Samsung A55-5G Macro image of Mango Blossom at night: What's wrong? if anything?

[wombat]

On 2/10/2025 at 2:23 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Please keep me in the Pub, where I belong....

 

Thank you.

That explains the shake in the blossom photo

[Wuvu2]

On 2/10/2025 at 2:23 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Please keep me in the Pub, where I belong....

 

Can we vote on that?

[newbee2022]

On 2/10/2025 at 2:23 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks, 

 

I am very, VERY pleased with the A55-5G phone, for what I normally use it for.

Great amount of RAM, 12GB

Adequate internal memory storage: 256GB

Very reasonable cost, quite undeniably!

 

However, when it comes to photography...haha....because...

IMHO, it's still a JOKE compared to my old camera which I purchased...back in...1978.

 

This is why, anytime anyone asks me why I use my camera phone to take, mostly, nothing but images of store-purchase receipts, or maybe the neighbor's cat in my yard, I just say that it does not measure up to my 50-year-old camera, made by Nikon.

 

For example, just a few minutes ago, I noticed that my mango tree was blossoming early this year.

I decided to document it by recording an image of said blossom.

 

I turned the camera on the phone to MACRO, and got up close, but not too close.

Still, here is what the phone camera recorded....

 

What's wrong with this picture?

Or, what's wrong with the camera of the phone, for that matter?

 

Here is an image of my Nikon F2AS, a camera which I loved....so deeply.

Also, it was a film camera, another thing I loved....so deeply.

 

Do you even think that a Nikon would take such as sorry photo of a mango blossom as you see, above you?

It never would.

It never did.

 

On the phone-camera, there is no way to focus the lens.

Everything seems automatic.

And, so, sometimes, the images turn out like this.

 

I am not one to take many photos, daily, as I once thought I might.

 

Still, when a mango blossom image turns out like this...then...it's such a let-down.

 

Also, just look at the difference in the size of the lens!

This is a 50mm lens, a NORMAL lens, on the Nikon.

 

Gods only know what kind of creepy lens is in my Samsung phone.

 

I must admit, the Nikon F2AS, back in 1978, cost about....

 

Today, the price of the F2AS would be about....

 

Therefore, I have absolutely NOTHING to complain about.

 

I am ONLY asking and wondering about....

 

What's wrong with this mango-blossom picture?

 

Next time, I hope to do better.

 

Thank you.

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

Note:  Although this might, at first, seem like an Agricultural Topic, or a Photography Topic,  or even a PHONE Topic....still.....

 

Please keep me in the Pub, where I belong....

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you know there are better camera phones on the market?

You can adjust manually (I use Oppo real me 13 pro)😃

[Dexxter]

On 2/10/2025 at 5:30 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Correct.

This is why I used two bars of my favorite hand soap.

 

If only you had used my favourite brand of soap you would have had better results.

[GammaGlobulin]

On 2/10/2025 at 10:42 AM, KhunLA said:

Nobody in their right mind shoots macro with an expected depth of field

 

In one's right mind, did you say?

 

Also, that spider was nice.

But, do you have a macro image of a Chinese hourglass spider?

 

How about a Brown Widow spider?

 

IMHO, spiders make almost as good photographic subjects as birds.

Also, easier to find.

 

[KhunLA]

35 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

In one's right mind, did you say?

 

Also, that spider was nice.

But, do you have a macro image of a Chinese hourglass spider?

 

How about a Brown Widow spider?

 

IMHO, spiders make almost as good photographic subjects as birds.

Also, easier to find.

 

 

More than a few snaps of spiders & dragonflies.

 

Along with bees, hornets, ants, butterflies, or any critters I can actually see and stays still long enough.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

More than a few snaps of spiders & dragonflies.

 

Along with bees, hornets, ants, butterflies, or any critters I can actually see and stays still long enough.

 

 

 

I read, recently, on TV that lizards will stay still if you spray them a bit with Ant Spray.

 

[KhunLA]

Just now, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I read, recently, on TV that lizards will stay still if you spray them a bit with Ant Spray.

 

If they think the 'camouflages' is working, and don't think you see them, then yea, they'll stay put as long as they feel safe.  I've been surprised how close I've gotten to them.

 

Or, how fast they took off to hide. or simply went much higher than me.

 

With my lenses, I really don't need to be close.  If I can see it, I'll usually get a decent snap.

 

Snapped a Purple Heron the other day, too far to actually see, but saw it land on top of tree.  So that was easy.  If didn't see it flying and landing, would have never new it was there.   Posted in 'Birds in Garden' thread.

[IsaanT]

Mobile phones can take close-up photos.

 

This is a plastic cap on a 600ml water bottle, chosen as something we're all familiar with.

 

I concur with what someone else has said that manual camera apps can give a degree of control that the standard manufacturer-supplied app doesn't (because that's not their target audience).

 

However, for this shot indoors under artificial light I used the standard phone app (Pixel 7a, 2x zoom).

[GammaGlobulin]

19 minutes ago, IsaanT said:

Mobile phones can take close-up photos.

 

This is a plastic cap on a 600ml water bottle, chosen as something we're all familiar with.

 

I concur with what someone else has said that manual camera apps can give a degree of control that the standard manufacturer-supplied app doesn't (because that's not their target audience).

 

However, for this shot indoors under artificial light I used the standard phone app (Pixel 7a, 2x zoom).

 

 

The Samsung does very well on bottle caps, actually.

One image is the MACRO setting.

The other image is the default setting.

I forget which is which.

 

No tripod used.

My hands were shaking from trying to hold the heavy Samsung.

The cap was left unwashed and dusty, intentionally.

 

Would have been better with more light, a tripod, and smaller aperture.

But, the Samsung does well on bottle caps, which is what I mostly photograph, on an average day.

 

This is a small image, meaning less than One MByte.

 

[IsaanT]

I'll have a go with my manual camera app in the morning in natural light.  I know I've had good results in the past.

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, IsaanT said:

I'll have a go with my manual camera app in the morning in natural light.  I know I've had good results in the past.

 

OK

Will it be bottle caps, again?

 

If bottle caps, then let's go for it.

I will take a few images of bottle caps in direct sunlight, which should be bright enough for my purposes.

Then we shall see what we shall see.

 

[Clapped out]

I have a many years old ( not Sammy ) Android phone ( rev GOK ).

Put app 'Bacon Camera' on it way back for goofing around like y'all are doing now

To my tiny mind its pretty deadly so long as you avoid a few things that crash it

 

Qs:

Can you still get that app ?

If so :

How does it fare compared to what goes on today ?

[GammaGlobulin]

3 hours ago, Clapped out said:

for goofing around like y'all are doing now

 

YES!

 

Goofing around.

This is why this Topic is in the Farang Pub.

 

And, this is why this Topic is NOT in any serious TV-sub-forum, such a the Farming forum.

 

[fondue zoo]

It's out of focus....

 

Were you trying to photograph a Bigfoot behind the flower?