New Pixel 7 Professional digital camera exams present that Google’s newest flagship smartphone can’t fairly catch the iPhone 14 Professional for selfie efficiency, however that’s not the case in relation to nonetheless photos.
Relating to front-camera efficiency, Apple’s iPhone 14 Professional scores Dxomark’s highest-ever rating for entrance digital camera efficiency, largely as a result of its excellent video capabilities. Nonetheless, the Pixel 7 Professional has simply taken the crown for selfie stills.
With a rating of 142 total factors in Dxomark’s lately up to date ‘Selfie’ benchmark, the Pixel 7 Professional takes third place, coming in three factors behind Apple’s iPhone 14 Professional, which heads up the leaderboard forward of Huawei’s second-placed P50 Professional.
Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply Apple’s flagship goes to ship higher entrance digital camera efficiency in all instances. Look a bit of deeper into the sub-scores and also you’ll discover there’s extra to think about right here than the general selfie rating. Relating to taking images in selfie mode, the Pixel 7 Professional truly outperforms Apple’s flagship by a single level.
This consequence would possibly come as a shock, provided that the Pixel 7 Professional entrance digital camera, not like the iPhone flagship, doesn’t present autofocus and comes with a lower-resolution sensor and a smaller lens aperture. Certainly, the iPhone 14 Professional does beat the Pixel 7 Professional within the focus, texture and bokeh.
Right here it’s Google’s software program that enables the Pixel 7 Professional to choose up floor and overtake the iPhone 14 Professional, by reaching the No.1 greatest scores for Colour and Artifacts and in addition outperforming the iPhone in relation to flash-powered selfie images.
For a lot of, video efficiency will probably be extra necessary than stills. As ever, that is the place Apple excels, enabling the iPhone 14 Professional to outclass the Pixel 7 Professional in relation to capturing shifting photos from the entrance digital camera, even in relation to shade accuracy.
That mentioned, that is one other very sturdy consequence for the Pixel 7 Professional that leaves the door open for Google to enhance video high quality by means of future software program updates and bolster its best-in-class primary digital camera efficiency.
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