The new Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone is here, and the company continues to place some pretty neat photography innovations in their devices. This excellent video review takes a look at the new phone, particularly its photo features, and shows the sort of performance and image quality you can expect from it in usage.
Coming to you from Julia Trotti, this great video review takes a look at the photography features of the Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone. While the Pixel series already had some innovative photo and video features, I find two of the newer introductions quite interesting, at least if they work well in practice. Best Take, which is meant for group photos, takes a burst of photos to increase the chances of capturing a shot where each person's eyes are open and they are smiling. You can then automatically create a blended image that features everyone's best expressions. Meanwhile, Audio Magic Eraser leverages machine learning models to identify distracting sounds in video, like the blowing wind or people talking in the background, and allows you to then remove them for cleaner and less distracting sound. They are some pretty neat features that should please both casual and power users. Check out the video above for Trotti's full thoughts!
Even though I'm extremely interested in the audio magic eraser, after having a 4K screen on my last three phones the new magic eraser feature isn't enough for me to give up my 4K screen. I'm a little curious about the group photo blending but same thing.. it's not enough for me to even consider switching to a pixel at this point. I wish the pixel pro would just be a pro model already and come with a 4K screen but Google's not alone, Sony as far as I know is currently the only 4K screen phone manufacturer.
You would need a huge screen to even notice a difference between 1080p and 4k. On a display as small as 6 inches you'd never even notice the difference. It's impossible.
No you need good eyes and good content to tell the difference..
You sound like some of the people that have argued with me in the past that's you can't tell the difference between 60 Hertz and 120 hz... let alone 144 Hertz. Many of them have changed their opinion later. Some people really can't tell the difference though. That's fine. We are definitely not all created equally for better or for worse.
I've shown people the exact same content on their phone versus my phone many times and it's extremely evident which one is 4K and which one is 1080.
If nothing else, I humbly suggest you change your opinion from impossible to possible. Nothing is impossible, some things are just highly unlikely. In this case it's possible that you and others can't tell the difference. However, please don't make those of us that can suffer with s***** screens just because you can't tell the difference.
I also just want to mention the editing portion of having a 4K screen versus a 1080 screen.
Tried it with GoPro footage. Did the exact same edit on both a Sony Xperia 1ii vs a Samsung s24 ultra. I thought it would be a closer call but the Sony phone finished processing the edit a little over half as quickly as the Samsung.
In other words a system or phone that set up with a 4K display is also more likely to be able to smoothly or more smoothly or more quickly and it and render 4K content. If that's something that doesn't matter to you or someone else, that's fine. Also, if it does matter that's fine as well..
Sometimes I wish you guys would just post the text in written form in this location with a link to the video. I don't mind watching the videos when I have time to do that but being able to read the article over a period of time while I'm doing other stuff is very helpful.
I have a pixel 8 pro, am trying to learn the camera, but weird things happen. Sometimes it "just takes a photo" sometimes it seems to spend a couple seconds capturing many images to stitch, and it seems to have something to do with whether or not it is in "pro" mode.
I also did some comparisons between the JPEGs and the raw files, and the raw files seemed to have a lot of motion blur in some areas.
Is there a simple written manual describing what each of the functions do, and what the side effects are?