halo effect within the highlights and the same thing can be seen if you go over to this McCormick and schmi sign here you can see that there's a much bigger halo effect uh the last difference that I see is just in the brightness of the photo uh this one is probably not too surprising but the S7 Edge is a much brighter photo overall you can see the buildings up top a lot easier than you can on the Note 5 um and this is probably due to the larger pixels and also because you're dealing with a much brighter lens on the S7 edge with an f1.7 aperture here is another outdoor nighttime shot but this one is of some flowers and neither one of these photos really look that great to be honest but there are a lot of differences between these two photos uh so with the Galaxy Note 5 you actually have a much more colorful shot but it's also very very yellow and you don't really get a whole lot of detail whereas on the S7 Edge uh there's a lot more detail the photo looks a lot sharper overall um but the colors are extremely extremely washed out uh but you'll notice that it's a much Brighter Image which allows you to get a lot more detail uh you can see a lot more in the concrete on the ground here and you can see the left side of the flowers a lot more uh whereas on the Note 5 the whole entire left side of that image is pretty much completely blacked out the last photo that we're going to take a look at here is an indoor shot of an Android figurine on my desk and the only thing Illuminating this photo is the Philips Hue Lights in the background so there's no office lights on there's no studio lights on and there's no lights coming through the windows because it was actually taken at nighttime um but right off the bat you'll notice that the S7 Edge is a much Brighter Image if you look at the Android figurine you can see him very clearly whereas on the Note 5 uh you can't really see him quite as well because it's a lot darker uh the same thing can be said about the background so if you take a look at the toy car on the left there you can see the toy car pretty easily on the S7 Edge whereas on the Note 5 uh you can really only see about half of that car so you have a much Brighter Image on the S7 Edge a much more welld detailed image and uh this is where having those larger pixels and that wider aperture that f1.7 apture really makes a difference in low light so did Samsung make the right decision here by going with fewer megapixels in favor of larger pixels and personally I think they did I think it was worth the tradeoff um the camera still takes fantastic looking images in pretty much all lighting conditions uh and the nighttime shots are a lot brighter there's a lot more detail and it handles exposure and the highlights a lot better they still aren't amazing but they're definitely an improvement over the Galaxy Note 5 or the S6 from last year uh but that's really going to do it for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it and found it helpful if you did please give it a thumbs up down below we definitely appreciate it and also subscribe to the channel which is also down below if you haven't already and check out our social media on Snapchat Twitter Instagram go+ and what have you and feel free to follow me on Twitter as well those links are all down here below me right now and once again thank you so much for watching keep tuned here to Android authority because we are your source for all things Android ch\n"