Google Pixel 3 XL Camera Review: Is It The Really The Best Phone Camera? (Night Sight Is Amazing) By Eric Rossi

I'm, an apple guy I've got the newest iPhone. The SS Macs and I've been interested to see how the image quality has developed over time with Apple I came from the seven-plus this year to the new XS and I really love the camera that was on the 7 plus and I. Think Apple does a very good job with the photography camera genre you're here to watch this video I'm, not here, to give you an entirely full review about a phone I'm here to talk about the image quality, because that's what I do and that's one of the biggest things that I like to cover image quality camera, because the pixel has been known in pixel excel to have one of the best cameras in a smartphone hear my thoughts so at the release of the Google Pixel 3 in the three XL Google actually was kind enough to send one over to reveal as part of like this team pixel campaign. They did not pay me or sponsor anything anyway. They literally just sent overloaded a package with the phone I showed that, obviously in a video just the other week. So if you want to go look at kind of my first impressions with the phone definitely go.

Look at that I even touched an Android or any kind of phone. Besides an iPhone in many years, so I was very interested to see how this experience was going to be, and one of the big things I liked about the phone is that it was definitely very light as well, and it had a couple interesting features very easy, I think to adapt if you're coming from iPhone to Android I'm, not switching though so. Let's bring that out. There hit a lot of money for iPhone and I, really like the ecosystem and everything. That's God and I.

Think the Google Pixel is a phenomenal choice. If you want to look into something, and I'm, not just saying that, because I have the phone, the image quality of the camera is amazing for what it is, and I can easily see why it's touted as one of the best, the newer camera and the XS Max and the access and the VR to me has been kind of a downgrade. And it does this weird thing: when you're taking peep, you know pictures of people the skin tones it kind of soft and muddy, even if you are not using the smart HDR- and it applies this weird like beauty smooth, look to it, and it just seems to kind of miss a little in my opinion and seems to have gone down a little worse, but it still does what it does. It's a camera. You need on the go, and it does a good job.

It's usually pretty fast and accurate for autofocus wise. But that's why I wanted to compare to what's known as the king of smartphone photography and the 3 XL has some pretty cool stuff in here. There's night shot night mode, which I'll tell you about in a little. It has some of these modes and everything that I usually don't care about, but it has like this top shot thing which recommends it'll, take like it'll kind of stack images when you take them, and it'll recommend what it thinks is the best one for you. So if you are a little lazy, you don't mind going like you, don't have time to go through your stuff.

You can kind of see the highlights of whatever you took in and go from there, but it does actually do a good job, especially you're, taking photos with the people or selfies or anything like that of taking out the ones that, like you're, blinking or doesn't maybe look like you're smiling. It does a decent job at analyzing that the other thing I wish wasn't on the front of the phone, but on the back, because you see there's only one lens on the back, and it's just a typical POV one. Is this wide-angle one where you are? Actually it does become a little fish, ii she is, but it becomes super wide when you switch to it in that way, you can get more with your selfies etc, and everything like that, but I think that that would be very beneficial if it was on the back of your camera with a better megapixel sensor behind it. So you can get full use of that. So Google do that in the future.

Put that on the back, because I think it's a great feature, but if you really want to try and get wide photos with it, just use it from the front and I guess where your composition is- and this is its own form of like smart HDR as well, and it does a good job at compensating and kind of faking dynamic range to a bit really kind of bouncing out between your highlights and shadows and everything and really giving it a good in-between, so I see why it really does a decent job at that. The other thing for I want to forget. As I know, people asked about the battery life and my other video about this. The battery is one of the best I've ever seen as well in a smartphone, it literally lasts all day and then some obviously, if you're, really down using this like when I was in New York City at photo plus I took this around and everything ? I was able to use this the entire day and still have like 40% as I got home, so I could've even probably used another day out of it and would have pretty much. You know got through that.

So have these memorized, but here are the quick stats on what's what these are the back camera here, your rear one is 12, 42, megapixels, autofocus and kind of dual pixel. You know, detection autofocus, it does do have a little of image state, and it can go as far down as f 1.8 and that's key because of and the front camera can as well the portrait mode like you've, probably heard in the Apple phones as well. You where you could kind of change your background, your depth of field. Furthermore, you know your out-of-focus areas, the bouquet, and you could change it after post, so what it kind of does. Is it is stacks from like f-18 to F, whatever it goes up to, and you can slide in between both and kind of pick the proper blur you want, and you can kind of go from there.

You are also getting 4k video, but only 30 frames a second out of this, whereas the iPhone your up to 60 frames. So it would be great to see that up there, but even at 30, that's still great for what a lot of people do not a lot of people need that 60. But if you wanted that option, it's not here, unfortunately, but you do get up to 120 frames per second in full HD 1080p, so you could compensate there and the thing I really wish it would provide it, and a lot of phones aren't putting these in here, especially like your Samsung Google Apple, and if I'm wrong about Samsung, please let me know down below it does not natively. Let you either a shoot. Raw or B.

Give you manual options. You always need something external Apple doesn't I have to get an external app for that which it's like camera photo plus or something like that. But there is one here and me tell you right here is I, think it's $2.99, and it's called manual camera, and within that I mean you get a lot of options you can. Basically, you could shoot JPEG and RAW. You have full range to change your focus, your full range to expose your compensation, shutter, speed, ISO and everything to really let you take control and dial in what you want to do with your camera.

So I always recommend that, but these camera companies, you guys, have to start giving native manual options as we're buying and paying a kind of money for these phones. So just do it and the accessibility easily reach the cameras very easy. Once again, if you haven't known there's a finger ID on the back of this, a little touch thing. So if you tap it twice, it actually brings up your camera right away. It's so very easy to do.

Just like, if you're on your know, apples, you kind of swipe up and swipe, and then it'll bring up your camera fast and easy as well, but I really like this little thing back here, it's in a very good ergonomic spot as well, but if you ever want to know that, there's that the other weird thing in this is the Google Assistant kind of thing, which does a great job but to access it. You do this thing where you hold into the sides, and you force a lot of pressure, and then it will actually, it will actually pop up I felt that that was very, very sensitive, and I am having the hardest. One and I still find myself, squeezing it, and it'll still launch I wish. You could also change how to function that, if anything, maybe I want to squeeze it right here and then that would bring up my camera and I think that that would be a great feature if you're on the go- and you just want to your know: oh something's happening boom, you have it, and then you're all set boom. It's all I can really see why the pixel line has been touted as being one of the best out there, because it does a lot of great things and I have no complaints about it.

The other mind-blowing thing and I finally got access to it, and it's very, very simple and dumb test, but it really shows what it can do, and I'll describe a little more. So it has this nitrite mode and what it does essentially kind of think in terms of a long exposure where you need to get into the mode. You take a photo and I like to put on a timer because it needs time and in a tripod, because it, if you hand hold it is will not work properly. It needs time to collect the light, as it would say or collecting data, so it needs a very, very slow. You know exposure so that way it could capture the light at what it needs, but I mean it does an amazing job and if you're, using a lot of this stuff, just for small posting and maybe not fully print or everything like that, it's its 100%.

Mind-Blowing but I noticed that it's obviously doing what a long exposure does just a very, very long, shutter to an extent. It also looks like it's using a little of smoothing, but the noise isn't awful work. It's almost kind of not there as well I showed you what it looked like in there. You really couldn't see, and just by having my phone on a tripod hitting night shot of a three-second timer it exposed like it, was daytime in there once again pitch dark. You do that with anything else: a DSLR, no flash, even the iPhone you're, getting nothing like that.

Terra even looks semi usable, so that added a lot of people thought where it was like the kids or whatever in New York, to sit on the rock or whatever, and it was like pitch black out, and then you know took the night shot with this and everyone's like well, that's obviously got to be fake or shot with the strobe or something I can 100% believe it came something like this and that's some sort of sorcery. So it's actually amazing what this camera is in a smartphone and I know it's usually phone first and camera what's included, but 2018 almost 2019. We know it's pretty much camera first phone, second, because everything nowadays is really about the phone and posting social media and everything. That's just the reality of it. Most of the people watching this video obviously know that as well, but the image quality and the phone simply blew me away once again.

I'm not just saying that. How am I switching no I'm keeping my iPhone because I like the Apple exosphere and everything in there, but I'm, not gonna, sit here and say: let go the Google Pixel 3:02 blah I'm, not a fanboy of anything, so I just wanted to say the Google Pixel 3xl, probably the best camera out there, and I could see why a lot of people really love it because of the quality gives off and that so Apple step it up. Google good job. You know, hey I'd, only be interested to see like the Huawei flaw Lake, whatever that one is, you know with the Lacey or whatever building to it. I'd always love to see that stuff as well to really test it and get my honest thoughts, but the Google Pixel 3xl, definitely pretty darn elite for what it is.

Let me know your thoughts if you're a Google, pixel user. Let me know your thoughts down below you notice the same thing and try to be as unbiased as you can. Have you seen a lot of comparisons between like the iPhone and the pixel, and really have noticed a big difference, so even iPhone people I'm acknowledge that the pixel might be pretty darn good as well? Let me know your thoughts down in the comments below, but that's a Google, pixel, 3xl and I think I covered everything I needed to in regards so it once again I'm not covering the phone I'm, not a phone reviewer, but the tech inside the tech outside it in the camera. Wow.

Source : Eric Rossi