Agree with all the above. I just got my Nothing 2 today. Transferring over from Galaxy 10+, I was shocked to see the quality is poorer than another device over 5 years old now. Kind of sad as I thought it was going to be better due to the specs. From reading above seems more like a software issue? You need to realise how damaging these kinds of reviews can be for your brand? Fix needed asap!

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The Phone (2) camera requires a lot of improvement. When I compared the my Phone(2) with Phone(1), the Phone (1) camera performed better than my Phone (2). Also the Phone (1) is having 20x zoom whereas Phone (2) is only having 10x zoom.

Kindly please improve the camera of Phone(2) as quick as possible.

Please improve camera performance specially rear camera character face colour look black while capturing and improve zoom quality

I recorded some videos yesterday at 1080p 60fps. I transfered them to my Windows PC and the file properties says it’s 49.74 fps. In some of them it’s 50.09 fps (the decimals are different on each file). What’s going on here?

Not only they ruined the camera quality but also it has inconsistent framerate.

Issues :

  1. Always on HDR mode , due to this some natural pics are getting crappy. Scenario: when sunset is in background the objects edges is getting effected.
  2. There is no consistency in between lenses and scenarios.

I will be pleased if this issues ate fixed in upcoming updates

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Why no one is replying on this thread?

I have always been very respectful and understand the difficulty in these issues.

What bothers me is that, despite my criticism and constructive messages, we do not receive a single message to know if they are working on improving the camera or not.

It would be appreciated if someone from the team said: “Yes, we know that the camera is poor, we are working and in X months a big update will be released”

But no, for months there has been a deep silence about the camera, it’s starting to scare me.

Some information would be nice, more active communication regarding all the problems with the algorithm and status of the camera.

    10 days later

    I just bought the phone 2 two days ago. One of the main reasons why I opted is because of the camera performance. The moment I take selfies, the picture looks so sharp that my skin pores are visible and looks so unnatural, even though the skin tone if good. With the main camera, the HDR is really making the images looked so unnaturally processed. I found out that the HDR cannot be turned of which is annoying. Is there anybody who is on the same lines with me ?

      Hey there, I have been using the Phone (2) for about a week now and coming from the Pixel 6a I have updated my phone to the latest firmware and I knew the camera wasn’t as good but that’s wasn’t the issue really. When I do take a good photo it really is good and sometimes better than the Pixel but there are many issues regarding using the camera reliably.

      1- First thing I noticed is that many shots I take gets to be blurry from the slightest movement of my hand so it’s really annoying to find out my picture was blurry even though I couldn’t notice that on the viewport.

      2- Whenever I open the camera to take a quick shot I get delayed by the so slow and sometimes unresponsive focusing which really takes time and I feel we also lack a tracking system but I think the slow focusing should be fixed first in order to have that.

      3- The “Macro mode” shouldn’t be in it’s own option as there’re no standalone macro camera for that and even if there was, the camera app should be able to detect when an object is close enough to enable macro mode by itself. It’s tiresome to go to that option everytime.

      4- The processing speed is surprisingly slow for the 8+ chip. I was expecting it to be much faster than the pixel 6a’s tensor chip but nope, it wasn’t at all. I mean when after I take a picture I need to wait about 5 second for my picture to be processed and also the slow focusing issue.

      Sorry if those issues were reported before I made sure to check a couple threads about photography but couldn’t find these issues. I think there’re essential as the most important thing about a phone camera is it’s reliability to be quick and responsive. I have been throughly enjoying the Nothing Phone (2) but the Camera is my main issue so far. Thanks.

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        Camera is the major drawback for nothing phone 2, software is ok for now, now software team must work on camera improvement and they must give an update to nothing phone 2 having all the camera improvements.

        6 days later

        We need a huge update having camera improvements. Isn’t nothing supposed to be the company that listens to its community?

        Please Please Please

        We beg you to please improve camera processing. Untill now you said the company is new but now it’s not new anymore. You all & Carl says we want to provide best & make tech fun again.

        But the thing is camera is getting worse. I don’t know what you are doing. It seems like you are focusing on just Sales & Promotion only.

        I’ve attached the photos taken by me. Just zoom into it & see the faces, you’ll know why I am so mad.

        Even my 7 year old Mi Max gives good result. Yeah it’s old & only 16 mp camera of that old technology time but still the result of human subject in photo is decent enough to compare with this.

        If that outdated technology & camera can do. Then what happened to @changename On the launch ofPhone (2) you said premium & latest camera. But what’s the use of it if it doesn’t please us. Why should one prefer nothing & recommend to others after seeing this much of poor performance specially in camera department. Because nowadays Camera is first priority for everyone. That’s why people chooses Apple, Samsung & Google over any other brands.

        Just look the devastating results ofNothing Phone Series