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nixass 7 days ago

I'm always sad when I pull up holidays photos on my monitor. Even though Pixels make great photos, they're great only on small OLED screens. Gonna clean the dust out of Nikon D3200 with proper lens and use that instead. Casual photos will be made byy wife anyway

Sayrus 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

On my Pixel, I'm always torn with using GCam or another camera app. GCam photos are definitely better on small screens, but every time you zoom in, you get AI artifacts, letters that shouldn't be here. It basically reconstructs the image from the original and blurrier photo. The other apps without these transformation lead to better quality on zoomed photos but the overall preview looks less good. This is especially true when digital zoom is involved.

sturza 7 days ago | parent [-]

Like this or worse? https://yager.io/comp/comp.html

Sayrus 7 days ago | parent [-]

Way worse. At least here the text looks like the original.

Here is an example of what that looks like: https://imgur.com/Q4J5BHi

In case it isn't obvious due to the zoom and lack of context:

- The texture on the top and windshield don't exist, it's plain gray.

- The letters on the card actually read something, here it's gibberish. Sometimes half a letter, sometimes a texture that doesn't exist.

sturza 4 days ago | parent [-]

All the patterns in the photo look pixel by pixel generated(looking at the distorsion) versus a normal camera distorsion when you get at the edge of capability/zoom(smearing etc)

makeitdouble 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It might not be for everyone, but digging in the camera controls helped tremendously for me.

In particular, manual focus with the actual focus scale (no tap around on some surrogate object) and in-focus indicator, control to set a lower ISO in scenes where the phone wants to pull a faster image, or set a higher shutter speed even on darker situations.

Or on the pro line you get the option to stop automatic lens switching, which gives a lot more control (stay on the best lens/sensor and adjust for it yourself, instead of the phone trying to be clever)

All in all it stops being a point and shoot, and there will be a more missed pictures because of wrong settings, but the highs are also a lot higher in my experience. And it can go back to the "all auto" mode anytime.