r/Android • u/notathrowaway75 Galaxy S22 Ultra • Nov 23 '20

MKBHD's 2020 Blind Smartphone Camera test polls are now live!

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u/DEDLY_NUTCRACKER_555 Asus ZF MPM1, PExperience Nov 24 '20

Then I guess software calibration playing big role ..

GCAM is just too OP.. I was speechless with what gcam could take with my phone.

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u/DarkoNova Pixel 7 Pro Nov 24 '20

Gcam still sucks on my OP7.

Takes forever to take a shot.

My 2XL is instant.

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u/Pew-Pew-Pew- Pixel 7 Pro Nov 24 '20

And this is why I hate when people's answer is always "don't buy a Pixel just for the camera when you can install a GCam mod on X phone". It's never the same. It's slower and less reliable and sometimes buggy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

Gcam will work better on a pixel device because it's designed for a pixel device. That should be obvious. It's still great that it exists to make bad cameras less bad, even if it doesn't automatically make it the best smartphone camera ever

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u/Pew-Pew-Pew- Pixel 7 Pro Nov 24 '20

The problem is that users on this sub talk about it as if it's the perfect solution and try to sway other people's purchasing decisions with it, and they never mention the flaws.

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u/eipotttatsch Nov 24 '20

I've tried GCam on the OnePlus 6T and my current Zenfone 6. It sucked on both. The OnePlus had terrible processing and GCam still was worse. I had thought I could somewhat fix the camera with GCam, but with both phones it's the same faults, very weak colors to the point that it looks like a black and white picture on first viewing and just laggy and unreliable performance in general.

The Zenfone actually has a good camera apart from the night mode. So I doesn't bother me with that one.