Eli5: why when you take pictures with your phone (for example, of a beautiful sunset) the colours and proportions don’t look as good as with the human eye?

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Eli5: why when you take pictures with your phone (for example, of a beautiful sunset) the colours and proportions don’t look as good as with the human eye?

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Answer 1

The lens in your phone is different from the lens in your eye. The eye is also far more sophisticated than most cameras generally and, specifically the cameras in phones. Things like contrast and color are never going to look as good being captured through a camera phone as they look when you’re using your eyes.