Google Pixel 2 Camera Shots! Show Us Your Pictures

I thought this one turned out pretty well. I was at the Google Home Mini Donut stand and snapped this with my Pixel2XL in one hand and the home mini in the other. This wasn't even portrait mode.

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Dynamic range is really good in this shot, but it's a bit noisy. I wonder if noise can be improved with future updates?

Maybe.. but keep in mind that Google's processing weights detail far above noise reduction. They won't sacrifice the former for the latter. Now, depending on what you came from, that might seem wonky... A lot of OEMs chew up pictures in the quest to clean up all noise. But they chew up the shot's depth. I'll take some noise if the picture's soul is intact.
 
Maybe.. but keep in mind that Google's processing weights detail far above noise reduction. They won't sacrifice the former for the latter. Now, depending on what you came from, that might seem wonky... A lot of OEMs chew up pictures in the quest to clean up all noise. But they chew up the shot's depth. I'll take some noise if the picture's soul is intact.
Right, a little bit of noise can be a good thing.
 
Oh weird. Enhanced... Hmm

Yeah... they fussed with the name, which I actually agree on. With the 6P and earlier, HDR+ Auto was correct. It would pick HDR+ when it could, but otherwise it would take a normal pic. If you selected HDR+ On, it would then take a slightly more enhanced version of HDR+. When they transitioned to the zero shutter lag HDR+ on the Pixel, that 'Auto' and 'On' didn't make any sense anymore. The default mode, 'Auto', did HDR+ without any exposure compensation. HDR+ On added a few more exposures and did exposure compensation (causing the the shutter lag).

So they changed it to HDR+ On, the default where every shot uses the non-exposure compensated 'quick' HDR+ and HDR+ Enhanced would follow the traditional full HDR+.
 

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