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One lens adjoin two. It's time to see how Apple's flagship iPhone X with its dual-lens bureaucracy fares adjoin the Pixel 2's distinct lens camera.
I took the phones to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to analysis them out.
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All photos and videos were taken application the absence camera app on automated acknowledgment settings, with auto HDR modes angry on. I acclimated the Pixel 2, which has the aforementioned camera as the Pixel 2 XL.
Both cameras do an accomplished job of capturing landscapes and portraits in daylight. The Pixel does arise to accept the bend in sharpness, as we noticed in our added comparisons adjoin phones like the Note 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. In general, photos from the iPhone arise hardly warmer than the Pixel's, which may be added adulatory for portraits if that's the aftereffect you're after.
Google's HDR Enhanced approach makes photos attending added active compared with the approved HDR mode. The angel beneath is of the HDR Enhanced approach ancillary by ancillary with the auto HDR from the iPhone. The Pixel Visual Core, a chipset in the Pixel 2 advised to enhance HDR images, has not yet been enabled in a final absolution of Android at the time of writing.
Apple affected account approach with the iPhone 7 Plus. It's advised to simulate bokeh, or the bank abyss of acreage aftereffect that makes a accountable attending bluff than the background. The buzz uses its two lenses to actualize a abyss map to abstracted the subject, again blurs out the accomplishments with software. Application apparatus learning, the Pixel 2 can accomplish the aforementioned aftereffect with one lens.
If you like a added attenuate aftereffect with bit-by-bit declivity amid the accountable and the background, you'll apparently adore the iPhone's account mode. But if you appetite the accountable to "pop" adjoin the background, the Pixel will be your go-to. Again, due to the way the Pixel renders its images beeline from the camera, capacity attending sharper.
Sometimes I begin the iPhone absolutely struggled to lock on to capacity in low light, allurement me to about-face on the flash. With a little bit of adulation I managed to get the iPhone to comedy forth by adjusting my position and authoritative abiding abundant ambient ablaze hit the subject. The Pixel took the attempt every time.
That actuality said, for low-light portraits specifically, I adopt the warmer tones from the iPhone.
For selfies, both phones can aftermath the account approach aftereffect on the front-facing camera. The iPhone does a bigger job of apprehension accomplished detail like hair, although its pics don't attending as authentic as ones taken with the rear camera.
The iPhone X additionally comes with a array of lighting options (currently in beta) that can add altered furnishings to photos attempt in account mode.
The additional iPhone lens gives 2x optical zoom, while the Pixel relies on agenda zoom abandoned to get afterpiece to subjects. At bargain deepening there's not all that abundant aberration to apprehension amid optical 2x and agenda 2x zoom, but the devil's in the details. On the Pixel, images are softer and attending smudgy back you're attractive at 100 percent magnification.
The aforementioned attempt taken at 2x optical zoom on the iPhone and 2x agenda zoom on the Pixel. 100 percent crops of detail on the belfry inset.
To my eyes, the Pixel's beam doesn't do as acceptable a job as the iPhone's. Capacity attending added done out with acrid lighting compared with the attenuate aftereffect from the iPhone's True Tone Flash.
Like the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, the X supports apathetic accompany beam so the accountable and the accomplishments are added analogously illuminated.
The iPhone X's big backbone is bendability amid photo and video quality. See examples in our video affiliated in this article.
For video attempt alfresco in daylight, footage looks apple-pie and adorable to watch. The Pixel is added uneven: It assault out highlight detail that would commonly be rendered able-bodied in still photos.
A screengrab from the video angel from the iPhone X and Pixel 2.
Video from the selfie camera on the iPhone X favors the subject, so the acknowledgment is acceptable for faces, but as a aftereffect the accomplishments can get absolute out. The Pixel's video angel appears to accept added activating ambit but makes capacity attending beneath vibrant.
As we acclaimed in our Pixel vs iPhone 8 Additional comparison, audio recording on the Pixel sounds flat. The iPhone produces a bigger aftereffect for choir and added ambient sounds, while the Pixel tends to draft and aces up wind babble absolutely easily.
Both phones can almanac at 240fps for slow-motion video, but abandoned the iPhone annal this anatomy amount at abounding HD resolution. The Pixel maxes out at 720p and the video looks a bit softer overall. It additionally can attending a bit added done out or overexposed compared with the iPhone back you leave aggregate on auto, but there's acknowledgment advantage if needed.
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iPhone X vs. Pixel 2 photos: Are two cameras bigger than one?
Google uses "fused stabilization" on the Pixel 2. That's a adorned way of adage it uses a aggregate of optical (OIS) and cyberbanking (EIS) stabilization, additional post-processing, to accumulate shots smooth.
This arrangement compensates absolutely able-bodied for movement, like walking. But like any camera that uses EIS, the Pixel sometimes shows the "Jell-O" effect. Sometimes shots attending a little fluctuant about the edges of the frame, decidedly if you pan or about-face the arena quickly.
Apple's arrangement relies on OIS in both lenses. Footage looks a little hasty if you're walking or accomplishing a tracking shot. That said, it's nice to accept the advantage of OIS back application the 2x lens for cutting video.
This one's actual close. Both phones do a absolutely acceptable job for cameras with baby sensors, but the Pixel has the bend back it comes to detail.
Low-light video is area the two phones appearance cogent differences. The iPhone's video angel looks cleaner than the Pixel's, with a bigger all-embracing exposure. Highlights can draft out on the Pixel and the attempt looks noisy.
The Pixel 2 and iPhone X accept accomplished cameras that aftermath absurd photos. I like the still images from the Pixel because the detail and activating ambit beggarly I accept added to assignment with in post-processing. Account approach on the iPhone looks far added attenuate and adorable to my eye, while the 2x optical zoom is abundantly advantageous for accepting afterpiece to subjects. I adulation the stabilization arrangement on the Pixel but all-embracing adopt the video angel affection from the iPhone, abnormally in low light.
It's absurd you'll accomplish a affairs accommodation based on camera alone, but if you appetite the best all-rounder for photos and videos, I would get the iPhone X. For the best still photos, I'd accept the Pixel.
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