The auto-exposure, blending several ones using to reduce the noise and increase sharpness with HDR+ (which is a superresolution kind of algorithm) ends up choosing 1/42s with an ISO equivalent of 573.
For an ISO equivalent of 573, that's quite a bit of noise remaining in the sky, but at least it has a relatively pleasant grain-like texture.
Something that's not good however is that the lens shading compensation is not calibrated correctly , as it's easy to notice a vignetting effect remaining in the sky.
Originally shared by +Taylor Wimberly
Hand held night shot with Auto HDR+. I am not great at taking photos, but this phone makes my photos look great.
I bought manual camera. So that if I don't have light, I have control.
A guy like you must be excited about getting RAW support and manual control. You have good knowledge and maybe similar use cases wrt camera.
I seriously can't believe they took away OIS. Why take away such an important feature? Apple never does this. Very disappointing 🙁
+Praveen K What's missing on this phone to be a good RAW shooter is OIS.
The low-light capability of this camera essentially relies on HDR+ computational photography, which works with already rendered in de-bayer gamma-corrected RGB colors multiple exposures as input.
+François Simond But since RAW is sensor data and sensor is quite nice considering the pixel size, may be RAW won't be too bad. That said, OIS will be an improvement. May be next year. I don't mind Nexus 6P at all.
+Pier Galeone I don't think the sensor would have been compatible with OIS, at least not in that compact a package. Everything in mobile technology is a compromise; everything. Apple's compromise is that they often lag behind for years waiting for the hardware to shrink or mature enough for their desired usage, production scales, and costs. Others compromise on screen quality, SoC, performance, features, etc.
Well, still, that was a nice shot.
+Pier Galeone lol apple only implemented OIS when Android had it for two/three generations already 😉
In other news, Sony Z5 has just taken the top spot of DxOMark, including a stabilization score of 93!!!
But guess what: "no RAW for you", says Sony.
+Sergio Gameiro Junior I look forward to see Z5 full size samples, in order to identify if they fixed their color profiling and white balance algorithm in order to get rid of the overall blue cast they're stuck with for many generations.
The comment on +dpreview connect saying:
On the downside, images show "visible blue sky saturation" and "skies are burnt in high-contrast scenes" is not really encouraging on that point.
Hmm, didn't the Z3 also score quite high on DxOMark? I quite like the result shown here, no smudgy noisefilter ridiculousness.
+Daniel Becker Yep, in its time the Z3 score was high too, despite the lens sharpness inconsistency, weird color profile and AWB inconsistencies, loss of detail and all that.
The Z5 little bits bits of samples to illustrate http://connect.dpreview.com/post/6254840659/dxomark-mobile-report-sony-xperia-z5 are impressive in details and processing balance for good lighting tho.
And I look forward for your input when you do +François Simond . How's that SmartWatch 3?
+Sergio Gameiro Junior waiting for the next battery drain to adb bugreport it 😜
Most OIS allow at least 1/10 trouble-free. Under the same conditions this could roughly make possible ISO 250. Without OIS the low light focus is half-baked.
That's a damm fine shot no matter what
Noise doesn't seem bad at all. They seem to be using noise reduction very sparingly, I don't see any smudging, and I like it.
There will be more noise in the sky, because the sample with higher ISO is used in large dark areas to bring in more brightness. The inconsistent noise distribution is a sign of multi-frame blending. It will also give up compensating the vignette when it's using high ISO in dark situations in order to avoid extreme noise at the corners.