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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

This has to be the most unpopular opinion ever considering how much is invested into phone's cameras, but holy shit do I hate phone's cameras. To me it is such a monumental waste of resources; the average user cannot tell the difference, every phone ever now has a huge camera bump, and social media just compresses everything to shit anyway so there is no way to even tell how good a photo actually is. Before smart phones were a thing, no one except actual, dedicated photographers had anything better than maybe a shitty disposable camera on them. Now every phone ever, and especially the high end flagships, seem to make the camera the end all be all of features. I would pay extra to have a camera from four years ago and have my phone not have a bump... Because 99% of people couldn't tell the difference anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I’m actually with you on this.

I take a photo on my pixel and it looks good for about half a second, then google applied their AI smoothing and compresses the image and ruins it. I’d get better photos screenshotting the viewfinder than the algorithms Google and Apple force into your pictures (but hey, it smoothed skin so you don’t have to photoshop yourself!).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Make sure to turn off face retouching. Also as the other comment said, you can turn on raw photos from the Advanced settings, but it does save duplicate photos if you do.

Edit: and set 'Camera photo resolution' to Full resolution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I do have that off, I didn’t have raw turned on. I wish I could control the jpeg quality instead of keeping full raw data on photos I’m never going to retouch.

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