Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North Face logo

Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by cjk2 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:32PM (#40108969)

I had a Pixel 6A and 7A in the last couple of years, mostly as an experiment. The computational photography side of it was a complete mess, mutilating many photos from crazy levels of over-sharpening through to turning things into weird oil paintings. Absolutely hated both of them. I do have photos of myself with a North Face hat taken on them though and they came out fine!

Crawled back to an iPhone and paid through the nose in the end.

Edit: crop from the 6a: https://imgur.com/a/RO0UYev

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by Freak_NL on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:48PM (#40109102)

Odd. My Pixel 6 is really quite a good camera. The stock app on GrapheneOS is great when you just want to take a quick photo, and OpenCamera is full featured and very useful when you want to tweak the settings and fiddle around with various options.

I never have anything weird.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by cjk2 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:53PM (#40109153)

Mine was so bad I bought a Nikon mirrorless. That was the Google default app though rather than anything open source backed.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by lambdasquirrel on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:07PM (#40109266)

The iPhone always messed up the colors of the PNW for me. It was one of the reasons why I finally took the leap and got an SLR style body before I moved there.

I have no issue using e.g. AI-assisted patch and heal tools in Photoshop and Lightroom. I have control over the use of the statistical priors there. But I don’t want the camera taking the pictures for me.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by cjk2 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:10PM (#40109292)

The iPhone tends to have a weird appraisal of white balance I have found so that might be the issue. If you shoot ProRaw (need a Pro suffixed device) you get a better copy of what hit the sensor than HEIC/JPEG.

But yeah DSLR/mirrorless if you want something accurate. Then again everyone just mutilates the thing in their own special way later in Lightroom...

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by lencastre on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @12:25AM (#40128501)

What is PNW?

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by fragmede on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @12:28AM (#40128520)

Pacific North West region of North America

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by internetter on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:12PM (#40109307)

I’ve had the same experience. Switched to the pixel 6, had it for a year, bought the iPhone 15 Pro. I make a hell of a lot less than a lot of the commenters here, so the decision to do so was incredibly costly. I made it, in part, because I take a lot of photos.

At its best, the Pixel produces phenomenal photos. At its worst, they are horrendous. The iPhone consistently does well. With the Pixel I was getting disgusting over-sharpening, to the point I would screenshot photos as a few seconds after taking them. If I didn't screenshot, I would watch in dismay as the post-processing ruined it. The lens flare was frequently awful — lines that swept across the entire image. When I complained, the community said I should leverage this flaw in an artistic way. The video was awful, and the microphone was noisy. A few of my photos have had inexplicable black squares. Occasionally the camera lagged or crashed. My iPhone camera has messed up, but not like the pixel does.

I don’t know why everyone seems to think it’s better. Maybe somehow mine was defective, but I could find posts to corroborate every issue I had.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by cjk2 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:53PM (#40109561)

I just bought an iPhone 15 Pro this afternoon and my wallet is rolling around in agony so I sympathise.

Similar experiences across the board. I did a very special once in a lifetime trip and it sort of ruined the memories a little.

I think the people who think it's better haven't used a good phone or camera for a while.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by jraph on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:40PM (#40109039)

Do those phones do this even on alternative photo apps?

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by danpalmer on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:43PM (#40109056)

Much of the "smarts" is in the camera app itself, not in the OS support for the hardware, as far as I understand it, so no it shouldn't. That might be good or bad depending on your perspective.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by jraph on Monday April 22, 2024 @03:28AM (#40112113)

Ok, so it seems one would not need to switch phones (or ecosystem) because of related issues, one could just switch apps and use OpenCamera or something like this instead.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by thefz on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:24AM (#40112381)

Weird, last 3-4 phones I owned were Pixels, never ever had a single issue.

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