Google Pixel camera in 2021: How does it hold up? By Ryan-Thomas

Google's pixel line has always been focused on its camera performance, which phone do you compare flagship, smartphone cameras to, of course, the pixel of that year. I very distinctly remember the first Google Pixel ad and I also remember going to curry's to buy the smartphone in person. It's something I've never done for any smartphone before or since the pixel looked incredible, as did the photos it took. It's been four years since the original pixel came out, and I want to take a look at how the camera stacks up in 2020 completely unbiased, I'm going to be taking photos with the pixel over the next couple of weeks to capture the best photos I can on the latest software update, which I'll put here. But all you really need to know is it's based on android 10. I'm only allowed to use the built-in camera app, and I'm not allowed to edit the photos in any way.

I'm not allowed to capture and raw and do any changes there not allowed to use any like modded in APKs or anything just got to use the stock camera app because of lockdown. It wasn't really sensible for me to take someone out with me to shoot the stuff, and so what I ended up doing is this is all pre-recorded, and I've got my analysis now. Let's take a look at the photos and gosh. This is surprising. Remember when I said that the pixel is over four years old.

Well, you wouldn't guess it based on the photos coming from this thing on the latest software which, by the way, cannot go to android 11. Okay, so it might not be able to hang with the s21 ultras or the iPhone 12 Pro max's, but Google's computational photography has breathed a new life into a tiny phone camera sensor. There's plenty of dynamic range, though Google's typical color profile, essentially adds contrast back into the shot to create more exciting images. I'm not the biggest fan of lots of contrast, but I can understand that some might prefer it that way. The Google Pixel 1 does produce more blown out, highlights and crushed shadows than more modern, huge sensors with more dynamic range, but for a camera of this age, not bad at all.

Sharpness is about what you'd expect from a 12 megapixel sensor. It's not crazily overdone in software and the sensor isn't exactly the sharpest it's funny. Some arty types actually prefer softer images, so maybe those of you watching might prefer this over a modern, Huawei or Samsung setup. Pixel colors are typically more muted than those from Xiaomi and apple. That said, the pixel 1 does like to saturate more than modern pixels, which means that you can still get quite a bit of color throughout the image.

It's quite refreshing actually, because the pixel, 4 and onwards tend to go the other way, and they become quite muted in low light in almost any nighttime. There's a fair amount of blur, because the shutter needs to open longer to capture enough light, because there's no op score sensor shift stabilization on the pixel one. You aren't actually going to get more motion blur that way. Noise correction tends to smoothen out dark images which results in far less detail. Unfortunately as well.

This might be where the pixel suffers. The most, of course, the pixel 1's camera is not perfect and the video isn't exactly great. There's also not a lot of versatility, so there's no telephoto nor ultrawide cameras. However, this thing is proof that google's computational photography is just incredible: a device that is over four years old and cost a hundred pounds one bay has no business taking photos that look this good. You know what I wouldn't shy away from recommending this to someone as a basic point-and-shoot camera.

It's just that good. Do you still rock a pixel one? Are you thinking of upgrading? Have you got the XL model, or are you one of the lucky few who got the blue model, because that thing looked really cool? Let me know in the comments, along with what you think about the pixel ones, camera, and I will also leave a couple of links to some videos from Gary explains and David email android authority about how they compared the pixel 1 to the pixel, 4 and pixel 5 kinds of cameras, because it's really not that far off, like yeah, there's more dynamic range in those images, but the whole other qualities are very, very similar anyway. With that, I'm going to leave today's video guys, please do like dislike comment and subscribe if you're new around here to never miss a video like this one. Please do check out all the social media links in the video description, and I want to give a massive shout out to my patrons for being continually supportive, sorry that I'm borderline like whispering it's like 3 a. m and trying to balance not waking, everyone up and also capturing decent audio, is kind of hard to do.

Anyway. I've been Ryan, Thomas and I'll catch you later, peace.

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