Re: Post pictures taken with Motorola X here
just to pipe in. Marques Brownlee said there was nothing he could find to make it work. also to add my 2 cents, from everything i've heard, no motorola camera that was bad was ever fixed with a software update. to me personally it would make no sense that if it were a simple software fix they woulda just neglected to apply it to the motorola. Assume the worst in making your choice, that camera will stay as is.
A major issue seems to be from post-processing in my opinion, albeit the sensor and lens aren't the best they are not bad.
If you see some review sites like AnandTech you will see some good pictures taken by the Moto X yet a majority remain washed out, bad processing of the details.
What they captured with their cameras was pretty much the same results I got when I used the moto x for a day.
Before you look at the pictures: Please ignore the colors. Pay attention to the details, the sharpness, the contrast, as well as focus. It's sometimes realistic, and takes decent pictures but there's this fuzziness about the details that looks like bad post processing to me, but again I am not familiar with their this type of sensor so it may just be a trade off.
(and yes they were taken at the same time, not in different times of the day).
Moto X
Samsung S4
Yet the Moto X is sometimes capable of something like this (notice the sharpness, and good focus while keeping crisp detail despite the black plastics (anyone who does photography knows it is difficult for a lens/camera sensor to capture black on black):
I have little to no experience with the Moto X's sensors (Anand goes a little bit in dept
here) so I am unsure if these can be fixed with a kernel or if it's a sensor trade off. Which imho isn't that great in low light scenarios.
Edit:
Now that I remember this camera reminds me an awful lot of the Lumia 920's camera. The fuzziness in details when you zoom in.