About saturation and camera performance.

[SenenCito]

Ill try to take pictures tonight. In our line of work we can't really use the excuse that the screen is not calibrated.

 

[Cubfan]

My apologies for my choice of words. What I meant was that if you say you can turn off the over-saturation, you haven't looked close enough or you're more forgiving than some of us. It's still very clearly there at the movie setting, and anything pink, orange, red, or green will practically glow in the photo. And the camera is clearly set to under-saturate to compensate for what the screen does in the gallery.

The crying shame in that is that it doesn't have to be that way for such an otherwise excellent phone... and just feels dumb. Why would they do this mixed up thing? How hard is it to give a setting that puts things back to normal?

 

[iSlackerz]

My apologies for my choice of words. What I meant was that if you say you can turn off the over-saturation, you haven't looked close enough or you're more forgiving than some of us. It's still very clearly there at the movie setting, and anything pink, orange, red, or green will practically glow in the photo. And the camera is clearly set to under-saturate to compensate for what the screen does in the gallery.

The crying shame in that is that it doesn't have to be that way for such an otherwise excellent phone... and just feels dumb. Why would they do this mixed up thing? How hard is it to give a setting that puts things back to normal?

I don't think anyone was saying you could turn the over-saturation off. I certainly wasn't. You are right the colors are still over done, even in movie mode. But it does make it less cartoony, IMO, particularly with the brightness turned way down (my brightness is about 15%). I don't have the same standards as a professional photographer though.