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A while ago I was trying to compare a few of my cameras. It was a cloudy day in early fall. All three cameras and my eyes agreed that the sky was dull-grey and
by Derbasti 5y ago
A while ago I was trying to compare a few of my cameras. It was a cloudy day in early fall. All three cameras and my eyes agreed that the sky was dull-grey and the leaves on the trees drab-brown.
To the iPhone, however, the sky was more blue than grey, and the leaves had an autumn-orange hue instead of brown. It wasn't a complete fake, and if I had only had the iPhone picture I wouldn't have noticed. But it was just a little bit better-than-real, and in direct comparison obviously incorrect.
This, more than anything, discounted the iPhone camera for my uses.
- gwillen 5y agoThis kind of white-balance fuckery became very apparent last year, when the skies in the bay area turned orange and red from smoke. On many phone cameras, the photos were automatically color "corrected" to be completely wrong, with no option to avoid this.
- sethammons 5y agoI have yet to capture the oranges, pinks, and violets of our amazing sunsets on a phone camera. It is always more mundane and the vibrance gone.