star trail for g5 - LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion

finally today, got the star trail in tibet village.
iso 800,shutter speed 30s,manual focus .i take about more than 70 pcs image and use stackingphoto app to output one final true star trail image.

Beautiful. Congratulations. Awesome.
Whites are still washed off (Just Kidding)

flattron said:
finally today, got the star trail in tibet village.
iso 800,shutter speed 30s,manual focus .i take about more than 70 pcs image and use stackingphoto app to output one final true star trail image.
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Any Camera App to make it easier? Like Bacon Cam. It has interval time to shot.
But in my G5 SE, Bacon Camera doesn't work properly (ISO and SS are not available).
Thank you.

Try 30 s shutter and light scribing. Is pretty cool.

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getting the most from the camera?

Hello
anyone have any tips for getting the most from the camera? just using the stock cam, but unless the photo is taken with the lighting from the sun, it looks abit poo
anyone have any tips for making it that tiny bit better?
Get vignette.It is a paid app but totally worth it.
CLEAN THE LENS.
There's so many threads on here with pictures from people's phones, and they're all fuzzy because the lens has something on it. Even if you can't see anything, wipe the lens before taking a photo.
isthisreallife said:
Get vignette.It is a paid app but totally worth it.
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i hve vignette, but in my opinion it looks alot crapper then the stock so i uninstalled, though i didnt refund it
aussiesausage said:
i hve vignette, but in my opinion it looks alot crapper then the stock so i uninstalled, though i didnt refund it
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Same here.
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aussiesausage said:
i hve vignette, but in my opinion it looks alot crapper then the stock so i uninstalled, though i didnt refund it
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Tbh vigette is actually, i just take the pictures using the stock camera app and from there i just edit the pictures using vigette
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well generally x10 camera suffers from over exposing, and pictures lack of contrast and they are bit washed out. Stock camera app has greatest usabillity, because yu can choose macro and sport modes (with others aswell) nad you can change exposure, but in terms of image processing it is worst, because it uses highest JPEG compression(think they improved it in 2.1) and colours al always pale (except reds).
Vignete is good cause it uses flash, and uses minimum JPEG compression but they are both behind Camera 360 app, which has best image processing.
EDIT: I added a reply from Tuxstyle on one simillar topic I started:
"Well, more important than those modes is:
- use the EV compensation.
go with it minus one or two steps and keep the sun behind you.
also, lowering the EV helps in low light too because will reduce the ISO.
ofcourse, in low light you will need better hands
- another very very important thing is: metering modes.
for macro images use spot (also use spot if you have most of the image around your object with one color: ex. a kid in the snow. in this case camera will do the metering where your focus point is ... the kid ... so the kid will be "better exposed").
use average for landscapes and other "wide" images ....
center ... well, for close stuff.
- do not enable image stabilization.
trust your hands
the camera on X10 is compressing the images way too much so, they become soft.
image stabilization will make them even more soft than that.
What i don't like about the X10 camera is the focus.
I have no idea how is choosing the focus point(s) so, i decided the camera app is crap.
I started to use vignette but is slow as a pig riding a donkey so, i moved on.
Camera360 is working fine.
You have time to wait for the pic to be saved and you know you won't loose a good shot?
Vignette is better. Better quality and best focus from this 3 apps.
Camera 360?
Focus almost as good as vignette.
Quality almost as good as vignette but if you zoom a little you can see the difference.
Speed? A Ferrari vs. Ford Focus (not RS ) if you compare it with Vignette
Hope this helps."

Took a photo of the moon last night with my G4

http://i.imgur.com/w3rOP4M.jpg
You can zoom in see a fair amount of detail considering it's a cellphone.
Also tried with a crummy little $8 telephoto clipon lens:
http://i.imgur.com/1lxXpNd.jpg
Not too shabby, if you ask me.
Just took it..
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Donald K. said:
Just took it..
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Didn't upload in first place
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Made one too [emoji14]
I'm satisfied with the camera. The pictures are clear and the autofocus is quick and great.
For taking quick and clean shots its the best cam I ever used.
On every phone I had someone was always complaining about the quality.
But you cannot expect an dslr quality cam which costs 2000$ or more in an 500$ phone lol
Cozmos23 said:
Made one too [emoji14]
I'm satisfied with the camera. The pictures are clear and the autofocus is quick and great.
For taking quick and clean shots its the best cam I ever used.
On every phone I had someone was always complaining about the quality.
But you cannot expect an dslr quality cam which costs 2000$ or more in an 500$ phone lol
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Agreed,
Best Smartphone camera I've ever had or seen before!
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keenerb, they came out nicely! I'm assuming you used manual mode to get it to expose the moon properly? It's nice that you can see the details on it. And having manual mode helps with these sort of pictures. Do you have a link to the $8 telephoto? That's interesting.
Cozmos23, Donald K, those are really cool! The clouds look awesome.
They're not taken on a G4, but I tried taking some pictures of the moon last week with my "real" camera. This is on a Nikon P7700, zoomed fully to 200mm, then cropped, because the moon was still small in the picture. I thought it was cool, especially the craters at the edge of the shadow. I only wish the camera had a longer zoom.
I only recently started playing with night shots, which I think are pretty interesting. The second is another one from the same night, still on my P7700. A 30 second exposure, ISO 800, f2.0. I think some of the subtle light variations you see going diagonally up to the right, around the bright star, may be part of the Milky Way? I'm definitely not an astronomer. But seeing light and dark areas that aren't just the normal individual stars is cool.
Please forgive me for posting non-G4 pictures. I was just "excited" because this is something I've recently started exploring. I should get a little tripod of some sort for my G4, since it can do 30-second exposures.
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keenerb, they came out nicely! I'm assuming you used manual mode to get it to expose the moon properly? It's nice that you can see the details on it. And having manual mode helps with these sort of pictures. Do you have a link to the $8 telephoto? That's interesting.
Cozmos23, Donald K, those are really cool! The clouds look awesome.
They're not taken on a G4, but I tried taking some pictures of the moon last week with my "real" camera. This is on a Nikon P7700, zoomed fully to 200mm, then cropped, because the moon was still small in the picture. I thought it was cool, especially the craters at the edge of the shadow. I only wish the camera had a longer zoom.
I only recently started playing with night shots, which I think are pretty interesting. The second is another one from the same night, still on my P7700. A 30 second exposure, ISO 800, f2.0. I think some of the subtle light variations you see going diagonally up to the right, around the bright star, may be part of the Milky Way? I'm definitely not an astronomer. But seeing light and dark areas that aren't just the normal individual stars is cool.
Please forgive me for posting non-G4 pictures. I was just "excited" because this is something I've recently started exploring. I should get a little tripod of some sort for my G4, since it can do 30-second exposures.
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now try and tell me that theres no god?? that is just so wonderful!!! thats just beautiful!!!!
Thats funny, I thought about taking a pic of the moon last night also......... But i didnt want a black picture with a teeny white dot in the middle.
Oh, to link this back to the G4 & photography: using the free "DSLR Remote" app, you can use the G4's IR blaster to trigger the remote shutter release on at least some cameras. It works with my Nikon.
For instance, you can use it to make the camera take a picture remotely, without jiggling the camera when you physically press the shutter button. Useful when on a tripod for long exposures, where stability is important. I admittedly usually just set a 1-second timer to accomplish the same thing.
One potential item of interest is the possibility of using this to take time-interval shots on cameras that may not natively have that feature. My Nikon has the ability to do interval pictures, but the shortest time interval is 30 seconds. I could use this app to get a 10 second interval, or something else the camera won't allow (a set # of pictures, etc).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dslrremote
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This is weird but I also took pictures of the moon with my G4.
It was a 1 second exposure shot with me holding the phone so it's blurry but what a coincidence that a lot of people decided to do the same last night.
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Here's a picture set at a 30 second shutter speed and I think an ISO of 350.
In real life you can't see the clouds really at all and the sky is pitch black to the naked eye. Just an Experiment shot.
The stars look a little blurred but if you zoom in that's how much they move in the sky in 30 seconds time.
guys! This is 3.photo topic...Realy need ?...
DeadSOL said:
This is weird but I also took pictures of the moon with my G4.
It was a 1 second exposure shot with me holding the phone so it's blurry but what a coincidence that a lot of people decided to do the same last night.
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I did too, maybe fullmoon for everyone ?
If you zoom in, surprisingly its decent for a phone and actually, you can see some stars too.
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Striball said:
Here's a picture set at a 30 second shutter speed and I think an ISO of 350.
In real life you can't see the clouds really at all and the sky is pitch black to the naked eye. Just an Experiment shot.
The stars look a little blurred but if you zoom in that's how much they move in the sky in 30 seconds time.
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I'm not seeing any pictures in your post? When I replied, I noticed there is a Dropbox link in your post (it didn't show up for me originally), but I get an error message if I follow the link.
Holland
Mine took a picture of a UFO at night! What is the bright dot?
Berlin, Germany
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ozzyblack said:
Holland
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Gave foto man! Die van mij ook in Nederland gemaakt.
English: Awesome pic dude! Mine is also made in Holland.
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Photo comparison: Pixel XL vs Mate 9

All shots taken with HDR on at max resolution possible, no other alterations. Will add as I get the chance. Love to hear thoughts.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2rIwjmi9goAWTJkbzF0QUEzZXc?usp=sharing
Looks good... Pixel is overrated, but yes... Software specs are much nicer then the mate !
Hardware + mate
Software + pixel
It's interesting too see how each interprets colors. The pixel lightens every photo and can at times add colors that are not true. At the same time it takes a "nicer" looking photo in most regards when it does not add that odd haze or noise. I'm going to enjoy making a low light comparison.
i can't see the image at all?
OnimushaPooh said:
i can't see the image at all?
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Use the link, there are 2 folders
pieman13 said:
Use the link, there are 2 folders
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I don't see the photo either in any of the 2 folders
Danbarizer said:
I don't see the photo either in any of the 2 folders
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Strange, they were there before, I will re upload
Should be back now
What really surprising is how close they are - nearly indistinguishable. I've noticed the XL gives just a hair of more detail
pieman13 said:
All shots taken with HDR on at max resolution possible, no other alterations. Will add as I get the chance. Love to hear thoughts.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2rIwjmi9goAWTJkbzF0QUEzZXc?usp=sharing
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Was the Pixel XL set to HDR+ Auto, or HDR+ On?
The Mate 9 looks like it was set to 12 MP, not 20 MP - don't know if this would have made a difference. And it was shot in HDR mode for every shot?
(Edit: now I see that the Mate 9 can only do 12 MP in HDR)
I plan on doing a comparison as well with my XL and V20, various modes, etc.
Nitemare3219 said:
Was the Pixel XL set to HDR+ Auto, or HDR+ On?
The Mate 9 looks like it was set to 12 MP, not 20 MP - don't know if this would have made a difference. And it was shot in HDR mode for every shot?
(Edit: now I see that the Mate 9 can only do 12 MP in HDR)
I plan on doing a comparison as well with my XL and V20, various modes, etc.
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Pixel was hdr on as I find it produces the best shots, however sometimes in low light situations, auto is best.
Funk2641 said:
What really surprising is how close they are - nearly indistinguishable. I've noticed the XL gives just a hair of more detail
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And more color saturation although it's not always welcome.
Sometimes I prefer the pixel and other times the mate gives the better shot. If I were cropping photos though, the pixel wins hands down. I also feel the mate has a more accurate focal point.
pieman13 said:
Pixel was hdr on as I find it produces the best shots, however sometimes in low light situations, auto is best.
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Great to hear! Most people don't know this.
pieman13 said:
Sometimes I prefer the pixel and other times the mate gives the better shot. If I were cropping photos though, the pixel wins hands down. I also feel the mate has a more accurate focal point.
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I'd like to see if setting the Mate 9 to 20 MP would give it more detail than the Pixel. I'm also really curious if the 2X zoom on the Mate 9 is better than just a straight crop of the same area. Need a comparison of that! I'll do some this weekend myself.
I could be wrong but I thought the mate 9 20mp was reserved for black and white lens only.
pieman13 said:
I could be wrong but I thought the mate 9 20mp was reserved for black and white lens only.
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Nope. Go to regular Photo mode, and 20 MP is an option. It actually saves in 20 MP resolution and all. It is supposed to get the detail from the 20 MP sensor, then color fill with the RGB sensor.
Ok, I did use that when shooting. I just thought it was reserved for the b&w only.
pieman13 said:
Ok, I did use that when shooting. I just thought it was reserved for the b&w only.
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It is unavailable in HDR mode though, only 12 MP is available there. So no 20 MP shots are in your album right now.
pieman13 said:
All shots taken with HDR on at max resolution possible, no other alterations. Will add as I get the chance. Love to hear thoughts.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2rIwjmi9goAWTJkbzF0QUEzZXc?usp=sharing
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Not so much difference from where I stand, as those are static scenes in relativelly "good" lighting conditions. We would see more references in lower light (street at night, forest in night) and with moving objects like kids, pets. Only difference I have noticed in attached photos is a tiny bit more details and much more noise in Google Pixel photos. Also post processing is different, with Pixel producing brighter images. But nothing that couldn't be reproduced on Mate 9 using manual post processing. At least in attached photos.
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Not so much difference from where I stand, as those are static scenes in relativelly "good" lighting conditions. We would see more references in lower light (street at night, forest in night) and with moving objects like kids, pets. Only difference I have noticed in attached photos is a tiny bit more details and much more noise in Google Pixel photos. Also post processing is different, with Pixel producing brighter images. But nothing that couldn't be reproduced on Mate 9 using manual post processing. At least in attached photos.
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Agree completely. It was very cloudy that day and you can see the difference in the depth of the clouds. I plan on taking some night shots soon. But the pixel has an amount of noise in its photos that I find rather unpleasant.

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Nokia 9 PureView 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!
I've been using the light L16 for a long while. I assume it would work the same. Images on the Pure View may render a bit slow "on device" , since it dosent have to be exported into lights Lumen software. I'll see once mines arrives though.
lsmith1981 said:
I've been using the light L16 for a long while. I assume it would work the same. Images on the Pure View may render a bit slow "on device" , since it dosent have to be exported into lights Lumen software. I'll see once mines arrives though.
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Yes, with all the sensor data on it does take a while to merge all the image data. The amount of time varies based on the scene and detail.
Harfainx said:
Yes, with all the sensor data on
it does take a while to merge all the image data. The amount of time varies based on the scene and detail.
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It's instant surprisingly, their software team has done a excellent job on that part. Even though it uses the SD820 and their custom ASIC together, everything works just fine. I'm sure with the SD845 and the ASIC chip, things would work much better on that device.
https://light.co/technology
lsmith1981 said:
It's instant surprisingly, their software team has done a excellent job on that part. Even though it uses the SD820 and their custom ASIC together, everything works just fine. I'm sure with the SD845 and the ASIC chip, things would work much better on that device.
https://light.co/technology
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I meant it takes a while on the Nokia 9 Pureview. I've had everywhere from about 4 seconds, up to 25ish seconds to process a photo.
As I'm eager to get my hands on this device mainly for the capabilities of the camera, is it possible for some of the lucky early owners to share a few RAW files.
At least two people here have it, and we don't have one real-life sample to check out.
I really can't believe there are no real and meaningful reviews for this phone...
here is a sample
bo6o said:
As I'm eager to get my hands on this device mainly for the capabilities of the camera, is it possible for some of the lucky early owners to share a few RAW files.
At least two people here have it, and we don't have one real-life sample to check out.
I really can't believe there are no real and meaningful reviews for this phone...
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Here's three in a wetransfer link. Too big to post DNGs on here. These have quite a bit of good depth data and were fun to edit. Didn't share my edits in this grouping though.
https://we.tl/b-AHQfp0iCcp
Thanks man, can I reuse the link and/or unedited exported with LR images on other forums, to shutdown some huawei fans
I'm amazed by the details, it is really good. Could you share some b/w dng's please? Huawei mate 9 with only one bw sensor took amazing shots , so I'm really curious at what the Nokia 9 can do
More dng samples please
Guys, can you please post more dng samples? outdoors for base iso, indoors for high iso? When I developed the dngs posted here, they are all quite great actually, even at iso 1600. That's the flowers shot. The same flower shot in jpg is quite oversharpened and noisy, with ugly artefacts, dark shadows and blown out highlights that are not present in the jpg. The subway shot is iso 1400, basically noise free. The doughnut shot is iso 208 and man, it is absolutely amazing in terms of both detail and noise. I think the bad quality you see in jpgs is simply bad processing by the nokia camera app. I think that this hardware is capable of great photos. Wondering if SNAP camera HDR app would work on this. Thanks!
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Guys, can you please post more dng samples? outdoors for base iso, indoors for high iso? When I developed the dngs posted here, they are all quite great actually, even at iso 1600. That's the flowers shot. The same flower shot in jpg is quite oversharpened and noisy, with ugly artefacts, dark shadows and blown out highlights that are not present in the jpg. The subway shot is iso 1400, basically noise free. The doughnut shot is iso 208 and man, it is absolutely amazing in terms of both detail and noise. I think the bad quality you see in jpgs is simply bad processing by the nokia camera app. I think that this hardware is capable of great photos. Wondering if SNAP camera HDR app would work on this. Thanks!
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I will try to add some tomorrow. Did some compare shots with the xz3 and a rx100 vi
https://we.tl/t-N9cRshSrlb
If people are interested I can do a bit more in depth comparison
I think the shadow recovery is amazing, almost no noise increase, and this on a phone.
1st photo supplied by @phunkyp , increased the brightness of the dark background in a raw editor.
But i think the general sharpness isn't the best compared with well lit single sensor photos, what do you think? For example in the samples of @stefanve those details in the trees just look strange somehow. But there is definatly a lot to play with in the editor (2nd photo by him). Yes its a bit much.
Here are a couple of extra test shots. 3 files per scene. DNG, JPG from the default camera app and one from the LR camera. The LR shot should be using only one of the 5 camera's so we can see the difference between one vs 5 camera's
https://we.tl/t-deZimhn8Sz
Personally I don't think that the camera has on point focus (maybe that is why they use very aggressive sharpening in de jpegs) but overall I think it is really good for a phone, lots of detail and light. This is one of the view phones (that I used) that gives me usable photo's the other one being the Lumia 950 XL and the Mate 9 (but only in b&w)
Is Lightroom not capable to get raw from the Nokia cam? That would be interesting to compare, Lightroom single Cam dng vs Lightroom HDR dng vs Nokia 5 cam dng.
No sadly , it is not possible to save the raw data with de LR camera app.
edit wrong post.
Here are some pictures with Nokia 9. All photos was taken with Auto mode and someone with bokeh or monochrome with raw. I'm not a professional of photography
https://photos.app.goo.gl/56KAUxN8mWk78qfL6
Enviado desde mi MI 5s mediante Tapatalk
I took a few pictures and I am not a professional photographer either, but hope it will help you. Nice weekend
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kgqrWZcYMxRYKGxm9
I will be free from work tomorrow. Then I go outside with the children and take pictures with this phone. I will then place them in the same folder.
Love the monochrome mode.

Photos Taken with the OnePlus Pro 8 Camera

Just got the OnePlus 8 Pro today. Here's some real world photos with the phone. Everyone else post up what you got. I guess XDA compresses them down file sizes were 2.5 to 5.5 MB in size each. Any suggestions where else to upload them too?
Taken in normal mode
Normal mode
U can get great day shots with any phone from 2020...
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U can get great day shots with any phone from 2020...
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Went in my garage with one dim light on and then my patio with no lights on other than the pool lights...
Thanks for taking the time to do that. Those pictures look great!
Thanks for taking the time to show how better your car at house is compared to mine ??
nathlynn22 said:
Thanks for taking the time to show how better your car at house is compared to mine ??
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"Social distancing" where else would you like me to try and take photos at? :laugh: Cars are my other hobby and I take tons of pictures of them. Only other thing I take tons of photos of is my baby but that's not getting posted publicly.
Nice how the Ultramarine phone match the R8.
what about close objets?
or text photos
are they crisp ?
I am on s20 ultra , I cannot do close objets focused photos
nowy57 said:
what about close objets?
or text photos
are they crisp ?
I am on s20 ultra , I cannot do close objets focused photos
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Okay check the 4 photos below...I did them in low light conditions as well.
I took first photo of the dining room from a distance. The phone applied some correction to see better detail (aka brighter than the room really was). I then shot the same area much closer up to try and get the camera to give an idea what the true darkness was of the room. That's the second photo. It gives you an idea how dark the room really looked. I then took a picture of the chic-fil-a packet auto mode (no nightscape) and then switched to the super macro mode and got up close. That's with the light off in that room in the dark. Did a solid job in my opinion. I circled the chic-fil-a thing on the distant shot.
NO FLASH full auto mode on camera (except for activating super macro for the real close up shot).
Nice shots.... I am coming from a pixel 4XL ... The night scape shots are lacking... Has anybody used gcam?
Nosferatu. said:
Okay check the 4 photos below...I did them in low light conditions as well.
I took first photo of the dining room from a distance. The phone applied some correction to see better detail (aka brighter than the room really was). I then shot the same area much closer up to try and get the camera to give an idea what the true darkness was of the room. That's the second photo. It gives you an idea how dark the room really looked. I then took a picture of the chic-fil-a packet auto mode (no nightscape) and then switched to the super macro mode and got up close. That's with the light off in that room in the dark. Did a solid job in my opinion. I circled the chic-fil-a thing on the distant shot.
NO FLASH full auto mode on camera (except for activating super macro for the real close up shot).
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The OP8 camera tends to produce red images in low light, which is evident from your 3rd image
No need to use GCam. The GCam is better only for selfies.

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