Samsung Galaxy S22 Camera Features Available in Galaxy Z Series, Older Galaxy S Series Models

Samsung is releasing key camera features on its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S22 series, for several older Galaxy S, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Z series models. improved video call effect and others. The South Korean company says that the camera’s functions will be introduced in stages, with each model having a different schedule. The update is expected to continue until the end of May.

According to message made by Samsung in a community forum, the phones belong to as old as the Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Samsung Galaxy S20, Samsung Galaxy Note 20, and the older Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip smartphones will receive all five or some of the five camera enhancements. The update is already being introduced for Galaxy S21 smartphones.

Improved night portraits

Night photography is introduced in the smartphones Samsung Galaxy S21, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Samsung Galaxy S20, Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2. This feature, also provided with the telephoto lens in portrait mode, helps to capture bright portraits in low light conditions.

Improvement / support of the automatic framing function

This feature will be released for Samsung Galaxy S21, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip.

According to Samsung, the performance of the automatic framing function in movie mode in the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip series has been improved. The function will now automatically increase / decrease and track, recognizing the positions of up to 10 people at a distance of up to 5 meters.

Camera effects for video calls for third-party applications
Photo: Samsung

Improve the effect of video calling

There are two sub-features under this feature: first, a feature has been added that supports background effects in third-party applications. Supported third-party video chat applications include BlueJeans, Google Duo, Google Meet, KakaoTalk, Knox Meeting, Messenger (Meta), Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Webex Meetings and Zoom. Samsung also provided details of the function.

This feature is available on Samsung Galaxy S21, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, Samsung Galaxy S20, Samsung Galaxy Note 20, Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Samsung Galaxy LTE.

These features are planned to appear in the Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite and Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite in the first half of 2022.

The second sub-function is the automatic framing function. This feature is only supported by the front camera. Samsung Galaxy S21, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip LTE will get this feature.

Improved App Store Camera quality

The image quality optimization of the camera of Samsung Galaxy S22, which works with the cameras of social media applications, will be introduced in the smartphones Samsung Galaxy S21, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Samsung Galaxy S21 FE.

Samsung Z Fold 3 enhancements

The Pro mode of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 can now be used on the telephoto camera. In addition, the phone will support the Expert RAW application, which can be downloaded from the Galaxy Store later this month.

It seems that all these features are introduced in smartphones only in South Korea. According to a report from GSMArena, these updates should be available worldwide.