Nokia's image post processing is terrible

I know there are other posts about this but the camera is totally useless when pictures are just yellow tinted and blurry. Lumia 920. See attached pictures for difference between pre and post processed picture.
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Here, Ive added another sample at ISO100 to show again. Notice the white balance and sharpness of the before picture is perfect! and after the processing happens...your left you aggresive noise reduction and a yellowish photo.
save both of those pics to your computer and compare.
There is nothing wrong with the camera on my phone, I wish people would stop with those kinds of responses. It was fine before Amber update!
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Nokia Pro Cam photos post-processing makes yellowi...

Hello there! I'm here to report a common problem which happens while taking pics with Nokia Pro Cam on my lumia 920. When you take a pic it has right colours and is very sharp but after apps' post-processing the pic turns yellowish and a bit softer. It doesn't look too good after that treatment. I'm asking for patch that would prevent this problem. While I was at Windows Phone central-forums I saw that I'm not alone with this issue.
There is photos when one can see this issue.
First is just after taking pic and second is after processing it. I guess one can see very clear difference.
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shadow118 wrote:
I see the same thing on my 620 (yes, I know Pro Cam is not officially supported by the 620 and would not work as good as on 920 or 1020, but I found a way to get it the interface is just so much better)
When I take a picture with manual focus, in the screen the pic looks sharp, but when i open the gallery, it changes (wll, postprocesses) to blurry
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Lumia 920 pre & post processing of pics after Ambe...

Hey folks, im starting this thread in order to grab more attention from Nokia. As they are already aware of the yellowish tint in photos since the amber update, I wanna just add something extra. I have attached 2 sample images of pictures below. Both photos were shot at ISO3200 to really show what this phone is capable of. Each picture will come with a before processing happens and after. Not only can you tell theres a yellowish tint in the post processing pics, but you can also see severe noise reduction. Sure, ISO3200 is a bit on a smartphone, but take a close look at the pics before the processing happens and tell me that isn't a amazing picture at ISO3200. White balance is spot on, and sharpness is excellent. Im sorry, but the aggressive noise reduction Nokia applies is not needed on this phone. Nokia I think most people buy these lumia 920 and 1020 phones based on cameras. I think most people can agree that while we may not ask you to remove your noise reduction settings, but rather add an option for us users who would like to skip out on the post processing that happens. You can clearly see in the before and after pics below how amazing an ISO3200 shot from this phone is.....let us have it please!!!
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Preface: I've only had the Lumia 1020 for 48 hours.
Problem: I've noticed that when taking pictures with the Nokia Pro Camera application, the preview after capturing the image is awesome. If I then go to look at the captured image, there is a short pause, and suddenly the picture goes soft, detail is lost, colors become horribly skewed. It would seem that there is some massive post processing being done after the image is archived.
Request: Is there any way to disable this post processing? It's taking wonderful pictures and destroying them.
I'll see if I can take a screen capture to show what I'm talking about and I'll post again after work.
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- The entire screen is powered when using Peek. Despite being OLED and Nokia specifically stating otherwise.
- Can turn on (but not off) camera in the background on a call. App doesn't open but shutter does and spins up CPU.

So after looking at the 5MP version (attached) it seems that it is indeed post processing it after the fact and saving it that way. Which begs the question.... Why? Isn't the photo review going through the Nokia Pro Camera app anyway? Why is it doing post processing (I've also had it remove red-eye automatically when reviewing photos)?
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*Edit: Trying to attach the large format photo as well...
*Edit2: After uploading both and flipping back and forth between the "review" image, the 5MP saved image, and the highres saved image, they are all the same, meaning that it is doing the post processing as it is saving the 5MP & 34MP image. This means there is no way to truly undo it. (It also means things like auto-redeye reduction are permanent, and can't be undone, tweaked, etc.)
So.... thoughts?
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- Post processing done even on "raw" 34MP images.
- The entire screen is powered when using Peek. Despite being OLED and Nokia specifically stating otherwise.
- Can turn on (but not off) camera in the background on a call. App doesn't open but shutter does and spins up CPU.
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