Excellent to see the update is out, I found a thread on Samsung that appears to have improved the camera for me and others
Went into camera settings
Set "Intelligent Optimisation" to minimum
Turned off auto HDR (Camera assistant )
Turned off HEIC compression
A lot faster for taking photos and look far less processed and natural including colours , got to do some more test but to my eyes looks far better
These are old setting recommendations. Intelligent Optimisation is needed to retain detail and rendering quality/noise. See my IMGsli posted earlier where I compare each setting inside the Intelligent Optimisation screen. Max is the best setting but leave scene optimiser off.
Some more camera samples after the update. It's clear to me now that the processing is revised on which lenses offer the best quality. IMO the 3x lens is trash, too noisy, white balance is not matching the other lenses.
Any zoom after 5x is a pixel binned crop of the 50MP sensor from the 5MP lens. The 3x zoom is its own lens and has a 10MP sensor, but since you're getting a 12MP output file, it is doing interpollation/upscaling on that 3x lens which probably explains the extra noise, whereas the 1x and 2x zoms are using pixel bins from the main 200MP sensor so are good too.
1x
2x
3x
5x with Intelligent Optimisation MAX (Scene Optimiser OFF)
5x with Intelligent Optimisation MIN
10x
30x
How do I stop photos auto brightening up once taken?
I've set Intelligent Optimisation to minimum and
Turned off auto HDR but it's still happening?
Gallery settings > Turn off "Super HDR"