Anonymous784 Yep. There’s OIS that can’t stay stable no matter what you do, unless you put phone still without touching it (but then what’s the point of OIS, lol 🙃) so it just moves around all the time, like there’s a noticeable lag/delay in movement even if you hold your hand as still as possible.
Then you pair that with slow shutter speed and when combined you get overall softness of the whole image. And randomly, for no any particular reason, everything gets VERY oversaturated. Expert mode helps a lot though (including random saturation boost), but it’s still noticeably worse than a cheap Redmi 😅
Edit: Btw, that Redmi has no OIS nor EIS, and it still captures sharper images with more detail. Nothing’s camera software (as image control before snapping and image post processing) is just plain terrible, that’s the problem. It can be improved though, as hardware (sensors/lenses) is pretty damn capable…
Edit 2: Got home so here’s another comparison with everything included - small fine objects, bokeh (look at it how it’s extreme and ugly on (3a)!! 😂😂), sharpening and object isolation, noticeable overprocessing, boosted highlights and oversaturation with (3a), colours look natural and how-I-see-them-with-my-own-eyes at Redmi, but they look like they look here with Nothing… Both phones in their default “Photo” mode:
Don’t get me wrong, I love my (3a), it’s a phenomenal phone (and I’m yet to discover a single bit of lagging with it), battery life is amazing, even its camera is perfectly fine and usable… But it’s still both funny and tragic that a 120€ 2022 entry level phone is simply wiping the floor with it in photo quality, lol, when Nothing themselves say the following about the (3a):
If that’s an elite camera with true-to-life results, then my Redmi 10C is a probably a professional-grade DSLR, like Nikon D850?! 😅
And before someone say “You don’t buy a 350€ phone for photo quality.” … Do you buy a 120€ one then for that? Because a 120€ in this case is clearly superior in all regards. Heck, even when looking at those Phone (3) photos they are still as bad as (3a)'s, they just look better by default because they are not crazy-saturated, but details and everything else is just equally terrible. Check this post for example: https://nothing.community/d/41426-nothing-phone-3-camera-test
First one, what in the world is this, it looks like a photo of a painting with “posterize” effect applied to it in Photoshop; it most definitely doesn’t look like a photo:
The same happens with a (3a), but it doesn’t happen with a cheap Redmi 🙃
