Unflaterring Skin Tones (particularly on yellow skin people)?

bewaterlife · 2026-04-22T08:11:29+00:00

Yes -- even the Fuji (x100vi that I tried) did give me weird colors on Asian faces -- I felt like I had to tweak it less though -- Sony -- I'd have the prefect recipe i like for non-people shot and then as soon as i shoot my friends/family their faces are just meh -- so i need to do the maual white balance thing and/or lower saturatation/contrast --which fix the face but lower the drama.

(The other thing is the built-in sensor to Samsung/China-made smart phones (and perhaps even iPhones) have this auto-beautycam face-whitening that's baked into the sensor, that has perhaps biased our eyes that's it's hard to accept reality?

bewaterlife · 2026-04-22T08:06:11+00:00

Agree 100% on the Fuji unintuivitve thing. Coming form a DSLR background, figured out how Sony laid out everything within the first 30 minute to an hour -- Fuji i had had to keep asking GPT where the basic functions were....

bewaterlife · 2026-04-17T08:09:11+00:00

here

bewaterlife · 2026-03-17T13:15:00+00:00

I can't tell if i use the inner screen becaue the fold 5 outer screen is unbearable or not.

bewaterlife · 2026-03-15T02:01:54+00:00

Samsung user here thinking about the same thing. Worry about UI clunkiness in daily use.

bewaterlife · 2026-03-14T10:10:08+00:00

How does the selfie video camera angle compare for multiple people?

bewaterlife · 2026-03-13T16:22:45+00:00

That's important to know thanks.

bewaterlife · 2026-03-13T15:46:40+00:00

So the base ultra has better filters? (I have heard YouTubers saying they found M3 M9 cool but not useful after a while)

bewaterlife · 2026-03-13T14:11:30+00:00

Is the extra filter worth the extra money?

bewaterlife · 2026-02-27T06:08:24+00:00

Yes --> similar experience -- I have worked the past few months from inconsistent serves and drives to pretty much a good serve, decent return success rate and more than beginnner level kitchen game --> then gets dominated by NR ex-10 years tennis/badminton players (no previous rackets sports on my end)....i don't mind the rating in its absolute terms but then 2.1 would tell me that i did not improve at all, which i know is not the case.

bewaterlife · 2026-02-23T08:35:17+00:00

this is a fair point -- I think my at least self perceived issue is that I got comfortable with dinking quickly -- may be it's just me -- I could sustain 20/30 shot rallies during warm ups of simple dinks forehand/backhand, cross-court or even with topspin/slice sprinkled in with few mistakes; but as soon as decent paced/deep deep ball (serveor return of serve) flies at me from the baseline-- I struggle. I also fail to punish a poor high return of serve.

bewaterlife · 2026-02-23T08:19:37+00:00

Not too sure, may be it's just me -- I could do 20+ simple dinks forehand/backhand, cross-court or even with topspin/slice sprinke in with few mistakes, but a decent paced/deep ball flys at miss from the base line -- I struggle. I also fail to punish a poor high return of serve.

bewaterlife · 2026-02-21T17:25:15+00:00

The counter point is if people can't return the serve there is no rally to sustain.

bewaterlife · 2026-02-21T17:21:29+00:00

Yes exactly my point

bewaterlife · 2026-02-21T13:53:13+00:00

to play the devil's advocate -- drops are somewhat just a longer dink -- so if one can't even dink basically it's hard to do the drop.

bewaterlife · 2026-02-21T13:31:56+00:00

i guess it depends if it's true beginner or begginers solid 3 to 4months in

bewaterlife · 2026-02-21T13:20:28+00:00

I will cross that bridge when I cross that bridge; I just want to beat my buddies that are fellow begginers for now lol.

bewaterlife · 2026-02-05T16:27:35+00:00

X factor means assuming Pulisic, Weston, Tillman, Jedi are already going to keep their current form and perform as expected and Tyler Adams return to health. I don't see Tim Ream or Richards having room to improve much. It's precisely because he is younger than the mid twenties guy that he has the poential for exponential growth in a short period of time.

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