My wife and I have been using the Pixel phones since Pixel 6 and we love the camera. Great pictures! But the best features are google photos, auto-tagging, recommending collages, walking down memory lane.
Then you can magic erase tourists from pictures and pic a better shot from a picture you took on the fly....
You add this "authentic image completion" to my kids pics, and it's game over...
I definitely agree, Pixel has been at the forefront of computation photography and editing since its inception. Things like night photography that we take for granted now, I remember when Pixel 2 first introduced it and it was honestly mind blowing.
this use of computation photography and editing that
What's so magical about that I/O? I get the point of improving the quality of a picture. But editing the picture so that it includes things that didn't really happen... why even care besides trying to impress others?
What does "didn't even happen" mean? That girl was standing there with the balloons. She just happened to be slightly off frame, and that moment is now gone and you'll never get a proper framed photo of that moment.
It's like re-coloring an old black and white photo, or photoshopping out a photo bomber from the background.
My wife and I have been using the Pixel phones since Pixel 6 and we love the camera. Great pictures! But the best features are google photos, auto-tagging, recommending collages, walking down memory lane.
Then you can magic erase tourists from pictures and pic a better shot from a picture you took on the fly....
You add this "authentic image completion" to my kids pics, and it's game over...
I want this on my Pixel 8 asap!