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this coverage of MWC is brought to you by bitdefender mobile security hey de Strasbourg our from Android 30 what's going on everybody and we are continuing our plethora of feature focus videos to show you what is new on the Samsung Galaxy s5 this time our future focus is on the camera alright and here we are with the Samsung Galaxy s5 here on the left side it is positioned in such a way so that we can get the background there Samsung was gracious enough to have a small display here in order for us to really test out the capabilities of the camera and so there you go you saw already that it autofocus in a very quick manner and it's focused on those hot air balloons that are in the display now the camera is an ISO cell 16 megapixel shooter that boasts just fractions of a second in terms of the autofocus and that's exactly what we're looking at here now I haven't in this one display over here so that it focuses on the air hot air balloons there but if I were to tap on to the other side it'll find that area very quickly I'll tap here in order to get it on to the hot-air balloons again as you can see there it does focus very quickly I will move the phone over to this display right here and as I'm moving it you see that it's already focusing so quickly on to those so that's a nice feature of the new camera here on the samsung galaxy s5 that allows you to really get the focus just right very quickly as you can see from the interface as I bring the camera back into the middle you can see that the interface is a little bit different as everything is now part of a circle if we look at the mode you still have many of the modes that were available in the previous iterations and including the beauty face the shot and more so let's take a look at these settings here so there you go there's so much to this camera now that allows you to do a lot to really tweak the various settings on your pictures to really get the picture that you want of course we have the picture size at the full 16 megapixel count and from there there are a bunch of different modes and different tweaks including stabilization which actually is not optical but it does help in terms of getting the right picture for you without your shaky hands first shot face detection you also have metering modes that are you know these are all settings that you normally see on a full DSLR camera but the one that I'm going to show you right now is the selective focus now this is the one that you saw in the previous video and the processing time does take a while after you take the picture when you're using selective focus and this is where we're going to show it I'm going to bring it over just a little bit so I can really get just an inner shot right here alright so we're going to focus on just one portion right now or just go focus on here and then I'm going to go ahead and take the picture you hold the device steady while taking the picture and then it will process for a while because essentially what it's doing is it's taking the focus different shots of the focus in various portions of the depth of fields you have the display in the back and also the display up front and we're going to see exactly how that turned out all right now here is the shot and now as you can see with the lower aperture of the camera itself you'll see that the back has a little bit of blurriness to it that's the depth of field effect that you get with the full op camera however now that you have a selective focus on you see how clear this front one is we're going to see if we can get the back cleared up as well we have the near focus here but if I hit far focus it will show the shots with the far focus on instead you see how clear that became and if we wanted to do a pan focus it would be able to modify the picture in order that everything is in focus it's just a very very nice way of just getting a selective focus in your photos that some people would really love to use that for something like let's say Instagram there's a near focus the for focus and the pan so let's turn off the Selective focus we're back to the full auto and if I head back to the settings we will find HDR right here so now HDR is on and you probably saw in the background already you see that this subject on the left side which is in a darker portion of this display and there's a much brighter portion in the back was finally brought into a much better exposure so let's go ahead and head back right there we have the two various areas of focus I'm a little bit close to this there you go we have it there so when you have HDR on even the blown out sections of the background will be able to be in focus and also exposed properly compared to the stuff that is in a darker area now what we have here is a subject in the front that originally was very very darkened out because the metering was focusing on this area here and now what we have is that difference here's the HDR off in which the blown out areas in the back if I focus on there the metering won't be able to get it because it's too blown out and then our subject in the front is just darkened out turn on the HDR and it does it in real-time and changes the image so that you'll be able to get something much much more usable so go and just take that picture and there it is there you go we take a look at the picture there and we have a much better exposed photo showing the details in the blown out area in the back and also the one in the begin in the front and so there you have it for this future focus on the Samsung Galaxy s5 camera we're going to take a bunch of pictures with this unit right here and try to get those pictures out to you on the site Android Authority comm of course and report back with the quality of the pictures we do expect them to be quite great as samsung galaxy s cameras have been quite good in the past but now it has the ISO cell technology at 16 whole megapixels which is a lot of power for what could be one of the best cameras on a smartphone yet the two features that we did look at where HDR and the selective focus and as we look through here there are a lot of features and settings that you can use to really tweak for your photography and so keep it tuned here too and row 30 for all of the best Samsung Galaxy s5 coverage we're taking a look at a lot of aspects of this new flagship phone so we're going to report back to you with all of our findings it's Josh freghar from Android authority reporting to you live from the Mobile World Congress at the Samsung booth here in Barcelona Spain