Galaxy A14 Camera Test

[HanshaniLavanya]

Me using a phone with only one 13 megapixel rear camera and a 5 megapixel front camera : that photo is sooo sharp

[Irvin]

Samsung's Image processing on their entry-level phones is better than other brands.

[dcstanda]

For $185 photos not too bad, never going to be on the level of the S23 series but be good to see a comparison between the A34 and A54

[jjcoolaus]

Surprisingly good, especially the microphone quality on the videos

[prxZen]

Absolutely a win for 185 bucks.

Liking the A-series more and more every year, as the S series and other flagship categories phones' performance levels continue to race ever further ahead of what the avg user can really make use of. It does come in handy when trying to get the most out of multiple of these wild and wicked camera sensors simultaneously in a just a few tens of milliseconds. Relatively speaking it really takes a tremendous amount of both tailored hardware accellerated _and_ general compute grunt, to pull that off. Even if understood it's still very easy to forget, that unlike an actual dedicated camera, those tiny little camera things in your phone that pull these wild tricks are not cameras. They are just sensors. Some "camera" modules may include a tiny micro servo to enable movement for a bit of optical zoom. Simplified, they just generate a raw color value for whstever light hit a pixel. The SoC (package bundling the primary CPU with many other things into a single chip; _(S)ystem (o)n a (C)hip.) is what is doing everything else to make something more out of it than just a huge illegible table / spreadsheet of 1s and 0s.

This is also a kind of a part of why laptop webcams suck so hard and still in 2023 look like they just gave up in the mid 00s, despite stand alone webcams have gotten so much better and even tiny phone selfie cams having gotten so good. Because they don't have that dedicated hardware to do that image processing. So the webcams are usually either just a sensor on a long cable, with a dirt cheap little usb device at the other end for processing - or the whole thing is a tiny modified usb 2.0 webcam device. A tiny polyamide tape ("flex") pcb crammed in behind the screen bezel. And with the next to zero space for them in modern laptops, with minimal bezels and screen/lid depth, there is very little in the way of processing hardware that can actually fit in there.

That is certainly not to say laptop webcams couldn't be a bazillion times better for incredibly little cost. Not talking hundreds of kopecks, but a couple of bucks extra. At least for laptop manufacturers like Samsung, Huawei, Sony etc, that make both industry leading sensors and image processing chips in-house so they wouldn't have to pay another company for anything beyond the base cost of making the chips. Modern laptop processors are also SoCs, with quite powerful graphics processors, so it wouldn't take much more than will to make the cams better. But - as long as everyone agree to just keep their laptop webcams really sh1t, no one is making that first move - then it remains a non-competition fareaand none of them even have to try.

A shame really. Imagine the sales volume competitive edge a sub-$1k decent allrounder laptop would have, even if they just implemented a webcam performing about par with the selfie cam of a samsung S7. Or an Iphone 6.

[RowanBark-kbvd]

I use an a14 and I must say the camera does what it's supposed and in my opinion it's great.

[dakotastange]

As long as you use a secondary microphone, I would say that the front face the camera looks a little bit better than the back facing camera for video. But if you use a secondary camera, no one would probably really notice anything too bad

[badphysiotdx]

I had the predecessor to this phone, the galaxy A03s, it is a very good phone for the price you pay and the camera on it was good during the day. But it was barely useable to take photos in low light settings.

While more higher end phones can handle photos at night, it's where these budget phones fall short.

[echezonaobianwa]

If the camera is ur number one priority, then you can find the phone for it. I think for the price range and what not its a good phone that can do the basic stuff well enough. Getting any other phone after this just mean you have a particular feature that you want to prioritize

[alright]

Parker, compare the back camera of the A14 to the selfie camera of the S23 Ultra

[funnnid]

This video shows that any cheap phones camera can able to make great video if getting good lighting for sensor

[supr-dn-bg]

Damn I think my old A50 had 1080p 30fps😂

[muhtasimfuadbadhon]

Bro's humor is always comparing a kitten to a cheetah then calling the kitten like, "it's okay"(trying so hard not to say any negatives) 💀

[YgrosYngvi]

for those who just want a smartphone for basic use, without the need to play a mini stick and for calls and conversations, the cameras are consistent. Even more so if we think about the value that smartphones are costing nowadays, it is a good device.

[Jesie_an]

Considering the price, that is so good

[Fahim_Alam]

The "problem" with Samsung is that the design on a budget phone and a premium phone looks pretty similar so people don't get the idea of what phone you are using. They should bring different designs for premium and budget phones. Also I guess this thing is in all android phones.

[AljunemonerPlayz]

I love the old phone camera
Asus phone, Alcatel... And some old Samsung phone with good camera around 2013-2015

[jerrywu]

Imma be honest the 1080p video shouldn't be that big of a deal for most people...I have a Pixel that records up to 4K 60 but every time I try recording in 4K the files are just wayyy too large for it to be practical...I can see maybe a few cases where higher resolution is actually useful but if you're in that situation you're probably not using a $150 phone

[bbqchicken]

I have the A14, and while the camera isn't amazing, it is fairly good, and I can take amazing pictures with it, so I am satisfied

[Kru.Vii_]

It's all about cinematic look.Lights are the real king.