I see so few cell phone raw pics here, I figured I would share one from a Pixel 6 and the SOOC (or is it SOOP in this case?) PXL_20220413_175449529.dng (3.7 MB)
Ohhh, nasty one
Since there are about half a million ways to âdevelopâ a photo, I canât say if my interpretation is âbetterâ or not. Still, here it is:
Thanks for sharing, not everyday we edit raw pictures out of a mobile phone, was a nice challenge.
I see that your picture is double the resolution of the DNG, I supposed google does some pixel shift in camera to double the resolution?
If I recall correctly, I used the 2x digital zoom function of the camera app so that could help explain what is going on. The phone actually has a 50Mpx sensor that is binned down to 12Mpx. I am not sure how it handles zoom.
Google has screwed up raw photosâŚit saves a small dng of the digital cropped area. In the past you got your jpg âŚat whatever zoom you used and the raw was the full sensor imageâŚthis could also be your interaction with google photosâŚit will wreck them as wellâŚcheck your phone and see what size your dng are on the actual phoneâŚ
The only way to get a decent raw from a pixel is to use no zoomâŚif you zoom it doesnât handle them correctlyâŚyou get some small dng that is essentially a digital crop of the zoomed area when you took the photoâŚ
If I think I will use the raw I just shoot with no zoom where possible or take a shot and then zoom for the jpg. I have an older pixel and I donât like the skin tones so I edit a lot of the raw filesâŚThe jpgs are at first glance nice but overall a bit âcrunchyâ for my taste⌠I would rather crop the full raw rather than let google give me some chopped versionâŚ
Aaah, that explains it then. So I guess the phone is still doing some sort of merging of images, or upscaling, to obtain that higher resolution? Quad bayer wouldnât explain it since the phone always counts it as one pixel.
Such a shame they canât implement proper raw support when it comes to zooming.
I donât know why either. My very old Lumia 640xl will take raw photos that are full size irrespective of the zoomâŚI think they really donât care âŚitâs use their computational output or nothing because it is âsuperiorâ