Does Dxo Have Raw Filter For Google Pixel Phones?

What is the Google Pixel ii?

The second generation of Google's popular "Pixel" phone has seen some improvements made specifically to the on-board camera.

It uses a single camera setup on the dorsum – at that place's a 12.2 megapixel sensor, coupled with an f/i.viii aperture lens. The forepart facing photographic camera is an 8 megapixel device, with an f/2.iv aperture lens.

There are two sizes bachelor – the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 Twoscore. Dissimilar with the iPhone 8 / viii Plus, in that location is no difference in the cameras in either device, and then image quality should be equal. We have been using a Pixel two device for this review.

Whichever model you become for, you lot tin can choose betwixt 64GB and 128GB inbuilt storage. There's no way to expand the concrete retentivity of the phone, but customers tin relish unlimited cloud storage for their photos and videos until 2020.

Video recording is bachelor up to 4K, just different the iPhone X, the frame rate tops out at 30fps (as opposed to 60fps).

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Build Quality and Handling

Weighing in at simply 143g and featuring a very elementary design, the Pixel 2 has quite a sleek appearance. The back is matte which has the reward of not attracting fingerprints. The Pixel 2 XL is of course heavier, but you get rewarded with a higher resolution and larger screen – something which may be appealing to anyone with a keen interest in taking photos.

The native camera app can be accessed by swiping up from the bottom correct manus corner of the lock screen. Disappointingly, the Pixel 2's native app isn't as well featured equally the one you lot'll observe on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro – in that location's no "professional" or "advanced" way here, which seems a little foreign for something that is so keenly targeted towards photographers.

Oddly, you can change the white balance setting, though. Furthermore, there's too no raw format shooting from the native app either.

You lot tin can accept a film either via the on-screen shutter button, or by using the physical volume cardinal on the side of the phone. Hold down either of those and you can accept a burst of images – the Pixel 2 will automatically decide what it thinks is the best shot from your burst, but you can choose an alternative ane if you lot prefer.

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It seems that most modern smartphones offer a fashion to create a shallow depth of field effect. With the Pixel two, this is chosen "Portrait Manner" – although you tin can use it for other subjects if you lot desire to.

To use the mode, you tap on the field of study you lot want to isolate – the effect isn't previewed on screen, only once y'all caput to playback, you can come across how it has been implemented. You'll go both a blurred background shot, and a normal shot – the latter is useful if the blur hasn't been peculiarly successful just you lot otherwise like the image.

On the odd occasion, the Pixel 2 seems to decide that the bailiwick wasn't worthy of a blurred groundwork and doesn't utilize the effect at all.

Unlike other smartphones which offer this effect, the Pixel 2 does this with merely a single lens, applying the blur via artificial intelligence (AI). Y'all can besides use Portrait Mode when using the front-facing camera to create shallow depth of field effect selfies.

By default, the Pixel 2 shoots in HDR. If yous desire to switch this off, you'll need to go to the main settings menu, head nether advanced and switch on HDR command.

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Image Quality

Every bit information technology stands, DxO gives the Google Pixel ii the overall all-time score for smartphone, just falls just backside the iPhone X when it comes to still image quality.

When the light is good, the Pixel ii is capable of producing some fantastic images. Colours tend to exist a little less vibrant than from the iPhone X – making them closer to reality, but perhaps slightly less highly-seasoned on occasion.

Reds in item seem less vibrant from the Pixel 2. Whether you adopt a punchier image, or a more realistic one, will exist down to personal preference. HDR is generally well applied, without looking unrealistic – it'south certainly not a problem to leave in "always on" by default.

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Detail reproduction is also very good, with a minimal corporeality of smudging in good calorie-free. The Pixel two also does very well every bit the light drops, producing impressive images when viewing them on a modest screen. If you examine low light shots at 100%, more prototype smoothing is noticeable, only, how often the average telephone user is intending to do that is questionable.

The standout characteristic for me here is the Portrait Mode. Despite the odd quirk when it seems to decide not to employ information technology, I've had dandy success with it. It works best when photographing something reasonably large in the frame, such as, of course, a portrait.

I've as well had some expert success when shooting more than intricate subjects – and while y'all can see some foreign artefacts if you examine very closely, for Instagram and the like, it's very impressive.

Despite the fact that the Pixel 2 merely uses one camera, different the iPhone X, with its dual-camera setup, I retrieve the Pixel 2'due south results are slightly more natural, and less plain "artificial".

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Sample Photos

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Verdict

It's easy to meet why DxO has rated the Pixel ii and then highly. It is capable of delivering some fantastic images, in both good and depression light. The Portrait Mode isn't without its quirks, but works well to produce impressive blurred groundwork shots – the fact it does this without a 2nd photographic camera is all the more impressive.

I'd actually like to run across more photographic functionality added to the native camera app to really make it stand out. It may well appeal to beginners, but a pro way, which could be switched off for those that don't want information technology, seems like the obvious solution here.

You tin can download 3rd party apps which requite you access to extensive controls, as well as raw format shooting, but to have it on the easy-to-access native app would exist preferable.

Although the Pixel 2 doesn't need a 2d camera or lens to produce its shallow depth of field effects, it would be overnice to have a telephoto pick for those times when you can't become closer to a discipline. Information technology's for this reason, that the iPhone Ten just about pips the Pixel ii to the postal service of smartphone camera of option for photographers.

Information technology'south important to consider budget still – while you get a little extra functionality from the iPhone X, y'all pay a lot more for information technology. Add on the fact that with the Pixel 2 you get unlimited deject storage for your photos, for free, and the Pixel two is by far the better value proposition.

The peak 3 smartphone cameras at the moment, co-ordinate to DxO, are the Huawei Mate x Pro, Google Pixel 2 and the Apple iPhone X. I've had the fortune to use all three in the past calendar month – and they all take different claim.

With the Huawei Mate 10 Pro yous can enjoy transmission command and raw format shooting, with the iPhone X you get two lenses, and with the Pixel 2, the blurred background effect is the well-nigh natural.

Which one would you lot purchase?

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