How Google Pixel 3's Camera Works Wonders With Just One Rear Lens
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How Google Pixel 3's Camera Works Wonders With Just One Rear Lens

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When Samsung revealed the Galaxy Note 9 back in August, it showed off new AI-powered camera features, like flaw detection and a scene optimizer to tune the exposure and color of a shot before you’ve captured it. Third Time's a Charm The company’s work on the Pixel 3 camera started before the Pixel 2 phone even launched, according to Isaac Reynolds, a product manager on the Google Pixel camera team. “We’ve been thinking about the Pixel 3 camera for a long time, certainly more than a year.” During that time period, the Pixel camera team identified several features—as many as 10, though not all would make it into the phone—that Google’s computational photography researchers were working on. “It’s not, ‘Hey let’s assign a team to this particular project.’ We have a whole team that’s already researching these things,” says Sabrina Ellis, director of product management for Pixel. The 12.2-megapixel rear camera has been improved, and the camera sensor is a “newer generation sensor,” though Reynolds conceded that it “has a lot of the same features.” The Pixel 3 also has a flicker sensor, which is supposed to mitigate the flicker effect you get when you’re shooting a photo or video under certain indoor lighting.

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