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.
White balance is hard, probably Google made a different decision or something as simple as something (another person) blocking some light on one pic vs another.
I bet if op white balances both to the same they will look more similar.
This was the auto white balance, and these images are only very lightly cropped. The paper is fairly light but the lights are warm, so it’s slightly arbitrary which is better.
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
if you do it often, i have a great little pack of credit card sized white and grey cards… they are an absolutely life saver for fixing white balance in post
IMO the one on the right is over-sharpened, so somewhere in the middle would probably look pretty good.
The one on the left has so much noise reduction the detail is just gone, I remember that issue on my Oneplus 7 Pro, Oneplus can’t seem to figure out their cameras, and their OEM camera app is awful.
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to me the right looks much better. left looks like there is a thousand intagram filters applied and no detail survived the onslaught.
After some more testing I think the OnePlus one isn’t usually that bad, it just works terribly in low light
Is the paper white or tan though? The right picture is sharper, but I’m assuming it’s also the wrong color.
White balance is hard, probably Google made a different decision or something as simple as something (another person) blocking some light on one pic vs another.
I bet if op white balances both to the same they will look more similar.
This was the auto white balance, and these images are only very lightly cropped. The paper is fairly light but the lights are warm, so it’s slightly arbitrary which is better.
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.
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
if you do it often, i have a great little pack of credit card sized white and grey cards… they are an absolutely life saver for fixing white balance in post
Of course, light cards! I completely forgot that was a thing. Thank you for reminding me
Which gcam and XML are you using?
9.2 from https://xdaforums.com/t/oneplus-12-gcam-discussion.4672393/
IMO the one on the right is over-sharpened, so somewhere in the middle would probably look pretty good.
The one on the left has so much noise reduction the detail is just gone, I remember that issue on my Oneplus 7 Pro, Oneplus can’t seem to figure out their cameras, and their OEM camera app is awful.