I've taken quite a few pictures with the Pixel 8 Pro and have been impressed with quality of the pictures. They look very good on the phone and even on my 32" monitor. I was curious to see how the phone camera would compare to my Fujifilm X-S10 and it's 16-80 mm. F4 lens.
Last week, I took a picture of the west side of Frenchman's Bay with the 5x telephoto camera on the Pixel 8 Pro. That lens has a 35 mm. equivalent focal length of 112 mm., which is very close to the 35 mm. equivalent focal length of 120 mm. for the 16-80 mm. zoom.
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| Pixel 8 Pro with 5x zoom |
I went back in my archives and found a picture of the same scene that I had taken just after I got the camera a couple of years ago.
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| Fujifilm X-S10 with 16-80 mm. F4 at 80 mm. |
Viewed on the web without any extra magnification, the two pictures look similar.
However, once you zoom in, the situation changes.
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| Pixel 8 Pro zoomed in |
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| Fujinon 16-80 mm. zoomed in |
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I'm no photography expert but can't some of the sharpness difference be down to the quality of the light. The older picture seems to have been taken on a bright sunny cloudless day. The PixelPro photo is taken in overcast, dull and possibly slightly misty conditions.
No, I don't think the quality of the light had much to do with it. These are the settings for the Pixel's photo: ƒ/2.8, 1/210, ISO 82. For the Fujifilm's photo: f10, 1/400, ISO 400. It was overcast but not dull and there was no haze; I could see the horizon through the gap to Lake Ontario. It did dull the colours a bit but it wouldn't have affected the sharpness.
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