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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by garmaine on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:46PM (#24682508)
That's not how cameras work though. The raw output of a phone camera would be horribly off-color. It would NOT capture the image you are expecting. So the phone applies a number of filters to try to correct the flaws inherent in a camera with such small optics. You only notice when the external conditions (smoke-filled skies) don't match the assumptions that went into the filter design.
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by esperent on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:58PM (#24682584)
Aren't photos of extreme conditions some of the most important possible photos though? A camera that can't capture them is badly broken.
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by srtjstjsj on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:13PM (#24682672)
Cameras aren't gods. You have to give them a frame of reference (white point)
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by esperent on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:19PM (#24682709)
I'm aware of that. And yet, somehow we have many photos of the recent wildfires in California, captured by cameras, so setting a correct whitepoint is clearly possible.
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by mlindner on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:30PM (#24684014)
It's called get a real camera and real optics and not a tiny one built into phones.
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by WalterSear on Sunday October 04, 2020 @11:27PM (#24684308)
I haven't owned an android phone that didn't have a manual white balance function in the stock app.
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