[OnePlus 9 Pro] BDProductions:
That has not been my experience.

Speaking of that, I have noticed that some people report all good experiences or bad experiences with the camera output as if there are actually a pretty high number of each... Are there bad camera modules out there that are out of spec? (Leaving out processing, because saving raw should eliminate overprocedsing being the issue)

I am including posts on Reddit as well as here, plus my own experiences.

I take an average of 300 photos a month for my job and personal use combined, and of those at least 250 are worth keeping.

I do consider conditions before I open a camera app, because I am aware of certain conditions where I can get a better image with Open Camera quickly, where I would need to long in Pro Mode to change settings and capture the image before the instant worth capturing is gone.

I am pretty good at selecting photo/portrait/panorama/lens quickly when I know the conditions match what the OOS camera is highly likely to capture well. I don't use in-camera filters, because there are better apps for postprocessing.

I do take videos with the OOS camera, 90% of the time @ 1080/30p... But sometimes in 1080/60P, 4K, or 8K, when there is something worth the storage, or something that will look better on a large screen recorded at a higher frame rate or higher resolution.

I know some people's experience is ruined by user error, some by the software or hardware. Most products considered good have about a 2% defect rate where something is bad.... and some "okay" products have higher defect rates.

I should login on my laptop and throw up a week's backup showing images are at a minimum no lower quality than a Pixel GCam would have shot, except most are above 12MP where details are important.

I am a broadcast engineer that builds and maintains television and radio stations for a living. I do occasionally do sales, which is why I absolutely need 16MP or higher to forward contracts for imediate production orders to be generated at the radio studio.

When I first started doing sales I had a Galaxy Note 4, which means I had a 16MP main sensor and a camera app that allowed saving without compression, and I no longer needed to stitch 13MP images together before sending a copy to the studio staff.

I know from work as a consulting broadcast engineer that it is super common for smaller stations to use cell phones to copy a contract and start the production while they head to the next sale to avoid the expense of having to buy multilayer carbon/carbonless copy contracts. That's the majority of stations in rural America, roughly 3:1 to the Big City stations that buy the carbon copy forms.

What I am doing now is carrying 2 phones... My favorite OnePlus and a Note 20 for snapping 64MP contracts saved in HEIF.

If I could find another new in box OnePlus 7 Pro I would buy it in a heartbeat and sell my 9 Pro... It's the only phone I never had any reason to root or ROM.

The 9 Pro was great before the update to Android 12... I had 30-50 hours of battery endurance depending on location and use, and never saw less than 9 hours SOT. (The blackest of black themes, and dark gray highlights, black GBoard, and 30s screen timeout)

I just switched off AT&T to Mint on T-Mobile network and now have 5G strong between home, shopping, and work, and picked up about + 30% battery endurance, now seeing a pretty consistent 52-55 hours, and SOT ranging between 9H20M and 10H10M so far, after 2 weeks on LineageOS 18.1.

If I had the ability to shoot in the native 48 or 50MP lenses I wouldn't have to carry two phones.

As this thread is about the OOS camera, that's my main need/want.

I am considering going back to A11, and rooting to gain screenshotting my bank app. Literally, the only thing I would like that the OOS 11 doesn't allow stock.