iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro camera aggressive postprocessing + SAMPLES

[petres]

Hi guys,

I got my iphone 12pro a 14 weeks ago and I must say, this AI postprocessing works really really bad in low light conditions. I would like to do shots of night city for instance, the preview looks great, but after i do the shot and immediatelly go to the photo gallery, I can see how the photo is changed to have more contrasty colors which kills most of the shades and soft edges and in many occasions, it simply ruins the photo. I tried to fiddle with Smart HDR switch, Night mode and so, but even when HDR is off, night mode off, scene detection off, and exposition slightly lowered it still does this. Even using third party apps like Halide wont help. Just look at those pictures.

Do you guys have any advice how to soften this aggressive postporocessing? I dont want to fiddle with editing pro RAW, I am not a professional photographer, I just want to point, focus and shoot and let the iphone process photos less agressively.

Thank you for your advice.

 

[now i see it]

If a person wants to take great pictures, they should use a great camera
(hint: iPhone isn't one of them)

 

[petres]

If a person wants to take great pictures, they should use a great camera
(hint: iPhone isn't one of them)

Yeah man thanks for your useless comment. I had an iPhone X before actually doing better pictures as the processing was much softer.

 

[Fred Zed]

If a person wants to take great pictures, they should use a great camera
(hint: iPhone isn't one of them)

Legend.

 

[Restlesslegs]

I also have posted in several threads the issues I have with Apple's computational photography, at the moment I use exposure compensation for most shots to counterbalance Apple's erratic lifting of shadows but so far have not found a solution for the often terrible white balance and the overly aggressive sharpening... And no - using RAW for every single shot is not a solution for me, then I could keep shooting my 35mm gear but I don't have the time at the moment... I really hope Apple will give us better control over these features in the future... Actually all I need (and was hoping for) is the picture quality of my ancient 6S+ combined with cleaner low light images... But it seems 99% of all users are happy with the existing settings so I don't expect significant changes...

 

[petres]

I also have posted in several threads the issues I have with Apple's computational photography, at the moment I use exposure compensation for most shots to counterbalance Apple's erratic lifting of shadows but so far have not found a solution for the often terrible white balance and the overly aggressive sharpening... And no - using RAW for every single shot is not a solution for me, then I could keep shooting my 35mm gear but I don't have the time at the moment... I really hope Apple will give us better control over these features in the future... Actually all I need (and was hoping for) is the picture quality of my ancient 6S+ combined with cleaner low light images... But it seems 99% of all users are happy with the existing settings so I don't expect significant changes...

Glad to hear theres someone sane who expect different results from "top-of-the-class" 1000$ camera

I also found out that altering exposure slightly helps, but not always.
Nevertheless the aggresive sharpening is the biggest pain of mine and found no hack for this despite the manual postediting, which is certainly something I don't want to do every day as a free-time activity.

However, thanks for your help.