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GSMArena team, 13 July 2012

Flying high


Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 review: Flying high

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  • Galaxy Ace 2 I8160

6. Camera, video recording, picture and video comparison
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and build quality
  3. 3. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  4. 4. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  5. 5. Gallery, music player, video player, audio quality
  6. 6. Camera, video recording, picture and video comparison
  7. 7. Connectivity, web browser, Samsung hubs
  8. 8. Organizer, Google Maps, Google Play
  9. 9. Conclusion
  10.  
  11. Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160 specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (129)

Samsung Android Touch UI

Very good 5MP camera

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 comes with a 5MP camera and a single LED flash. It captures photos at a maximum resolution of 2560 x 1920 pixels. There's a front VGA camera for video calling too.

The camera interface is the same as on previous Gingerbread Galaxy devices with two shortcut bars on each side of the viewfinder. On the right you get the still camera / camcorder switch, a virtual shutter key and the gallery shortcut.

On the left there's the front-back camera toggle, the flash options and the Settings shortcut. You can add a total of four shortcuts above the Settings shortcut - any four you like in any order.

 Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2  Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2
 Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2  Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2
Camera interface

The Galaxy Ace 2 has rich camera functionality - touch focus, scenes, geotagging, panoramas, smile and blink detection, effects and manual settings for things like ISO, exposure compensation and so on.

The Galaxy Ace 2 produces good images overall but not quite the best in the 5 MP league. Our main issue with the results is that they came out with pretty low contrast and are a bit too soft. Still colors are nicely balanced and the detail is enough for the Ace 2 to be considered a good shooter in times of need.


Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 camera samples

Image quality comparison

The Galaxy Ace 2 joins our image quality comparison tool and will face off with the likes of the Xperia U and the LG Optimus L7. The tool's page will give you all the information you'd need on what to look for.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 in our Photo Compare Tool

720p video recording is uninspiring

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 can capture 720p videos at 30 fps with its main camera and VGA videos with the secondary camera. The camcorder uses the exact same interface as the still camera. You can use effects in the videos, but there's no touch focus.

 Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2  Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2
 Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2  Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2
The camcorder interface is identical to the still camera one

Videos are recorded into MP4 files with a bitrate of 12Mbps, which is pretty good for 720p resolution. The accompanying sound uses the AAC audio codec, but is mono only (64 Kbps bitrate, 44.1 kHz sampling rate).

The framerate hits the 30 fps target easily and videos are very smooth.

We weren't very pleased with the video performance of the Galaxy Ace 2 - despite being smooth the videos lack contrast and the resolved detail isn't nearly as good as on some other 720p-enabled camcorders.

Here's a video sample shot with the Galaxy Ace 2 that we uploaded to YouTube.

And here is an untouched 720p@30fps (0:16s, 24.7MB) video sample for direct download.

Video quality comparison

The Galaxy Ace 2 enters our video quality comparison tool to square off against the Xperia U and the Optimus L7, check out the results below.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 in our Video Compare Tool

Next Page » 7. Connectivity, web browser, Samsung hubs
6. Camera, video recording, picture and video comparison
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and build quality
  3. 3. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  4. 4. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  5. 5. Gallery, music player, video player, audio quality
  6. 6. Camera, video recording, picture and video comparison
  7. 7. Connectivity, web browser, Samsung hubs
  8. 8. Organizer, Google Maps, Google Play
  9. 9. Conclusion
  10.  
  11. Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160 specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (129)

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