iPhone 13 Pro Disgusting Photos

Whenever I take pictures on my new phone, the photos always processes itself in photos after taking it and creates this ugly over-exposed and over-sharpened image. It looks so bad. Not to mention pictures in low light without night mode on is horrible. I am coming from an iPhone XR and it took way better photos. The photos on it looked natural and in low light they were noisy but on the iPhone 13 Pro, the low light pictures are not only noisy but extra blurry and brightened. I can’t even take a nice dark/slightly in the shade picture without my phone automatically brightening it up. Please fix this. When I take a picture with the phone close to my face, my whole face also turns orange. I have tested out every setting in Photos and Cameras and checked every camera article. I have even talked to Apple support about it and they know nothing. How is no one talking about this. It literally only doesn’t happen usually when you are in a really well lit room but when are we ever. Please help me fix this!! I really love this phone because of the screen and battery life compared to my old one but the camera is not it when it is supposed to be this phone’s selling point. I only have 7 days before I can’t return this phone anymore.

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Oct 13, 2021 3:34 PM

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Dogcow-Moof

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Posted on Mar 4, 2022 6:29 AM

If you do some Internet searches you will see there have been several articles noting that especially for phone cameras, the largest group of customers is not interested in capturing the precise details of an image so much as what they think the image should look like, or basically they want a one button Instagram-filtered image without having to apply a filter.

This is what computational photography is bringing - photos that depict how most users want a photo to look rather than what has actually been captured.

Apple, Samsung, Google and others are all doing this, and Huawei was accused of using pre-saved images of the moon in its "moon mode" photos (they denied doing so.)

This has worried some historians as photos no longer can be counted on to in any way represent what anything actually once looked like; paint colors were never as vivid, architectural details didn't look like that, and now even photos in groups can be edited with a single swipe to remove things you didn't want to be in your photo:

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The key is, third party apps are able to obtain a true RAW image from the iPhone's sensors and are able to tweak to your specification, the same way anyone with a DSLR or mirrorless that wants the highest quality shoots in RAW mode and has to process those large files offline to create a usable image.

Apple also provides ProRAW files if you choose that have some processing applied but not all the processing seen in photos taken with the Camera app.

Personally I hope someday Apple adds the option to provide completely RAW files that you would need to process offline just like Nikon NEF or Canon CR3 files; for now you will need to use an app like Lightroom Mobile or Manual.

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