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iPhone 4S produces more accurate colors. Overall, I'm delighted how great the image quality if for all cell phones; astonishing how far we've come in just a few

iPhone 4S produces more accurate colors. Overall, I'm delighted how great the image quality if for all cell phones; astonishing how far we've come in just a few years.

jsnk 15y ago
How do you tell that iPhone 4S has more accurate colors without actually seeing the real objects?
- evanwalsh 15y ago
  He probably owns an iPhone 4S.
- sjs 15y ago
  Maybe he has the same keyboard and has seen a can of Diet Pepsi before. It's not hard to imagine that being true. I think that the 4S shot is too red/yellow compared to the Galaxy II. This sort of comparison is pretty subjective though. (aside for evanwalsh: for the record I hate my Nexus One and have a 4S on the way)
  - stewbrew 15y ago
    Does he also have the same light/lamp/bulb? Without making sure parameters & the software used were the same, such a casual comparison doesn't seems too useful to me.
  - drzaiusapelord 15y ago
    There's no absolute color. Color is what we humans see when photos bounce off objects. The spectrum of light bouncing off isn't absolute. You have no idea what those objects really look like. The lighting in the room matters. I have both CFL and old fashioned bulbs in my house. If I took a photo of something you knew in both rooms you'd be unable to tell me which is more accurate, because only I know the lighting in my rooms and you don't. You may be able to say "this photo looks right" but that's pretty darn subjective. Turns out we humans are kinda useless for tests like these. Past a few megapixels this stuff really doesn't matter because things like focus, lenses, and lighting are so much more important than resolution. The photos are "sharp" enough and none of these phones support mounting lenses or lights on anything. So its kind of arbitrary. Unless one of these phones has an especially shitty lens or focus or bad software, they'll probably just look mostly the same. I consider these long solved issues and don't expect much difference.
- arkitaip 15y ago
  I have enough image editing experience that I can see this fairly quickly. Also, I've seen a couple of desks, keyboards and books in my days...
drivebyacct2 15y ago
I've found the built in white balance compensation to be quite poor in Android.
- ajross 15y ago
  Definitely not an Android issue here, as I know for a fact Samsung uses its own camera app and capture framework. Not sure about the underlying hardware. If it's a v4l2 driver you might have a case against the kernel infrastructure.
- iam 15y ago
  That's usually up to the phone or camera manufacturer to tune, almost nobody uses the built-in compensation except for prototypes.

iPhone 4S produces more accurate colors. Overall, I'm delighted how great the image quality if for all cell phones; astonishing how far we've come in just a few years.

jsnk 15y ago

How do you tell that iPhone 4S has more accurate colors without actually seeing the real objects?

evanwalsh 15y ago
He probably owns an iPhone 4S.
sjs 15y ago
Maybe he has the same keyboard and has seen a can of Diet Pepsi before. It's not hard to imagine that being true. I think that the 4S shot is too red/yellow compared to the Galaxy II. This sort of comparison is pretty subjective though. (aside for evanwalsh: for the record I hate my Nexus One and have a 4S on the way)
- stewbrew 15y ago
  Does he also have the same light/lamp/bulb? Without making sure parameters & the software used were the same, such a casual comparison doesn't seems too useful to me.
- drzaiusapelord 15y ago
  There's no absolute color. Color is what we humans see when photos bounce off objects. The spectrum of light bouncing off isn't absolute. You have no idea what those objects really look like. The lighting in the room matters. I have both CFL and old fashioned bulbs in my house. If I took a photo of something you knew in both rooms you'd be unable to tell me which is more accurate, because only I know the lighting in my rooms and you don't. You may be able to say "this photo looks right" but that's pretty darn subjective. Turns out we humans are kinda useless for tests like these. Past a few megapixels this stuff really doesn't matter because things like focus, lenses, and lighting are so much more important than resolution. The photos are "sharp" enough and none of these phones support mounting lenses or lights on anything. So its kind of arbitrary. Unless one of these phones has an especially shitty lens or focus or bad software, they'll probably just look mostly the same. I consider these long solved issues and don't expect much difference.
arkitaip 15y ago
I have enough image editing experience that I can see this fairly quickly. Also, I've seen a couple of desks, keyboards and books in my days...

drivebyacct2 15y ago

I've found the built in white balance compensation to be quite poor in Android.

ajross 15y ago
Definitely not an Android issue here, as I know for a fact Samsung uses its own camera app and capture framework. Not sure about the underlying hardware. If it's a v4l2 driver you might have a case against the kernel infrastructure.
iam 15y ago
That's usually up to the phone or camera manufacturer to tune, almost nobody uses the built-in compensation except for prototypes.