Highlight exposure not distinct enough

[Martin Petersen]

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Exposure in highlight-areas: The first photo (with the flag hanging loosely down) is taken with an iPhone. The next (wind is unfolding flag) with a Leica D-Lux 6 in "P-mode").

On the iPhone-shot the clouds and the sky are much better, much more distinctly drawn. How can I make the Leica shoot better highlights?

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[andybarton]

While we can’t see the images, you are comparing a 10 year old camera with (probably) a modern iPhone. The latter is a computer in your pocket that does a huge amount of processing on the shot in milliseconds. Most shots from an iPhone are in a subtle HD.

I don’t think that a D Lux 6 in P-mode is capable of producing an image out of the camera that is comparable to one from a modern iPhone. 

[jaapv]

Actually a modern iPhone will outperform nearly any current camera in extreme low light shots through exposure stacking.