[Verizon LG G2] jayochs:
you guys are completely right in that my knowledge ruins my perception of it. i'm not trying to sound pretentious, but it sucks. my expectations for a cameraphone are set way too high, and it's unfortunate but it's hard to get your mind to get off that idea, ya know?

ok so it's like this...when I had the Rezound, I loved the pics...after some mods. they were nice and sharp and looked awesome. but then I got a Galaxy Nexus...it was terrible. Pics looked like crap, video was even worse...but then I got the GS3. I was amazed. pics were amazing, videos were amazing, i was like WOW! then I got a DNA. pics were MEH..the GS3 was better. videos were ok, better than the rezound atleast.

but then I got a GS4. the camera was FANTASTIC! quality was amazing for a cameraphone at full crop, and the videos were perfect everytime. panorama was seemless and looked perfect! i loved it! problem is, i hated the S4 for every other aspect...slow laggy touchwiz and overheating problems.

I used it for maybe 3 months. then I got the G2. at first, i thought the G2 camera was OK...not better than the S4 tho, and i was disappointed because i followed all reviews of the phone saying how amazing the G2 camera was and how it killed every other phone out there. I was like, wtf? were they high? sure, lowlight shots are good, but that;s only because exposure was jacked up through the roof. the noise reduction made everything blurry and blotchy, and there was no sharpness. the phone took FOREVER to focus, and videos were by far the worst videos i've ever seen. even my Gnex made better videos! it was horrendous.

then xdabbeb made his camera mod, and I began to say, wow, it's much improved. videos weren't as bad, the autofocus wasn't as bad, he made instantaneous focusing in IA mode, and all was well. i was his beta tester, and i tested every version he did, and they all got better with time. but it still seemed like something was missing, and the GS4 to me still seemed like a better camera....so I sold my GS4 and Gnex to help fund the purcahse of a GS5.

got my GS5 on release day and was SO excited for the awesome new G2-killing camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah, and then i took a pic. and another pic. and another. and i said to myself, what in the HELL did samsung do? they ditched the awesome sony sensor for their own Isocell sensor, and it was exponentially worse. noise reduction ran rampant even at ISO 100, which should've been the cleanest image, but it couldn't even handle blacks or browns without blurrying and blotching them as bad as the G2 did stock!

the Gs5 could NOT FOCUS for the life of it in semi-lowlight conditions. the G2 could easily, but on the times it couldnt, no problem..switch to manual focus mode and you're done with it.

in the end, i returned my GS5 for that camera reason (as well as the crappy build quality..it had that body-shifting issue that my GS3 had..) and although i enjoyed the new lagless Touchwiz, i said to hell with it..my G2 ended up taking better pictures in the end, and i guess it took me getting a new phone to realize how much better my old one truly was.

and then i flashed xdabbeb's KitKat verizon rom, where he ported the G Pro 2 camera, and good god the camera KILLS the gs5 now. the quality is much better than the JB camera, the 4k video looks fantastic...it's just overall better.

sorry for the book, but tl;dr, i thought G2 camera sucked, did some mods, liked S4 better, got an S5, it was horrible, went back to G2 and love the camera like never before.