My 3x telephoto is next to my V3. During the day, the colors on the 3x are muted and objects gray compared to the v3. The x3 does not clip the highlights as badly as the V3.
on a crop of similar sections of the photo, you can see the x3 has more detail, as expected. At night, the x3 has nice colors. I cropped both to the right to show date and time, then cropped the OG to show a similar area.
I have OG, OG Tel, and Panv3. The OG tel is more muted and grey than the other two. Haven’t noticed until you mentioned it. Makes sense though, it is likely the same image sensor with a telephoto lens, and telephoto lenses require more light.
There’s probably a difference at night too, just a lot less noticeable.
They’re both overexposed, that’s how these “starlight sensors” aka color night vision work. But the 3x lens on the telephoto reduces the light available to it, so it isn’t as overexposed (and also has worse color night vision performance).
It would be nice if we could adjust exposure and saturation.