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Although the iPhone X's front-facing TrueDepth camera is accepting affluence of absorption for its adeptness to admit alone faces and alleviate the buzz back it sees its buyer — alike in the aphotic — we capital to see how able-bodied the iPhone X's rear cameras compared to the accepted best Android camera phone, the Google Pixel 2 XL.
We already looked at the added appearance of the two phones, so how do their shooters assemblage up to anniversary other? Google's camera packs a distinct 12.2-megapixel sensor with an f/1.8 lens, and the iPhone X has two 12-MP cameras: a wide-angle camera with an f/1.8 aperture, and a telephoto lens with an f/2.4 aperture.
We took both accessories out for all-encompassing cutting in altered environments and lighting conditions. It's cool close—in fact, too abutting to call.
Our aboriginal analysis of the two cameras was to see how able-bodied their corresponding HDR modes performed. Here, in this photo of New York City's Flatiron Building, the appropriate ancillary of the architecture was bathed in sun, while the larboard ancillary was in the shadows.
Both phones did a acceptable job at abundantly advertisement both abandon of the building, but the Pixel 2 XL was bigger at assuming the altered colors of the bean on the black side. In general, the Pixel's photo aloof ancestor added than the iPhone's.
Winner: Pixel 2 XL
The iPhone X's additional lens lets you get alert as abutting application optical zoom — a affection not begin on the Pixel 2 XL. So, we took a photo of the Empire State Architecture application the optical zoom on the iPhone and a 2x agenda zoom on the Pixel.
Here, we see the ability of optical against agenda zoom. Back absolute up all the way, the iPhone's photo reveals crisper details, such as on the acme of the Empire State Building.
Winner: iPhone X
We took this account of a handsome adolescent man outdoors to see how able-bodied both phones blurred the background.
In this case, the iPhone's bifold cameras did a abundant bigger job at isolating the subject. While the Pixel 2's distinct camera and software tried, the aftereffect was uneven, as genitalia of the copse abaft were added in focus than the draft of the background. The iPhone X photo additionally produced a warmer-looking bark tone, which looks better. However, the iPhone did draft out the dejected sky in the background.
Winner: iPhone X
Our aboriginal analysis of the camera's low-light achievement came in this restaurant, which was lit by some Edison bulbs aerial and a candle on the table.
Here, the after-effects could not accept been clearer. The Pixel 2's photo was far superior, advertisement all the elements in the angel properly. The iPhone's photo was not alone darker in general, but it overexposed the candle so that it looked like a yellow-and-white blob. Plus, you can absolutely see the subject's face in the Pixel 2's photo.
Winner: Pixel 2 XL
We've apparent how able-bodied anniversary camera does after its flash, but how able-bodied do they book with a little added lighting? At night, we took a account of a attic on top of a array of hay, and angry on the flash.
The iPhone's beam lit the arena added evenly, as the alembic and the attic looked beneath done out. The colors were a bit richer and warmer, too, such as the red in the scarecrow's accouterments and flower.
Winner: iPhone X
We attempt two altered photos application Legos: The aboriginal was a close-up of the Millennium Falcon in our office, and the additional was the dragon in the Lego abundance on 23rd Street in New York.
Both cameras' photos of the Falcon were ambrosial analogously matched. The iPhone's photo was a bit warmer, but both were appealing.
The iPhone did a bigger job with the dragon, though. The angel in accepted was brighter, and while there was one hot spot, abaft the creature's eye — which was not as arresting in the Pixel 2 XL's photo — the beast's bill was added analogously apparent in the iPhone's image.
Winner: iPhone X
On our photo walkabout, we anesthetized by a bright abundance window with all sorts of absorbing masks and sculptures.
In the iPhone's photo, the whitish, skull-like affectation in the beginning is a bit done out, and the corrective capacity on its forehead, apparent in the Pixel's photo, aren't visible. However, the colors in the iPhone's photo were abundant added adorable overall.
Winner: Tie
How able-bodied does the iPhone X abduction detail? We took this close-up attempt of a arch of broccoli romanesco, with its intricate fractal pattern.
This photo was a ambrosial abutting alarm too. The colors in the iPhone's photo skewed warmer than the Pixel's, but the closing was hardly crisper back zoomed in to 100 percent. And the Pixel was bigger at advertisement the all-embracing scene. Look at the cauliflower in the upper-left corner: In the iPhone's photo, it's absolute out, while in the Pixel's photo, you can see all of the detail.
Winner: Pixel 2 XL
Nothing says autumn like adorning gourds, so we capital to see how able-bodied both phones captured the spirit of the season.
When we looked at both photos on the aforementioned screen, we were absolutely afraid at the results. The iPhone's photo was abundant bluer — so abundant so that the blooming bassinet captivation the gourds looked about turquoise. The amethyst cauliflower in the upper-right bend was abundant added vibrant, too. The gourds themselves looked added accurate to activity than the Pixel's, which seemed a bit too yellowish. In general, the iPhone's photo was abundant truer to the absolute lighting altitude at the time we took the photo.
Winner: iPhone X
On the roof of our building, we took a accumulation attempt of Caitlin, Sherri and Kenneth, who was decked out in a bluff apparel for Halloween. The adventurous colors of both Caitlin's and Sherri's accoutrements would additionally prove a acceptable analysis for both cameras.
The iPhone produced a higher-contrast photo with added saturated colors, but the Pixel captured added nuances, such as the freckles on Caitlin and the wrinkles on the white teeth of Kenneth's costume.
Winner: Pixel 2 XL
For our final test, we compared the iPhone X’s front-facing 7MP TrueDepth camera with the Pixel 2 XL’s 8MP advanced shooter, by demography a selfie on the roof of our building. For both shots, we acclimated anniversary camera’s Account Mode.
While both the iPhone and the Pixel blurred the background, the iPhone additionally blurred allotment of my face and hair; as you can additionally see by my shirt, the focus breadth for Apple’s buzz was far too narrow. I adopted the colors in the iPhone’s photo—they were warmer than the Pixel’s—but I would accept adopted my absolute face to be in focus.
Winner: Pixel 2 XL
In the end, both phones excelled in altered conditions, with neither demography a absolute advance over the other. The iPhone X's zoom and its beam outperformed the Pixel, for example, but Google’s buzz exhausted it out in low-light and back demography selfies.
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Credit: Shaun Lucas/Tom's Guide
