Shot-on-Google-Pixel-3-Raw-quality-Recover-5Įdited raw file in Lightroom, shot with the Google Pixel 3 / 3a Shot-on-Google-Pixel-3-Raw-quality-Recover-6 Google Pixel 3 / 3a pure raw image recorded with the Google camera App and without any editing. Shot-on-Google-Pixel-3-Raw-quality-Recover-3Įdited raw file in Lightroom, shot with the Google Pixel 3 / 3a Shot-on-Google-Pixel-3-Raw-quality-Recover-4 Shot-on-Google-Pixel-3-Raw-quality-Recover-1Įdited raw file in Lightroom, shot with the Google Pixel 3 / 3a Shot-on-Google-Pixel-3-Raw-quality-Recover-2 On the Google Pixel 3/3a this process is instant and super quick. Try it and you will see that the processing time between the photos will be really long. Looking at specific Apps, Lightroom for example with its App on iOS and Android has an HDR mode with it’s internal custom camera that allows you to save a raw file with multi-exposures blend. This is because the resulting shot is the exact raw data of the sensor without any of the additional calculations of the algorithms implemented by the manufacturer (which act only on the jpg file). In fact most of the time, when you use the raw mode on different smartphones (I personally tried all the latest OnePlus, Samsung Galaxy, Huawei P series, etc.) you get a raw file that unfortunately has less information. What does this mean? That we will have a raw file with a lot of information in lights and shadows, a file that can be further worked and post-processed in Lightroom having much more data to work with. There is an aspect that perhaps not everyone has grasped but that can be heard following the Google team interview: in practice the Google Pixel 3 when it saves the raw, it saves a file that is the raw version of the result of the multiple exposures taken with smartphone algorithms. Higher quality from the raw files of the Google Pixel 3 /3a On this point, the new smartphones with true telephoto focal length have real advantages compared to Google. Let’s say straight away that although Google’s algorithms are really good, there is still no way to surpass the quality given by a true optical focal length. Google then uses an algorithmic calculation by using the micro distance between the pixels on the autofocus system to create the depth map for the portrait effect and thus recreate the blur (I’ve analyzed how the Portrait Mode works on the smartphone here), while using an intelligent interpolation system to simulate the effect of a long lens with the mode that calls Super Res Zoom. In practice, the second lens that for many manufacturers is used or to create the depth map for the portrait effect or as a telephoto lens in the Pixel 3 is absent. Google is sure to guarantee the same quality as other smartphones using only one optical system. With an approach totally against the trend compared to the competition, Google proposes a smartphone with a single lens. Just one Single lens on the Google Pixel 3 / 3a.
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