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  • phone cameras generally default to auto white balance which is good for snapshots, not so good for color accuracy
  • trying to get raw files out of phone cameras is not completely impossible, but the images are almost always processed into JPEGs
    • the main camera is going to boost saturation and contrast (make your image “pop”)
    • selfie camera is going to focus on “flesh tones”, so less saturation boost (or you look sunburnt) and less contrast boost (smooth out wrinkles and acne)
  • if you really want to focus on color accuracy over perceptual color, get hold of a gray card or color checker and plan on doing post-processing in something like Lightroom, Darktable, digiKam, RawTherapee or the like
SomeAmateur OP ,

Thanks for the rundown! I tried to adjust all the settings to get a basic unenhanced image but I understand that my use case isn't what a lot of cell phone cameras do.

Good news is most of the time I don't take photos with my phone but a dedicated camera so I'm curious to see if that has similar results or not

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