[Q] Camera quality on non-stock topic

Hi guys

I have a OnePlus inbound and asked myself this: Users of about every single device from every single manufacturer have to make due with a worsened camera quality experience when moving away from stock ROMs to AOSP-based or vanilla Android builds. This is usually due to closed-source implementation of proprietary camera features which can only be enabled or accessed when using the stock camera app on a stock ROM etc and holds true for Sony, Samsung, LG and probably many more. Even Nexus-devices under certain circumstances. Usually caused by post-processing and image enhancement mechanisms to go haywire and (native/hardware) HDR being absent, resulting in much worsened image quality when taking pictures.

Is the OnePlus One also affected? When moving away from CM11S to AOSP, CM11, CM12 or ParanoidAndroid, will the camera experience be worse or are the OnePlus camera features documented well enough, so that custom ROMs can maintain the stock camera quality?

Thanks for answers.

[Q] Booting to Non-Stock Recovery Without Flashing It topic

Hey All,

I only recently picked up an XT-1060 (2013 Moto X, Dev Ed) that I plan to set up on my Verizon account. I have some experience with both the Nexus 7 (2012) and HTC's Android variants, and, for those platforms, there are technical advantages to booting to a non-stock recovery image directly from fastboot *without flashing that recovery image to the device*. I did a search of all the Moto X forums for such an alternative, and a cursory look didn't give me anything that jumped off the page regarding whether or not this was even possible.

Which brings me to my question: Assuming that I've already taken care of unlocking the bootloader, can I boot to a non-stock recovery on my new unlocked Moto X without flashing that recovery?

Many thanks!

cheers,
john