hello everyone today i'm answering one
of the questions that intrigues me the
most and is does the google pixel 6 pro
take any better pictures than the google
pixel 4a let's get started by rolling
the intro
for those of you who are new to this
channel i'm rugby mahalford a young
photographer and filmmaker on the
journey to become better at their start
now let's go take some few pictures with
both of these phones to really test this
out
if you're scared that i'm gonna be only
taking some pictures in snowy conditions
don't worry i've been taking plenty of
pictures in the last few weeks inside
outside with snow without snow to really
get a good idea of how both of these
cameras perform in all kinds of
conditions
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let's talk about the biggest difference
between both of these phones and this is
the completely different camera system
on the google pixel 4 you have a single
magnet sensor and also primary lens
which is a 12 megapixel sensor and f 1.7
aperture on the ghost expo you have
three lenses and three sensors in the
back which are a 15 megapixel f 1.85 as
the main camera then there's an 80 photo
four times telephoto lens at f 3.5 and
finally there's a 12 megapixel ultra
wide at f 2.2 on the front we also have
different lenses so on the google pixel
4e you have a front facing camera at 8
megapixel and f 2.0 and on the google
six pro you have a little bit wider lens
at 11 megapixels and f 2.2 on paper
these are very very different cameras
but you can see that in the results the
images actually look quite similar in
the end
for the first test let's see how the
dynamic range works on both phones in
theory the bigger sensor on the ghost
expo should allow to get more light
inside other brighter and darker parts
of the image so you should get more
informations in both of these parts but
let's take a picture with each phone to
really test this out
what i observed inside of most of my
test shots is actually the results are
very similar the google six pro does
actually have a lot more dynamic range
so it keeps more details inside the
bright parts and the dark parts of the
image but in a lot of the cases you
cannot really see a difference between
the pictures coming from the google six
pro and also google pixel 4a in terms of
dynamic range where there is a really
big difference is actually inside of the
front-facing camera here the results are
not indeed between both cameras the
google pixel 4 actually has a hard time
retaining some details inside of the
background if your subject is a little
bit darker or brighter depending on the
scene where the google six pro actually
can take a lot more details inside the
background without overexposing
everything or underexposing depending on
the scene so this is a really welcome
upgrade especially if you use a
front-facing camera a lot
okay wow it was so cold outside i
completely froze my hand so i came
inside made myself a little hot
chocolate here and i think it's a good
time to talk about the image processing
and why the images look pretty similar
on both of these phones and then i'm
going to wait for it to become a little
bit darker outside to go and talk about
night sight using these phones you might
be surprised to realize just like i was
that the pictures look a lot alike
between both of these phones but this is
not a bad thing google is really well
known for its competition photography on
its pixel line knot not the harder
they're using actually most of the
camera lenses and sensors on their pixel
phones haven't been the best ones out
there on any of their phones but they
always compensate by having incredible
computational photography if you don't
know what is computational photography
it's basically a set of techniques that
allows to get the final shot without
having to do any editing and things like
that and they do all the hard work for
you automatically so that's why you get
great pictures using your phone because
you don't have to do any work by
yourself afterwards to get some better
results but it actually probably worked
a lot to get the same processing on the
go 6 pro even if you have different
hardware because the people including
myself really like the look coming from
the google pixel 40 so they probably
wanted to replicate that on their new
phone the google pixel 6 pro the only
very noticeable difference between both
image processing is actually the go 6
pro tends to be a bit more on the cold
side if you don't know what cole means
it basically just means that inside of
the picture there's more blue instead of
yellow this is not a big deal for taking
pictures of this landscape in a sunny
day but it might be a little bit more
problem if you're taking some portraits
or things like that overall it's not a
big deal because actually there's a new
slider inside of the go 6 pro that
allows you to decide if you want it to
be a bit colder or warmer but you have
to do this before taking the shot not
afterwards
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we are now the next morning and i got a
few shots last night we're using night
sight and also the astrophotography moon
so definitely stay tuned until the end
of this video but it's even colder than
yesterday so i'm gonna try and wrap up
this video as quickly as possible to not
completely freeze my hands in the
process
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while talking about the camera app let's
talk about the new zoom options because
we now have an option to take some ultra
ride and also to the photo zoom photos
using google six pro without losing any
of the image quality if we take a
picture at two time zoom on both of
these cameras we're actually gonna
realize that the results are not great
in both cases and this is because in
both cases google uses a technology it
calls super resume but it's basically
just cropping inside the image and using
some ai to make it look a little bit
better but in both cases they're not
using any of the new lenses to take some
better pictures when you're zooming at
two times now if we take a picture using
the four times zoom we're going to see
that the results are way better on the
go 6 pro and this is because we have a
dedicated lens at four times so we get
much better results more detailed
pictures more information inside of the
shot and just overall way way better
pictures where the ghost pixel 4a
actually really struggles when you're
using a four-time zoom having a
telephoto lens is so useful in all kinds
of use cases so for landscapes i really
love using a four times zoom but also
when you're taking pictures of your pets
or all kinds of reasons like that where
four times zoom can be very useful
another lens the idea is the ultra wide
lens and i wasn't super excited at the
beginning when i saw they were adding
this lens but i've been using it more
and more and realize it's actually very
useful in all kinds of use cases so
again if i'm taking some landscape
photos i love having a ultra wide lens
but then also if you're inside and
you're taking pictures of your family or
things like that in this type of space
it's very useful to be using an ultra
wide lens to get more inside of your
shot in general both the telephoto and
the ultrawide lens produce some very
similar results to the main sensor on
the google six pro but they also both
have some downsides so first of all the
ultra wide lens tends to produce some
over processed parts of the images so
the shadows and highlights sometimes
become a little bit gray which doesn't
always look good on the telephoto lens
the problem is that it over sharpens
sometimes and it's kind of random
because on some shots it's perfectly
fine but on earlier shots it's
completely over sharpening to a point
that it makes almost the image unusable
but i will say that with all of this
said the more choices of lenses on this
camera is a great thing and probably one
of the best reasons to upgrade from the
good pixel 40 because you get a lot more
possibilities where you can get some
great images without sacrificing the
quality of your images
with google talking so much about the 50
megapixel sensor for the main and
telephoto lens a lot of people expected
a jump in resolution and sharpness in
the final images but this is not the
case like i predicted they instead
decided to do pixel binding and this
basically means that they're taking four
physical pixels merging them together
for one final pixel and this creates
about a 12 megapixel image in the end
this cannot be changed by using other
app or things like that because it's
done on the sensor level not with
software the reason i think google
decided to do this is actually because
processing a 50 megapixel image would
just be too much for the very intense
image processing theories are still very
sharp and detailed just like they were
on the google pixel 4a but there's not a
huge increase in resolution or sharpness
on the google six pro but i still think
12 megapixel is good enough for most use
cases and i even printed one of the
images from my google pixel 4a in large
format on one of my wall i made a video
about it so definitely go check that one
out if you want to learn more about
printing your images and see how it
ended up on the wall spoiler alert it
turned out pretty well
in my opinion one of the biggest
difference between both of these camera
systems is actually the presence of
natural depth of field on the google
pixel 6 pro or more pronounced depth of
field if you don't know what is the but
feel it's basically the background blur
you get in the background like here when
using a more professional camera the
reason why dslrs and mirrorless can get
some natural motion blur without having
to use any ai at all is actually they
have a bigger sensor and bigger lens so
by increasing the size of the sensor on
google pixel 6 pro you can get more
natural depth of field inside of your
images so if you're taking us close up
with the ghost expro you're going to see
right away you get a lot more background
blur inside of the image which is a good
thing for me because i really like
taking some close-up images and if you
can get the results using a physical
lens and a physical sensor the results
are always going to be much better than
trying to do the same using ai with the
added depth of field i was expecting the
portrait mode to become much better if
you're not sure to understand why this
would be a case you should go check out
my video where i explain how project
mode works on the pixel phones the
google pixel 4a portrait mode is not
worse than the one on the google pixel
4a but it's also not much better which
is kind of disappointing especially
considering that they have a new ai
tensor chip that should really help
getting better results in this
department if we look at the results we
can see that google pixel 6 pro still
struggles with edge detection especially
with hairs or kinds of small details
like that which is still pretty
disappointing because this really makes
it look like a fake default feel not a
real one from a natural sensor on the
bright side i still think that the depth
of field on the pixel phones and the
portrait mode in general is one of the
best out there
i also really really like that on the
google pixel phones you can actually
take all kinds of subjects not just
humans using the portrait mode
up to now i only talked about the photo
side of this camera system the google
six pro has much much improved video
performances i didn't use the google
pixel 4 too much to film videos because
i was lacking some dynamic range inside
of the video the stabilization wasn't
great and also the image was way away
over sharpen the google six pro fixes
almost all of that so first of all it
uses almost the same algorithm for its
dynamic range than it does on the photos
so now you get a lot of details inside
of the highlights and the shadows of
your video
it's also much better at stabilizing the
images you have four modes to choose
between which stabilization you want
inside of video it may not be as good as
the iphone but it's much better than it
was on the google pixel 4a and the most
important part for me is now is that the
image is still very sharp but it's not
completely over sharpened to a point
that it makes it almost unusable i
filmed a complete travel video using all
new mega06 pro so you should definitely
go check that one out if you want to see
how this phone performs in real world
when taking some video using it if this
wasn't enough there's actually a huge
upgrade on the front-facing camera for
the video modes also if we look at the
image that i'm filming right now using
my google pixel 4 you can actually see
that has a really hard time with the
background here making a lot of them
completely overexposed and it isn't
looking that good but now let's switch
to the google six pro to see how that
one look in the comments in my video
that i filmed using only the google 6
pro somebody asked me which camera i was
using on the back of the go 6 pro to get
these great results for my talking shots
and the answer is actually i'm only
using the front facing camera and using
only the little settings so this really
shows how good this new front-facing
camera has become and if you look at it
here we don't have any problems anymore
we have a lot of dynamic range in the
image so it's not a problem at all using
this one anymore for filming some video
the google also says that they fixed
their issue with the overheating issues
when you were filming in 4k and i've
been filming my 4k a lot using this
phone and never felt the phone become
hot i wasn't in very hot environments so
i cannot tell if it's really true or not
but it doesn't to be finally fixed i'm
really happy to say that i can finally
recommend a google pixel phone for
somebody that's looking to do some video
work using it so this is really a nice
upgrade to have
my hands are starting to completely
freeze so let's talk about the last
point i have to record and this is about
the camera app the camera app hasn't
changed much between both the google
pixel 4 and the goal 6 pro but there's a
few new options that are kind of nice so
the first of all is the night side that
automatically appears when you're inside
of the main camera when it becomes dark
instead of trying to use the flash to
get some images and in most cases nice
side gets much better images than the
flash then we have the temperature
slider that was added allowing you to
decide if you want to have a cooler or
warmer shot when taking the shot you
also have a new voice focus mode inside
a video when you're using the
front-facing camera and finally you have
the addition of the new motion modes the
motion modes allows you to create some
long exposure effects without actually
having to have the equipment or learning
how to do some long exposures it's all
using ai and only works by taking a
picture with a few seconds i don't think
these effects are good enough to upgrade
just to get these effects but they're
pretty cool and i'm going to be using
them from time to time to get some
pretty cool photos out of them when
announcing the new google 6 pro google
stated that the main camera sensor is
going to be able to capture 150 more
light that's a pretty bold statement and
definitely something we have to test out
so for this we're going to go inside of
the camera because there's no better
time to test this out than at night to
see if it's able to capture more light
so i'm going to come here entire side of
the camera swipe completely to the left
here to the night sight option
and then i'm going to take a picture
using the night sight mode so if you
don't know what is night sight it
basically allows to take some pictures
in really low light conditions and it
works by taking multiple shots and
combining them automatically afterwards
for you so super easy to use all you
have to do is press one button and it
does all the hard work afterwards for
you i got someone to ask me if you need
to be perfectly steady when doing this
so if you have to use a tripod and the
answer is no you can simply leave their
phone and even if you move a little bit
it's going to be able to do it
automatically this mode exists on both
the google 6 pro and also the google
pixel 4 so i'm gonna have to compare the
results to see if they're good or not
it's hard to tell when looking at the
pictures only on the screen of your
phones but i can tell the pictures of
the google six pro are much better when
using night sight so first of all you
get a lot more details inside of the
image it's just overall way much sharper
than it was on the goal 6 pro then you
also have less noise in the dark parts
of the image so that's a nice
improvement and also on the parts with
your have a light source you get better
details instead of that and it's not
completely overblown when there's a
light source inside of your image so
that's all nice improvements from
knight's side the pixel phones also have
a nicer photography mode but i couldn't
test it out because i never really had
this night that had perfect sky to be
able to see the stars but once i get
that i'm definitely going to make a
video where i'm going to compare the
ester photographer mode from the google
pixel 4e and the ghost expo because i
really want to test it out as quickly as
possible overall i cannot really say if
the claims from google that they have
150 percent more light instead of sensor
are true or not but i can say the
pictures using the nice light mode are
definitely better on the v6 pro is it
enough to upgrade a phone i don't really
think so because the google pixels 4a
actually has some really good results
already using the nightsight mode here
are my final thoughts does the google 6
pro offer a better camera system
yes does it take some better photos yes
does it take some better videos
definitely should you upgrade from the
google pixel 4a to the google six pro
well that one is a little bit harder to
answer if you're gonna be using a
four-time zoom taking a lot of videos or
using a lot different facing camera then
in these cases upgrading to go 6 pro
might be a good idea but if you just
want to overall great camera at a third
of the price the google pixel 4 actually
has a lot of value for the price so i'm
going to be recommending this to more
people in the end just because it offers
a lot more for the price if you enjoyed
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