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

Started Dec 6, 2021 | Discussions thread
ken_in_nh Senior Member • Posts: 2,399
Re: Who owns a Pixel 6 pro, how's the camera?

Jefftan wrote:

ken_in_nh wrote:

I went from a 3 to a 6 pro, but because I needed to - my 3's case is coming apart.

Frankly, I don't see a huge step up, but that's largely because the 3 did a great job.

One thing I've found is that RAW is useless. I've been shooting raw for a long time on my 3, and now my 6, but at least in LR, it's impossible to get the raw shots even as good as the jpg. And at least under windows, the raw pics seem to be lower resolution to boot.

Strange.

that is bad news to me. I plan to get pixel 6 and use RAW to avoid oversharpening and get natual color

How could that be so? That is not what Google said about pixel RAW file

The raw resolution issue is curious.  If, under Win 10, I check the picture file properties, it shows dimensions of roughly 640x480, but the same picture in LR shows full sensor (12mp) dimensions.  The jpg images are so good, though, that I'm doubting the need to mess with raw.  I don't, for example, see the over-sharpening that I did with my Pixel 3.

There are several review sites that have posted sample pictures, some full sized.  you might look at some of those before finalizing your decision.

My next experimenting is to look more closely at zoom.  Since the pictures we take are binned from a much higher resolution photo, I wonder if zoomed photos are just crops of the next size, or based on full sensor use?  I'll know soon...

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