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    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 11 14:14:34 2024
    I was visiting my brother in Florida and I was on the boardwalk in
    Hollywood and it was almost dark and the bold full** moon was rising and
    I thought it would be a nice picture, but when I took it with my Xiaomi
    Redmi Note 8 pro, it looked like daylight and the moon, instead of being
    grey, looked like a dim sun. I waited until it was darker yet and took
    more pictures and they all looked like daylight, or at least much
    lighter than it was.

    This is a good feature when I'm inside and there's not much light and I
    take a picture of a room and I can see evrything, but here I'd like to
    turn it off. But I have no idea how, or what the feature is called.

    It behaves this way I think with both the built in camera and the Zoom
    Camera app.

    **And I believe when the moon rises at sundown it's always a full moon.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Apr 11 20:07:26 2024
    micky wrote:

    the bold full moon was rising and I thought it would be a nice
    picture, but when I took it with my Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 pro, it
    looked like daylight and the moon, instead of being grey, looked like
    a dim sun.

    What was the model of phone that was "caught" substituting a stock
    hi-res image of the moon, rather that actually taking an image of it?

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  • From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Thu Apr 11 19:48:14 2024
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote or quoted:
    What was the model of phone that was "caught" substituting a stock
    hi-res image of the moon, rather that actually taking an image of it?

    Might be from a manufacturer the name of which starts with "Sam".

    Re pictures too bright: Some cameras provide settings to
    control the exposure manually. Otherwise, one can always
    postprocess the images to make them darker.

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 12 18:22:15 2024
    micky, 2024-04-11 20:14:

    I was visiting my brother in Florida and I was on the boardwalk in
    Hollywood and it was almost dark and the bold full** moon was rising and
    I thought it would be a nice picture, but when I took it with my Xiaomi
    Redmi Note 8 pro, it looked like daylight and the moon, instead of being grey, looked like a dim sun. I waited until it was darker yet and took
    more pictures and they all looked like daylight, or at least much
    lighter than it was.

    Yes, this is the usual behaviour of many Smartphone camera apps when
    they try to "guess" how to improve the image quality and make every
    scene bright and clear. You may manually edit the picture with tools
    like Paint.NET or darktable to adjust the overall brightness or gamma
    curve to make it look more natural.

    Otherwise you may try apps like "Open Camera" which allow much more customization for taking pictures and also provides taking images in RAW
    format if supported by the phone, so you can develop the final image
    using darktable or similar programs:

    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera>


    --
    Arno Welzel
    https://arnowelzel.de

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Stefan Ram on Sat Apr 13 13:49:02 2024
    In comp.mobile.android, on 11 Apr 2024 19:48:14 GMT,
    [email protected] (Stefan Ram) wrote:

    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote or quoted:
    What was the model of phone that was "caught" substituting a stock
    hi-res image of the moon, rather that actually taking an image of it?

    Might be from a manufacturer the name of which starts with "Sam".

    Re pictures too bright: Some cameras provide settings to
    control the exposure manually.

    I didnt' see that. And since both camera apps do the same thing, and a
    previous phone might have done the same thing. I figured it was in the
    phone settings somewhere. Oh well, it wasn't going to a museum anyhow.

    Otherwise, one can always
    postprocess the images to make them darker.

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Apr 13 13:50:43 2024
    In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:22:15 +0200, Arno Welzel <[email protected]> wrote:

    micky, 2024-04-11 20:14:

    I was visiting my brother in Florida and I was on the boardwalk in
    Hollywood and it was almost dark and the bold full** moon was rising and
    I thought it would be a nice picture, but when I took it with my Xiaomi
    Redmi Note 8 pro, it looked like daylight and the moon, instead of being
    grey, looked like a dim sun. I waited until it was darker yet and took
    more pictures and they all looked like daylight, or at least much
    lighter than it was.

    Yes, this is the usual behaviour of many Smartphone camera apps when
    they try to "guess" how to improve the image quality and make every
    scene bright and clear. You may manually edit the picture with tools
    like Paint.NET or darktable to adjust the overall brightness or gamma
    curve to make it look more natural.

    Otherwise you may try apps like "Open Camera" which allow much more >customization for taking pictures and also provides taking images in RAW >format if supported by the phone, so you can develop the final image
    using darktable or similar programs:

    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera>

    Thanks a lot.

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