[Galaxy S6 General] dehnhaide:
Hi Guys,

Just had a little time to use some DNG capturing cameras (Snap Camera HDR & FV-5) with the latest Galaxy S6 firmware 5.1.1 (XEF CSC) on a S6 32Gb with Sony IMX240 sensor.

For now I can conclude that the S6 RAW shooting capacity is in its infancy period and while Samsung will not yet release a proprietary RAW / DNG capturing module for the camera the rest of available options are pretty basic, not to call them pretty lame.

I have found Snap Camera HDR to be the closest it would get to obtaining, at least, complete non corrupted DNG files. Unfortunately the same camera generates fussy JPEG pretty much most of the time. While Camera FV-5 goes with good quality, fine focused JPEGs there is drama when it comes to DNG. You can only get DNGs if you let the camera focus by itself (upon pressing the release button). If you try to touch-and-focus and the release there will be no DNG captured, but only a JPEG! Weird! And 5 out of 10 times the DNG from the Camera FV-5 is corrupted, thus unusable.

Anyway, here are my initial observations related to what Sammy has been able to capture in the RAW / DNG files, and the treatment of such files in Adobe Lightroom / Photoshop:

THE GOOD

- quite a good dynamic range for such a small and "saturated" (with pixels :) )sensor.

- excellent highlights recovery that is pretty helpful with the S6 tendency to overexpose a bit every time. I feel, and I am going to try, that eTTR is quite an option for high contrast / contre-jour situations where more details could be recovered from the shadow areas.

- splendid shadow recovery even when the shot was not taken specifically with this approach in mind.

- good default micro contrast and overall excellent contrast (little sensitive to "S-curve" treatment)

- good scaling for upping the "whites" with not so destructive results (not huge blown highlights)

- good non destructive sharpening up to +70, with 0.7-0.8 radius, masking 50 to 80.

- excellent (well here is a matter of taste, don't shoot me!) monochromatic noise, usable in decent lighting condition up to ISO 800, and easily reduced to an acceptable level without actually destroying the details. Things get a bit nasty where the light is not so much decent and objects tend to lose contour sharpness with driving down the noise levels.

- perspective correction is easily manageable.

THE NOT SO GOOD

- color temperature (WB) is not a total miss but definitely tends to go a bit (very slightly!) magenta-ish. Pretty easy to correct with minimal delta from the perceived / recognized WB at shooting time.

- chromatic aberration exists and tends to be quite visible (specifically in the high contrast / metallic scenes) but it's excellently defringed in Lightroom.

- good vibrance by default although a boost would nonetheless enhance the shot a bit (again, I might be subjective)

Here is a link to 2 DNG files for your own voyeuristic pleasure and pixel peeping and the same 2 resulting JPEGs from Lightroom, based on my approach.

https://mega.co.nz/#!fwkVkZgD!OtxBaBqX06G8cjvS9WzJlO2lvRaIZkbdRr2pEyBteJM

https://flic.kr/p/uNP84K

AND

https://flic.kr/p/uNP4TM

I will get back with a deeper analysis when my free time allows me. This time I will try to focus on the quality differences between the S6 default camera JPEG shooing (which so far is amazing) and the results one could get from messing around with the DNG files.