Why New Smartphone Cameras Feel Worse

To summarize: Its because of the processing

New phone cameras are just starting to look like Nvidia's DLSS 5

My phone’s HDR and AI enhancements are like the drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, it’s trying so hard that it’s actually just ruining the vibe. 💀

Phone cameras peaked with the pixel 3

Can we do a blind Camara test to prove the theory... On every single iPhone or Samsung generation phone take a same picture

What I dislike about newer phone cameras especially is that they have AI upscaling applied, even when I dont want to, making some photos look like they were AI generated. WHY?!

Thank God finally someone has mentioned this. I've always noticed that the cameras aren't the same anymore.

What this algorithmic processing stuff doesn't understand is that sometimes a photo *should* actually look bad in certain places. Like, no I don't want to necessarily see all the detail in those shadows, I want them to be crushed so you have a contrast with the shadow and the lit up part of the image. The post-processing makes it impossible to make those creative decisions because it decides how your photos should look, instead of you, the photographer.

> uploaded 20 hours ago > dinner in hand > interesting topic > under 10 mins PEAK

in conclusion, if you have an S23, there is still no need to upgrade

My phone's post-processing is so aggressive it's currently trying to HDR-map my personality to make me look more 'vibrant' and 'natural' than I actually am.

this is why RAW photography is so useful for those of us who are a bit more nerdy/into tech since you can get the best that the hardware has to offer without the software part!!!

my main issue with new iphones is that there’s no way to disable AI enhancement on their photos without a third party app. RAW should mean that the photos don’t get changed after they’re taken. I also don’t like how in low light even if i pick to use the 4x camera it’ll just decide to use the 1x and then digitally zoom in, making the photo look a lot worse

I feel like a lot of tech YouTubers need to take responsibility for this change happening. The amount of reviews I saw that would negatively knock a camera performance on a smartphone because it was clipping the highlights or not enough detail in the shadow areas is why we've got so many smartphones producing crappy HDR images now.

5:20 We need phones to reflect people's real skin tone and not just make everyone whiter 😂

apple just makes sunsets look 10x worse than irl and making the sunset the wrong colours

One thing that happens frequently is I'd take a photo in the dark, open it immediately to review, and there's a moment where the processing hasn't finished yet and it looks "real" like I actually remember it looking, then BAM! Ai slaps a layer of post processing on it and suddenly it looks like a plastic veneer. I couldn't find a way to turn it off. Phone photography and many of their forced post processing just isn't it for me. I see the mass market appeal because you get a "prettier" photo for no effort, but I just want to capture it as I saw.

3:05 how much daft punk merch do you have bru

Netflix lighting, straight from your phone

3:38 that’s actually a good analogy ngl