It had to be done. Could I obtain some shots of my 3 labradors in action as I have done so already with all my previous smartphones?
If you are need to refresh your memory of these action dogs shots, have a look again at the reviews for the Samsung Galaxy S6, LG G4 (especially) and LG V10 (also especially). Click HERE.
So off I went with 3 dogs on a day that was slightly overcast and a fair amount of glare. Not perfect lighting for shooting dogs. I shot all the photos in 4:3 12mp on the S7 Edge. All in Auto mode and using the burst, which is simply press and hold the shutter. Then on my iPad I viewed all 500 shots are selected the best. The annoying part was all 500 were in focus!!!!! So it took ages to decide as so many were great. I also was curious as to how fast the burst mode was on the S7 vs iPhone 6S Plus. The S7 reaches a max of 100 burst shots at a file size of 2.37mb, while the iPhone has only reached 40 burst shots at a file size of 2.07mb. On my iPad i used the iOS Photos app and cropped the photos to 16:9.
What is truly amazing the the S7 camera is its speed and speed to focus. Often the dogs would appear charging/running back to me. Each time I was able to double press the home button and hit the shutter and fire off another burst of photos, that were all in focus. Amazing.
Panoramic with Tiggy and View of Princetown, Dartmoor
I really like this shot a lot and its a smashing panoramic.
Burst Shots
This was Tiggy all lovely and clean.
And Tiggy again with her ears looking triangular somehow.
And Tiggy now soaked in water and covered in mud. You can’t see the mud as her colouring disguises it, but believe me she had tons on her!
Another shot of Tiggy, She was running around 20mph.
George on the left, Fury on the right. Check out those happy faces. Both dogs were running super fast.
Fury at full speed.
And finally George and Fury. George was running like a rocket, Fury was too.
Now I saved over 30 action shots for my personal photo library. Google Photos took some of the bursts saved photos and made a GIF. See below. This also shows you how well the S7 maintained focus despite Tiggy’s running speed and distance. Very very impressive.
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Got to hand it to Samsung…… That is some impressive focus done there.
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Lovely pictures Gavin! I am pretty pleased with the camera on my S7 Edge. But how much I try I can´t fall in love in the OS as much as with my 6s Plus. The applications still is pretty bad designed compared to their iOS part.
And I have had four random reboots since Thursday on the Edge. On my 6s Plus I am running 9.3 beta and have not have one single issue and that is with beta software.
And with the phone setup as I want it to be it started to lag in different situations. The Nexus 6P felt much more fluid with its pure Android. But pure Android is boring 🙂
So my Edge is going back. Glad I listened to you advice of not selling the iPhone immediately 🙂
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As they say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence 😀😀😀😀 the reboots mean you need a hard reset and start again. It is an error/bug with the first install process I believe. Since I hard reset I had an initial issue or two but now been fine.
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Already done that, always start with a hard reset out of the box with Android phones 🙂
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You need to do one after its setup and done its first couple of crashes. Apparently it tries to do some software update at first setup and it goes wrong.
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If I could put the S7 camera and steen on my 6s Plus, for me would be phone perfection!!!
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Meant “screen ” 😁
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Lol I had to do a double take for a minute 😀
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Looking at that GIF makes me go dizzy 😦
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Good idea with the gif Gavin, examined each frame and it looks good. This kind of shot would be a good comparison to do with other cameras.
Now the focus is fast and accurate when the light is good.
How fast is it when light starts to drop, gets darker and so on ?
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The light was overcast for the gif frames. The S7 can cope with lower lighting fairly well. Will need more tests to confirm results.
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I just got this phone and I cannot get pictures like yours. I must be doing something wrong. I noticed that the S6 Edge had a motion mode and I took great pictures with it but the S7 Edge does not have that mode. I will do the burst shot and see if that makes a difference. I wish I could find a tutorial on it.
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Look on YouTube for Samsung Mobile UK. or Samsung Mobile. There are so how to videos. All these photos are in auto mode with burst for the dog shots.
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How to activate that burst mode?
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Nice shots. I am having s7 edge but i can’t find the burst mode. I downloaded sports mode but doesn’t have burst mode. Please help. Thanks a lot
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Just press and hold shutter for burst. In camera app you may need to turn it on in settings.
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Burst is available in auto.
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