Recent content by MJS10

What's happening? I came to share that I get more pleasing jpegs with Pie and more pleasing Lightroom edits of raw files with Pie. Link to Google drive dng's of my cat. Similar light, distance from lens etc... The older one Oreo, the one from today is Pie. Edit: Link removed. How do I remove...

What? My series of posts is about the Pie update on the S9+ helping produce quality raw files (and jpegs). They were terrible with any editor under Oreo. I've found Lightroom handles the new files well, hence the examples.

You can only get the raw/dng format files with Pro mode. It's the dng file that Lightroom will do its magic with. The jpegs produced in phone in either Auto mode or Pro mode are much better now than on Oreo. I haven't tested the other modes yet. You only need the dng files if the subject of...

Here's a quick example. I've zoomed in and cropped tight on the detail of the flower head and got some dark space in the background. Neither area was the target focus of the photograph (was just a quick snap in pro mode). Aperture F2.4. Focal Length 4.30mm. ISO 100. Exposure 1/33s. The first...

Yes, its Adobe Lightroom CC from the Play Store.

Yes it's Adobe Lightroom CC on the Play Store. Allow several seconds for the algorithm to apply itself on load up. It looks like nothing is happening but it appears to apply the algorithm tile by tile so takes a little while. It's just a handy fast track to a pleasing and cleaner image to start...

Sorry to bump such an old thread. The Pie update released for my S9+, EE UK has turned this camera around. I was having the same pain as so many others in this thread. But now it's the leap ahead of my S7 I'd hoped for. Of note to editors. The RAW files look poor on first glance, with as much...