Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Sometimes the Autofocus doesn´t work. The Picture isn´t sharp at all. It´s a bug? Did anyone encounter the same problem?
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Sometimes the Autofocus doesn´t work. The Picture isn´t sharp at all. It´s a bug? Did anyone encounter the same problem?
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Yeah I have the same problem. It's like there's always a filter on the photos
Mi Note 10 Lite Astrophotography photo+raw samples
Hello guys, as a photography and astronomy enthusiast, i want to share my amasing experiences with my new Mi Note 10 Lite. Here is the link to most of my original samples.
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How i made these photos:
Most photos have been done with the stock camera in a non-light polluted remote place.
I chose the standard quality for the photos, as "high quality" doesn't increase quality that much, but it takes considerably more space on the phone.
I mostly used ISO6400. (ISO6400 is a bit too noisy, because denoising filter is removing detail in the stars. i would suggest a value between 3200 and 5000, making the photos a bit dimmer)
A exposure time of 30s, and focus set to infinity is mandatory for this kind of photos.
Use a very stable support, use a good tripod on a solid base. I used a car as a support (i placed the phone face down on the roof of the car), but a car is not stable enough because we leaned on it, making the car rock back and forth, and that minor rocking made a lot of photos blurry.[You can't do 30s exposure photos hand-held lol. (anything above 1/4s exposure is blurry)]
Use a bluetooth shutter button (or wireless bluetooth mouse/keyboard, or something else),or use wired headphones with button (carefully, so that you don't pull the phone), or use a timer (5 seconds should be sufficient). [pressing the shutter button, or volume button really shakes up the phone, resulting in a blurry image]
Eliminate any stray light sources (car lights, other phone's light, other lights) because any light that can shine directly or indirectly on the lens of the camera, does affect the final image a lot.
Raw or not raw:
I can say that in the stock camera the raw toggle is done poorly, as it does not save a jpg when shooting raw.
It's easier to edit a non raw photo, and with a bit of talent, excellent photos can be done with non raw (with editing, of course).
I use snapseed to edit the non raw photos on my phone, as it's great, and easy to use.
I use photoshop to edit the raw photos, the whole process takes a lot of time, luma and chroma denoising, color grading, saturation, temperature, are all a nightmare and a half.
Yes, you can get better looking photos with better quality if you use raw, but only if you know what are you doing. (usually raw astronomy photos require lots of tweaking that auto modes don't cover)
I would suggest everybody to not use raw, use the 64mp mode, way less hassle, better experience, great detail.
Google camera astrophotography experience:
I've not tried many google camera ports on this phone (PixelCam_Plus_V2.0, and PX Mod v4.0), but i've had problems with both. (when it comes to astrophotography)
PixelCam does save them after a while, but it takes an unknown amount of time, the results are ok, but i'd like to see what i captured as soon as possible, and it doesn't want to turn on astrophotography mode sometimes.
PX Mod doesn't save astrophotography photos unfortunately.
If someone knows a decent astrophotography gcam (with more than 30s of exposure), please write a reply.
Comparison with Oneplus 5
The oneplus 5 had basically the same settings, but it mostly used ISO3200, i don't know which photos are done with what iso, but assume they all were done with 3200.
Even at ISO3200, the oneplus has lots more noise, but it captures the natural yellow light of the milky way.
I think the Mi Note 10 Lite does a better job at everything, except yellow color.
You can compare side by side the shots, as they were done roughly in the same place.
Tell me your experience.
JoraForever said:
Hello guys, as a photography and astronomy enthusiast, i want to share my amasing experiences with my new Mi Note 10 Lite. Here is the link to most of my original samples.
Tell me your experience.
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DUDE!! Your work is super amazing and I'm quite impressed! Love all of them!
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Since mighty Zn5 i have greatest respect for Motorola camera phones. Soon enough I hope I will change my X10 for xt720.
I would like to see your shots and hear your thoughts about xt720 cam, cause its a shame that this phone doesn't have thread like this of its own.
Thanks
actually the photos taken are not as good as it's counterparts..
well, only photos taken with xt720 you can find on internet are those on Esato forum http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/index.php?make=Motorola&model=MilestoneXT720 and most of them are mediocre except those indoors which are excellent. Majority of other photos, are taken from car or something, so they dont represent true quality. So I wanted to see some representative specimen here
If you check out XT720 reviews, most of them have pics from the camera (for the purpose of the review). I find the camera is pretty good (amazing with the flash in dark environments).
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If you check out XT720 reviews, most of them have pics from the camera (for the purpose of the review). I find the camera is pretty good (amazing with the flash in dark environments).
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yes I am aware fo that, but those photos are quickly taken during 1-2 days needed for review. But when you use cell and know its strenghts and weakneses you tend to make much better pictures. General story about xt720 camera is, pictures are mediocre, it has shutter lag bla bla bla etc. in which I dont believe according to few samples and specs of camera.
In some cases I like x10 camera, but I dislike: fake colours, low sharpness, idiotic flash, poor night mode, slow interface etc.
Check this xt720 picture out
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Amazing sharpness even strong light goes directly in lens
I don't believe the quality of the pics are bad, they tend to look great for me for the most part. Shutter lag is there kind of though (sometimes takes a good moment for it to take the picture after pressing the button) .
and what camera apps do you use?
i has been using the stock app but found out that it compressed the jpeg file too much...
shutter lag as if "time between pressing shutter and actual taking of the photo"? And how big it is? half second, 1 sec?
I ve read somewhere that nightmode is not functioning at all, that its like normal mode + flash, not like normal nightmode with higher iso and exposure?
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xt has good camera quality (I would say better than ZN5)
I don't know of what shutter lag are everybody talking about, but the only lag is happening when you take first picture with xenon flash (this is normal behavior because flash capacitor needs to fill up)
it has very good macro mode, light metering is great (ZN5 would burn some photos with xenon, but with xt this is not case)
auto focus is really quick, and noise is acceptable (mind you this is not camera, but cameraphone )
I fully agree with pajo.
This is a great camera and all functions well. I do notice the shutter lag, but it only happens SOMEtimes, 99% of the time there is no lag. So that 1 time it does happen is not worth mentioning. I use the stock app btw.
I also dunno what people are talking about the modes. Night mode doesn't work? Then why does it work fine here? Same for macro. Also works. Everything in the camera works (I use Dexter 2.2 btw, but even on stock 2.1 it works fine).
I love this phone and the camera
well since I consider Zn5 to be best camera phone after N8, than you put up quite a challeng here . Go post some night landscapes and normal night shots so I can see quality.
Btw concerning HDMI, is it only for playing videos, or you can use TV for playing games, browsing etc.?
Disappointed with the camera quality
Actually I have XT720 with standard OS 2.1
I'm VERY disappointed with quality of pictures.
Here is some comparison I made between my NEW 8Mpixel XT720 and my OLD 5Mpixel Nokia N95.
Please check at attached pictures (name of the pictures should be self explanatory)
Now you really think the camera is good....
I also compared the phone with Sony X10 and Samsung "latest galaxy something" and the worst quality is with Motorola XT720
If you want more test (even more official) take a look at
GSMarena website where they have picture comparison of latest cameraphone and, please, address me to a phone that is worst that XT720.
I just have a question:
Is the camera performing better with 2.2 Update?
Thanks
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Xiaomi Mi 5 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).
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please post some camera samples here
100% crop from 16mp. Saved at 75%. Zero edits.
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Full gallery and comparisons here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/albums/
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP4e3Pqu2c0bwaXUTpyX7icflT6ZPUKaOFPiwHF42WuAqiB5f5paBJcb2Z7E-H5vw/photo/AF1QipO0fPyRlXcWKuixOfeVD8Y1RwM1I1IjCaRDrrhK?key=OVdEbEQ2UDYzbldfY2poNnNmSUgzRW1VY2xFWXJn
Great pictures, can you show me photo in night
Some says that the camera quality at night is not good, can u confirm that?
I have some complaints. Overall the color and contrast is not as good as those of my galaxy s4. The pictures are sharper, but the following applies
HDR: too agressive, can add a hint of desaturation.
GREEN: taking pictures of green grass on a cloudy day produces extreme oversaturation of green. Turning down the overall saturation relieves this a bit, but of course it reduces the saturation of everything and so had to turn it back up.
COLORS: compared to galaxy s7 it's clear that the colors are not great on the mi5. I tried this with a friend. You don't notice that much looking at MI5 shots in isolation, but compared to the S7 there's a big difference.
The camera is really lagging behind the rest of the high quality specs of the phone.
I kinda like the night picture, there's a noticable improvement from Mi 4c. Here are some samples, you can guess what mode used to take the pictures from the suffix (HHT is automatically used at night even if you turn off auto HDR, but choosing HHT manually turns HDR on, which is weird):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22124591/Images/IMG_20160813_190027_HHT.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22124591/Images/IMG_20160813_190036_HDR.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22124591/Images/IMG_20160813_193715_HHT.jpg
You can not easily get bad photo quality with such a camera module from Sony.
Personally, I am pleased with the saturation rich photos from stock camera app. But I also found that open camera provides even better photos (exposure, etc.)
hows the camera quality on cm13 or other custom roms?
turn down noise reduction in camera apps.. and it will make great pictures all day long..
I've been using the camera for a few days and the issue I have with it is that it prioritises low ISO over longer shutter speed, resulting in motion blur in any picture that is not taken in good light or at a static subject.
I'm having trouble shooting people (especially children) indoors, with good light, where my previous phone (iPhone 5S) had little trouble: it just upped the ISO but maintained a relatively fast shutter speed.
It's an issue with the original camera, the Cyanogenmod camera instead uses higher ISO which results in higher shuter speeds, less motion blur but higher noise and less detail.
Still, I think that's preferable...
An example, just shot indoors, fluorescent lighting:
Original Camera: shutter speed 1/17, ISO 562
Cyanogenmod: shutter speed 1/30, ISO 1360
downtown milky way
moon
Can anyone take picture with aosp and cm14.1 roms?
Thanks
Sorry for my bad english
No Problem with your english
I had the phone for a week in its great
I Take 3 pictures 2 on Lineage 1 on miui 8 Nugat
1 with snapdragron on Lineage
2 with Stock Lineage camera
3 stock miui Nougat with Stock camera (my doughter moved the Keyboard)
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6k95TGrAgmhOGVvazFWdlYyYTA
3 more pictures of garden
1 miui camera
2 lineage camera
3 lineage with snapdragon camera
Chinese New Year firework
Chinese New Year firework
http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/589023524923c/LRM_EXPORT_20170131_080455.jpg?
Taken it with stock camera and Lightroom
MI 5 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
I use Snap Camera on AOSP 7.1.1 (JDC).
The photos quality is not so bad but not so good as a stock camera
Hi,
is it possible to port Miui camera for custom roms?
Well, as we all know by now, the camera on the Xperia XZ is quite moody. In my experience, its been mediocre at best. The low light photography is super disappointing. Then again, I'm quite an amateur at professional grade photography. The Galaxy S6 Edge never really required me to be.
I have, however, noticed some of you guys are getting tremendous shots on the XZ. What I want to know from you brilliant people is how do I operate this camera to its maximum potential? Superior Auto mode/Manual Mode? What would the optimum resolution be? And if there are any standard manual settings for best results? Touch to focus or focus via half pressing the shutter button(It said somewhere that the laser autofocus might not work when we touch to focus)? Using the system app or using an alternative like the Google Camera?
Help a fellow homie out, please, thanks guys!
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Well, as we all know by now, the camera on the Xperia XZ is quite moody. In my experience, its been mediocre at best. The low light photography is super disappointing. Then again, I'm quite an amateur at professional grade photography. The Galaxy S6 Edge never really required me to be.
I have, however, noticed some of you guys are getting tremendous shots on the XZ. What I want to know from you brilliant people is how do I operate this camera to its maximum potential? Superior Auto mode/Manual Mode? What would the optimum resolution be? And if there are any standard manual settings for best results? Touch to focus or focus via half pressing the shutter button(It said somewhere that the laser autofocus might not work when we touch to focus)? Using the system app or using an alternative like the Google Camera?
Help a fellow homie out, please, thanks guys!
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Hi there. I'm not pro either but here are my findings I hope you can understand the logic of my how I optimise:
Resolution should always be set to 8mp (4:3) for best quality as the XZ super samples the photo.
Auto white balance is pretty good but can occassionally be a bit cold. If the lighting is good, you can actually go into Auto mode and tune the colour temperature more accurately than in manual mode (pretty ridiculous) which only gives stuff like, tungsten/halogen/cloudy/sunny. If it's low light, superior auto is going to put the ISO very high and ruin the photos with noise if you're not careful.
For low light photos, what you're aiming for is the longest possible shutter time and lowest EV exposure. Stupidly again, setting manual shutter time forces the ISO into auto mode which means you have to get used to what settings in what lighting conditions will give you a low automatic exposure.
So in low light you would set perhaps 0.5s/ or 0.25s shutter time, try to keep a negative EV. This only works if your photo is stationary and you have a mount or steady hand. 0.5s without something to rest on is going to be pretty much impossible, 0.25 with something to rest on is easy, 1/8th and 1/16th second you can manage hand held but if your subject is moving, they are likely to blur too. If you're trying to take a photo at low light of moving objects you're mostly out of luck, the XZ simply isn't great at low light. Perhaps use auto shutter time and fix ISO to either 400 or 800 and see if that works for you.
For outdoor conditions with bright backgrounds you may have to resort to HDR mode, but it gets kinda complicated deciding what looks better. I noticed some bright ourdoor shots are too vibrant and HDR looks really unnatural. Also there can be a turquoise shift in the sky, same as in x performance test on Dxomark.
8mp is the best?! Can you explain a bit?
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it's better as I believe it uses the information from the full 24mp to super sample an improved 8mp picture. Essentially tries to cram in the information from larger resolution into a smaller area.
If you zoom in 1:1 with the 23mp image, you see a lot of noise artifacts, with the 8mp obviously is the same as zooming into the 23mp less so you don't see it as much. 23 mp can certainly contain more detail than 8 mp, however the sharpening artifacts can be more pronounced in a 23mp crop compared with 8mp crop of the same area. 8mp is a bit softer and there is less that appears "wrong". I will try and make some examples later perhaps. (or prove myself wrong...who knows )
Ok took a few photos to try and illustrate why 8mp is better.
I took two photos, one at 8mp and the other at 23mp, both at exactly the same settings, 40 iso.
I then scaled the 23mp to 8mp using image resizing in photoshop then took 100% crops to show part of the picture.
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Notice in particular around the black seal on the window frame the extra noise on the 23mp crop. I believe the difference is the point at which the xz applies sharpening. On a 23mp photo, it applies the sharpening right after taking the raw photo.
However, in the case of the 8mp photo, it super samples a 23mp pixel raw (either resize or combines pixel data to produce the 8mp, THEN applies sharpening. So in the 8mp, the image information is taken from 23mp and compressed into 8mp, whereas on 23mp it sharpens first, and after you resize it or look at it on a monitor there sharpening artifacts are much more noticeable.
Here is another example at 400iso , look at the threads and pins and the extra noise and distortion on the 23mp photo.
23mp photos DO contain more detail, BUT only if viewed 100% at which point it looks like crap anyway due to sharpening of a noisy photo.
23mp downsized to 8mp has LESS detail compared to taking the photo in 8mp because of the difference where the sharpening is applied.
So the conclusion: Take photos at 8mp (or even 2mp haha because the same theory applies there) Sharpening should happen last in post processing not before denoise/resize.
I've trying out the camera at 8mp, but I haven't had a chance to really look at the results on a large display to see the difference.
Any other recommendations for getting the best photos out of this camera?
I guess one benefit of using the camera at 8mp is that you should be able take advantage unlimited full-size backups on Google Photos. If you use the 23mp setting, they will either count against your storage limit or be reduced to 16mp...
I am provided this device as courtesy of Honor UK. I am going to express my thoughts and impression on Honor 9A. This is my personal and honest opinion of the device.
Before I jump to photography aspect of the Honor 9A I would like to discuses some other aspect of this device. some of features as follows:
1. 6.3”, 88.4% screen to body ratio full view 20:9 aspect ratio display of LCD panel. ( very computable to watch video contents.)
2. Magic ui 3.1 that is honor skin of android 10 out of the box. (latest operating system, many flagship of previous years are still on the list to upgrade to this)
3. 5000 amh battery (all day long battery) and ‘Ultra Power Saving Mode’ in case the device need to run longer in minimum power (12 hours on 5% battery power)
4. 3.5 mm headphone jack ( now we can use our favourite headphones)
5. FM radio without need of DATA ( Yeah!! Just need to plug in headphone to work as antenna)
6. Super comfortable hold and use, slim design with mate finish sides for strong grip.
7. Biometric and facial lock system along with traditional pin and pattern unlock system.
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Camera
Honor 9A comes with triple rear camera and a front selfie camera. Rear cameras are 13MP Main camera along with 5MP ultra wide angle and 2MP depth sensor camera. I will summarise these camera as average in general circumstances. However if you consider the price range of the device it is above average. It is known fact that Honor devices comes with awesome camera performance. This device in particular is not focused on the camera hardware section. Moreover it lacks many popular software features of Honor camera software. This does not mean it has bad camera but it feels weaker in comparison with other Honor Device. I will simply explain good and bad aspect of the camera in my opinion in few important aspect of photography.
General photography
Its simple basic camera very useful for armature mobile photographer. Simple and easy to use. Picture quality is good enough for general use such as social media post or keeping it for memory. Images has good amount of detail and clarity. Pictures are slightly over saturated so it appears vibrant. This is perfect for general users who don’t have much knowledge of post editing.
Portrait
This device is able to capture good portrait pictures. I would not consider this is above average. It has decent amount of background blur on portrait images. I was expecting more than this considering it has 2MP depth sensor lens. However I personally did find much benefit of having that extra lens. So the portrait images are acceptable. Moreover, it does some post processing that improves image quality.
Close up/macro
It is surprisingly good for close up photography. It’s 2MP depth sensor camera rally stands out when it comes to close up photography. There is also PRO mode section where we can manually control, focus, shutter speed, ISO and so on.
Video
Video quality is fine on this device. it is able to capture up to 1080P on 30 FPS. I personally like to take video with 60fps. It might disappoint some users who are not used to with video capturing cause 30fps requires good amount of balance on video capturing. 60 fps would be beneficial in such condition. However, when captured with good balance 1080p with 30fps is considered as good quality.
Light condition
This device takes good picture in good light condition. It may over or under expose on extreme highlight and shadow condition. Meaning if you take picture of a house at sunset it may darken entire house to bring light of sun set.
It has shown weakness in low light condition. Pictures contain some amount of grain at low light. It becomes very difficult to maintain quality in very poor light condition. Such as, darker room with table light. Having said that this is important to consider that this device is introduced as budget device and this level of low light quality need to be accepted as satisfactory.
Wide angle, this device has 5MP wide angle lens. Wide angle is very useful for landscape photography. When comes to landscape photography 5MP resolution is not that helpful. We would lose significant amount of details from image due to lower resolution. when using wide angle for close up images it produces good quality pictures. but majority use of wide angle is to capture more in single frame so higher resolution would surly benefit.
Negative
I have used Honor and Huawei device before so I am aware of some of revolutionary photography features of these devices. When comes to mobile phone photography I consider 3 things is must have Nightmode, portrait and light painting. Honor has decided to ditch these key photography features. Therefore I have come to conclusion that this device is not for serious photography. This might be true as this device is targeted to different demography that may not be much interested on top end photography features. If you are looking for device that is above average on photography than you should look for some other devices such as Honor9x pro, Honor 20 pro.
In summary, honor 9 A has various key features to meet your daily demand. Please read following great review of thee product my member of this community. If you are not into much into photography and just want a simple camera phone with simplified features than this device is for you. It is able to take good quality pictures ( main lens 1x) that does not need editing most of the time. User interface in the camera app is much simplified so it is suitable for entry level consumers.
Source: https://community.hihonor.com/uk/topicdetail/Honor-9a,-my-thoughts-on-Tripple-camera/topicId_23039/
Have had a couple of bright daylight shots come out like garbage, low detail low quality smudged detail. so just happened to look in settings and no HDR/+. Maybe I'm getting it mixed up with my previous pixels but could have sworn there were HDR settings in Google camera on the 6a?
Strange. Reddit says...
Google is even more cryptic.
Raw mode be your next and better option. Those will require post processing which is done using a photo app that has an adjustable contrast curve option.
Thanks! Raw wouldn't have helped this shot. looks like needed the stacking that HDR provides. making sure I'm not crazy, the option was there before, no? It's definitely still kicking in in some cases but seems somehow auto / Left up to googles algorithms. Unfortunately that leaves us with a lot of garbage shots
Compared to a Canon pro cam all smartphone cams are a pain to use and limited especially for setup options and speed. I lose a lot of shots because that. I never liked HDR's; a properly exposed shot doesn't need it. Raws give you at least 2 full f-stop exposure and WB correction.
No option to shoot multiple burst exposures at different exposure settings either on smartphones.
Even on my Samsung N10+ the HDR setting when toggled on will decide for you if it will be used. That can and does screw up shots when on... sometimes. No real control
Perhaps Google will update that missing feature soon. Rather sloppy of them. Not near as inept as their lame idea implement forced scoped storage though.
That's a bomb I'm still running Pie and 10 to evade that terror.
The issue is these tiny sensors. The photo stacking/ computational photography helps exponentially. When it doesn't kick in, it can be very bad. You're right RAW can definitely help some but there's only so much it can do. Here's two shots, one when the computational kicked in and the other apparently not. These were taken on the fly (my gf and her kid, not random people), so obviously not great composition just an example of what I mean.
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Not available for pixel 4a and above. It is default ON.
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The issue is these tiny sensors. The photo stacking/ computational photography helps exponentially. When it doesn't kick in, it can be very bad. You're right RAW can definitely help some but there's only so much it can do. Here's two shots, one when the computational kicked in and the other apparently not. These were taken on the fly (my gf and her kid, not random people), so obviously not great composition just an example of what I mean.
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That's not much difference.
On a raw file (or maybe even a jpeg) you could do that and better using an adjustable contrast curve with settable adjustment points. Takes a bit of practice and a color calibrated monitor.
Wow man, the difference is massive. Look again at the detail in all areas. Detail completely smudged out in the faces, the animal, the plants.
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Wow man, the difference is massive. Look again at the detail in all areas. Detail completely smudged out in the faces, the animal, the plants.
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Yeah just saw that. Not sure what the cause is though. The face is messed up. I suspect it's the jpeg processing algorithm.
It's also the animal, the plant life to the right can be seen easily. This is what I'm talking about in regards to the photo stacking, what enables these tiny sensors to get decent IQ.
But also, looking at the exif, the bad shot is at 1/7200 ISO 700, that's insanely dim for these little sensors, I'm assuming the digitally brightened. I'm GUESSING I may have been moving (or they were moving) and Google algorithm decides to snap a "sport" shot rather than have something completely unusable? In the case, if so, also no time for stacking in a "sport" shot. Just a guess.
The other 1/400 ISO 45, though I'm not sure how they calculate the latter with stacking/HDR. Whether it's an average of all shots or what.
damian5000 said:
It's also the animal, the plant life to the right can be seen easily. This is what I'm talking about in regards to the photo stacking, what enables these tiny sensors to get decent IQ.
But also, looking at the exif, the bad shot is at 1/7200 ISO 700, that's insanely dim for these little sensors, I'm assuming the digitally brightened. I'm GUESSING I may have been moving (or they were moving) and Google algorithm decides to snap a "sport" shot rather than have something completely unusable? In the case, if so, also no time for stacking in a "sport" shot. Just a guess.
The other 1/400 ISO 45, though I'm not sure how they calculate the latter with stacking/HDR. Whether it's an average of all shots or what.
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The cam sensor temperature can also increase the noise floor level. With the lense and sensor size as small as they are it's a wonder they can do this good. The narrow depth of focus doesn't help things either.
Cam shake may also play a role as well; the lighter the cam the less stable the shooting platform. Smartphones have no handholds. Not near as easy to shoot with compared to a pro cam and lense that weighs 5 pounds. The larger lens are easier to shoot because of the added weight.
Smartphone cams are convenient but damn I lose a lot of keepers because of them in shutter lag alone.