Google Pixel Camera: here are all the new features introduced with Pixel 3 and 3 XL
The new Pixel 3 and 3 XL are finally official. Google has recently presented them, even though little information on them was missing. Let’s see what features they have together.
The new Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL were unveiled yesterday evening and created disagreements or even positive comments based on personal taste in design. Two top-of-the-range products that will arrive in Italy from the 2nd of November and that reflect what was good from Google with the previous generation of Pixel 2 XL.
In this case the novelties, if they are not really stylistic since they see a major change in the introduction of a chat notch front, concern the hardware and in this case the camera. Here Google keeps distant from the opponents and proposes a third-generation Pixel on the market with only one camera at the rear but able to exalt, at least on paper, compared to devices with triple camera.
Just the photographic side of the new Pixel 3 and 3 XL, which we remember to have no differences in hardware if not for the size of the body, introduce important innovations in the features of the shots. The Mountain View company seems to have worked hard under this point of view with the introduction of machine learning through the enhanced Visual Core. What then the news of the Pixel camera? Let’s see them together.
Super Res Zoom
The dual camera on many top of the range has a sensor that often acts as a telephoto lens. This guarantees users to make shots even at important distances. In this case, the Pixels have never owned a second sensor, and this has not allowed to obtain, on the zoom side, important magnifications. With the new Pixel 3 and 3 XL, Google, has decided to offer the new Super Res Zoom feature that will not lose detail in ” zoom ” with the smartphone even in the absence of a real telephoto lens.
The operation involves a series of series shots able to collect as much information as possible on the subject or on the scene. These will then be put together by the algorithm designed specifically by Google to create the final shot that will allow you to have details and few losses in quality even with digital zoom.
Top Shot
Interesting new feature that Google has decided to implement in Pixel 3 and 3 XL. Let’s talk about the Top Shot, that is the ability of the smartphone, or better to say, the Artificial Intelligence of the device, to create a series of burst shots made a few moments before and a few moments after the actual shot, proposing them to users also signaling the best ones and ” recommended “.
A really interesting news because in this case, you can really have the perfect shot and you can finally forget those photos with a closed eye, open mouth or any other defect: with Pixel 3 and 3 XL, the shot will be perfect, or at least that’s what Google says.
Night Sight
Another important feature that the single 12MPx cam of Pixel 3 and 3 XL offers is the Night Sight, a mode that tries to improve in an incredible way the shots with low brightness and in situations never perfect light. In this case, what Google offers with this new function is the processing through the Visual Core and the machine learning of a series of burst shots, clearly nocturnal or in low light, capable of becoming ” magically ” luminous.
A novelty that, as seen in the presentation stage yesterday, seems to really bring some impressive changes to the darker shots. Moreover, the novelty of Night Sight will also come on the other second-generation Pixels thus allowing other users to be able to enhance the shots at night or in low light.
Group Selfie
At the front of the Pixel 3 and 3 XL there are not one but two photo sensors. Unlike last year, this choice to propose a dualism on the front that will guarantee users much more ” large ” selfies. Yes, because the new Pixels according to the paper can make group self-portraits thanks to the two cams, even managing to increase the field width by 184% compared to an iPhone XS.
All this can be modulated ie users will be able to change the width of the double cam and thus make more or less wide selfies based on the situations of the scene or maybe even the number of people to represent in the shot.
Photo Boot and Portrait Mode
The Portrait mode is now a feature that we can practically find in every smartphone of last generation. Clearly, it is also present in these new Pixel 3 and 3 XL even if Google has decided to propose it with new features such as the ability to change the subject if there are a certain number of people in the scene, then adjust the depth of field to allow a blur more or less intense and finally a color filter that will make the shot with the portrait mode certainly more impact.
Photo Boot instead is a small feature that the Mountain View company has decided to implement in the Pixel 3 and 3 XL cam thanks to which it will be possible to make a self-timer with the front cams in a completely automatic way without having to physically plug on the smartphone. Yes, because the Artificial Intelligence created by Google will allow you to understand when the subject is smiling or maybe when he is making a strange face and instantly start shooting.
Motion Focus
A feature also for video on Pixel 3 and 3 XL. Let’s talk about the Motion Focus that is the possibility for the user to have in his s martphone a system of continuous autofocus and with tracking. In a nutshell, it means that with the new Google Pixel users can start a video recording, focus on the subject, and this will do nothing but keep the fire on that person even in motion.
