Canon RF 24-105 F4 L - Picture Mode Testing

The other day I took the new camera out to try out different picture mode settings to see if any of them give good results.  The options it has are "Auto, Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Fine Detail, Neutral, Faithful, Monochrome"

Here's them all on 24mm.  Auto is probably the best, although the greenery is not very green.

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And here's them all at 105mm.  Everything is dark and dull.  Not happy. 

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Here's them compared with the iPhone

First at wide.  The phone is greener.  When compared to my old 600D I did generally prefer landscape photos off the Canon rather than the phone because sometimes the phone overdid the blues.  Here I'm almost preferring the phone.

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Then at full zoom (3x for the phone, 105mm for the Canon).  The iphone is so much BRIGHTER than the Canon.

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Here's some side-by-side of the iPhone vs the Canon using "Auto" mode, cropped to be about the same dimensions.

At wide angle things aren't too bad

iPhone

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Canon

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And here's them at zoom.

iPhone 3x - nice and bright

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Canon.  It's so DULL

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I have to say I'm pretty disappointed.  In bright sunlight these photos should POP.  But instead they're just dark and dull.

Given 105mm is hardly much more than the 3x on the phone it makes me wonder what I'm paying for.  I'm not getting the zoom like I used to have, and what I do have is no better than I could get on my G5X.  I should probably take the G5X and the 600D for the next round of testing.