What's going on guys Mitesh here so today. I want to start off by first of all thanking
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I'm gonna be comparing the pixel 2's portrait mode to what you get out of a DSLR with a nice wide aperture lens so
From those of you who don't know pixel to what it does is it tries to simulate what you get out of a DSLR with
A nice wide aperture by doing it all in software
so you get this nice blurring effect when you have a big sensor and a wide aperture you get this nice blurring effect in the
Background where everything is blurred out and your subject is super crisp and in focus
So that's just something that Google tries to do in software by just trying to figure out what it should be focusing on and then
Blurring out the rest of it. Well. I want to see how does that really compared to a real DSLR. So for this comparison
I'm obviously going to be using the pixel 2 and
For the DSLR part. I'm gonna be using the Canon 70d, which is actually taking the video right now and pairing that with a
Canon 50 millimeter F/1.8 lens for those of you familiar with it, it's the nifty 50
It's a really cheap and popular lens, but awesome for getting portrait effects, so let's get started
So I'm gonna be heading out for this and it's a little cold out there
So let me go ahead and get changed and let's head out!
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All right, so let's take a look at the pictures
We took so we got the pixel two on the left and they Canon 70d on the right and a couple things to know
Pixel two has a much wider field of view
That's where you get more stuff in the background and the 50 millimeter lens that I use with the Canon 70d is much narrower
So that's why it looks a little bit different
But nothing to worry about there
The other thing to note is the Canon 70d has a 20 megapixel sensor and the pixel 2 has a 12 megapixel sensor
so if you see a little bit more detail in the Canon, that's why
But moving on to the more important things
Let's talk about that blur so the Canon 70d has a way softer background than the pixel 2 does and that
Is really thanks to that larger sensor that the Canon 70d has
It along with that wider aperture means it's picking up all that depth information, and it knows what to learn what not to blur
Whereas the pixel 2 has a much much smaller sensor
And it's doing
Computational math to figure out what to blur and what not to and you can see that in certain places like here
It's a little bit jagged what it kept in what it didn't and here
It's actually blurred that a part of the helmet where it's right here, It's still in focus
So you can see that the pixel 2 did a pretty good job, but it's not
quite up to the level of what the Canon 70d can do with a good lens
One thing I will note that the pixel 2 did a good job with was the fact that it kept the Stormtrooper in focus
This is what it's supposed to happen. It's not just trying to apply a blur over the entire image instead it's actually
Getting a real depth map because it's around the same area. It's around the same distance away from the lens so
It's getting a real depth map that is calculating, and it was right to keep the Stormtrooper in focus here
So good job on the pixel for that and I also like the fact that the railing is still in focus on this side
It's also in focus over here, but you can see it it drops off pretty quickly
Whereas here
It's a it's a little bit more unnatural because right after the railing it just completely drops off versus dropping off gradually
It's just like a very sharp cutoff, but Pixel 2 did an okay job here all right
Let's take a look of next one which is the stormtrooper picture
Once again if you look up here in the corner pixel two
Had a hard time distinguishing where the boundary was for this you can tell it's because the contrast here is not that high
So it seems like it's just blended together and here it made this a little softer than it should be
whereas on the Canon 70d it's a
Sharp line although to be honest the Canon 70d this pictures a little bit out of focus anyways one other thing
I forgot to mention the last picture is the fact that if you look at these figures their bodies are out of focus in the
Canon 7d and they're in focus in the pixel two
And that's because pixel two is doing it artificially and it knows that it's roughly on the same plane whereas
Canon 7d just doing it through the lens and the
Sensor so it's actually getting this real information where it is actually blurred out
It's a little bit further recessed than the head is so it's actually should be blurred out
Good job on Canon 70d for that pixel still struggling a little bit with the edges
But overall I think it did a pretty good job
Next one is both of them together and here you see a little bit of the weakness when it comes to that blurring and that
And what pixel two is trying to do, and so if you look right here between the two figures and between their legs
Everything is still in focus
Whereas what it really should look like if it was real depth of field
It was really that it's supposed to be that blur now
It's supposed to be look like this, but it's actually in focus I can make out that each
each of the
wood pieces and the fence
versus once again on the Canon 70d
Just it's just completely blurred out you can't make anything out between the legs or anything like that so this is something
Where you if you if you've seen pictures from the pixel - you can tell that it is a little bit artificial
I mean the picture still overall looks really good, but you can tell that there
This is all done through computational math versus just being done naturally, and then I have one more. That's from indoors and
Here, I have this Vizio speaker that was very close to one of the figures and on the pixel 2
You can tell that the physio speaker is completely in focus
It's very sharp, and you can make out all the detail whereas with a Canon 70d because it's a little bit further back
It's all blurred out and you can barely make out anything in this mesh structure, but here It's all sharp
So that's the differences between
fake depth of field and real depth of field so
as you can tell the
Pixel - does a decent job like you can tell the candles over here are blurred out and as they should be but
They you can't really beat that large sensor and that large aperture that
real DSLR can give you
as a bonus though the pixel - can do selfie portrait mode, and that's really cool because
It's something that it's really hard to do with the DSR because it's just not comfortable to take a selfie with a DSLR
but with a
Smartphone, it's really easy and you know the effects that you get is actually surprisingly good
It knows what to keep in focus it may miss a couple things here and there
But overall it still does a really good job, and it also works for group pictures
So I have this Buddha over here that I took a picture away
Then if you can tell the Buddha is still in focus now you do get some weird things like around here where my hand is
in the pillow you can kind of make out where parts of it or
Clear in parts of it or not, but you know what overall the effect is still surprisingly good.
I think the pixel did a really good job with taking it from facing portraits
alright, so there you guys go the portrait mode on the pixel - versus the DSLR with a fast lens obviously the DSLR did a
much better job
but I think the portrait mode on pixel - held its own under most of the pictures and
honestly that front-facing portrait mode is something that it's really hard to do with the DSLR and
Every time that's what I turn to whenever I'm taking selfies
It makes them look so much better
So good job for pixel - for that so
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