Hi everyone canopy here and the pixel force camera is amazing, but you probably already knew that every year the pixel is the benchmark for the best phone camera, and this year it does have some competition, but with the magic of Google, softer processing and camera hardware, the pixel is still a top contender. So cameras up front is an 8 megapixel, selfie camera. It takes the best selfies and any device easily, with HDR amazing portrait mode, edge, detection and night mode selfies. This phone kills it. It would have been awesome to have the pixels threes wide-angle selfie camera as well, but I am very impressed here. But if selfies really aren't your thing, let's talk about those rear cameras.
This year we have two main cameras up from one camera in previous years, a main 12 megapixel camera and a secondary 16 megapixel 2 x, telephoto camera. The zoom lens does perform better than the digital zoom on past pixel devices for sure and is much sharper. But if I'm being completely honest, they don't really use it too often, because there's really now dedicated to time zoom button, you have to tap to zoom or pinch to zoom, then the camera switches over automatically. It would have been great to have three cameras or a standard and wide combo, but instead of complaining about what is in here. Let's talk about what is here, because this is one of the best phone cameras ever created well makes the pixels photos so great.
Every year is Google software optimizations many of those stemming from HDR, plus the pixel intelligently blends. Multiple underexposed burst shots of the exact same scene and pieces them all together within milliseconds. The pixel has always been good at HDR, and this year is no exception. Now these photo samples are all shot in mostly ideal outdoor situations, so they're all pretty much. Going to look great.
So in these photos there are a few common trends. One of the things we see here are very lifelike colors, but overall kind of cooler tone for photos and, as we just talked about that, HDR plus is here in full swing. Giving you very balanced, beautiful, looking photos, there's still plenty of detail in the shadows with minimal noise, and the highlights are also very well-preserved, with plenty of detail as well, such as in the sky. One of the issues with photos, though, is the pixels new learning-based white balance. This.
What the shot looks like before the auto white balance kicked in, and this is what the pixels thought it should look like, and I couldn't get away from this white balance mode unless I panned away very, very fast in the subject, then quickly brought it back and took the picture mostly, it works well for shots, but during certain situations it just completely destroys the photo with over saturated, warmness and so much unnatural warmness to photos too and there's no way of turning it off. You can, of course, edit this in post and get rid of some of that extra warmness and saturation, but sometimes it's just so wildly off that it ruins the moment the memory and the shot overall, the port Ramon on this phone for objects and people are by far the best and most natural. Looking on any device. I've used this year, not only does the pixel nail it for subjects in complex situations. It also is a great job of the fine details like glasses and edges and objects.
One of the strengths of the pixel is adding natural blur to more distant subjects like in these photos. For example, there are some imperfections up close, but the final results are just so good that I can forgive this kind of weird non blurred edges. The other big part of the pixels' camera experience is how well it performs and nights. We have the usual night sight mode that brings night photos to life unless you basically see in the dark with shots. I have completely switched over to only shooting night sight photos in low light, because the regular camera and low-light doesn't really do that.
Good of a job results are very impressive, with amazing clarity and sharpness and doesn't just make nighttime photos look like daytime photos. They often look natural for night shots and in dark parties. Restaurants, clubs, concerts or camping outdoors. This feature will come in handy for sure. There's also that brand-new macrophotography mode that Google just can't stop talking about so about the other night.
With my boy, Patrick Tomato, we got some shots with the phone when the Sun went down. Basically, when you have the phone in the tripod, and it gets dark enough, the macrophotography mode activates and the phone takes a long exposure shot for a few minutes. We heat up to five minutes on one occasion with the phone, and this is that result now. It isn't always guaranteed that this mode will activate, there's no manual control for this mode. It needs to be dark enough, and the tripod has to be perfectly stable, but when it works, it's pretty much worth it most of the time now these photos were all shot in Toronto, a city with millions of people a lot of light and as a result, it was hard to get meaningful, macrophotography shots.
That could really demonstrate the feature, but there were a few solid examples where you can see the stars and accident looking light trails, but in most situations with this phone, your police, better off using nitrite to get those nighttime shots. The final differences between macrophotography and night sight are not really that drastic. You can see a bit better sharpness and less noise, as well as the stars, a bit clearer in the Castro photo mode, but nitrite does a pretty great job as well, so the phone leads and photos and absolutely kills in most situations. Video is just okay, the phone shoots in 4k video up to 30 frames per second, and mostly here. The results are just all right.
Sure stabilization is excellent. It's sharp, but the colors don't look as lifelike as they should. Dynamic ranges really isn't top-notch for a lot of situations. The overall video quality doesn't look terrible or anything, but it isn't really a solid and defined as photos are, and the lack of 4k 60 is definitely a minor weakness. So overall I'm impressed with the pixel forest camera experience.
Selfies are amazing. Photos are amazing. Videos are alright. The lack of a wide-angle camera and 4k 60 video does hurt when you consider most other phones, even those that are cheaper or in the same price range do have these features. Telephoto is definitely great, but having a wide-angle camera for photos and videos would have been a fantastic or having all three would have been excellent and also the pixel no longer has free Google photos full resolution storage like previous years, so your storage will fill up like basically, every other phone, or I'll have to use Google photos, reduced quality mode for cloud storage.
This also, of course, no micro, SD card storage, either for external storage of your photos, but because of the overall quality here with photos on this device. I can forgive some weaknesses and negatives with this phone's camera experience and if you do buy this phone you're going to absolutely love the camera on this device. Now, my pixel is not actually that new orange color I got the white one, but if you want to make your pixel or any smartphone orange like this, our channel sponsor D brand has you covered. They also, of course, have many other great skins, different materials and colors as well, and link in the description to check them out for yourself also comment down below your thoughts on the photo quality from this phone. What do you think? Let me know, and thank you for watching.
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