The "more balanced processing" is still rather heavily sharpened and extremely noisy by my standards, so this all but confirms what I felt before about phone raws.
The more balanced processing is sharpened because I sharpened it. You can have less sharpening if that’s what you prefer.
The noise levels are perfectly acceptable. If you're finicky about noise (a pointless obsession, IMO), then of course you won't use single shot RAWs from a cellphone camera. For any ordinary photographic purpose the level of noise from a modern phone sensor is perfectly fine – even without any fancy processing or multishot blending.
The noise levels are perfectly acceptable. If you're finicky about noise (a pointless obsession, IMO), then of course you won't use single shot RAWs from a cellphone camera. For any ordinary photographic purpose the level of noise from a modern phone sensor is perfectly fine – even without any fancy processing or multishot blending.