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The Google Pixel 2 and iPhone 8 Plus both booty absolutely acceptable still photos. So let's see how able-bodied they shoot video.
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7 catches fire too | iphone 7 catching on fireI begin the bigger differences amid these two phones came bottomward to stabilization, and how they accomplish in low light.
We took them to Pier 39 in San Francisco to analysis the cameras in a ambit of situations. Phones were army on a handheld rig so the camera lenses could sit abutting calm and helped accomplish the acreage of appearance as agnate as possible. All footage was filmed in the absence camera apps on automated exposures at 1080/30p, except for the 4K and slow-motion tests.
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As with any comparison, it's important to bethink that a lot of these allegation are abstract and appear bottomward to what you like.
Both phones do a abundant job of accurately advertisement the video image, abnormally in daylight. Colors on the Pixel 2 can attending hardly added saturated than the iPhone.
In the screengrab from the video below, colors attending added authentic to activity on the iPhone. But in some situations like the baiter blow from the video included in this article, the acknowledgment and blush arrangement is so agnate amid the two phones it's absolutely adamantine to acquaint the images apart.
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The Pixel 2 adjusts acknowledgment bound on the fly back lighting altitude change -- like affective from central to outdoors. The iPhone takes best to shift.
Moving a accountable in and out of the anatomy to analysis autofocus is additionally a win for the Pixel 2's "dual-pixel" appearance apprehension AF system. The focus accouterment abundantly bound from one accountable to another, but because it's so quick, it can attending absolutely affecting and causes a "wobbling" aftereffect in the anatomy as the camera seeks focus.
The iPhone's "focus pixels" appearance apprehension AF is not allowed to this aftereffect either, but because the focus accouterment added boring and smoothly, the all-embracing aftereffect is added cinematic.
The iPhone has optical stabilization in the advanced lens and a abstracted arrangement alleged authentic video stabilization that's advised to accomplish shots attending smooth, as if they were filmed on a rig. The Pixel 2 uses a aggregate of optical and cyberbanking stabilization on its distinct lens camera. Google calls this alloyed stabilization (read added about how absolutely this arrangement works in this article).
Digital or cyberbanking stabilization can generally aftermath a "Jell-O" aftereffect on genitalia of the image. The Pixel 2 shows some of this effect, but overall, the stabilization arrangement compensates able-bodied for walking motion and shots are smooth. It can, however, attending a little automatic and hyper-real.
But if you almanac a lot of footage while walking or affective around, the Pixel 2's video is added watchable than the iPhone's, which can attending jerky.
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Apple says it is 'looking into' viral video that shows an iPhone 7 ... | iphone 7 catching on fireSelfie lovers, this one goes to the Pixel 2. Video from the front-facing camera has a added alike acknowledgment and it retains added detail in the highlight areas than the aforementioned attempt on the iPhone.
You can see how the iPhone (right) assault out all those highlight capacity abaft me compared to the Pixel's alike acknowledgment (left).
But the iPhone has added adverse to the angel from the front-facing camera, which ability be added adulatory depending on your preference.
Neither buzz does awfully able-bodied back it comes to recording audio. The Pixel 2's playback sounds added collapsed than the aforementioned clue recorded on the iPhone. Whether that's articulation or music, the Pixel 2's audio sounds added "tinny." The iPhone's audio sounds added bright with added depth.
In our beforehand video allegory amid the iPhone and the Galaxy Note 8, it was the Note 8 that recorded better-sounding audio. Music and choir recorded on the Note 8 complete added like a authentic stereo recording back alert to playback in headphones.
Like the Note 8, the Pixel 2 can alone almanac in its slowest anatomy amount (240fps) at a bargain resolution of 720p. The iPhone annal at 1080p.
The Pixel 2's slow-motion angel looks abundant added done out than the iPhone's, and it badly overexposed back I filmed Frisco Fred accomplishing his blaze juggling.
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iPhone 7 Explosion Almost Certainly Wasn't Spontaneous | iphone 7 catching on fireTesting afresh in beneath arduous lighting altitude in the shade, the iPhone angel appears to absorb added detail in anniversary anatomy during the slo-mo aftereffect compared to the Pixel 2.
Both phones can blur in 4K resolution, but the Pixel 2 acme out at 30fps (the aforementioned as the Note 8). The iPhone can ability 60fps. 4K video from both phones looks absorbing and doesn't accept any altered characteristics to video filmed in added resolutions. (Apart from Apple's authentic video stabilization that's alone alive at 1080p and 720p resolutions, rather than 4K.)
The iPhone additionally uses Apple's new angel and video compression architecture HEVC (H.265) that apparently should accomplish beyond files like 4K video use beneath storage. The Pixel 2 encodes in H.264. Apprehend added about HEVC in this article.
This is area the phones appearance the bigger differences. Walking through the low-light Mirror Maze on Pier 39, the video angel on the Pixel 2 appears far added blatant (or grainy) than on the iPhone. Capacity alpha to attending smudgy back comparing the two images ancillary by side.
The acknowledgment is brighter on the Pixel 2 than the iPhone and as a aftereffect there's added arresting noise. It's adamantine to see at a bargain resolution, so bang to enlarge this screengrab.
Both phones are able to accumulate the white antithesis authentic back the lights change color, but the Pixel 2's angel is beneath adorable to watch because of the noise.
Last year's aboriginal Pixel XL buzz struggled to accumulate up with the iPhone 7 Plus for video recording. This year, it's harder to abstracted the Pixel 2 and iPhone 8 Plus.
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iPhone 6 Plus Catches Fire in Bed Right Next to Owner | iphone 7 catching on fireIf you almanac lots of video while walking, or blur fast-moving kids and pets, the Pixel 2's alloyed stabilization makes a huge aberration to how watchable that footage will be. The iPhone does a bigger job in low ablaze situations.
The allowances of accepting a bifold camera on the iPhone (rather than the distinct lens on the Pixel 2) absolutely alone appear into comedy for video if you appetite to use the iPhone's 2x optical zoom during recording. But alike then, that telephoto lens is not counterbalanced so you'll charge to authority it abiding or arise it on a tripod.
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