Does your Pixel or other phone show lens flare in photos?

I’ve taken over 4000 photographs with my Pixel 7 Professional since I received it in early October 2023 — I journey rather a lot and attend many expos and occasions — and though I’m fairly glad with the flexibility of its digital camera expertise for my wants, I’ve come throughout a difficulty that’s irked me a bit: lens flare.

I observed the flare the primary weekend I used to be out with the Pixel 7 Professional. It was sunny with a number of clouds, I used to be close to a small river, and a few of the pics I shot stored coming again with a horrible flare within the decrease corners. I’m used to seeing flares once I level instantly at shiny lights, however not when these aren’t wherever within the pic.

Over the months, this stored occurring in comparable circumstances when there was an out-of-frame supply of sunshine (solar, largely, but in addition avenue lights at night time or indoor lighting) and a reflective materials (water, glass, automobile windshields, or some metals). Test the samples beneath and spot the radial green-blue flare within the backside corners.

A little bit of Googling instructed me I’m not alone, although some individuals had already observed it with the Pixel 6 Professional and different Pixels earlier than that. I hadn’t. A web-based concept talked about {that a} cellphone case may act as a mini lens hood, defending the digital camera from the reflections that trigger this flare. I attempted a number of circumstances, together with ones that individually wrap round every lens of the Pixel 7 Professional, and will nonetheless reproduce the flare.

A fast dialogue with my Android Authority colleagues revealed that they’ve observed this too on completely different Android telephones, although Samsung’s newest flagships just like the S22 Extremely and S23 Extremely appear to be exempt. The “SuperClear” lens Samsung is utilizing appears to have considerably diminished flares, even those that happen with the sunshine supply within the pic. vivo and ZEISS have been utilizing a particular lens coating to cut back reflections too, all whereas providing a cinematic flare mode within the digital camera app so as to add a faux flare (wait, what?!) as we famous in our Vivo X90 Professional overview.

What about you? Have you ever additionally observed this flare even in photographs the place the sunshine supply isn’t within the body? And if that’s the case, was it on a Pixel cellphone or one other model of telephones? Tell us within the ballot and feedback!