These have both been taken with the exact same camera from the same location. The one on the left is with the OnePlus camera app, and the one on the right is from a community modification of the Google camera app to work on the OnePlus 12. The Google one looks a lot better because they use super-resolution from multiple short exposures automatically.
The Google camera app does not usually look better without zoom (in my short time testing) and also has a harder time focusing.
That’s true. They’re test images.
White balance drives me crazy when I take pictures of art. That’s why i brought it up.
if you do it often, i have a great little pack of credit card sized white and grey cards… they are an absolute life saver for fixing white balance in post
Yeah, white balance is very fixable in post tho so that doesn’t seem like a significant problem.
to a degree, but it’s much better to get it right when you’re shooting… you lose dynamic range if it’s off
I’m surprised that it loses dynamic range. White balance is actually built into the camera hardware?
at its core you’re still recording a number from 0% to 100% brightness in the image… if an image is more yellow, you’re adding some extra brightness to those channels, which potentially loses you information. it might not be noticeable most of the time, but especially around clipping there’s going to be information lost
all that said, i’m not a professional - i’m just an amateur with a blackmagic camera and a decent understanding of the data format it uses filling in some blanks