Samsung explains the birth of the Expert RAW app for the Galaxy

L’app Samsung RAW Expert brought “Reflex” functionality to the camera Galaxy S22 e S21. In fact, it allows experienced users to manage camera functions instead of relying on artificial intelligence to adjust focus and brightness. Hamid Sheikh and Girish Kulkarni of Samsung tell the birth and the reasons behind this app.

Samsung explains the birth of the Expert RAW app for Galaxy smartphones

The application for more experienced users, who like to adjust every aspect of their shots, is also coming to smartphones Galaxy Z Fold 3 and will arrive later this year for Fold 2, Galaxy S20 Ultra e Note 20 Ultra. A software that aims to live up to the excellent mobile cameras made available by Samsung.

Phone Arena interviewed the two minds behind the development of the app. It is about Hamid Sheikh |Head of Intelligent Imaging at Samsung Research America Lab, e Girish Kulkarnihead of photographic solutions at the Samsung R&D Institute of India-Bangalore.

The two executives explain that Samsung worked closely with Adobe to make Expert RAW highly compatible with Adobe Lightroom. In fact, users can capture richly detailed images that they can then edit in Lightroom, even using dedicated presets.

With so many possibilities for calibration before shooting and editing after saving the photograph, your shots come close to the flexibility that professionals look for in cameras. The two Samsung executives explain that the inspiration for this app comes from user feedback. Especially come on professionals who wanted a complete experience even on their smartphone.

Combining this greater flexibility with leaps forward in computational imaging and the higher quality of mobile sensors, the mobile photography raises the qualitative bar.