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Unlike some other current high-end smartphone models, such as the iPhone XS or the Mate 20 Pro, you won’t be able to alter focus point after you’ve taken the shot for your shallow depth of field effect. You won’t get a warning that this is the case, though. This seems to be if it suspects there is no separation between the subject and foreground, or perhaps if you weren’t close enough to it. Occasionally, the phone will refuse to produce a shallow depth of field effect. You’ll also be able to revert back to a standard shot, which can be useful it hasn’t worked out altogether well. When you view the image in playback, you’ll see that it takes a couple of seconds to process, after which you’ll have your shallow depth of field shot. Instead you’ll be instructed to tap on whatever it is you want to be the main subject. In this mode, you won’t see the results previewed live. Despite the fact that the Pixel 3 has only one lens, it uses machine learning to recreate shallow depth of field effects, working particularly well with human subjects.

This includes Portrait mode, which is something which the Pixel 2 particularly excelled at. You’ll notice along the bottom of the camera app, there are a number of other different photo modes. Although you can’t change any other settings, white balance control is available – giving you the option to choose between “Auto”, cloudy, sunny, fluorescent and tungsten options. With this, you will see there are options along the top of the screen to turn on a timer (3 seconds or 10 seconds), switch on RAW (images will be saved as both JPEG and raw format files), enable “Motion” (which records a very short video clip with your still images), and switch on flash. That’s great news for those who want something more akin to a point and shoot camera, but is less helpful for enthusiast photographers.Īs standard, the camera app opens in the default “Camera” mode. It affords a little more control than what we’ve seen on the iPhone XS, but it’s not as comprehensive as those you’ll see on Huawei or Samsung phones.

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Unlike many other Android phones, the Google Pixel 3’s native camera app is relatively simple. If you access the camera in this way, you’ll only be able to see photos you’ve taken in your current shooting session, and not older pictures. You can double press the power button in quick succession to open the native camera app. If you just need to take a photo, you don’t need to completely unlock the phone. This is a very natural way to unlock the phone when picking it up, and you soon get used to holding it so your finger automatically rests in the relevant place. What that means in real terms is that it’s a very clean, simple and straightforward layout.Īs we saw on the Pixel 2, the Pixel 3 can be unlocked via a fingerprint sensor on the rear of the device. As it is a Google phone, you can be sure that you will always have the latest version of Android, which at the moment is Android 9 (Pie).Īgain, as the Pixel 3 is a Google phone, it runs a “clean” version of Android – which in essence means it hasn’t been modified or adapted to suit the needs of a particular company, such as you would see on other Android phones from manufacturers like Samsung or Huawei. Using the Pixel 3 is not too dissimilar from its predecessor, or indeed many other Android phones. Other improvements include a larger battery (on the standard Pixel 3 only), and the addition of wireless charging.

On the front of the phone, there are now two cameras – the additional one offers a wider angle of view to enable better group selfies.Īs we’ve seen before, the Pixel is available in two sizes – standard and XL. The standard Pixel 3 has a 5.5-inch screen – a 0.5-inch increase on the Pixel 2 model, while the Pixel 3 XL has a 6.3-inch screen, which is an increase from the 6.0-inches of the previous version. Otherwise, the Google Pixel 3's camera itself is a 12.2 megapixel dual-pixel unit, with an f/1.8 aperture and a 28mm equivalent focal length. A new addition is “Night Sight” mode, which is particularly useful when shooting in low light situations.

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However, the rear camera has seen more of an incremental upgrade than a complete overhaul. Like the previous versions of the phone, the camera is at the heart of much of Google’s marketing. There are a number of new features, many of which are of particular interest to photographers. The Pixel 3 is the latest smartphone from Google, following on from the success of last year’s Pixel 2.

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