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Who owns a Pixel 6 pro, how's the camera?

Started Dec 6, 2021 | Discussions thread
Wayne Larmon Forum Pro • Posts: 10,694
Re: Who owns a Pixel 6 pro, how's the camera?
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mfinley wrote:

Who owns a Pixel 6 pro, how's the camera?

I got one. I posted a bunch of test images from it in this thread. (Look at the images with "Info" enabled--I put explanations in the "Description" field for most of the images.) There are also some comparison shots with my Pixel 2. And with my Canon EOS M50.)

The camera is OK. The 4x tele works very well. The .7x ultra-wide is OK, but mildly disappointing because .7x isn't very ultra-wide (other flagship phones are .5x.) 2x interpolated zoom is disappointing. "Computational Photography" doesn't seem to apply for 2x--it looks like simple interpolation. 1X works very well.

There is a consensus that Google didn't really optimize the software for the new (for Pixel) hardware and could do better. I don't care because it has been working for me. My keeper rate is pretty good and it is impressing me based on its cumulative performance--its computational photography chops keep on ticking. I don't get show stopping images like others are posting with other phones on the DPReview Mobile forum, but it serves my needs out of the box. (The show stopping images usually involve modding the phone. With phones that aren't generally available in the U.S.))

Wayne

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