TechPhonesBig changes are coming to the camera in Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 ProGoogle Camera is getting its first major redesign in years to make shooting smarterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesBig changes are coming to the camera in Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 ProGoogle Camera is getting its first major redesign in years to make shooting smarterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Google Camera is getting its first major redesign in years to make shooting smarter
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Android Authority)
(Image credit: Android Authority)
With the launch of theGoogle Pixel 8andGoogle Pixel8 Pro due very soon, all kinds of things are starting to leak – so for example we’ve seensome of the new colours, porcelain and sky. And now a new leak tells us that the camera in both Pixels is getting a big app upgrade.
According toAndroidAuthority, the camera app in the Google Pixel 8 and Google Pixel 8 Pro is getting its biggest revamp in years. The current design is four years old, which is an eternity in smartphones: compare the cameras of a typical 2019 flagship to the ones in thebest Android phonestoday and you’ll see what I mean. So an updated Camera app is a very welcome improvement.
What’s new in the cameras for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro
Android Authority’s anonymous Google insider has given the site a good look at the new interface, and there are definitely some welcome and worthwhile improvements. One of the most obvious changes is that the photo and video modes are now completely separate: there’s a toggle right at the bottom of the display to switch between them. And the settings pop-up is now a bottom-up swipe, the opposite of the current behaviour.
Motion has now been split into Long Exposure and Action Pan – a reshuffle of existing modes rather than an introduction of any new ones – and the Cinematic Pan has been renamed to Pan and given its own mode too. Stabilisation options have been moved into the pop-up with three settings: standard, active and locked.
In addition to the revised camera app, we’re expecting both Pixels to get significant photography upgrades. The 50MPSamsungGN2 will be the main camera for both models, and the Pro is reportedly getting a 64MP ultrawide usoing the sameSonyIMX787 as the Pixel 7a.
Google is also reportedly working on three new software features: Adaptive Torch, which will adjust the flash to reduce the risk of overly flashy low-light shots; Staggered HDR, which makes high dynamic range photos less noisy; and Segmentation AWB, which will use different processing in different parts of the same image to get a better, more accurate result. Between software improvements, hardware improvements and the new app, both Pixels are looking like significant upgrades for smartphone snappers – albeitslightly more expensive onesthan the current models.
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