Re: Camera
As I further look at pictures, I wonder if postprocessing is the culprit. Output looks dull and less saturated with prominent noise (better said artefacts I think), as if a little over sharpened.

It feels like the picture seems to be processed a shade better with camera utilities in some android applications. But the dynamic range looks to be the same as stock camera output, so probably a sensor limitation there.

Looking at the sensor datasheet (OV8858), output is indicated as 10bit RAW. May be, just may be, if the raw output can be directly saved and post processed, compressed image output (like jpeg) might look better. Wonder if there is any possibility to shoot raw!