Pixel 3 versus Pixel 2: camera comparison By Phandroid

Hey, what's going on guys, I'm, Nick gray and today, I am doing a smartphone camera shootout, as you can see in the bottom left hand, corner I'm, recording this with the new pixel 3, and we're going to be comparing it to last year's pixel 2, but before we get into some side-by-side comparisons of the photos and the videos from the front and rear facing cameras from both of these devices. Let's take a look at some specs and see how these two devices are actually pretty similar, actually more similar than you actually might think. We're going to start things off with the pixel 2 and the specs of its cameras on the back. You have a 12 point. Two megapixel sensor, that's paired with an F 1.8 lens has dual pixel and laser autofocus a dual LED flash, electronic and optical image stabilization as well as far as video recording goes. It can record 4k video at 30 frames per second and, of course, this fly seems to love the back of the camera, and if you bump things down to 1080p, you can get 120 frames per second and a full 240 frames per second at 720p as well.

On the front, you have an 8 megapixel camera, that's paired with an F 2.4 lens, there's no image stabilization for the front-facing camera, but it can record 1080p video at up to 30 frames per second switching over to the pixel 3. You actually get a pretty similar setup to last year's pixel ? when you look at the main camera on the back of the phone you're looking at the same 12.2 megapixel sensor, and the only thing that's really changed is the lens which is 28 millimeters, now versus 27 millimeters of last year's model on the front of the phone, though things are a little different. You now have two 8 megapixel sensors up front, the main one featuring a 28, millimeter F 1 point 8 autofocus lenses similar to what you get on Samsung's devices and the secondary one with the 8 megapixel sensor is an F 2.2 19 millimeter for an ultra wide-angle shot, and I'm going to show you now what that will actually do. If you want to capture the best image possible with facing camera of the pixel three, you want to make sure you're, relying on that main sensor with the F 1.8 lens, since it allows in more light into the shot and having autofocus, is really great as well, since it allows you to focus on different subjects in the picture. If you want to focus more on the background or the foreground, things like that, but if you just want to fit more people into your shot, if you have a couple friends that you're trying to take a selfie with or if you want the background in the image as well just zoom out on the screen, and then you get that nineteen millimeter lens that's pulling in all of your surroundings, I love the fact that you can switch between the two on the fly without having to stop recording making it perfect for vlogging.

If you want to use the pixel 3 as that device as well. Ok, so now that we have the specifications of these two smartphones squared away, let's take a look at some side-by-side photo comparisons and video comparisons to see how these two devices actually compare in the real world. I think we're going to get attacked here, stay away today, we're exploring Joshua, Tree, National, Park and doing a little of rock climbing here. The path is down there, that's a little too boring going. You can make it up there.

This is hard to do with one hand. So now that we've taken a look at the images and videos from both of these devices, I'm sure you will agree with me that the image quality and the video quality between these two is negligible. At best, the only real difference that you're, probably able to notice is the white balance between the two, the pixel threes white balance is a little cooler and the pixel twos is a little warmer. Giving you slightly different tones, especially when you're taking pictures at nighttime or during a sunset I wasn't expecting to see that. But if you look back at some of those images, you can see a dramatic difference there.

But again, that's really only a difference in white balance that overall color and clarity of the images are pretty much the same, and you'll also notice that the video quality between the two is incredible, but, as we've seen time and time again, the audio quality that you get from these two devices is not good at all. What's really happening here is that Google is using aggressive noise cancellation with the multiple microphones on these two cameras, so that the wind is muffled out a little, and you're not picking up a lot of the noise. You can probably barely hear it here, but there are a lot of cars and trucks passing behind me, but the phones are actually doing a perfect job of cancelling out that noise, so that you can hear me rather than the surroundings. Now, if I had to choose between these two devices, purely based off of their cameras, my vote would go with the pixel three, and it's not because of the rear camera can take better pictures than the pixel two. Can it's because of the front-facing wide-angle lens, as you can see here, I can fit more into the shot, and this is really perfect for me, especially when I'm trying to take pictures with family and friends or just get the perfect background into my selfie, and that was actually the toss-up item when I compared the pixel three with last not last year's this year's LG G7, since that phone has a wide-angle lens on the back of the phone.

Having that secondary sensor with an ultra-wide view, is really, really important, and I hope more smartphone manufacturers continue to include it in their devices. That's going to do it for this review of the comparison between the pixel three and the pixel twos camera performances. Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments below I, always love hearing what you guys have to say. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to the channel as well.

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