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Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Sony XA2 Ultra 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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The rear camera is nothing special in my opinion, however the front facing camera takes excellent, wide angle selfies.

Rear camera is good, not stellar. Poor pics in low light. Can't compete with the Samsung's or the Pixels. There is also an annoying shutter lag and is not spontaneous.
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I was out tonight...Lantern festival thing.
figured high contrast in dark would be hardest thing to pull off..full size picture warning.
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I'm not the biggest perfect picture taker, but it seems to me the sensor is plenty well able to pick up everything, but there's crap for software HDR to put it all together. If I focused on the grass, the ground was much brighter in the picture than where I was standing, however the lights were all washed out. If I focused on the lights, that's all you can see. There is plenty of noise in the picture, but I could forgive noise if some manner of HDR could merge different light levels.
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I know guns are a hot topic presently, but if we can move past guns good/guns bad, and agree stuff coming out of guns moves pretty fast. This was the best timed shot I think I ever managed. Focus is sufficient up front but suffers at multiple distances. The ejected shell from the shotgun is in air, the wad (part of an assembled shotgun shell) is seen flying away from the gun. Zoom in on the upper center of the picture and the orange target can be seen broken into 3 pieces. I was very impressed that while focus was an issue, there didn't seem to be any movement distortion in the picture.
...after describing the details and looking closer at my images in the post, it seems my pictures are getting cut down somewhere along the line. I'll try to update later with a full size link.

Bad Video quality
I have purchased 2 of these phones about 3 months ago, I personally think the camera quality is terrible, video quality is horrible, and Im not even a big camera user. My wife uses her phone camera constantly, and video is horrible try zooming in on a face from a distance and its all washed out. I have tried different camera apps as well no difference. Today I contacted Sony, and man are they worthless, Im not sure if its a software issue or hardware issue? I thought Sony was one of the main suppliers of cell phone cameras for many different phone manufactures, maybe I'm wrong on that? Anyone have any suggestions, or are we just stuck with a junk camera phone?

divhandyman said:
I have purchased 2 of these phones about 3 months ago, I personally think the camera quality is terrible, video quality is horrible, and Im not even a big camera user. My wife uses her phone camera constantly, and video is horrible try zooming in on a face from a distance and its all washed out. I have tried different camera apps as well no difference. Today I contacted Sony, and man are they worthless, Im not sure if its a software issue or hardware issue? I thought Sony was one of the main suppliers of cell phone cameras for many different phone manufactures, maybe I'm wrong on that? Anyone have any suggestions, or are we just stuck with a junk camera phone?
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Yeah the camera is definitely very mid-range-ish. Probably about like a Samsung J7
I agree Sony support is very unhelpful to. Insisting I must pay to send it to an "authorized technician" smh

li0nh3art3d said:
Yeah the camera is definitely very mid-range-ish. Probably about like a Samsung J7
I agree Sony support is very unhelpful to. Insisting I must pay to send it to an "authorized technician" smh
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Its possible that some of the issues are due to software, I know that my cameras were better before all the Sony updates. I did read that XA2 Ultra will get the 9.0 update probably 4th Quarter 2018 and its not even guaranteed that will fix and any camera issues.

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 6'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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very bad....sorry to say it!

It is much better though than many 12mpxl cameras of the past without any low-light tricks. But it still sucks.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13038/the-oneplus-6-review/8
V30 with MUCH smaller sensor and pixels obliterates OP6 with its pixel binning. Op5T had pixel binning, but it had it on a sensor without OIS. Hence nobody liked op5t low light blurry mess shots. I have no idea why OP6 devs cant just port pixel binning software to the main camera with OIS and see how it obliterates competetion.
I wish we had somebody who can make this happen. Just make a port of op5T second camera binning software to op6 main camera and have a best allround flagship killing camera. Is it that hard?

I would say its quite good. I compared this with my friend that owns Samsung S8. My photo came out a lot of sharper with so much light in contrast of his photo that came out a little blurry and with less light on photo.
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Colour temperature is not accurate....too much yellow....

Mord0rr said:
Colour temperature is not accurate....too much yellow....
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But if the lights were yellow then? :s
Only him know how the scene looked as the picture was taken.

Im saying it on basis of my OP6 too... but of course, im not sure.

Mord0rr said:
Im saying it on basis of my OP6 too... but of course, im not sure.
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So you're not sure how the scenery looked or which color the street light has and you still say that it's too much yellow... "okay".

Uauuu....we have here a "Spock" logical person...
And how about this photo?
Too much what in your wise opinion?

Coming from Nexus 6p, feels like Oneplus 6 is a downgrade when it came to low-light camera performance.. Some samples below..
Sent from my ONEPLUS A6000 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

tOrNadO™ said:
Coming from Nexus 6p, feels like Oneplus 6 is a downgrade when it came to low-light camera performance.. Some samples below..
Sent from my ONEPLUS A6000 using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Yeah, it's not forgiving when you use point and shoot mode!
I found turning off hdr makes better pictures. However, lots of reports says 5.1.7 has better low light performance. So one can only hope an update makes it better. Or we just have to hope that when the pixel 3 comes, we can use resources from Google cam for 845 snapdragon.

We hope.....
When zooming the photos...the horror starts....what disappointing!

Mord0rr said:
We hope.....
When zooming the photos...the horror starts....what disappointing!
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But if I zoom in on the p20 pro pictures I feel the same... In fact all cell cameras if you zoom just look horrible not made for zooming in tbh. Looks better if looked at a bigger screen.

I own other phone less expensive with Gcam, and zooming the detail is more present...
My daughter face is full of grain and lacks detail...

I've never owned a "premium" phone before and I must say that I'm actually quite impressed with the low-light photo quality - I was having a tour through a cavern, took a few photos and they've actually shown more detail than I could even see! Of course, when I looked at them on a big screen, the photos were noisy and oversharpened, but they were definitely an "instagramable" material and that's what counts for me.

tOrNadO™ said:
Coming from Nexus 6p, feels like Oneplus 6 is a downgrade when it came to low-light camera performance.. Some samples below..
Sent from my ONEPLUS A6000 using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Indeed
Big failure are usual in low light
Nexus 6p was amazing with face details and low light was good

Stock nightmode

GCAM NIGHT SIGHT for OnePlus 6
https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6-oneplus-6t-get-working-night-sight-mode-from-pixel-3/amp/

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Huawei P20 Lite 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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Another one:

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What do you think about this one
ISO: 50
Aperture : F 16

And this one too Same location actually, and yes it is salt
ISO: 50
EV: -2.6
Aperture: 2.2

Nice shots!

More photos attached

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Good shots as well man! Love the first one! :good:

Also here's one shot on low light of my lamp I think it looks cool, the lamp was handmade by me some years ago in a Japanese festival
Aperture : 2.2
ISO: 50
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Nice photos

Some low light photos.

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Some low light photos.
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WOWY! Did you really took that first one with Huawei P20 Lite? GOSH that is perfect.

ars_chelsea said:
WOWY! Did you really took that first one with Huawei P20 Lite? GOSH that is perfect.
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Yes I did I used "Night mode" to take that photo of the fountain at night. That mode requires some kind of a tripod or something similar because it is like long time exposure photo, so it took 55 seconds so the phone has to be stand still. Try it on Your own you will be amazed

ghty said:
Yes I did I used "Night mode" to take that photo of the fountain at night. That mode requires some kind of a tripod or something similar because it is like long time exposure photo, so it took 55 seconds so the phone has to be stand still. Try it on Your own you will be amazed
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True I know how the mode works, just saying it ended up pretty good.
Here's my ultimate night shot of the stars which are pretty hard to capture

3 more photos. I think the P20 lite is not too bad when we speaking about camera

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3 more photos. I think the P20 lite is not too bad when we speaking about camera
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I love crocodiles OMFG, and that photo is really neat :good:
Also I think these Huawei P20 series take seriously excelent photos at night and with those light trails on the first pic!

Sunrise taken using night mode.

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Sunrise taken using night mode.
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Really? With night mode? This came out really good, good colours not that dim! Quite detailed for a camera of a 400€ smartphone. I think if you used Pro mode you coulded've got a better result, this is still pretty good tho for a digital and not OIS camera.

Twice exposing
Have one or more P20 lite owners experienced that the camera takes 2 or more pictures, when it only should take one picture? It happens periodically when I take pictures in dark environment, specially when is a weak light source as f.ex neon light on a street shop at night and I dont hold the phone still enough. It looks like it takes an extra or more pictures when the first picture has poor quality. The camera in my P20 lite has basic settings, nothing is changed

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 Honor 8X'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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Honor 8x night shot battle in mid-range phone
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https://youtu.be/LlndaOLU_4E

I wouldn’t say I’m a photography buff, but I do really like taking photos. When I had my iPhone, I used it for casual snaps, but grabbed my DSLR if I was going on a trip. I love to play around with different filters and effects, so when I got this phone I started playing around with the camera and unearthed a LITERAL wonderland of surprises.
I counted, like, 15 different modes. But actually, there’s more than 15, because there’s a Live photo-esque function called Moving picture, and something called AI photography, which as far as I can tell just figures out what you’re snapping and tweaks the parameters to make the photo look nicer. Sometimes it can be annoying, but it’s easy to turn off so I don’t mind it.
Anyways, the features are a mixed bag, there are some super useful ones like Portrait (with a bunch of different lighting effects that are fun to play around with). But there are also some weird ones like “Document scan” (Not a scanner? What is it for?), and Good Food – which, as far as I can tell, is just an oversaturated filter that makes all your food look kind of bloody.
Basically it’s pretty obvious to me from some casual use that this is a phone with a ton of spare parts that lacks cohesive branding or categorization. Which…IMHO could be a wonderful thing, actually – coz it means you can apply your own creativity to do what you want with it. It’s a sandbox with ready made parts.
To illustrate my point, let’s talk about the Night feature.
Obviously, this mode was designed to help you take photos at night. When it goes off, it takes a few seconds to work, but you can literally watch the photo you’re taking become brighter and better looking. Somehow the tech makes it so the first shot is the base shot, and then some kind of magic happens in the background that adds light and detail captured over time into the same photo—kind of like HDR. In the end, what you get is basically an incredibly detailed photo.
What impressed me about this Night feature is that I’m used to bringing out my tripod for my DSLR if I’m shooting at night. I’d always assumed that you’d have to keep the camera super still in order to grab photos at night because that’s just how exposure works.
Well color me amazed, because I took these photos at night just holding my phone in my hand.
The color management looks pretty spot on, and I like how clearly defined the statues look, compared to the Normal versions.
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These shots were interesting to me, because the photos are somehow more blurry in photo mode. Due in part to a slower shutter speed, I believe. While in night mode, the image resolved itself much more clearly and you can see all the details of the temple.
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This feature is also great in dim lighting conditions or even dark animals. My puppy Zozo is all black (except a tiny white tuft on her left forepaw uWu), and it’s a pain to try to get good photos of her. I tried this mode in the morning (my BF sleeping in the background LOL), and you can see SO MUCH MORE DETAIL on her fur and eyes.
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I used the “Individuality” filter in post editing, added a circular blur ring around Zozo, and then added a sticker. The stickers, by the way, are kind of weird, but there are a few fun ones in there.
I sent this photo to a friend who’s never met Zozo, and she was like “wow, shiny dog”. Lol. Shiny indeed.

Hello you said there is differents effects in portraits mode but I cannot find them could you help me?

low light photography is not that much great on this.

Low light photography is not good on Honor 8x.
Even portrait shot it works on 8MP shots only so less clarity.
Front cam portrait and Back cam portrait need to work on edge detection algorithm.

Yea, I noticed that low light isn't very good with the Honor 8X.

Pyknus said:
Yea, I noticed that low light isn't very good with the Honor 8X.
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Compare to other devices in this price range honor 8X camera is a bit weak.

ZohanRash said:
Compare to other devices in this price range honor 8X camera is a bit weak.
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Even last year's Mi A1 is waaay better

PalakMi said:
Even last year's Mi A1 is waaay better
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Not Sure About the Mi A1 but Mi A2 camera is well more better than Honor 8x.

The best way to get night shots on the Honor 8X is to use night mode and a tripod. Casual shots will not turn out the best.

Photo quality

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite 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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The camera is the weakpoint of this phone. For the price you pay for it, I would have expected a much more decent camera.
Attached photo was done in a bright room but you can clearly see that the noise is present and the details of the wooden floor disappear.
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In order to be able to compare the quality of the above photo, I added another one that was took using an iphone 11. Same room, same light.
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I know it's not fair to compare it to a phone that costs the same as almost two s10 lite phones but I'm guessing that the SE 2020 which is on the same level will beat it.
The screen is nice though ...

Honestly fine.
I dont know why people gave this a low rating. I feel like people are expecting to much from Phone camera's.
For an average human being that takes a pics for memories or casual photo albums its more than fine. Enough options to choose from.
I do miss the lack of tap to focus, unless i missed it somewhere in the settings.

Hi people,
The cams are ok in good light situations i think for the price of the phone!
Only in low light situations it will have not so good performance. The aperture is only 2.0 so for that aperture is not so strange. Try to get as much as light as possible and your photo's will be ok!

I have a question, is this camera able to take RAW photos? And can you use a third party app to change the shutter speed?

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The camera is the weakpoint of this phone. For the price you pay for it, I would have expected a much more decent camera.
Attached photo was done in a bright room but you can clearly see that the noise is present and the details of the wooden floor disappear.
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In order to be able to compare the quality of the above photo, I added another one that was took using an iphone 11. Same room, same light.
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I know it's not fair to compare it to a phone that costs the same as almost two s10 lite phones but I'm guessing that the SE 2020 which is on the same level will beat it.
The screen is nice though ...
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It's a reaaaally huge difference dude! I am disappointed, I was thinking to get the lite for me, maybe not after see that pics.

One area that the camera impressed with was digital zoom (8x). Daylight pictures from 20 feet away were good. Guess that's one advantage of a high megapixel count.

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One area that the camera impressed with was digital zoom (8x). Daylight pictures from 20 feet away were good. Guess that's one advantage of a high megapixel count.
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Also macro is really impressive, i use it al lot and its not disappointing either. As long you have enough light the cams are fine!

got it for 450euro, 128gb, white
for that, i give 4stars. im fine with the camera. macro is surprisingly good. gcam works...whatelse i want?

I pass loll

Seen gcam pictures on youtube, difference night and day on the details and brightness.
https://youtu.be/xXlFN8jl2s4
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Now that i have the phone i think its very disappointing, can't make sharp pictures. Whatever camera app i use, zoomed in to the picture its not sharp, compared with ipad pro 2017. Everything is soft. People complain about it allot with s10 series. I didnt expect miracles from this phone but it is just ridiculous if every photo is to soft.