1.Some modification to increase TET and avoid frame dropping; 2.Add tuning in frontside camera; 3.Review and optimization of luma/spatial settings for all lens;
I: I mean for you guys to tune gcam config – At this moment, you feel this config is good. In next time you change another scene to take a shot but you still feel that something still can be improved … It keeps continuously cycling it and it’s endless… Question: What’s your criteria or specification to keep current config ? Will you change it just for users feedback a tiny defect in the photo when they use your config?
Jacob: I think the most important thing when developing XML is to have a goal. To decide how you want the photos to come out and make priorities. Creating an XML is about making compromises for the greatest overall results. You might have to sacrifice something, maybe some difficult scene that you shoot very rarely and accept some flaws in order to get the results you want in most of your daily photography. Otherwise it is easy to find an issue and when you try to solve it, you break something more important. Personally I am not as big “noise hater” as many here. I think it is important that the noise is not distracting. If it is there, it needs to blend nicely into the details and texture of the image. Chroma noise is a big no. That never blends with anything. When I got the 13 Ultra I immediately noticed that the IMX989 1” sensor has a more pleasing noise than the HP2 sensor in S23 Ultra. It looks more like film grain than digital noise. This is more acceptable to me and I can sacrifice some noise reduction for greater detail. Other than that, my main focus is to capture the light in a realistic way. That is what photography is about for me. I absolutely hate flat images with too much HDR where almost everything looks “equally bright”. I want deep shadows and strong highlights. The best example of a camera with an image style I hate is Pixel 7 Pro (unless the shadows slider is used to reduce shadows brightening). It looks super flat and artificial to my eyes with strong reduction of highlights and too much boosting of light in shadows which also creates ugly HDR shadows/glow around trees and buildings. The best thing with GCam is that it can be tuned exactly to your own liking because it is very unlikely that any company making phones will share exactly your own image style.