TechPhonesThese incredible photos will make you want to buy the Pixel 7 ProGoogle’s Super Res Zoom pushes the Pixel 7 Pro camera to a whole new levelWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesThese incredible photos will make you want to buy the Pixel 7 ProGoogle’s Super Res Zoom pushes the Pixel 7 Pro camera to a whole new levelWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Google’s Super Res Zoom pushes the Pixel 7 Pro camera to a whole new level
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Google / Alexander Schiffhauer)
(Image credit: Google / Alexander Schiffhauer)
The images, via9to5Google, show scenes from Manhattan, San Francisco and Mendocino taken at different zoom levels from 0.5x to the full 30x Super Res Zoom. I’ve used one of the lower-zoom images at the top of this post but it’s the fully zoomed ones that are really jaw-dropping. I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to do this on myiPhone 14 Pro.
Google set out to make the Pixel 7 Pro one of thebest Android phonesfor photography, and one of thebest phonesof any kind. These pictures, albeit carefully chosen, suggest it’s definitely doing something right.
What’s so great about the Pixel 7 Pro camera?
There are multiple things going on here. The 48MP telephoto lens has an optical zoom of up to 5x, but software enables you to go beyond that. When you hit 15x zoom, the Pixel 7 Pro uses stabilisation so you can get decent shots without having to stick your Pixel on a tripod. And when you hit 20x zoom, there’s a new, machine learning-based upscaler that uses the new Tensor G2 processor to deliver crisper, clearer images. If you’re used to software-based zooms producing awful results, these pics will be a revelation.
Google isn’t the onlyAndroidfirm offering this kind of feature.Samsunghas its Space Zoom, which is 30x on theGalaxy S22and 100x on theGalaxy S22 Ultra, andHonor’s Magic 4 Prodoes 100x too. Google doesn’t claim to be better than those phones, but it does say that the Pixel 7 Pro has the best zoom of any Pixel so far, and that’s clearly no idle boast.
If you’d like to see how the Pixel 7 Pro compares to theSamsung GalaxyS22 Ultra,we’ve got all the details here: it’s not just the camera that sets the two tech firms' flagships apart.
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