I noticed that the image quality seems to go down a bit as well but that could just be differences between my phone's screen and my computer's screen, since I typically only take pictures on my phone or my quadcopter (and I can't technically post the latter here until I pay $10 for a license to post images for commercial use).
I grew up in San Diego but I now go to college on the central coast, a couple hours south of San Jose. Unfortunately I haven't actually been to very much of northern California (I think I've been to SF once, just passing through) due to its huge distance even from where I am now, but I hope to change that sometime.