The Pixel 8 Cameras are Getting Weird

In this clip, Marques, Andrew, and David discuss all of the new camera features coming to the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro.

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[anoopsanthanam]

The face swapping feature was something that was available way back in Lumia phones. It's insane how a phone could be ahead of its time and behind its competition at the same time.

[rolins]

Strangely, Google is the only Android manufacturer to have finally understood that the quality of iPhone videos is based on post-processing, however, it really bothers me that it is done in the cloud for Pixels and not on device, it poses a privacy, confidentiality problem in my opinion.

[FabulousFadz]

Marques dying on the inside as they sang the like and subscribe song... 😂

[runningdrisk]

The multi shots taken makes me think back to the main benefit originally when digital came to replace film, was that you could take multiple and not worry about bad photos where film was usually a one click thing because you were limited on the amount of photos you could take.

[CatPixStudio]

"Best take" on Samsung GALAXY NOTE 2.
This old "new" feature "Best take" (swapping faces after a burst shot) was already available on the Galaxy Note 2 in 2012. So 11 years ago!!!
I loved that feature and never understood why it wasn't available in following Galaxy models anymore.

[ufukccelik]

Man, we're moving into a time in which a Pixel will be able to edit completely raw footage into a YouTube video and ask you to share it. I think if Marques does that, we may not even notice.

Remember that video when he uttered the words that ChatGPT created, and joked about that? It really sparks the question: Does creativity really matter to the people watching a particular YouTuber, considering that more and more people prefer a piece of content attached by a video game?

[Dgodwin]

This is getting kinda creepy. But hey I switched from a galaxy to a pixel and have no desire to switch back. The ai assist features make things super simple

[alexder]

Tech guys: "What is a photo!!"
Google: "it's still a photo but with some Ai (software) seasoning"

[michaelchen]

3:07 it's pretty obvious why we do this? if someone blinks?

[TNT]

At this point it’s not even a camera it’s just a tool google uses to server you ai generated photos

[TheOneCleanHippy]

We've had these tools for years in Photoshop. This is nothing new, it is just much more accessible for the general population now.

[uknowwhatimsay]

Best shot…the head size/positions, uncanny valley vibes.

[AOLAmericaOnline]

The future of video, photo, and audio manipulation is terrifying and not a positive thing.

[Tkourtog]

Love Pixel phones. I use them since Pixel 2 XL just because of those cameras.... But Google... I can understand software that improves a photograph in a smartphone and I'm in to it. What I cannot understand is why you need to change entirely a photograph, moving thing around, changing the sky, adding things etc. What's the point of it? This is not photography, it's something imaginary that never happened. And that's not what photography is all about.

[marg]

I’m wondering how well “Best Take” works IRL tho. In theory, yes it can work very smoothly. But, nowadays, when a smartphone snaps a picture, it actually snaps 10 pictures and combine them and produce one final result. That alone is a lotta processing. So with best take, if the phone simply just grabs the face from other frames the phone takes before and after the main frame, it will not look as good. More processing needs to be in place so that it can work nicely. Nowadays, “AI” is just thrown around like quantum physics. So I’m eager to test this new feature on the pixel

[Phoenix-King-ozai]

The pixel 10 with the tensor G5 would be amazing if it dumps samsung and actually makes a fully custom Tensor, with oodles of cache and probably with the Cortex X5 Supercore which will be a major redesign

[chibuzoboltzmann]

Google is busy with complex features but have failed to save selfie videos are previewed. It keeps saving videos as mirror of the preview mode. And the pixel app does not have options to flip or mirror the video later. Why?

[umutafuca]

What about filming cars while driving, when taking photos and you hit that one bump in the road right when you take the shot, can it fix that?

[Controvi]

I do think that the thought of the pictures not being 'real' anymore, is a bit of creating a mountain out of a molehill.
These things are not new at all. The only thing that changed is that the edits that normally took longer to make, can be made on the phone itself.
Normally you would have to get on the desktop and go to photoshop or something. Now you just select on your phone what you want.

Is that so different from normal? I mean, if it still works like it always did, you open Google Photos on your phone, make changes, and then save a copy with those changes in it.
So the original is still there.

So isn't it just something we have always seen but it works faster now?

[rany]

Does anyone know how to turn off the camera shutter sound off? Don't have this option on my pixel 8 pro 😢