One thing I wish Samsung would add to its Night camera mode

I love the dedicated Night camera mode on my Galaxy S10+. It works wonders in low-light conditions by creating brighter, cleaner pictures with more detail, and it's especially useful for the ultra-wide camera, which doesn't fare very well in low-light situations in the standard Photo shooting mode owing to its not-so-wide aperture. But, while I'm pleased with the results Night mode produces, there's one thing I wish Samsung would change about the process of taking Night mode pictures: A timer indicating how long you have to hold the phone steady for a photo to be captured.

Right now, you only see a progress bar when a Night mode picture is being saved. There is no indication of how long the phone will take to actually capture the picture before the camera starts saving that picture to storage for your viewing pleasure. You are simply told to “hold your phone steady while taking night shots,” and I do try to be as steady as I can, even holding my breath at times to reduce camera shake. To Samsung's credit, you don't have to be as still as a mannequin to prevent shaky Night mode pictures, and having an indication of how long you need to hold the phone would make the experience better.

It would be especially useful for Night mode for the front camera on the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+, as a countdown would tell you how long you have to exert your willpower to keep the phone steady and tell your friends just how long they need to keep staring at the camera without moving a muscle. Perhaps it will be tricky for Samsung to add such a countdown or indicator as the time needed for Night mode to capture photos can depend on how dark the scene is, but even if that's the case, I hope the company can figure something out to make it work.

Abhijeet Mishra - Editor-in-Chief

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Abhijeet's writing career started with guides for custom firmware for Samsung devices (including the original Galaxy S), and he moved to SamMobile in mid-2013 and worked up the ranks to Editor-in-chief. In addition to phones and mobile devices, his interests include gaming on both PC and console, PC hardware, and spending countless hours on YouTube watching videos on tech, movies, games, politics, and internet dramas.

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