[Redmi Note 9S / Note 9 Pro (Indian Model) Themes, ] thanghn90:
Alright, took me a while, but here you go:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Mol71kyzkI8v0PipXa6aUtApW6FuC3p7?usp=sharing

Keep in mind, stock cam HDR ON; gcam HDR+ regular, not enhanced - again, I have a shaky hand, so I prefer the point-and-shoot regular HDR+ mode.

Here are what I found:

1. The pinkish/purplish color scheme in outdoor images is gone (woohoo!), though a tiny little bit of it is still there for outdoor sunny images, but it seems to occur to my original google pixel as well, so this may be inherent to all gcam. A tiny bit of it is good IMO, since it makes outdoor images look warmer. The xml provided in the first post seems to pour too much pink/purple on the images.

2. In most case, I prefer gcam images, just my personal taste. The most impressive signature of gcam images is the near-perfect representation of reflections and shininess, similar to ultra-quality shaders in gaming, if you know what I mean. The color is more balanced, especially for low-light and cloudy images. Stock cam HDR is a bit aggressive, especially in the watering can images, where you can see stock HDR noise in the green leaves.

3. Some stock images have better saturation, especially the outdoor ones. However, saturation can be modified, as mentioned in post #121 of this thread by [MENTION=4308334]imzuhaib[/MENTION]:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=82956049&postcount=121

In fact, I still have the low saturation issue with portrait mode in this onfire gcam with my xml, and the only working fix so far is from the above post.

4. For selfie: gcam only takes 4MP images from front camera. In terms of detail, that 4MP image from gcam looks definitely more realistic. Look how the background window becomes much more blueish in stock selfie . However, for some selfie lovers who want to hide all the pimples and dots on their faces, go for the stock cam or beautyplus.

5. There is a small bug in onfire gcam nightmode: if you take a nightmode picture and after processing (i.e. after the red dot disappears), you can't find it in photo gallery, what you need to do is to close gcam app and gallery app (hit recent button --> swipe them away), then open gcam again, hit home, and then open the gallery app again. The nightmode picture you took last time should appear. Of the four low-light pictures, I think gcam nightmode took the best one: bright, correct color of the led lights on the wifi router, a lot more detail, with crisp text. So it's totally worth the hassle IMO.

I also attached my ttnk.xml for onfire gcam in this thread, based on [MENTION=7039965]oguzbatu[/MENTION] "final.xml" in AOSP thread. What I did differrently from [MENTION=7039965]oguzbatu[/MENTION] are:

- Turning off flashes - these kinds of phones nowadays are too good for low-light pictures anyway.

- HDR+ regular instead of HDR+ enhanced - cuz I have shaky hands

- JPEG only instead of RAW+JPEG output - I'm not a hard core photographer, and I want to save storage space.

- Enable manual saturation slider (it's the Auto _____ column on the left, swipe up to change it to 10 as mentioned by [MENTION=4308334]imzuhaib[/MENTION]). Remember, everytime you open gcam and want to use portrait mode, you have to swipe it again.

Between this onfire+ttnk.xml and pixelcam plus v2 mod, I think I'll choose this one since it has the correct AWB behavior. However, if you don't want to go through the saturation hassle with portrait mode, go for pixelcam plus v2, but make sure to turn AWB OFF for outdoor images. Note that pixelcam plus v2 is not based on google camera 7.3, but rather 7.2 something, so its xml config cannot be used with onfire and vice versa.

By the way, is there anyone in this thread know how to contact onfire or other gcam modders?