Google Pixel 3 camera APK test. Essential Phone low light selfie performance

Hey folks (sorry in advance for the rather serious looking selfies) I wanted to test how well the Google Pixel 3 port of G Cam worked on my Essential Ph-1. A phone we can all agree was a bit of a lemon, especially in the camera department. Seeing how Google's Pixel 3 images were looking pretty impressive I was excited to get my hands on Night Sight and see if it could help alleviate any of the phones continuous problems.

So I set up a bit of a test.

The environment :

A closed room with only 3 Philips Hue light bulbs (gen 3) as the light source, each set to 45% brightness with the colors red (#ff0000) ,blue (#0400ff), and purple (#4a00b2). Philips Hue bulbs can produce a max of 800 lumens at pure white. However I cannot say what they produce at these colors. This somewhat simulates a photo within a darker bar or parts of a night club.

The phones:

Only front facing cameras were used. As well to keep things on equal footing I used three 2017 devices, a Sony Xperia XZ Premium, Samsung Galaxy S8 and of course the Essential Ph-1. I used whatever auto settings the phones provided and tapped on my face once to ensure exposure and focus.

Here are the results.

https://imgur.com/a/uSFpqKU

Of course the Google Camera knocked it out of the park, delivering the lowest level of noise while retaining the most amount of detail, for both the standard and Night Sight settings. Though there was some strange artifacting on my glasses with GCam (I swear they are not that dirty).

I was surprised by the performance of the Essential phone stock camera though. While yes the image was noisy as hell, the exposure and colors were the closest of all devices.

Samsung blasted the exposure of the photo losing the transition of lights color red to blue leaving everything kind of pink

Sony kept colors but everything was quite soft and there was way too much contrast.

Again sorry for the selfies, but I think this is a difficult but rather common use case we want our phones to do somewhat well in.

If only I had a pixel 3 to test! Despite all the drama I think its a lovely little phone.

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 05:09AM by u83rn008 https://ift.tt/2Q7Pfe2 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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