Comparing my current phone and previous.

Narc082@aussie.zone to Android@lemdro.id – 114 points –

The realme was super impressive when I got it. But, In comparison the realme isn't as clear. Glad I got the pixel.

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I think any and all comparisons of modern smartphones are worthless beyond personal preference. All of these phones do massive amounts of filtering and post processing which makes any direct technical comparison a waste of time. With equal exposure you could get either of these results with either phone by taking the raw image and doing the right editing.

Comparisons are helpful to find which matches my preferences, and it's helpful to know which phone will process the images in a way that I can get images I like without doing the processing myself.

beyond personal preference

Yeah thats what i meant, ofcourse you wanna pick the phone that takes images in a way you like, but from a technical point of view its just hard to get real numbers.

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Raw image taking has been around for a long time now, even on smartphones. I'm not sure how processed regular raw shots are on iPhones, but ProRAW pictures are a combination of raw and regular processed pictures according to Apple

A mate had an iPhone while I was doing this, they asked me to try the same thing with theirs. Gotta say with both my phones I just set them in a steady spot and selected night shot. Didn't have that option on the iPhone that I could see, but that might be me not knowing how to use it.

My bad, they automatically set the exposure. At the same position it did about 4 seconds exposure and looked a bit darker than the pixel. Will post if they figure out how to send the photo to me.

Yeah the Pixel does stacking and other processing. It can produce similar shots with much shorter exposures, too. It just keeps going for minutes of you let it.

I think it's a deliberate choice to not turn night shots into day.