iPhone 17 Pro vs Pixel 10 Pro Camera Comparison: Which Takes Better Photos?

[neutrino17]

I’m not a pro so the images look quite close for me. I’m just happy that my new iPhone 17 Pro Max takes really nice photos for sharing with family and friends and for documenting things. A lot of my photos are of the house, garden, family etc. that I will share with family and friends. I almost never print an image. As with others, I’m sure, a lot of times I just photograph a package or letter that has arrived to tell the person it has arrived. I also photograph items I’ve purchased, along with serial numbers, just for documentation.

For more serious work I still go with my Canon 80D. For one, I have over the years acquired a really nice set of lenses. Second, I find that when using the images anywhere but on my iPhone the Canon photos are more versatile. They stand up better to cropping and reprocessing. I’m not sure why that is. Maybe with more training I could do better.

I’m not an artist. I sometimes use photos more for industrial or scientific publishing. A lot of my applications are macro photos or other small objects.

 

[Saturn1217]

I really miss the Pixel camera. If I could have the Pixel camera on an iPhone that would probably be my favorite phone.

 

[Seoras]

Camera is no use if you can't open the phone.
I've got a Pixel 6 Pro with under the display finger ID and it is abysmal. (I'm an app developer, otherwise I'd never have bought it)
Have they finally got it working?
Still no face id? (face unlock isn't the same - quoting google searches own AI "but it is not the same as Apple's Face ID and is generally considered less secure, relying on the camera in good light rather than dedicated infrared hardware.")
I suspect that might be why Apple avoided under the screen finger id.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

At this rate, mainstream devices with bad cameras are more interesting.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Awkward video. Article states it's a comparison of camera's, yet the video starts with a comparison of the phones. Then there's an ad. Well, full stop; didn't bother with the rest of the video, as people get paid after 3 min 0 sec.

Yeah, the article's focus is on comparing the cameras, but it's using a general iPhone vs Pixel comparison video, only part of which focuses on a camera comparison, which is somewhat confusing.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

Whichever works for you. They both take really good pics, but a pro would use an actual camera.

The constant commentary that "a pro would use an actual camera" is just wrong. Perhaps instilled by the misconception that all of us taking pix professionally are like 20th century photogs spending 100% of a working week taking photos with expensive heavy photo eqpt. that we carried around 24/7/365. That image is flawed.

Back when I usually did have a $5k Nikon close at hand, the image capture was only 20% of a work week. And even in the film days different image usages involved different camera systems. And as digital imagery has evolved to be our primary viewing media the demands on camera system captures has further evolved. Today the iPhone Pro camera systems are adequate for quite a lot of professional image captures; anyone who doubts that can simply look at the "shot on iPhone" marketing by Apple.

Do not take my word for it. Those "shot on iPhone" captures prove beyond doubt what the iPhone Pro cameras are capable of. All those folks who diss on iPhone cameras need to instead look hard at their own technique.

 

[danny842003]

Flagship cameras are already better than most users talent to sue them.
What I have noticed is the selfie cam on my 19 is a game changer and a huge step for the normal user.

 

[uacd]

As in every other review, Pixel won. Literally destroyed the iPhone.

Images are simply sharper, and I mean lens is sharper. Post processing is about the same on both phones, which I am not a big fan of, but visible sharpness increase can be seen on Pixel.

Despite being completely spyware phone that will analyze every bit of data it gets from you to serve ads, in terms of camera it is amazing. Galaxy S25 Ultra is kind of in the same spot, especially considering 200MP main sensor (iPhones will get one only in 2028🤣🤦‍♂️).

With that said, I will probably not buy Google Pixel, or anything else. However camera is really good, to the point I might think about giving all my digital life to Google (I don’t have one anyway🤣). I need good, SHARP images, not blurry mess that many 17 Pros produce. Maybe after few generations of this “blurgate” Apple realizes they are losing devoted customers because of their own stupidity

 

[uacd]

There is no slick Halide equivalent for Android, so you’re beholden to the OEM camera app which in the case of Google could easily get borked and/or removed by a software update. This is the same Google that removed their remarkable 3x3 panorama stitch mode. All the manual apps I tried for Android worked well enough but they weren’t particularly well designed.

Try Open Camera. Free and open source. Use Camera API 2, disable noise reduction and edge detection sharpening= better than RAW files, however it will probably be stuck at 12MP, had not tested it with many high megapixel Android phones yet