Google Pixel 2 Camera Shots! Show Us Your Pictures

[LeoRex]

'What do 95% of smartphone users do with the photos they take?'

I could care less about what 95% of users do with there pics.... I only care about what one user does with their pics; my wife. She takes ungodly amounts of pictures and videos and does dump them on to social media from time to time. But then takes the best of them and has albums printed by Shutterfly.

There, printed on a page, nothing matches the shots I got from my 6P. She has album after album with pics from a who's who of 'the best mobile camera of 20XX'... G3, G4, S7, S7 Edge, Note 7 (yep, even the short time she had it we got a ton of pics), G6 (and the V30 now as well).... and she turns her nose up at the lot.

"They don't look real"

She doesn't even know what she is referring to, but she knows she doesn't like it. The colors, the odd processing artifacts, the way they bludgeoned away noise, I can point it all out and she eyes glaze over... She just wants her pictures to look real, "like they do from your phone (6P)".

Google's image processing is "Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes" levels ahead of everyone else on the market. Funny thing is, they are indeed a little softer, maybe a little bit more noise here and there... they aren't the sharpest or the clearest... but they also don't look fake. They have a warmth to them... depth, character, whatever you want to call it. All I know is that you can see it on a phone screen, or a computer monitor, but whatever it is, they look nicer. They look nicer from my 6P, they look nicer from my newly acquired XL, and I am sure they will look nicer from the Pixel 2 as well.

 

[dsignori]

...'whichever phone produces more pleasing photos that are realistic enough' Of course, you don't want photos so artificially juiced up in saturation, or ultra sharpened that they lose detail. But within the bounds of reasonableness, I would say photos need to look good more than they need to be 'pure' from an academic photography perspective

Amen. This is precisely how I feel.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Now more pictures?

 

[klau25]

Now more pictures?

Haha. I guess I can post this one since you can't see my daughter's face. Just don't like to post her face in a public forum.

 

[jcochran1977]

My favorite Photo Subject Gilmore

 

[anon(9072051)]

Adventures in Austin!

Great! Cool SXSW pix in March!!

 

[jephanie]

Yes, they are marked in the top left corners.

Here are a few more.

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxt...html?uid=56cf9470-b810-11e7-b263-0edaf8f81e27

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxt...html?uid=81049740-b810-11e7-b263-0edaf8f81e27

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxt...html?uid=10245456-b811-11e7-b263-0edaf8f81e27

Daylight pic links appear to be broken.

 

[firebirder]

Haha. I guess I can post this one since you can't see my daughter's face. Just don't like to post her face in a public forum.

+1 call me paranoid, but I won't post pics with my son's face in them, and that is who I plan on taking the most pictures of.

 

[vmaxed]

Out for a lunch ride Sunday,Pixel 2

 

[dsignori]

No, the Pixel 2/XL still has issues with haloes and flaring. It was mentioned and shown in the DxOMark review.

Not according to any real world use, and accoding to the A/C reviewers and the Verge reviewers ..

"[FONT=&quot]One other interesting thing to note is that the Pixel 2 has completely eliminated the exaggerated lens flare "issue" that was pointed out on the original Pixels. You now get typical light artifacts and banding when shooting directly toward a bright light, rather than the bothersome purple rings and halos the original Pixels often produced."

[/FONT]https://www.androidcentral.com/google-pixel-2-vs-google-pixel-camera-comparison

 

[Jeremy8000]

Took this shot pointed pretty much straight at the sun with only a few fronds of a palm tree in the way. Amazing how it still retained the color, didn't fully silhouette the tree... Flag is detailed and colorful... There are some issues right where the sun is shining, but none of the 2016 lens flare and an overall amazing job imho!

 

[xxaarraa1983]

High winds at Pleasure Bay and the kite surfers were out. Phone seems to want to underexpose. Some of the photos below were edited in Snapseed to boost shadows and they are still a bit dark. May have to watch the exposure slider closely while shooting.

 

[Richard Servello]

Shot in a dark theater at Max zoom. Not bad.

 

[Richard Servello]

Sorry, that was Max zoom

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Portrait mode at night. Also, the Google Goggles, can't remember what it's called found this flower.. That thing is legit pretty cool.

 

[dsignori]

Portrait mode at night. Also, the Google Goggles, can't remember what it's called found this flower.. That thing is legit pretty cool. //uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171025/04a65d0716c88dcdb35dd3002e9f1e40.jpg

Nice for a night shot!

"Lens" is the new term for Goggles, FYI.

 

[Jeremy8000]

Portrait mode at night. Also, the Google Goggles, can't remember what it's called found this flower.. That thing is legit pretty cool. //uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171025/04a65d0716c88dcdb35dd3002e9f1e40.jpg

Interesting thing about Lens is that it doesn't just work with pictures you capture with your Pixel 2 / 2 XL, but any image pulled up in photos, even if just pulled in off of a website, so...

 

[jcochran1977]

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That's beautiful did you edit it at all?

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Selfie!!!

 

[jephanie]

The room pics are in a fairly dark room with just cloud filtered ambient window light. The outdoor pic is with the same cloud cover. The selfie pic is from the front camera with a very bright ceiling can light just behind my head (portrait mode used).

This camera absolutely got the colors right in all of my shots. The portrait mode on the front facing camera does far better than I could have expected. I was very happy with the 2016 Pixel XL camera but Google definitely stepped up their game even further this year--no doubt about that. (Why is it rotating the selfie pic?)