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squallmx

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    squallmx got a reaction from IPD in Working on a laptop, worth removing the battery??   
    Just disconnect it.
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    squallmx got a reaction from Mnky313 in Valve will create a Steam Deck compatibility catalog for every game available on Steam   
    In this case, I think "SD" is not Standard Definition but Steam Deck.
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    squallmx reacted to poochyena in I was WRONG about the iPhone 11 Pro Camera...   
    At the 4 minute mark I thought "wow, the pixel 4 looks SO much better than the rest!" and then linus comes in saying it looks the worst.
    The pixel 4 honestly looked light years ahead of all the other photos in the lineup imo.
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    squallmx reacted to kirashi in I was WRONG about the iPhone 11 Pro Camera...   
    While I'm no YouTuber nor phone reviewer with 100's of phones at my disposal, I can indeed say my two bits as someone who's been a hobbyist photographer for the better part of 10 years. The Pixel 4 does a much better job in all the portrait shots shown in the video, hands down, no comparison. The purpose of portrait photography isn't to provide a wide dynamic range across the entire image - it's to focus on your subject(s), ensuring their features are in focus, crispy sharp, and true-to-life in the color department.
     
    I won't speculate on the night lighting, landscape, or city street photos, as many of these shots could be captured properly with the right adjustments done prior to shooting - in other words, there's just far too much variation for any single camera phone to be a clear winner. This is where my years of photography has taught me that it's really not about having the best camera (because there isn't one) - it's about knowing how to properly adjust & tweak the camera you have with you in order to achieve your desired results.
     
    The iPhone 11 shots below (with or without Deep Fusion) and the Note 10 are all super faded / washed out, and quite frankly, look terrible in comparison to the Pixel 4's shot. The Mate 30's image is a bit dark, but can absolutely be saved with some slight tweaks in Lightroom, Affinity Photo, or Skylum Luminar. If one were wanting to share without any editing (or with minimal Instagram editing) I'd hands down pick the Pixel 4, as I know that even Instagram's basic filtering would be enough. Winner: Pixel 4.
     

     
    In the below show, the iPhone has indeed done a bit better job with the green foliage in the background compared to the Pixel 4, however, this has come at a detriment to the rest of the photo, as there's now a green color cast across her skintone, jacket, and hair. Given the choice between editing each photo, I'd choose the Pixel 4's shot, as the skintones, jacket, & hair are far more natural looking, leaving only the foliage needing a bit of tweaking, if so desired. Winner: Pixel 4.
     

     
    These shots were more difficult to discern the differences between, aside from the obvious color, shadow, and highlight changes, but once again I am seeing an unnatural green colorcast on the iPhone 11 Deep Fusion shot that straight up would prevent me from sharing it with even friends or family until corrected. The Pixel 4 and Mate 30 again are doing the best job at capturing detail here, albeit at what appears to be differing exposures, making it impossible for me to state a single winner. Winner: Pixel 4 or Mate 30.
     

     
     
    Anywho, regardless of which phone camera is seen as best, they're ALL manufactured by Sony, so we know who the real winner is here.  PS: Sony, your Electronics Products and Solutions department is doing good work; keep it up.
     
     
    Like @emosun, I'm between a rock and a hard place, because while I long for a camera whose Automagic mode literally "just works" without requiring me to adjust anything, period, I have yet to find any phone camera whose post-processing doesn't leave me feeling like I could've spend $1500 CAD on whatever current generation RX100 Sony currently has available, shot photos in real/true RAW mode using a better image sensor and real optical glass, then tweaked them to fit my requirements.
     
    I'd love to see the Brandon Lee do a proper phone camera comparison, setting up both studio & on-location shots, and covering everything from which phone has the best Automagic mode to which phones actually let the user capture true, unaltered RAW photos for later processing. I'd also like to see an on-screen overlay of all settings used to capture each image, along with all relevant EXIF metadata showing the ISO, aperture, exposure, metering mode, and more that was used when capturing the image.
     
    To be honest, I'm really just wishing for LTT's camera reviews to contain the same thoroughness of these channels, since they're what I use (in conjunction with the amazing folks over at dpreview.com) when looking to make a purchasing decision on any cameras. Hint Hint, Nudge Nudge: Maarten is based out of Toronto, making a collaboration with Brandon very, very doable, at least from a logistics standpoint.
    Kai Wong - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCknMR7NOY6ZKcVbyzOxQPhw Lok Cheung - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_m1_0MTTmnWo4tpB0O_7g DigitalRev TV - https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalRevCom/ Maarten Heilbron - https://www.youtube.com/user/MaarTech/
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    squallmx reacted to aandril in Normally 12MB/s downloads, steam, Geforce Now   
    I don't think so.
    I think when I was downloading the game through Geforce Now-Steam the server said Toronto? The same as using steam that isnt through the Geforce Now.
     
    But yeah. I know it was in megabytes because of the speed of the download itself. How fast it went by for that game.
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    squallmx got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Red is blurry with HD60 Pro card   
    This is likely the case, only pro gear is capable of capturing 4:4:4, consumer level software is at best 4:2:2. There is nothing you can do about it.
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