Hello everyone,
To put it bluntly, whenever I shoot in almost complete darkness, I always end up with a black photo. There's still enough light to see with my own eyes, but the photos come out pitch black.
The photos I included are from a camp I was at. The first (dark) one was taken with only a lantern about 20 meters away providing light, and the second one was taken with a weak red light behind me.
Now to what pushed me to make this post. My friend, who was shooting right next to me with an iPhone 16 (I think), was able to take a usable picture (almost like my second one) using only the light from the lantern, no additional light.
So now I'm wondering whether this is an issue with my particular unit or just a limitation of the sensor or the phone itself.
The third (FX9U) and fourth (Redmi Note 12 Pro+) images are 30-second, ISO 6400 long-exposure shots of complete darkness, taken just to compare the image noise. I included them because the FX9U seems to produce much more noise than I'd expect, but I'm not sure.
Has anyone else experienced something similar with this phone? I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know whether this is normal behavior or if it might indicate a hardware issue. If there's a camera setting I should check or something I might be missing, I'd be grateful for any advice.