Oh... I just reduced saturation for purple, magenta, red channel secukup rasa and darken the edges by pulling down a couple of grad filter in Lightroom.

Actually no need fridge etc...

I notice that when the phone is fresh off sleep... there won't be tint even on the old firmware but if I was playing game/heavy 3G usage etc and phone gets warm, the tint almost immediately appear once camera is on.

On 4.3, its lesser.

Btw... I notice that on 4.3, the auto white balance works better too.

Lightroom works best... You can also use the free Photoscape's remove color cast function though its more limited.

I tested a couple page back. It's still there but an improvement on mine.

I'm happy with mine.

I like the screen, the front facing speakers (major sell point for me), the speed and the camera is not bad too despite the purple tint which is better in 4.3 imo (I'm using 4.3 now) NOT worse.

I don't have other phones to compare with except the Iphone 5 but if I were to take a realistic (not those shooting at pitch black test conditions), I'll take the One over the Iphone 5.

I think HTC's biggest failture is setting and managing expectations.

Between all the cameras I have (currently have 3 compacts and a dslr).. most of the default factory setting will clip all those shadows to pure black in those low light situation.. HTC pulak will try to bring up dark areas which is too ambitious imo for the hardware.

Then again, I much prefer HTC's approach vs the others.. Sony especially have a tendency to do this.

Point is... if the photo is "ruined" by the purple tint.. it's probably too dark to be taking photos anyway.

Hmmm.. maybe I'll do a shootout tonight.... HTC One vs Compact camera.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 3 2013, 01:49 PM

RX100, XZ-1, HX-9V

Take a pic.. too lazy to carry and shoot all 3.

Obviously there isn't any fireworks to shoot at out of the blue... but I suppose below's theoretically similar.

What I did was to ran antutu first to heat up the phone and to fire off the shot quickly before the software tries to compensate for the purple tint.

If just point and shoot.... this is what I got.



But suppose you want to see fireworks (bright light source) with a black sky, first get an AE/AF lock on a bright subject (doesn't matter if its car light or whatever).... then just point and shoot. Or a bit more troublesome is set a manual low ISO like 100 or 200. It doesn't matter because HTC one's camera will always shoot at ~1/15 shutter speed and since ISO is so low, it will under expose... hence fireworks and black sky.



Edit:
Just for giggles... I pulled out my Cybershot HX9V and shot the full Intelligent Auto jpeg below



This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 3 2013, 07:23 PM

Huh?

Previous post on HTC One with 4.3 are below.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=63508538

The short answer is that its still there but while its annoying, it minimized with 4.3 imo and actually I think the camera works quite well in real life situation at least for me though biggest gripe is it needs a lot more megapixels.

So tonight I brought out my Sony Cybershot HX9V (not exactly too el cheapo) to have a look what we're gonna get with a dedicated camera rather than just complaint about the purple

All the shots were shot with no editing beyond resizing to fit the forum. The Cybershot is shot on Intelligent Auto+ while HTC One's setting is default everything with sharpness set at -1.

Shots with 16:9 ratio is from HTC One while the 4:3 ratio shots are from the Cybershot

1. Basement carpark lighting





2. Night Sky





3. Contrast lighting





This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 4 2013, 12:51 AM

4. Fluorescent lighting





5. Mixed Lighting





6. The Culprits





This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 4 2013, 12:34 AM

U need to wait a while for pc to get the drivers