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The colors on the iPhone 8 Plus seem extra saturated with more contrast, but landscapes on the Pixel 2 look sharper up close. In ideal conditions, landscapes seem to be neck and neck on the two phones. Both Apple's HDR and Google's competing technology, called HDR+ on the Pixel, are active by default. Ideally, HDR means a photo has shadow details without awful glare in bright areas. The iPhone 8 Plus and the Pixel 2 use high dynamic range (HDR) image processing, combining multiple frames taken in quick succession into a single image. The colors are brighter and our faces look clearer than on the iPhone's shot. Portrait Mode also works on the front camera of the Pixel 2, but it's not perfect.Įven without portrait mode, photos on the front camera look better on the Pixel. It blurred me out in this shot of Lexy and I when I was slightly behind her. The Pixel can add that blurred background effect to your selfies, but it's not as reliable. Portrait Mode on the iPhone 8 Plus works great on food and objects as well as people.īut the iPhone can't do portrait mode on the front camera. It's not perfect, but I would chose it over the Pixel for portraits because it's consistent and easy to use. The iPhone nailed the effect almost every time even when dealing with inanimate objects like food or plants. The Pixel 2 didn't get the Portrait Mode right on every shot especially when it was dealing with anything other than faces. Apparently dogs fall in the 'face' category because it seemed to do well with the two pooches we photographed, but objects where either out of focus entirely as you can see with the playing cards in the shot bellow, or not in the portrait mode at all. The Pixel 2 has been programed to detect faces of people in Portrait Mode which means that for now it doesn't recognize much else as the subject. But getting it right on the Pixel was a challenge. The colors in this shot of Frisco Fred are more accurate, there's more detail in his face, and I liked having a wider angle to chose from. When the Pixel 2 gets it right, it can produce even better portraits than the iPhone 8 Plus. The iPhone applies the portrait mode as you're composing shots, so you're unlikely to forget it's active. You should see an X in place of the menu icon on the button left of the viewfinder, but it's so subtle that I had a hard time figuring out when I was taking a shot in portrait mode and kept leaving it on by mistake on some of my landscape shots. The Pixel doesn't require the telephoto lens like the iPhone 8 Plus does, so you can get closer to your subject. Activating portrait mode on the Pixel 2 takes two taps: first tap the menu icon on the bottom left and then tap and select the mode. You know portrait mode is on when you see a yellow box around the subject that says 'depth effect'. Because the iPhone uses the telephoto lens for portraits, subjects appear closer than on regular shots so you have to step back to activate the effect. To activate portrait mode on the iPhone you just swipe left on the main camera interface. The Pixel 2 uses image processing and machine learning to detect faces and create the same bokeh effect as the iPhone 8 Plus.

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The iPhone 8 Plus still uses information from the wide and telephoto lenses and software to achieve the same effect. It combines 3D-sensing data from the sensor, image processing and face-detection AI technology to isolate a photo subject then blur what's behind. This year Google overhauled its background blur effect on the Pixel 2 and renamed it portrait mode. The original Pixel had a hard time with the blurred background effect on portraits. The actual result was a mess of blurred limbs and hair, at least on most shots. Like portrait mode on the iPhone, the Pixel's Lens Blur mode attempted to create a background-blur bokeh effect around the subject similar to what you would get on a DSLR. And go see just how much better the iPhone 8 Plus's camera is than the 7 Plus.Īs impressed as we were last year with the overall results on the Pixel, portraits were terrible. This is all about still shots, but you should also check out our video quality comparison to see which phone is best at moving pictures. Most shots were taken on the default camera settings with auto HDR unless we say otherwise.

The phones were mounted on a rig that lined up the lenses at almost the same angle. To find out which 2017 phone's camera is better, we put them to the test at Pier 39 in San Francisco. Optical Image Stabilization (wide-angle only)

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