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by asdfasgasdgasdg 1372 days ago
I’ve been kinda unimpressed with the iPhone 13 mini camera coming from the pixel 6 pro. I like everything else about the iPhone better, but the camera seems substantially worse. I have to edit pictures quite a bit to fix color balance issues. Here’s a recent example:

https://adobe.ly/3qEZRVx

(Lightroom won’t let me share both my edit and the unedited original but the blueish picture was taken at almost the same time and had the same general look as the edited picture.)

I’m not sure who would like the unedited version of the picture but I get weird color issues like this all the time on my mini. Here’s another one of my kid:

https://adobe.ly/3UerPEY

For anyone who has a doubt, I testify that my kid is not red and those cliffs were not blue.

Worst thing is it’s totally unpredictable when the issue is gonna crop up. It doesn’t happen in every picture. I don’t know what someone would do with a camera like this if they didn’t know how to edit to fix the colors.

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this is true. you can follow @dalevon_digital on Twitter and he frequently does slr/iPhone/pixel blind comparisons. the pixel has won every single one when compared to a reference SLR picture.
For what it’s worth, I’ll take my ILC photos over my p6pro every day. But I’ll take the p6 over the iPhone. I will check out that account though!
Do believe that first one's blue because your finger's in it.

The other one seems like a bug. Could always go complain about it.

I understand why you might think my finger is the cause but there are other pictures from that day and that series that lack the finger and still have the blue cast.
Turn off scene detection.
I was so excited by this answer, but there is no such setting on the 13 mini T_T.