[Xiaomi Mi MIX  Guides, News, & Discussion] Vozyxel:
Hi folks,

i wanted to share some of my insights from 2 days of usage of Mi Mix. As for most, camera was biggest letdown. I knew it was bad, but actual experience exceeded all expectations:eek: After some digging and thanks to some threads in xda forum i found a way to make quite decent photos with little sacrifice.

So few things first:

- I'm on rooted LineageOS with Camera API2 unlocked (to be honest i didn't have to unlock it - i suppose it is unlocked with LineageOS? )

- As some noticed before, the hardware isn't that bad, it's software that spoils photos with ugly postprocessing in most cases.

- I'm using Snap Camera HDR - i tried most of software in Google Play and only in it found something like Low Light Mode - if someone know software with similar feature - pls let me know .

So what i did is basically turning off all useless postpro in Snap Camera (sharpenning, denoising, post-processing, anti-banding) and enabled Low Light Mode in all photos . From what i understand i takes series of photos and compare them to make one clean photo. You can choose how many frames to take. More you take the better picture you will get but it will also take more time to process. The processing time is biggest letdown of this method. You can't take another photo during processing so burst mode won't work. I found 5 to be best compromise - it enhances photo noticeably and takes only 1-3s to process. If u can spare more time between photos u can crank it up to 32 - with that count i had really impressive results even with ISO around 1500-2000 but the processing can take 10-30s. Another letdown as you can probably guess is that you can have some issues with moving objects - the darker it gets, the more blurred will they be (slower shutter for every frame).

Now to main dish, examples :D

All photos taken in 16Mpx without flash or any tripod, all taken form hand for real life comparison. As photo is processed in Snap Camera the jpg lose photo metadata so i only write that data for stock camera, for Snap Camera i write how many frames was set for Low Light Mode. I know it's not very scientific but i take photos in both softwares almost at the same time, in same light conditions and on basic auto modes.

Stock camera on left, Snap Camera on right - I'm posting 100% crops, ill post full pictures if there will be some demand:cool:

1. [ISO 2500 1/15s] [5 LLM] - far objects in bad indoor lighting

[IMG="1"]https://i.imgur.com/BWDrc7G.jpg[/IMG]

2. [ISO 1250 1/17s] [5 LLM] - some fine details - fur, fabric, wood texture in mediocre light

[IMG="2"]https://i.imgur.com/z4SBYfE.jpg[/IMG]

3. [ISO 1600 1/17s] [5 LLM] - small details in mediocre light

[IMG="3"]https://i.imgur.com/jzaxypM.jpg[/IMG]

4. [ISO 160 1/33s] [32 LLM] - outdoor in good light - i took more frames to show some extra foliage details

[IMG="4"]https://i.imgur.com/UdiaVBY.jpg[/IMG]

5. [ISO 6400 1/15s] [32 LLM] - most hardcore example, very bad indoor lighting. Snap Camera algorithm made some wired border around Marshall logo, but apart form that great job.

[IMG="5"]https://i.imgur.com/cGnaAW2.jpg[/IMG]

I hope my post will help some of you with Mi Mix camera, please post your own experiences with camera - maybe there is even better solution for our phones:confused: