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Mine don't (iPhone 13 Pro Max, Fuji XT-2 and various lenses). They do in daylight, sure, but things like sunrise/sunset or unusual colors throw them off like cr
by majormajor 4y ago
Mine don't (iPhone 13 Pro Max, Fuji XT-2 and various lenses). They do in daylight, sure, but things like sunrise/sunset or unusual colors throw them off like crazy.
Textures can also throw them off - "amplification" of the texture effect, almost.
They also suffer a bit zoomed in.
The post-processing fixes a lot of problems of older phone cameras but it has its limits.
On good camera hardware there's very little that all that post-processing would add outside of extreme-high-ISO-noise, IMO. Which - would it be nice? Sure. But you can find software and stack exposures manually and such for those situations too.
And a lot of the other smart stuff gets fooled too easily.
- sys32768 4y agoThis is true. I should have added "in good light". The DSLR images also retain much more detail in cropping.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd even moderate optical telephoto lenses are pretty powerful tools as well—especially in poorer light.
- dylan604 4y agoI hate when you get one of those amazing sunsets where the whole sky changes color, but the phone auto-correct removes/corrects the color tone.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoYou can shoot in raw on iphones now to prevent this or fix it later.
- dylan604 4y agoThanks, but now doesn't do me any good then
- bee_rider 4y agoThe sun will come up tomorrow, there was a whole song about it.
- majormajor 4y agoCapturing raw on iPhone in a low-light situation shows you just how far the sensors have to come if you aren't throwing the whole bag of software magic at it, in my experience. It's useful for cases of "you're noise reduction is fucking with my texture" in decent lighting or similar, but in lower light I haven't found it to be a worthwhile tradeoff.
- kalleboo 4y agoOn recent iPhones Apple has added "ProRAW" which retains a lot of the magic processing without losing the ability to make a lot of adjustments you'd do on RAW photos like white balance correction.
- ISL 4y agoTurn off auto white balance and set it to "daylight", problem solved.
- bbgm 4y agoI used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold up (they do a better job with video). If you’re taking snapshots, nothing better than a phone.