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ebw said:

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Euphoria14 said:

Galaxy S3 has a better camera from my experience. Zooming in with the iPhone makes the pictures looks terrible and blurry. I don't zoom much however so the pictures I frequently take while spending time with my daughter still look great.

The S3 has a better low-light mode. Zoom won't have anything to do with it. Neither of these phones are big enough for an optical zoom, and digital zooming is really just cropping off pixels, hence the reduced quality. There's really no point in a digital zoom unless you'd rather not edit the image later.

True for RAW images but wouldn't you say that's an exaggeration for JPEG-compressed images, which are pretty typical?

Sounds like you maybe know more about cameras than I do (I'm not that into them), but I don't see what image format would have to do with it. WIth a digital zoom, because the optics are fixed, you're just telling the camera to ignore some of the sensor's pixels, so a 2x zoom turns your 8 MP image into a 2MP image. What format you save that image in won't change the fact that you threw away 6 million pixels right off the bat.