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Midrange smartphone RAWs

Started Nov 13, 2019 | Discussions thread
I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: Midrange smartphone RAWs

You may well be best off with an inexpensive phone and limited camera.

If you find yourself using it more often than expected, you ought to give third party camera apps a try - including those that create DNG or PNG files - often with Camera1 API budget phones its the poorly developed, primitiive stock camera app rather than basic hardware that causes disappointment. Along with DNG, they also include sliders for control of JPEG saturation, contrast and sharpness and (on some phones) the noise reduction that often spoils smartphone JPEGs. As above, Snap Camera HDR is very configurable for multi-shot HDR, video parameters and other camera settings along with DNG, while Bacon Camera produces the best DNGs. Both have very good free versions, but Snap's worth buying to upgrade to its much improved "beta" version 8.90. These apps have kept me from sweating a new phone, and it's mainly the obsolescence of Android 5.1 that's going to force it near future.

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