Been on GOS on my Pixel 9 Pro XL for about a year and use the default camera app (the GOS one, not the Pixel one).

I’m not a pro photographer and the photos I’ve taken lately look like they were captured on a low-res laptop webcam. I’m suddenly appreciating how easy it was to take decent photos on iPhone.

What camera app do you use? Or are you using a separate device? Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
    4·
    13 days ago

    I am using the Pixel Camera from Play Store with network privilege revoked. I feel like I am losing too much with the stock camera app.

    • retype@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      I second this. Software makes such a difference, and I find the pixel camera (software) to produce good pictures. I also don’t allow it network access.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Can’t it still (theoretically) communicate via play services (if you have them installed) or am I being overly paranoid?

      • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 days ago

        Maybe? I thought the point of Google Play Services being a regular sandboxed app was to prevent such things.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          My (limited) understanding is that the sandboxing stops it having root-like privileges to do whatever it wants, but any app that wants to actually use it still can (otherwise play services wouldn’t actually be able to do anything and apps that require it would still fail, right?)