Photo quality

[XDA_RealLifeReview]

Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the OnePlus 3T come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

 

[LMcR92]

Great photos :good:

 

[prodeif]

Enviado desde mi ONEPLUS A3003 mediante Tapatalk

 

[btouareg]

I would like to share this

 

[Valistaja]

Some photos from dark Finnish winter. "ok" photo quality.

 

[LMcR92]

Some photos from dark Finnish winter. "ok" photo quality.

Use HQ mode for low light still shots, I find this helps a lot with noise and overexposure, HDRa for all others. Also if you are interested you can shoot raw and develop them with snapspeed. The photo on the left I took was a raw image developed by snapspeed. Pure raw lack any post processing so look awful but allow might greater image tuning due to not being compromised to jpeg.

 

[Duncan1982]

Camera is very acceptable (not that of My S7 Edge) however it is to my liking....

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[Hollyca]

Decent quality for a phone, low light need improvement

 

[Stephen]

Like this camera, Dont take to many pictures, just messing around with it!

 

[tony1208]

Not bad, all shots in auto HQ

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Few more on Auto HQ

 

[EmreSo]

What is better, hq or hdr?

 

[vicusbass]

Outdoors are fine. 2 stars because as soon as you are shooting moving subjects, even tiny moves, the pictures become unusable, blurry mess

 

[jemeljsh]

Outdoors are fine. 2 stars because as soon as you are shooting moving subjects, even tiny moves, the pictures become unusable, blurry mess

Agreed. Photo quality of moving objects is horrible (probably the biggest flaw of OnePlus 3T) and indoors (regular everyday lighting you have in indoors) is quite ****ty. Most of the pictures come out quite blurry. Outdoors is fine!
I actually have discovered that in order to get better indoors pictures you have to set Flash to always ON as it really helps to improve image quality, especially regarding the sharpness, blur and better detail overall.

 

[vicusbass]

Agreed. Photo quality of moving objects is horrible (probably the biggest flaw of OnePlus 3T) and indoors (regular everyday lighting you have in indoors) is quite ****ty. Most of the pictures come out quite blurry. Outdoors is fine!
I actually have discovered that in order to get better indoors pictures you have to set Flash to always ON as it really helps to improve image quality, especially regarding the sharpness, blur and better detail overall.

I know, but using flash when there's plenty light and any other phone I tried has no difficulties...

 

[Eremitus]

What is better, hq or hdr?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3Ow6AEwLU

I think HD got renamed to HQ which we have now.
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But basically HDR tries to get both bright and dark areas in the pictures to shown without them being totally black or white. Doesn't always mean that picture is better quality tho, can be a lot worse what it comes to noise etc.

Not sure is this correct but found that HQ mode will reduce the noise when taking pictures in dark.

 

[YankInDaSouth]

Agreed. Photo quality of moving objects is horrible (probably the biggest flaw of OnePlus 3T) and indoors (regular everyday lighting you have in indoors) is quite ****ty. Most of the pictures come out quite blurry. Outdoors is fine!
I actually have discovered that in order to get better indoors pictures you have to set Flash to always ON as it really helps to improve image quality, especially regarding the sharpness, blur and better detail overall.

Outdoors are fine. 2 stars because as soon as you are shooting moving subjects, even tiny moves, the pictures become unusable, blurry mess

That concerns me... With kids (and dogs) I rarely have a still target 😯

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[LMcR92]

That concerns me... With kids (and dogs) I rarely have a still target 😯

Turn off HDR and HQ (which increases the shutter speed to pick up more light) also manual controls are there to help.

 

[YankInDaSouth]

Turn off HDR and HQ (which increases the shutter speed to pick up more light) also manual controls are there to help.

While that may help, often times with kids there's no time to play with settings... Just point and shoot.


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[jemeljsh]

While that may help, often times with kids there's no time to play with settings... Just point and shoot.
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Good point. I mainly need phone camera to take pictures of my kid and I can say that it's pretty much impossible to get good/decent quality indoor pictures while taking a picture of a kid (HQ, HDR modes), except if you set the flash to always ON, where even moving objects come out are pretty good.

If with all my previous phones (no particular order, but phones with which I had no issues taking fast quality pics of my kid -> Iphone 7, xiaomi mi5, galaxy s6, nexus 5x, xperia Z3, xperia Z3 compact) I had no issues getting a decent quality picture of a moving object, with 1+3T its either impossible or very hard to do. It's a fact. Camera is average at most.

 

[YankInDaSouth]

Good point. I mainly need phone camera to take pictures of my kid and I can say that it's pretty much impossible to get good/decent quality indoor pictures while taking a picture of a kid (HQ, HDR modes), except if you set the flash to always ON, where even moving objects come out are pretty good.

If with all my previous phones (no particular order, but phones with which I had no issues taking fast quality pics of my kid -> Iphone 7, xiaomi mi5, galaxy s6, nexus 5x, xperia Z3, xperia Z3 compact) I had no issues getting a decent quality picture of a moving object, with 1+3T its either impossible or very hard to do. It's a fact. Camera is average at most.

Appreciate the honesty... That being said I think I may cancel my order and grab an international S7 (SM930F) - It's $500 on Amazon ATM so very similar pricing.

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