Photo and video samples taken with a Pixel 6 Pro prototype offer our first look at the camera upgrades coming to Google’s upcoming phone.
Google has taken a different tactic this year with the marketing of the Pixel 6 series, putting the phones on billboards, magazines, TV ads, and even storefront windows. We even know a decent amount of the phones’ internals, with Google outlining their in-house “Tensor” chip and other specs.
Despite that, there’s a lot we’ve had to learn through less official avenues. For example, while Google themselves shared of the Pixel 6 Pro’s telephoto sensor, we learned about the Pixel 6 series upgrade to a 50MP camera sensor by way of an APK teardown. This change is poised to give the Pixel 6 the biggest camera upgrade the series has had outside of yearly software enhancements. That said, up to this point, we’ve not had any reference for the Pixel 6’s camera quality.
Last month, This is Tech Today shared hands-on video of the Pixel 6 Pro from a source who seemed to have their hands on a prototype model of Google’s upcoming flagship. Through that same source in Nigeria, M. Brandon Lee of This is Tech Today was able to share a collection of photo and video samples taken with the Pixel 6 Pro camera.
It’s important to remember that the camera samples we’re seeing here are taken on a pre-release Pixel 6 Pro. Even if all of the hardware is identical to the final device, the Pixel series camera prowess over the years has come from Google’s use of machine learning and software techniques to enhance the final photo. It’s likely this prototype does not have the most up-to-date software, meaning we should take these camera samples as a possible preview, and not definitive.
Another factor in play is that we currently can only see the shots by way of a YouTube video, meaning the images and video have been reprocessed, as opposed to being available directly from the camera.
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