Photo quality - HTC U12+ Real Life Review

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the HTC U12+ 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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Hey guys, none willing to share his impressions about the camera?

The details, contrast and sharpness are great in most situations (look at the train).
The color accuracy is very satisfying (look at the sunset).
But the camera struggles in situations with harsh light incidence. Look at the photo with the dog. Where the light through the trees hits the ground, it looks extremely unnatural and oversharped.
All the pictures are point-and-shoot without editing.

Tierlord said:
Look at the photo with the dog.
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I forgot to upload the photo with the dog

Interesting! I just got mine, I will try it and report back

The camera is the saving grace of this phone for me, you can point and click and generally get a pretty decent shot.
The only thing I've noticed it does seem to struggle with is hard sunshine where it can be hard to get the camera to recognise the darker points instead of dimming everything down. But I'm sure that's the same with most phones.
I've attached a quick bokeh snap I took yesterday.

Shot in Paris with moderate light.
Sent from my HTC U12+ using XDA Labs

Full resolution here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zz2116xqsl0zq04/AADyUJaQTy_iUYAsxMso1Gjya?dl=0&m=
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With main camera https://ibb.co/Nm37R7q

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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy fold 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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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy fold 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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The camera is not consistent, some pics look amazing mostly and other are very grainy and not sharp, look out of focus, regardless of the lighting conditions compare the pics to the ones taken on my S9+ and those are better than my Fold's. Can anyone share their experience with the camera?
jhoserovi29 said:
The camera is not consistent, some pics look amazing mostly and other are very grainy and not sharp, look out of focus, regardless of the lighting conditions compare the pics to the ones taken on my S9+ and those are better than my Fold's. Can anyone share their experience with the camera?
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I noticed the same thing, some pictures are out of focus for no reason.
samhall said:
I noticed the same thing, some pictures are out of focus for no reason.
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Does this happen often to you regardless of the light conditions?
jhoserovi29 said:
Does this happen often to you regardless of the light conditions?
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I haven't used the camera often enough to say "often", I just walked around the house mid-day taking pictures to test the camera, and several of them were out of focus. I did some testing yesterday with "A Better Camera" and got perfect results.
samhall said:
I haven't used the camera often enough to say "often", I just walked around the house mid-day taking pictures to test the camera, and several of them were out of focus. I did some testing yesterday with "A Better Camera" and got perfect results.
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Could you share some sample pictures from the FOLD, please?
jhoserovi29 said:
The camera is not consistent, some pics look amazing mostly and other are very grainy and not sharp, look out of focus, regardless of the lighting conditions compare the pics to the ones taken on my S9+ and those are better than my Fold's. Can anyone share their experience with the camera?
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for some reason, samsung's software is lowering the shutter speed, instead of increasing the ISO, so in turn, will usually result in a blurry photo...
there have been others that say using the Pro mode with everything on Auto is a better solution.
unfortunately, pro mode is not available on the front facing and wide angle cameras.
pretty disappointing performance on the cameras really.
£2k phone with that bad picture quality is unbelievable.
I hope they will solve this with next update as camera is useless in my opinion.

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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Sony Xperia X10 Plus 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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I'm not super picky, but things look fine to me; if you look at them on a computer at full size they're a little noisy but since I'm only really interested in quick snapshots it's good for me. I'd attach examples, but I guess there's a minimum post count for that or something.
RAW Support: Camera2 API Probe reports RAW is not supported. (I3223 model)
Anyone having issues with the camera app crashing after taking first pic? bloody annoying.
I think it's crashed once for me, maybe, but nothing repeated or predictable.
It's acceptable 21:9 ?
4:3 style
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MrSpocky said:
Anyone having issues with the camera app crashing after taking first pic? bloody annoying.
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There was an update that came out this week, 53.0.A.4.114. Not sure if it fixed the issue yet or not but will test it out for a few day to find out. If gtg than this will be a near perfect device for my needs.

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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Google Pixel 3a XL 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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This phone is worth the price just for the camera! https://photos.app.goo.gl/sPNawqixZeNq5jWW9
farmercyst said:
This phone is worth the price just for the camera! https://photos.app.goo.gl/4k2kMPMXHcDrQkFU6
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Those photos look amazing!
poncespr said:
Those photos look amazing!
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Thanks. I added some more daylight pics and another night sight comparison. Some of those pics are 8 mp for some reason (I must have had a few and messed with the settings), but they still look awesome to me!
Took this while walking on bridge over Truckee river Reno, NV. Would've came out better if I focused haha.
https://imgur.com/QPjxQfq
While it's certainly not a perfect camera, for a phone, it's really easy to take great shots with this thing!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5zQEeKiAUnfdtcxJ9
Those are some good pics, the dogs tongue haha.

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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Moto G8 Plus 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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I can definitely answer this one. The moto camera app is very very bad. At least for the front camera, it destroys photos with noise and blur. It is in really bad shape and I got a significantly better results using Gcam. I felt the need to inform you guys about this. Mind the front camera, it's worse than g7 plus, it's worth saying it doesn't record in 4k. I'm very upset by this. And it seems it's hardware
Try the GCam! The pics are much much better than with the stock camera app
balu94 said:
Try the GCam! The pics are much much better than with the stock camera app
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so what if he use a gcam, gcam does a milions white dots on bright yellow orange surfaces

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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Google Pixel 4a 5G 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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So, I reverted the photo app to ver.7.x.x and even in poor lighting conditions(cloudy, 1/2 an hour to sunset) the pics look better than w/ the latest version.(better details on rocks surface, tree trunks etc...)
mzsquared said:
So, I reverted the photo app to ver.7.x.x and even in poor lighting conditions(cloudy, 1/2 an hour to sunset) the pics look better than w/ the latest version.(better details on rocks surface, tree trunks etc...)
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what you did not like in v.8? I saw the HDR is always on (on my previous Pixel 3a XL it was a choice)..
I thought the pictures were lacking sharpness and contrast, well it's an arbitrary, subjective opinion, but i think the pics look better after switching the app to older version.
TodNex said:
what you did not like in v.8? I saw the HDR is always on (on my previous Pixel 3a XL it was a choice)..
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@mzsquared - interesting .. if you have direct comparable pictures will be good to see
Here's a couple photos of the jupiter/saturn conjunction the other night. I turned on night mode, the camera turned on astrophotography mode automatically. I had the phone resting against the car spoiler during the one minute exposure to keep it as stable as possible.
mmarcz
Missed the conjunction due to cloudy nights, got Orion/Betelgeuse tonight:
ultrawide photo from my P4a5g, coming from P2XL , photoquality is very good and ultrawide is nice bonus.
astralx said:
ultrawide photo from my P4a5g, coming from P2XL , photoquality is very good and ultrawide is nice bonus.
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with and without nightmode, all handheld...
Hello folks!
is there the lens blur option in Google Camera stock?
i had it in my glorious Nexus5x with a mod version
Sorry i am a Pixel 4a 5g newbie
Thanks a lot

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