Samsung confirms blurry S23 camera, but a software fix is coming

Some Samsung Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus homeowners seen a reasonably irritating “banana blur” challenge earlier this yr. Extra particularly, the customers discovered a completely out-of-focus space in images taken with the 50MP principal digital camera. That is particularly noticeable when taking close-up photographs.

The corporate defined the reason for the difficulty within the machine-translated publish:

When testing the capabilities of the S23 or S23 Plus’s digital camera, you will have been caught by the truth that while you take a close-up photograph, the realm across the topic appears to be like a bit blurry. That’s as a result of the rear wide-angle digital camera on the S23 and S23 Plus has a vivid aperture, which helps when taking images at midnight. Nonetheless, it additionally signifies that extra noticeable selective focus could make the background of your images look a bit blurry.

Samsung provides that it plans to handle this downside in a future software program replace, with out revealing a timeline for the patch. The corporate additionally issued a few “options,” which appear extra like workarounds. One urged workaround includes taking a step again in case your topic is 30cm (~12 inches) away and even nearer.

In the meantime, the opposite touted answer requires customers to take a photograph whereas holding the cellphone vertically. “In the event you maintain your cellphone horizontally or obliquely, the background might seem blurry,” the corporate explains.

Both approach, the difficulty was first found in March, so it’s taken a very long time for the corporate to acknowledge it and ensure {that a} repair is within the works. However we hope a software program replace can certainly handle this downside and that it’s not a {hardware} challenge.