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iPhone X camera takes very dark photos when using manual exposure

Hello,


Last night i was at the gig taking photos with my X first time in very low light, i lowered the exposure so the stage lights won't ruin my photos. So i did what i always did with my 6s and the photos look way too dark with X.


I did this small screen capture video to show the problem https://www.dropbox.com/s/ld59gvvr05q5bta/Video 18-11-2017, 14.07.42.mov?dl=0


If i do that same very low exposure with my 6s or iPad Pro, i see dark photo, as i see on the screen and not black photo.

If i use different camera app everything works like expected, it's only affect to Apple own camera app.

I didn't find anyone having similar problem, but i think most people doesn't even use those manual exposures so it might be hard to notice.


I wonder If it's been like this since i bought it or did newest iOS update did this yesterday

This is really bad because for me manual exposure is so important, i wouldn't want to send this phone to repair, but i tried everything, hard reset and erased the phone without any luck.

iPhone X, iOS 11.1, null

Posted on Nov 18, 2017 1:30 PM

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Posted on Nov 18, 2017 2:43 PM

Dark is what is expected, not black like my video shows. Like i said with my 6s and iPad pro results wasn't like this.


I do lot of concert photography and never had this kind of problem with my earlier iPhones, for me it's very important that what i see on screen looks same what final photo. Now it's not like that and it's guessing game to get good results. Also if i put exposure high as possible the photo looks very bad and yet the final photo isn't overburn.


So either X does lot of post processing or my phone has bug which has wrong settings for exposure tweak. I need to go to store to test this with demo unit, If they has this too.

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