Sure, there are other 5x optical zoom cameras that Google might’ve used to determine if the Pixel 7 Pro’s 10x zoom quality is close to “optical” (compared to them). The zoom challenge on phone cameras in 2022: Who does it right - Samsung or Google hardware or software tricks? Is the Pixel 7 Pro going to be better than the Galaxy S22 Ultra when it comes to zoom? We’ll find out very soon when we do our camera comparison. What’s even more impressive is that the Pixel can take a very usable photo at up to 30x zoom (as shown by Google's own samples), which is hard to believe, given that the phone only has a 5x periscope zoom lens. Still, they aren’t optically cropped, so they don’t have “optical quality”.Īnyway, as you can tell by the samples snapped by Danny Silvester from Twitter (who received his Pixel early), the Pixel 7 Pro can snap some stunning photos at 2x, 5x and 10x zoom, and they indeed look to be of “optical quality” to me. For reference, you can’t achieve the same with a 10MP periscope camera like on the S22 Ultra, since the middle portion of this sensor would be only 2.5MP.įor the record, phones like the Pixel 6 Pro and Galaxy S22 Ultra currently use image stacking (mostly at different exposure values), denoizing, and artificial sharpening to give you images at 2x zoom, which look far clearer than one might expect.
Needless to say, the high resolution of the Pixel’s 50 and 48MP sensors are what allows Google to pull this off.
Google will be utilizing the same sensor-cropping technique for the new 48MP 5x zoom camera too, resulting in “optical quality” zoom at 10x magnification.
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