Photo quality - Google Pixel 3a Real Life Review

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Google Pixel 3a 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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XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Google Pixel 3a 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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Pixels in general take the best pictures out there - and I am not just referring to my 3a. Mom has a refurbished Original Pixel; the only difference is she did not follow me to dark mode. I updated to 7.1 Camera app today; she will follow tomorrow because she is even pickier about pictures than I am. (She is not used to having a top tier camera in her phone any more than I am; the reality that - as long as our Camera apps match, our pictures will, is a decided boggle factor.)

Is it me or did the quality go down a bit since the 2 last camera app updates?

Tomar777 said:
Is it me or did the quality go down a bit since the 2 last camera app updates?
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The last camera update was nearly two months ago. I just wanted to check to make sure you are referring to actual camera updates, and not the monthly OS updates.
Personally I have not seen any difference.

sic0048 said:
The last camera update was nearly two months ago. I just wanted to check to make sure you are referring to actual camera updates, and not the monthly OS updates.
Personally I have not seen any difference.
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Yes i mean camera updates, from 7.1 to 7.3... feels like there's more noise in low light/difficult scenes....
Its not noticeable on the phone, but on pc edit, i also saw a few people complaining for it in Reddit.
Maybe its just my idea... thanks for your answer.

Here is an astro shot(slightly edited).See on full brightness.

And now, how has the camera in the current version shown itself? How has the quality of the photos been?

the only thing that annoys me is the white balance some times at lower light situations...
I also detect more noise in shadows on difficult scenes f.e portrait with sunset backgound.

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Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the honor 5X 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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Could someone post a picture with the camera zoomed in on something? I have the nexus 6p and would like to see what a zoomed in photo looks like.
Thanks
Here you go!
https:// goo.gl/photos/HCEkiJMB48zbuVzFA
Apparently I cant post links yet.... remove the space
Not the best
excellent camera..
here are some samples
just go here for complete sample shots album..
https://goo.gl/photos/qjqTSkuPd2TGGteeA
zoom focus is appalling in function. hardware probably all good enough and purely poor software !
Lack of updates addressing this is my biggest annoyance with Huawei. They happy ignore it and just spend the resources on pushing next device .
Low light photos are bad as well
I would cut them some slack on low level shots but good light and poor focus response is ridiculous, should of been resolved in updates but no .
rip their updates
13 mp shooter really does its job,
Love the front cam
Photo quality is really superb.
The quality is decent, all things considered. However I've been having a lot of problems with the focus. It regularly drifts completely out of focus and then slowly (over the next 30 seconds to a minute) drifts back. Tapping to focus does nothing in this case. It's really irritating when I'm shooting video. I don't know if it's a hardware or software problem, but I suspect the AF unit is on the fritz.
How can I improve a better quality on photos, I see that photo is really bad on ambiental light
Rommco05 said:
Ambiental = lowlight? in low light scenes is big improvment to have fixed phone, put your hands on something stable, or leave phone recumbent on beer bottle
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On the picture there is so much noise on low light
Rommco05 said:
Yes this is possible, you can a bit reduced noise when u taking fotos from stand/fixed phone
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Oh ok! Thanks!
Reduced noise ? If soo use a headset then
gopinaidu77 said:
Reduced noise ? If soo use a headset then
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Bro. It's not with the sound. It's with the pictures.
adriansticoid said:
Bro. It's not with the sound. It's with the pictures.
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I thought its video
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adriansticoid said:
Bro. It's not with the sound. It's with the pictures.
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I thought its video
Fdraco10 said:
Oh ok! Thanks!
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I had this problem with my Oneplus One a while back. All my low-light photos had terrible color and noise. However it was fixed when I flashed a rom with a custom camera hal (color os hal to be specific) and it was a night and day difference. Colors were spot-on, noise was almost completely gone in low-light. The camera app itself also seems to have a big role in picture quality. If it wasn't for the oneplus one having the same camera hardware as China's oppofind7 phone (which runs color os), the corporation wouldn't have made an effort to create the color os camera hal. So its kind of a unique situation I guess.

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 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'll be honest, it's pretty bad, frequently off focus, poor low light, lack of stabilization, but maybe fine for the price range I guess
Redmi Note 5 is probably the better choice for photo quality
Nonetheless, I think updates might help. At least I hope
XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 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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In daylight conditions pictures turns out good with good focus , saturation levels etc. But color reproduction needs work and in low light conditions noise is quite apparent. Portrait is like 7/10. Selfies turn out good after the recent update, 8.5/10.
P.S. For stabilized videos I use nokia camera app and its upto the mark .
Low-light picture quality is abominable. Zoom tears images, there is a lot of noise. Images in daylight are pretty decent. For this price range, the camera quality is justifiable (I suppose). I have a Moto G4 Plus and it takes amazing photos compared to this device. If you remove the portrait mode, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 has nothing over the Moto G4 Plus camera.
Hope to see changes in future updates.
Yes, pretty disappointed with the camera performance. I should have got the RN5 instead but since I already got this, I'll stick with it as taking pictures is not the main thing for me on this phone. Still, the quality is far off from the various paid reviews.
Is it better with Google Camera , anyboby ? Thanks
batterytwo said:
Is it better with Google Camera , anyboby ? Thanks
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For sure Gcam pics are better. I have been using it from past one week and will sure never turn back to stock camera.
Moreover with Gcam you also get additional features like panorama , ar stickers and google lense.
Can anyone show the photo quality difference with gcam and the stock one?
Abby 244 said:
For sure Gcam pics are better. I have been using it from past one week and will sure never turn back to stock camera.
Moreover with Gcam you also get additional features like panorama , ar stickers and google lense.
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dude pls give me the apk for it ..i am unable to find it and does ur g cam have slow motion and other ****..
It's quite bad with the built-in camera app , but it's quite acceptable with some manual camera apps and especially in HDR mode
I am yet to purchase the phone. I have seen lot of camera comparison with Redmi note 5 pro on YouTube but still confused. I am planning to use Lineage os if I buy the device.
Can anyone please tell me how is the picture quality taken with gcam mod on 6gb ram model with Redmi note 5 pro?
Enable camera to api and use Google camera
parveen_kumar said:
Enable camera to api and use Google camera
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Is photo quality better than redmi note 5 pro if I use google camera on zenfone max pro m1?
Don't know but it is definitely better than the original Asus camera app
Earlier the photos taken from Asus were not that great as that of redmi note 5pro, but now with Google cam installed these are now coming extra ordinary, thanks for the team made possible without rooting the phone.
Abby 244 said:
For sure Gcam pics are better. I have been using it from past one week and will sure never turn back to stock camera.
Moreover with Gcam you also get additional features like panorama , ar stickers and google lense.
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how to get the AR stickers????
jaguar1106 said:
Earlier the photos taken from Asus were not that great as that of redmi note 5pro, but now with Google cam installed these are now coming extra ordinary, thanks for the team made possible without rooting the phone.
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I installed Google camera after enabling api through fastboot but not much big effect is seen from Snapdragon camera
For example I did portrait mode on Google camera but it takes much time than Snapdragon camera and also showing images of low resolution and small megapixel (my camera support 16 MP but it showed images from 8 MP and allow motion is not working and hdr+enhanced is allowed but not working, the camera got stuck every time it is turned on
Okay at well lit conditions, not good at low light
During daylight, the rear camera photos are good.
But the phone doesn't focus properly on close objects.
The low light camera is bad. A lot of noise, less light detection, slow focus,etc.
The video quality (1080p) during day is good. But the device takes time to focus during a video recording.
Abby 244 said:
For sure Gcam pics are better. I have been using it from past one week and will sure never turn back to stock camera.
Moreover with Gcam you also get additional features like panorama , ar stickers and google lense.
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but how to get slow motion in GCAM?
kartikkasat said:
but how to get slow motion in GCAM?
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Record video s l o w l y...

Selfie quality

You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.
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Selfie quality is quite decent, but the color tone needs immediate attention, as it is not accurate/natural even under good light (skin has a red tinge). And overall, brightness, noise level etc., could be tweaked a bit more to satisfy the consumer needs (as Redmi does).
Edit: I take my above words back. The front cam is quite bad. The colors are so inaccurate, and sometimes, different parts of the photo have different saturation/color levels. And the noise/details even under incandescent lighting is poor! Using a different app only makes it worse.
ramdante said:
Selfie quality is quite decent, but the color tone needs immediate attention, as it is not accurate/natural even under good light (skin has a red tinge). And overall, brightness, noise level etc., could be tweaked a bit more to satisfy the consumer needs (as Redmi does).
Edit: I take my above words back. The front cam is quite bad. The colors are so inaccurate, and sometimes, different parts of the photo have different saturation/color levels. And the noise/details even under incandescent lighting is poor! Using a different app only makes it worse.
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If u use Google camera on this device u will get an amazing shots even in low light , and portrait mode on both cameras is superb , double sharpness and detail than stock one. But u have to root it for these result on this device.
devanshu99 said:
If u use Google camera on this device u will get an amazing shots even in low light , and portrait mode on both cameras is superb , double sharpness and detail than stock one. But u have to root it for these result on this device.
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I have rooted my device and made the change in buildprop to value 1 still Google camera not working ?
Akashnaresh said:
I have rooted my device and made the change in buildprop to value 1 still Google camera not working ?
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Try modded gcams
Well the new OTA update did made few changes to focus & color production in front cam . Well I think in future updates the camera2 api would be enabled but not sure yet .
i hav a solution ...and it worked well for me....... the changes to make in stock camera app
1.turn off beatification
2. turn off face detection
3. set the white balance level to daylight (in default its in auto)
4.set iso level to 400 (in default its in auto)
5. adjust exposure to max +1 this is supposed to be increased only when required...
set the settings like this and see the differnce guys
also if possible after taking photos when u view them there is an edit option below click it and select auto.....it does great
Shutter speed is restricted to .3 seconds in 4Gb Variant Camera Developer Option _> manual exposure ->user settings.. Very bad.

Low light

At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the OnePlus 8 Pro's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.
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Camera hype is now ON.
I hope, like some have pointed out already in that tweet, the night shots don't look like "daytime shots" with the final software/retail units..
i wonder why there are no pictures posted here
the infrared cam is the only thing that can motivate me get this phone at this moment and upgrade from mate20pro
sanyyos said:
i wonder why there are no pictures posted here
the infrared cam is the only thing that can motivate me get this phone at this moment and upgrade from mate20pro
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Good question. There was a picture thread with some here
Only got my IN2020 version the other day so no outside shots yet so just these indoor (low light) shows for now
Shipoftheline said:
Only got my IN2020 version the other day so no outside shots yet so just these indoor (low light) shows for now
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Nice shots
Having mixed results in low and clear lighting conditions. Some autoscenes are giving me lots of noise in the pictures it seems. Using open camera atm, wij seems better then stock.
Eden Benzami said:
Using the phone at night affects quite a lot of eyes, if possible, it is limited. Anyway, at bars we should focus on drinking wine or listening to music.
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And watching Strobe lights!

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the OnePlus 8 Pro 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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Pretty disappointing top be honest. I still need to take more shots but I am finding inconsistency in exposure.
worldsoutro said:
Pretty disappointing top be honest. I still need to take more shots but I am finding inconsistency in exposure.
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Get the Gcam app installed and all your woes will be gone.
Demolition49 said:
Get the Gcam app installed and all your woes will be gone.
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Which gcam would you install? Or does it need to be modified for this phone?
G cam from 7T works on the 8pro except no telephoto camera crashes the app when enabled
https://f.celsoazevedo.com/file/cfiles/gcm1/GCam_7.2.010_Urnyx05-v2.3.apk
Photos have been a huge step up in quality from my 6t (not surprising). Does anyone know how to force the app to take in 48MP by default? There is no option that I can see to change that.
juancheco95 said:
G cam from 7T works on the 8pro except no telephoto camera crashes the app when enabled
https://f.celsoazevedo.com/file/cfiles/gcm1/GCam_7.2.010_Urnyx05-v2.3.apk
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What config file do you use?
Been impressed with the camera so far. Telephoto is still hit and miss and haven't used wide angle loads but the main sensor is a big improvement over the 7 pro
I think the camera is amazing, especially super macro.
Had a little mooch around St James park for exercise during lockdown.
Yeah op did a good job this time.
Skates
I hope gcam comes when support for all the sensors
And don't forget the colour filter camera is actual an X-RAY cam!
https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/ga7cm3/oneplus_8_pro_color_filter_camera_see_through/
There's already a gcam group on telegram, and it's producing good results
I have terrible lens flare effect, device is going back.. 1/4 of the pictures had it... At a price tag of 999 , this is not acceptable for me.. saw it on some youtuber reviews to (but they didnt mention it in one word). Guess exchanging the device will not help
Will keep my old device for a couple of months and wait for october , hehe
autofocus and main sensor is better then s20 ultra , I am owner of s20 ultra and oneplus 8 pro at the same time .
in worse light scenario oneplus win in most time , photos almost always are sharp
but in zoom S20 always wins
Mtha86 said:
I have terrible lens flare effect, device is going back.. 1/4 of the pictures had it... At a price tag of 999 , this is not acceptable for me.. saw it on some youtuber reviews to (but they didnt mention it in one word). Guess exchanging the device will not help
Will keep my old device for a couple of months and wait for october , hehe
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I see an issue where you have red blotches :laugh:
I haven't experienced the sun flare.
I have taken many pictures outdoors while hiking in various conditions and I am mostly happy with the camera. HDR is good and i like the exposure and colors I get. I don't really take any zoomed in shots so i can't speak to that but I generally like the shots coming out of the wide angle and main sensor.
a couple notes:
- I still notice a different white balance between the main and wide angle camera. Nothing bad and I still like both results
- Nightscape photos I notice a red tint in places. Some of the youtube reviews have mentioned this as well.
Will be interesting to see what this camera could do after a few updates over the summer.
I see that something in the indoor photo the focus is very bad at the corner of the picture... Someone has the same problem?

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