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Smartphone camera vs Canon 650D with shocking result

Started Jul 17, 2017 | Discussions thread
ThrillaMozilla Veteran Member • Posts: 7,681
Re: Smartphone camera vs Canon 650D with shocking result

Clara May wrote:

Image taken by Galaxy Note 5 smartphone on Auto

Image taken by Canon 650D with Tamron SP 17-50mm f2.8

Here's the Canon shot reprocessed a bit.

Sky is overexposed, but shadows are better exposed than in the iPhone photo.

This was very hastily done. Some parts of the image are improved, but some are made worse. Of course I could have done it more carefully to improve all or most parts.

The iPhone photo is very good, but the phone may be at its limit. The camera is not. The iPhone combined exposures to achieve the result. The camera did not.

The sky was badly overexposed by the camera, but note that the shadows were underexposed by the iPhone. Take a close look at the noise in the brick wall and the foreground bushes, etc. Note also the color. The iPhone combined exposures and somehow avoided overexposing the sky. The camera is also either misfocused or there is camera motion, or the lens is soft.

The overexposed sky is because the camera metered off the dark center of the photo (you have options). It's possible that the phone did better because it metered from the whole scene. If you combined photos, you could improve the camera photo a great deal. Still, there's no denying the convenience factor. Excellent performance by the phone overall, but maybe not a slam-dunk.

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