Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky
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Re: Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky
#2Scott Manley did a quite good video about "How The Red Skies From Fires Are Related To Blue Sunsets on Mars" in which he has this exact issue with his phone making the sky white instead of red- which he also discusses. If you aren't familiar with his channel, check it out:
Re: Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky
#3My Pixel can't even capture sunsets because there's no way to turn off the HDR processing anymore :(
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#4I found that bumping up the saturation and "warmth" got a more accurate color to what I was seeing. Other colors sucked but it was good enough to communicate to others what I was seeing.
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#5My Pixel can't even capture sunsets because there's no way to turn off the HDR processing anymore :(
Hmmm... On my pixel there's an option in the 'advanced' callers menu to display hdr controls in the camera controls.
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#6Lr Mobile app has camera feature that lets you calibrate on random gray pieces and produce very film-like(not as in Lomography-like)photos.
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#7The way they describe the “correct” image seems to imply that it has something to do with the car also being orange, but I’m pretty sure this has more to do with the surrounding parts of the gas station being white. That allows the phone to pick the correct white balance, which then sets all the colors correctly.
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#8My iPhone SE2020 handled the orange just fine, but damn did I miss my Lumia with the wide range of manual controls on everything.
Re: Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky
#9My Pixel can't even capture sunsets because there's no way to turn off the HDR processing anymore :(
Try the app called "OpenCamera". It does a lot of things that built-in camera apps won't.
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#10> This was a moment for my Canon to prove that, despite its bulk, it can't always be replaced by a smartphone.
Such a naive statement. Once those phones' white balance is corrected, they should be able to capture the orange tinge. Even in a DSLR, if the white balance is set to auto, it would not capture the orange tinge. Cloudy might be a good starting point.