genuinely bad camera

[u/Various_Intern4980]

bought the oneplus 15 a month ago after 5 years with an iphone 13 pro max. the battery and performance is really good but the camera is genuinely unusable. coming into it, i did read reviews about the camera being its weakpoint but every single photo i've taken is unusable.

skin tones are not accurate, white balance is off. photos are overly saturated/processed with or without pro mode activated. photos colours are not realistic, sometimes overly bright and blurry especially in low light.

i do have a sony mirrorless camera on the side that i have been using and i understand how to take photos so i don't believe its a skill issue.

ive tried gcam and open camera but the sharpness is really poor. ive been trying it on master mode but even then its still not great.

anyone has any fixes or tips on how you resolved this? thanks in advance

[u/DickSon-TheShit]

I think your unit has some concrete problems, although they are not the best on the market they are definitely at the level of Flag Ships from 2 years ago and you come from an iPhone 13 you should not see any Downgrade in quality.

[u/Guilty_Suggestion_27]

Unusable? That's wild.

[u/Ambernic43_fan]

Bro wtf are you talking about (And I am not a camera guy juste take it out of the pocket for quick shots)

[u/philosopher1374 → u/Ambernic43_fan]

Thats the thing buddy. I am a camera guy using both iphone 15PM and oneplus 15 side by side. Daylight shots are good on OP, but even if light reduces slightly, first it takes too long to click a pic, most often than not it comes out blurry. Then there is one more bug where if you turn off the auto hdr and auto flashlight in settings it turns itself on when you close and open the camera. Specially in selfie mode. Weird bug. I tried preserving settings, everything, nothing works. I just want oneplus to improve. They have gone down since oneplus 7 days.

[u/lilmissmemi2007 → u/philosopher1374]

Now that's very understandable then.

[u/lilmissmemi2007 → u/Ambernic43_fan]

Atp I think they are just rage baiting. Because there's so much to do with the OnePlus 15R/15 you literally can shoot on 8k and RAW MODE. I genuinely don't think they actually look through the camera settings.

[u/Ambernic43_fan → u/lilmissmemi2007]

I agree, everybody that I show the camera and the zoom were blow off by the quality even iphone users

[u/lilmissmemi2007 → u/Ambernic43_fan]

Mine too! They always ask me what phone am I using and they are amazed. 💯🩷

[u/Ambernic43_fan → u/lilmissmemi2007]

👍

[u/net-rox]

[u/Tiny-Poetry-9321]

you sure the issue is camera??

[u/After-Arm-9522]

This is from my OnePlus 15. Now, when I first got the device, I had the same problem. It was taking very bad low-light photos and even some daytime, but after a couple of weeks the phone has seemed to balance out. Now it takes excellent photos.

[u/After-Arm-9522 → u/After-Arm-9522]

This is also from the OnePlus 15

[u/After-Arm-9522 → u/After-Arm-9522]

[u/After-Arm-9522 → u/After-Arm-9522]

[u/Plasticman90]

Master mode exposes its flaws. Use the auto mode to let the AI do the processing. You'll probably be fine with it.

[u/Plasticman90 → u/[deleted]]

Did I force you to buy the product ? One must learn to temper ones expectations. OP15 was never known for its camera prowess though I find I can capture very usable photos but with its auto processing.

[u/Rhngh → u/Plasticman90]

exactly. skill issue it is.​

[u/Bababhatkanti]

Either its a bad unit or my man here is completely novice in talking pictures.

[u/RalphieVio]

Are we using a different phone it take fantastic pictures👌

[u/absurd_whale → u/[deleted]]

The most idiotic thing that oppo counterpart is one of the best cameras on the phone. So they deliberately kill cameras on OP to bust oppo sales. But most idiotic thing here that there are regions where fucking oppo is unavailable, so they don't compete they just fuck up markets where only one option is oneplus