Samsung's new flagship mobile phone Galaxy S6 is equipped with a 16 million pixel sensor, a large aperture and an optical anti shake mirror set, as well as an optimization algorithm specifically designed for night scenes. So whether S6 can outperform the iPhone 6 at night has naturally become a question of great concern to many people. At present, the foreign media that has obtained the prototype has brought us the answer. Let's have a look.

At the beginning, we found that the Galaxy S6 is more suitable for taking photos in low light environment than the iPhone 6. First, the sensor equipped with the Galaxy S6 is superior in the number of pixels, and the larger aperture also provides more light input. The built-in optical anti shake mirror group also allows the phone to slow down the shutter properly to reduce the sensitivity to obtain better photos.

Unless otherwise specified, the upper and lower samples in the full picture comparison of each group of samples are taken by iPhone 6, and the lower samples are taken by Galaxy S6. In the local comparison, the left side is for iPhone 6 sample amplification, and the right side is for Galaxy S6 sample amplification.

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In the actual shooting samples of the above five scenes, the noise control of Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 is roughly the same, but S6 is significantly better than iPhone 6 in the white balance setting of the overall picture. The color of the photos taken is more natural and generally more beautiful. The saturation of the photos taken by iPhone 6 in the same environment is significantly reduced.

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The shooting environment of the last group of samples is almost completely black. At this time, the Galaxy S6 uses the automatic night scene mode, while the ISO of the iPhone 6 at this time has reached 2000. It is not difficult to find that the overall effect of the Galaxy S6 is better when you zoom in to view the photos. From the overall picture details, S6 is much better than the iPhone 6.

Scene 7: Turn off the LED fill light:

It is worth mentioning that in this scene, the Galaxy S6 is inferior to the iPhone 6 in retaining the details of the ground. This phenomenon may be due to the use of a larger aperture in S6, which results in a shallow depth of field, or the noise reduction algorithm in S6, which is obvious after magnification. In terms of retaining the surface texture of the stone platform, S6 is much better than the iPhone 6.

Scene 8: Turn on the LED fill light:

If the LED fill light is used for taking photos, the Galaxy S6 still has advantages. The photos taken are brighter, more detailed, and the white balance and color are more natural. The iPhone 6, though equipped with a theoretically more advantageous dual color temperature flash, is inferior to its rivals in terms of actual color effect.

So there is no doubt that the Galaxy S6 has defeated the iPhone 6 in the aspect of night scene photography by virtue of its stronger hardware level. For the edge image quality weakening phenomenon caused by the optical anti shake mirror set, the S6 control is also good. As for the details of the picture center, S6 has defeated the iPhone, and the overall white balance is more accurate in most scenes.

The reason why the Galaxy S6 can outperform the iPhone 6 at night is that the optical anti shake lens set it is equipped with has a natural contribution. After analyzing the photo information, we found that the shutter speed of the Galaxy S6 can even be as low as one tenth of a second. The optical anti shake system can indeed largely eliminate the impact of the user's hand shake on the picture, but when shooting dynamic objects, There will still be blurring, so the optical anti shake lens is certainly not omnipotent, and whether a mobile phone can take good photos depends partly on the user's photography technology.

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