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A contrary view of the Pixel 2

Started Feb 20, 2018 | Discussions thread
OP hiker_jon Forum Member • Posts: 91
Re: A contrary view of the Pixel 2

noisephotographer wrote:

Recently Google made it possible for developers to access HDR+ in auto mode for 3rd party apps. Just read about "Pixel Visual Core". Though possibly even then the results could be slightly worse than Google's app.

Hi,

That is great, but for me and for most app writers that use a camera incidentally trying to write a camera app would be insanely difficult.  We have to depend on Android to make available a camera interface and we are limited by that.

I don't like the way Pixel 2 smooths the colors in non-HDR+ images.  It looks to me that they smooth heavily then sharpen.  If anyone knows what they actually do (and why they think it improves the image) I'd like to know.  Samsung's smoothing is similar.  I'll bet that Google copied the Samsung technique.  Here is my dng image after smoothing just the colors using a Gaussian mask.  I like it better than the Pixel 2 smoothing in my original post.

Maybe DPReview should address this issue.  They could use my app to see what is really going on in the colors.

Enhancement of Pixel 2 image from dng that has had the colors smoothed using Gaussian mask.

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