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.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I am using a fork of the Pixel Camera that adds in manual focus. The manual focus is extremely useful to me, but otherwise this particular fork is very buggy.

    I also have the stock pixel camera app with network permission revoked for when i get too frustrated with the fork crashing on me. The autofocus on the stock pixel app is super finicky, but i can usually get at least one good photo after several tries.

    I have also tried opencamera and the stock GOS app. Opencamera is pretty ok, but i find the sliders are physically too small on the screen for me to be as precise as i want to be. Stock GOS app feels like a hardware demo, not made for photography.

    i am not impressed with the Pixel camera hardware-wise. I also think iPhones take pretty bad photos though. I have an iPhone 15 pro (from work) and a Pixel 7 pro (GOS, mine) and i take photos with both very often. GOS is the only reason i have a Pixel over something with a good camera. To me, the Pixel looks a little worse than the iPhone at 1x, then around 3-5x zoom the Pixel looks much better, and anything above that really depends on lighting (Pixel seems to do better in meh light, iPhone gets a better shot in bright good light)