[Xperia Z5 General] Timaustin2000:
It's so nice to be patronised by a stranger on the internet. Could you not have asked me a little more about the photos or, indeed, paid the barest attention to the notes that accompanied them? Nooooo, you decided to talk down to me.

In the interests of giving readers some form of balance to your ranting, here are a few notes:

a) the last sample was in very low light with very little detail that the phone could pick up in the first place in areas like the foliage (not picked out clearly by LED lighting) or, indeed, the fence (which, if you look closely, is in the shadow of the bush above it). I was impressed that the thing picked up anything at all. The image was in focus and the colours were accurate. It was an 8MP image so it is doubtless that a S6 or G4 would pick up more detail at distance in that scenario. You're also missing the light halo on the lens from the streetlight directly above me: it was this causing the majority of the noise you see on the image - you can clearly see the lens flare if you look for it. RE the car: it's directly underneath an LED streetlight - glare-y direct white light and very different from Sodium lights. It was picked out in glare because the light coming off it was a glare. No more, no less.

Is it clean and beautiful and perfect? No. It's a phone camera not a DSLR. But considering the very challenging conditions (Harsh LED lighting on a very dark street) I don't consider that a bad result. You're not considering the fact that I was there to see how dark the scene actually was. I'm entirely open to the idea that an s6 can do a better job but why don't you show me rather than attacking me? Take a shot with LED street lighting and smooth tarmac: let me see it. Give me YOUR context but allow me mine without treating me as some kind of mental invalid.

b) You attack the Spar shot? Really? This shot - https://flic.kr/p/zYGjW9? Colours are accurate, everything is in focus, even the teeny tiny health lottery sign is legible and correctly coloured (an IMPORTANT point you seem entirely to miss). You can see finely detailed damage next to the spar sign itself. The right edge of the image is noisy and dim but the camera is not setting the exposure or ISO for that part of the image, I'd chosen to take a picture of the frontage and I consider it to have done a bang up job. The Spar sign itself suffers glare but I was shooting virtually directly into the bulb - I simply cant think of a way for it to have avoided that without hitting up HDR, which I'd never do at night.

c) I don't understand your criticism of the Guy Talking on the Phone AT ALL. You seem annoyed that he's in silhouette,.... well he WAS in silhouette! There was no light source to illuminate his face! To my naked eye, that's precisely how the scene looked, including the accurate red outline of his jumper. The camera caught it exactly. To say that he was pixelated,.... how far were you cropping?! That's an 8mp image at night! The camera might be good but it's not a f*cking miracle worker.

It may be that you've got used to the S6's trick of over-lighting every night scene it attempts but I wanted to correctly capture scenes as seen in reality. That means that dark sections of the image will remain dim. Noise will creep in there because the exposure is set to the clearer sections. But the detail is there, colours are there, focus is there and, most importantly of all, the pictures look like the scene observed. And the noise on that pub shot is relatively small, especially compared to the mess produced by an iPhone.

My initial post wasn't about saying "THIS IS THE BEST CAMERA IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD EVER!!" It was an antidote to pictures taken in many reviews that are much, much worse - especially those of Android Authority, who are clearly using a faulty unit.

You have a G4/S6 and want me to be impressed? Want me to see what you see? Show me your examples. And be more civil about it this time, please.