Google Pixel 3: Hands-on Review - Camera Phone Hands On By PhotoBite UK

Hi they'll move welcome back to throw to buy, and today we're checking out the Google Pixel three, let's get into it. So the Google Pixel three is following along from the Google picks in the Google Pixel, to which you've become quite popular and quite famous for their cameras, and what we've been doing is even going out to the pixel 3 testing it out, seeing how it performs and seeing where it stacks up against other cameras on the market and right off the bat. We were very impressed with what it could do on the front, looking at a 12, megapixel, F, 1.8 lens and then on the front here, you're looking at 2, 8, megapixel, dual cameras, one being a telephoto at 1.8 and one being a wide-angle at F 2.2. Now the reason that Google have done this is they don't just focus on photography out in the distance? They also wanted to focus on selfies and what they've done. They've made two cameras, one that's close and then one that's wise. If you have a group shot rather than trying to squeeze everyone in, you can let everyone kind of be where they want to be hit.

The button and they're all opens up. So it's a really neat feature. It's really nice to use. Also, if you're showing off yourself and you, you know, you got a nice suit on or a dress, you can just take a picture, and you can show yourself in all your glory on the back is pretty much where we've been focusing most of our attention, because what Google have done in their recent update is they put out night shot and wear that enables you to do is get low-light quality into a mobile device to get you those nice clean images that aren't too noisy but also show the image very well now. Huawei are quite famous for this they're, quite popular for it in the p20 pro, and also in now the mate 20 pro so to see the night shot come along.

It does look pretty good. We've been testing out, we've been using it and I have to say it does the job. It really does. It picks up on the slightest bit of details. There's not that much noise.

It can work off quite a lot of darkness, so you don't need much light in to seem already for it to work, but it does help the way that it works, and it works similar in the Huawei phones. Are you take a picture, and it almost has like a long exposure, so you just got to hold it there, and I'll use a bit of stabilization to remove the shake, and it will capture the highlights capture the shadows and then blend it all into one to get you the effect night shot. So when it comes to manual control, Google, don't offer a Pro Mode in the camera system straight away. You do have playing with the exposure. You can tweet with a white balance and a few other places.

But overall it's not going to be a fully manual device. I, don't think Google have designed it to be that way. I just wanted to something that's friendly, easy to share, and they want to show off their technology and what they're able to do visually, just unlocking the phone and taking a picture and showing you what you can get straight out the box, and we have to say it's done very impressive, very easy to use, but, like I said it would have been nice to go to pro feet. You have a bit more control because there are a few times when it didn't handle the highlights, quite as we wanted to and that's where a manual control would have helped. But, alas, you can't always have everything, but overall the Google Pixel does quite well.

So in terms of general photography, it does balance out really well between the shadows and the highlights. Obviously it won't give you a complete HDR picture as standard, but it does handle the clouds very one. You can tell you've got a good camera in the phone is by seeing how it handles clouds. If you get detail in the clouds, then you've got a good camera. If you find it is making a big white blob, then you know: you've got a bit of an issue because it struggles with dynamic range and right off the bat.

When you went out on our festival, shoot with it, took a picture of the clouds. The Sun was setting there's a bit of pink in there as well, and it pretty much nailed it. I mean there was a bit of highlighting, but you know it's a small sensor. It's going to do a lot of work and Google have done really well to coat this camera into being able to deliver pictures perfectly almost every time, so something that most people probably won't use. But it's nice, a Google about it.

It is you've now got Google Lens with the updates. So what you can do is you can actually point the camera towards something such as a bike, and then it will try and recognize the brand and all through the shades. It's not always accurate. It kind of does the job. That's got a few more works to go through, but it's very clever at figuring out what product you're trying to point to that and then taking you somewhere, where you can purchase it.

So it's convenient. Some people may use it. Some people may not, but it's nice that they're looking to trying new things with the camera technology. Now when it comes on to the video side of things looking at 4k on the back 30 frames, a second then on the front, looking at 1080p at 30 frames, a second as well, so it'd be nice to see 4k on the front, but we can correct kind of stand why there isn't, but it's nicer. They have included it in the package.

However, in most cases we see more people using the 1080p, because it's a lot friendlier to share on social media and 4k and phones as well as it is great. It's not always used for most cases inside you're, also looking at pure Android thanks to Google and on top of that you're looking at 64 gigabytes of memory. So you really can't complain, and if you don't want the big Google, pixel 3xl, you can get the small one, and we've had perfect fun with it. You know it's got good battery life, pretty much lost most of the day. It doesn't a bit of a charge, but with the charger provided, you will get fast charge which will charge it up in next to no time at all.

So the kind of people I see using this are people who want a pure Android experience, people who don't want to fast with promos. They just want to get good pictures pretty much out the box. This does pick up on a few scenes as well, so it will figure out what you're taking pictures of, and it will tweak the adjustments just like you would see in the p20 Pro there isn't a significant push from Google on the AI front. There isn't, and so this isn't an AI driven phone, but you can see where AI can be used and is being used in the system. So if you're, just someone who wants to go out, take good pictures and then upload the social media you're not too worried about editing them or going crazy with the photos, then the Google Pixel and the Google Pixel 3 excel are both very, very good phones to use and definitely worth a recommend in our book.

So that's our review of the Google Pixel 3. You guys have any questions, leave them down in the comments below, don't forget, subscribe and, as always my name's Luke. This is photo bye, and we'll see you next time.

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