Nat and Lo is a YouTube Channel that started out as a '20% project' within Google and has an objective to 'demystify the technology in our everyday lives.' Now the makers of the channel have published a video that was almost entirely shot with Google's recently announced Pixel high-end smartphone.
The Pixel comes with a A 6-element lens with F2.0 aperture, a 1/2.3" 12.3MP sensor with 1.55µm sized pixels, on-sensor phase detection with laser-assist and a gyroscope-based electronic video-stabilization system. The demo video shows off all of those capabilities and features, mixing 4K output of the front camera with 1080p Full HD footage from the front camera and some slow-motion sequences. A comparison shot shows the efficiency of the new video stabilization system and viewers can enjoy some nice still images and panorama shots of New York City.
The video doesn't really show anything that we would not have seen before on various other mobile devices but gives a good overview of the Pixel's imaging capabilities. To judge for yourself watch the video at the top of this page and don't forget to flick on the 4K switch on YouTube.
So you have a great camera, on iPhone now every app will have support for RAW image editing. What about Pixel? How many apps support DNG input? So yes you have 4K video, but can you edit it? Again on iPhone Apple gives iMovie. On iPhone even Google Photos allows you to create and edit videos, not so on Android. Premium phone? So essentially you getting a cheap phone with 2-3 years of Google Drive subscription to store your videos/photos without quality loss. Then hopefully to another Pixel that will pay for storage for another couple of years. So if you compare Pixel with Axon 7 or LePro 3 and OP3 all 400$ phones and add $100 per year for 1tb Google Drive subscription you end-up in the Google Pixel price category. If you look at Pixel from this point of view its price is not so bad.
Nice image quality. 1/2.3 and moderate 12MP resolution has good results. I wouldn't mind a hump on that smartphone in exchange for OIS.
The price is iPhone territory though. For the same money, I might choose the iPhone despite I'm locked into Google's ecosystem and never bought anything Apple.
Had to stop after less than a min. Most annoying to see NY mothers act like their pre school play dates. Google, this is a fail. I like the comment below in giving it to real kids and not 40 year olds forcebly acting like one. Things to keep in mind, Sony makes the camera for the latest iPhone. HTC makes the Pixel phone, but not sure who makes the camera for it. The video stabilizer seems to work well though.
I have had the courage and I watched the entire video, more than 2 minutes long, but I had the same feeling of discomfort, one of two women in particular with all the continuous hyper-ultra childish expressions, rather pathetic.
What kind of narrow-minded ageism B.S. is that? People can act however they want, as long as they aren't hurting anyone. They're probably much happier than you are. My wife and I are in our 40's and we act like children all the time, because it keeps us young at heart.
I know cameras that are WAY better than this Pixel phone. The quality of this footage is unusable in any given situation. I prefer to use my CAMERA for taking pictures, my CALENDAR to remember important dates and my CALCULATOR to do my math. Who needs a GPS when MAPS has worked perfectly fine the last 1000 years or so??
For your information the calculator is mechanical and not one of those digital ones. Heavy but WAY more reliable.
Was great to watch this 4k video and appreciate the high quality and convenience such a slim portable device can give. The comment "The quality of this footage is unusable in any given situation." is just beyond belief.
The other comments remind me of the caveman who said to his son "Fire, we never had fire when I was a kid..."
Daniel... I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! I imagine you were sitting at a desk and someone handing you a typewritten document of this webpage and you using a typewriter to bang out a comment to give to someone like the old telegraph days to post the comment for you! So what do you use that is better than the Pixel phone? 8mm or one of them video cameras that uses the full-size VHS tapes?
Reading all the snarky comments below was quite amusing. If the dinosaurs had internet and could type, they probably would had been making similarly snarky comments, as the asteroid that cause their extinction was careening toward the Yucatan. Please keep the entertainment coming!
Pretty good; except where the fauxkeh effect obliterated the dinosaur on her shoulder. Dinolegs, sharp; dinotorso, gone.
So, cameraphone makers, who's up for the f/0.5 challenge; so we can have some real wideangle bokeh? ;) Actually it would make cameraphones a lot more useful in low light too. Win win - well except for the giant and expensive handset ;)
Except even f/0.5 would only be f/3.0 or so on 35mm aperture-size wise. I don't think you can get very good bokeh with wide angle at that aperture. I mean without really close minimum focusing distance.
I've never heard of them and, frankly, the curmudgeon in me thinks they are a bit too perky, and a bit too old to be perky. I don't do perky with any sort of joy as it is.
That being said, the phone looks pretty interesting. I like QuarterToDoom's suggestion of giving it to a bunch of HS kids. I like new applications, but as an old guy, I don't always think up new ones. I can however adopt/adapt like all hell.
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