It still works fine, you are completely overreacting calling it crap when it clearly isn't. comparisons like this are all opinion here. Pixel has a great camera. The differences aren't huge at all.
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Wow iPhone X front cam quality looks like crap
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Lol, Thats apple's style. I consider Siri to be beta up until very recently. Remember when that was a selling point? Like 6-7 yrs ago. lol
Reduced size jpegs of portrait mode (ie software manipulated) images is hardly the way to determine the quality of any camera.
Is the Pixel camera better? Perhaps. In these compromised (because they’re reduced) examples, it would appear that the Pixel indeed shows a bit more sharpness and detail in the foreground.
But the only way to make a true comparison and come to a conclusion as to which camera is better is to turn off portrait mode and show the photos full size, as they are, straight out of camera. Not reduced. Not stitched together side by side and saved as a 2nd generation lossy jpeg.
Dismissing the Pixel as inferior is as dumb as saying it’s obviously superior, given the testing methodology.
If the tester wants to compare portrait software, that’s a different story and a different comparison.
Is the Pixel camera better? Perhaps. In these compromised (because they’re reduced) examples, it would appear that the Pixel indeed shows a bit more sharpness and detail in the foreground.
But the only way to make a true comparison and come to a conclusion as to which camera is better is to turn off portrait mode and show the photos full size, as they are, straight out of camera. Not reduced. Not stitched together side by side and saved as a 2nd generation lossy jpeg.
Dismissing the Pixel as inferior is as dumb as saying it’s obviously superior, given the testing methodology.
If the tester wants to compare portrait software, that’s a different story and a different comparison.
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First shot: iPhone X has better dynamic range with sharper "78" but Marques' face isn't clear.
Second and third: X has yellowish tint.
Don't sound like a homer. The iPhone 8 Plus' front camera was pretty awful too. It lost to the 7 Plus in low light and dynamic range. Couldn't even see the blue sky in the background. Apple still doesn't offer a wider angle. I say both LG and Apple have been pretty weak with front cameras.
7 Plus won here with front camera...
You have not kept up with terminology definitions. Beta now means the first (or second, third, etc.) released version (i.e., for purchase). Release Candidate is the new beta, and that class of software used to be termed alpha.
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Guaranteed if you switch the phone label around some people would say the pixel is better. Blind tests have shown majority of people think the pixel camera was better last year. Once they run the test again the pixel 2 will probably be better again. However the differences are so small 99% of people won’t notice the difference. Personally I don’t think the iPhone has had the best camera in a number of years now but they take the best video by far.
to my eyes the X has better colour saturation, the pixel has a sharper, more detailed image.
I'm an iphone guy anyway so not bothered about android phones.
I'm an iphone guy anyway so not bothered about android phones.
Looks like so much detail is lost with the iPhone when there are dark and bright spots in the scene.
No it isn't. I have watched the video in 4K, and the iPhone X photos look significantly blurrier than the Pixel 2, especially in edge detail. Now I know this is still in beta, but still looks pretty poor.
A simple task like taking a picture and you are saying he is "holding it wrong?"
Have you ever been somewhere, with someone and wanted to take a picture of the two of you? The majority of my front camera pictures are in this situation. I want the front camera to be as good as possible.
Taking a high quality picture isn't inherently a simple task. It's the same reason my mom and a professional photographer take different quality pictures with a 7 Plus.
Some of you get butthurt so easily. its clear hear that regardless of whats in beta or not, the pixel is clearly the winner. Clearer photos, better edge detection, more detail, etc. You claim its in beta, but this is how the phone will ship and what the avg consumer will see. The pixel is already beating it by a landslide and google hasn't even released android 8.1 which is supposed to unlock even more polish and power to the pixel 2 camera systems.
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If you actually watch the video you would know the reason. He clearly stated in that portion of the video that the iphone x camera was having a hard time even detecting the surroundings and applying the blur effect which is an issue with the camera itself, not where the focus is.
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If you actually watch the video you would know the reason. He clearly stated in that portion of the video that the iphone x camera was having a hard time even detecting the surroundings and applying the blur effect which is an issue with the camera itself, not where the focus is.
MKBHD = Android fanboy
SuperSaf = Samsung fanboy
Krystal Key = reviews Android, uses iPhone
They all are usually sponsored by Dbrand.
But they are all pretty neutral when it comes to photo comparisons since it is your eyes that will be the judge. Not them.
Marques never even touched an iPhone 2G until last month's keynote when he saw iJustine. What do you expect? He started off still in high school as a YouTuber and is worth about $2M and he is only 25. Google pays him.
My unbiased prediction is this -
Note8
iPhone X
Pixel 2 XL
Last year's Pixels were vastly overrated with cameras. I still preferred LG and Samsung.
I did a blind test on GSM Arena between iPhone 8 Plus vs Note8. I already knew which one was which and originally had Note8 winning 3/4 until I rechecked a pic again and went with the 8+. So it was 2-2.
These phones cameras' quality is so incremental and so close, you can take 10 photos of the same subject and the results can end in a split decision.
From my experience -
I prefer wide-angle over Telephoto and prefer LG in low-light. But LG's dynamic range and video recording are mediocre.
Apple is best with video recording especially on the rear. Realistic colors but not great in low light, dynamic range, and the front camera needs wider angle and better audio. The 8 Plus looks off with white balance.
Samsung is the fastest with focus, best in dynamic range, excellent in recording with good audio, but will show yellowish tint and overblown photos from time to time.
Pixel is sorta good all-around especially video recording but isn't the best in low light and dynamic range compared to the South Koreans because HDR+ makes it yellowish.
I've said it before that the best 2017 camera duo for me if I travel is having LG V30 with iPhone X. I get wide-angle and Telephoto. And neither are as tall as the Note8.
Don't be a homer. I just skip reading their posts because that's useless information to me. You got to be like a very good billiards player like my biological father and see things in all angles. You will never expand your horizons if you only know things from one side.
SuperSaf = Samsung fanboy
Krystal Key = reviews Android, uses iPhone
They all are usually sponsored by Dbrand.
But they are all pretty neutral when it comes to photo comparisons since it is your eyes that will be the judge. Not them.
Marques never even touched an iPhone 2G until last month's keynote when he saw iJustine. What do you expect? He started off still in high school as a YouTuber and is worth about $2M and he is only 25. Google pays him.
My unbiased prediction is this -
Note8
iPhone X
Pixel 2 XL
Last year's Pixels were vastly overrated with cameras. I still preferred LG and Samsung.
I did a blind test on GSM Arena between iPhone 8 Plus vs Note8. I already knew which one was which and originally had Note8 winning 3/4 until I rechecked a pic again and went with the 8+. So it was 2-2.
These phones cameras' quality is so incremental and so close, you can take 10 photos of the same subject and the results can end in a split decision.
From my experience -
I prefer wide-angle over Telephoto and prefer LG in low-light. But LG's dynamic range and video recording are mediocre.
Apple is best with video recording especially on the rear. Realistic colors but not great in low light, dynamic range, and the front camera needs wider angle and better audio. The 8 Plus looks off with white balance.
Samsung is the fastest with focus, best in dynamic range, excellent in recording with good audio, but will show yellowish tint and overblown photos from time to time.
Pixel is sorta good all-around especially video recording but isn't the best in low light and dynamic range compared to the South Koreans because HDR+ makes it yellowish.
I've said it before that the best 2017 camera duo for me if I travel is having LG V30 with iPhone X. I get wide-angle and Telephoto. And neither are as tall as the Note8.
Don't be a homer. I just skip reading their posts because that's useless information to me. You got to be like a very good billiards player like my biological father and see things in all angles. You will never expand your horizons if you only know things from one side.