Low-light photography is a major focal point for smartphone manufacturers out there, and has been for a few years now.
Google dropped the gauntlet when it introduced its “Night Sight” mode with the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, which can turn a dark photo into a pretty spectacularly bright image. Practically turning night to day in some images. Huawei has its own version called “Night Mode”, but it is Google’s effort that has garnered the most love and attention to date.
It looks like Samsung doesn’t want to get left behind. According to code within the Galaxy Note 9′s Android 9.0 Pie beta discovered by XDA Developers, Samsung is working on a new camera feature called “Bright Night”. It should do exactly what the name suggests, allowing device owners to “take bright pictures even in very dark conditions”.
Samsung will reportedly aim for the same methodology as Google in its own version, taking multiple shots and utilizing software to combine them and create much brighter results. With the wide aperture that Samsung’s smartphone cameras offer these days, and with whatever hardware-based changes Samsung makes next year, the results could be pretty fantastic.
Samsung typically introduces camera-based improvements in its flagship models, which is why the original report’s expectation that we could see this Bright Night feature see the light of day with the Galaxy S10 makes sense. Samsung is expected to unveil that handset at the end of February, so we don’t have too much longer to wait.
Google’s Night Side mode is basically magic. If Samsung can manage similar images, the company will certainly have something to brag about in its own right next year.
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Androidandme
