Google announces new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones with more megapixels, and cloud computing too: Digital Photography Review – digitalcameras.ie

Google’s newest Pixel telephones had been lastly unveiled at an occasion this morning. The Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional are geared up with quicker chips, and most significantly, upgraded cameras and new computational pictures options, with the 8 Professional gaining vital handbook controls.

Google’s new Pixel 8 cellphone. Picture: Google

The Pixel 8 is the smaller gadget, with a 6.2″ show. Inside is the brand new Google Tensor G3 processor and eight GB of LPDDR5x RAM. This cellphone’s 1080 x 2400 OLED display runs between 60 and 120Hz for clean animations, and may crank its brightness to 1400 nits for HDR content material with as much as 2000 nits peak brightness.

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The twin-camera system on this cellphone has been upgraded to characteristic a excessive decision 50MP Octa Section Detection sensor in the principle 24mm equiv. digicam with a brighter F1.68 aperture, which Google touts as having ‘21% extra gentle sensitivity’ general. This digicam can be utilized in a cropped 2x “remosaiced” mode if customers need a focal size that is nearer to 50mm.

The secondary ultrawide is barely 12MP, however at a wider 14mm equiv focal size and a sub-3cm macro focusing distance, it makes up for the dearth of decision with the flexibleness autofocus brings.

For individuals who need a third digicam and a much bigger display, the Pixel 8 Professional is the mannequin to think about this 12 months. This premium 6.7″ class cellphone has extra RAM (12 GB), a brighter OLED display (as much as 1600 nits for HDR, and 2400 nits peak), as much as 1 TB of onboard storage and a few new software program options which might be solely on the Professional.

The Pixel 8 additionally features a ‘Professional Controls’ mode in its digicam app, giving customers the choice to manually set ISO, shutter pace and white stability. The Professional 8 additionally permits customers to save lots of the digicam’s mixed, multi-shot output as DNG recordsdata (an analogous idea to Apple’s ‘ProRaw’ mode, however utilizing a normal file format), together with 48 and 50MP recordsdata, if you want.

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Whereas the principle huge digicam is shared between each fashions, the Pixel 8 Professional’s ultrawide goes high-res, with a 48MP sensor, a F1.95 aperture, and tighter 2cm macro focusing capabilities. Lastly, the front-facing digicam within the Professional picks up autofocus, one thing you aren’t getting with the plain Pixel 8. The Professional additionally has a 3rd, 48MP Quad Section Detection telephoto digicam, with a F2.8 aperture and an equal focal size of 112mm.

Each units get a slew of latest ML-enhanced picture modifying options because of the Google Photographs app. Of observe is Magic Editor, which lets you choose folks in a shot and reposition them, make the sky extra dramatic, or change the background and lighting totally. This characteristic depends on the cloud and a generative AI mannequin that makes an attempt to maintain the adjustments trying as pure as doable. Finest Take can allow you to combine and match faces in group pictures, getting everybody’s finest smile in a single picture.

And for video, the Pixel 8 Professional will ship a model of your clips as much as the cloud to beef up its HDR or enhanced low-light video utilizing Video Enhance. The Professional additionally will get a brand new Professional Controls mode, letting customers totally customise their taking pictures expertise and ship Uncooked DNGs to the editor app of their selection.

Pixel 8 begins at $699 for a cellphone with 128 GB of onboard storage, with as much as 256 GB and three totally different colours out there as an choice. The Pixel 8 Professional begins at $999 for a cellphone with 128 GB, and could be geared up with as much as 1 TB of storage and is available in three colours.