iPhone 5 taking dull and hazy photo's

Hey everyone,

I have this issue where the back camera on my iPhone5 in taking very dull, hazy and heavily flared photos when in any sort of indirect light. Yet the front facing is taking clear, crisp and colourful photo's.

It is not the purple lens flare as some user's have reported, this is an issue where all photos appear very washed out.

I hav attached example's of what im taking about.

This photo was taken in the backyard with the sun on the otherside of the house and not affecting the photo at all. For some reason the back camera pretty much does this if the sun is casting any light in the background.

This example is at night time with a few kitchen lights on at the time, you can see how clean and crisp the front facing camera is...

Has anyone else seen or heard of this before?Do you think it's a hardware issue?

thanks!

-d