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Galaxy S7, Galaxy S6 & iPhone 6s in low-light camera comparison

The Galaxy S7 is one of the biggest stars of this year's MWC in Barcelona - and rightly so. Particularly in the smartphone camera Samsung has reworked properly. How strong is the camera of the Galaxy S7 also in poor lighting conditions, a comparison video with the Galaxy S6 and the iPhone 6s.


Smartphone cameras have a fundamental problem: In the ever slimmer devices becoming their only little space is available. but as many pixels are to stay on their small image sensors and small lenses to capture as much light. They succeed a little better from year to year. Never seemed to leap in the quality of low-light shots but as enormous as the Galaxy S7, the all previous flagships can now look old. At the MWC 2016 to Phandroid could get an idea of ​​the enormous differences and make a video comparison with the cameras of Galaxy S7, S6 and Galaxy iPhone 6s.


iPhone 6s delivers the most vulnerable low-light images

In a darkened room Samsung demonstrates how strong is the camera of the new Android flagship even under such adverse circumstances. The comparison with the iPhone 6s decides the Galaxy S7 even more pronounced for himself as the comparison with the previous model Galaxy S6. Apple's smartphone camera captures in this low-light setting a the least light in the photo the model is therefore also seen the worst.


Galaxy S7: Larger aperture & "Dual Pixel" technology

Surprisingly, however, how much the picture is illuminated, which was snapped with the Galaxy S7 is. As Samsung do it? For one set of manufacturers for its new model on a larger lens. Instead of an f / 1.9 aperture like the Galaxy S6 successor scored an f / 1.7 aperture, the iPhone 6s lags with its f / 2.2 optics afterwards. That Samsung reduced the resolution compared to the previous model, the photo quality does not diminish. On the contrary: A new feature is the so-called "Dual Pixel" technology with fewer but larger pixels. Thus, the smartphone camera according to the manufacturer, 95 percent more light capture than the camera of the Galaxy S6. In addition, each individual pixel is used for focusing - which can be found otherwise only in DSLRs.

Incidentally, even in our smartphone camera comparison, the Galaxy S6 Samsung performed slightly better than the iPhone 6s from Apple.
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