Update to: “Smartphone cameras have come a long way”

In “Smartphone cameras have come a long way,” you saw some early, warts-and-all test snapshots I took with a Galaxy S10’s three rear cameras.

Since then, I found a very useful software setting buried in the camera menus: It reduces the barrel distortion that was evident in the wide-angle shots.

And when I say the setting was “buried,” I mean it. Grrr.

It’s not in any of the image-setting/modifying menus — not in the “camera modes” menus; nor “shot suggestions;” nor “scene optimizer;” nor “flaw detection;” or in any other menus one might look for an image-processing setting to reduce barrel distortion.

Rather, I found it quite by accident buried in the “Save options” menu — next to the options to change the default save-to location, or the default save (jpg/raw) format.

Why “Ultra-wide shape correction” is a save option — why it isn’t with the rest of the image-altering/modifying options — I have no clue.

But despite its odd location, the setting does somewhat reduce the effects of barrel distortion.

Here’s a new set of pix I took last weekend from almost the same location as in the first set. These are also minimally edited — mostly just straightening — and they’re saved as compressed-in-the-camera jpgs. So again, these certainly aren’t best-case photos; at this point I’m just trying to figure out the lenses.

Here’s the same sequence as before: ultra wide; standard (wide); optical telephoto 2x; optical 2x + digital 5x.

I haven’t yet begun to seriously explore the Pro options yet; who knows what might be buried in those menus? 🙂

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