Originally posted by dcshooter Taking a look at the examples, it looks like it simply boosts exposure, contrast, and saturation, i.e. things that can be fixed with minor tweaks to a phone's RAW processing algorithms.
And no, the photos don't look any more "DSLR-like," just slightly more processed. It also appears quite adept at blowing out highlights that were originally properly exposed and adding posterization, making the already poor DR in the images even worse.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Exactly. People are posting about this without even looking at the before and after images. They do nothing resembling what the article says (turning cell phone camera into an SLR performance).
To me this is no more then hitting the auto button in Lightroom. It bumps the things you mentioned, but the end result really looks messy in a different sort of way -- more noise, you notice the inaccurate colors and the lack of dynamic range.
Everyone is constantly talking about making cell phones work as well or better than cameras with lenses and sensors many times bigger. And if all you are doing is posting to Facebook, you can probably do a passable job with a cell phone, but for most other things the deficiencies do show up pretty quickly.