Every time a new Google phone enters the scene, all eyes turn to its camera app. It dreams of advancing some of the news that can also reach other smartphones in the family as well as other smartphones compatible with GCam .
On this occasion, both the Google Pixel 5 and the Pixel 4a 5G release a double jacket where the classic 12.2 MP sensor is added a 16 MP wide angle that will allow us to play with another type of photography. This is one of the great novelties of the camera of the new mobiles, but not the only one.
HDR mode improvements
Google has placed particular emphasis on its new HDR + mode with exposure bracketing which, according to the brand itself, will offer “clearer and sharper photos”. However, we know Google has been offering this same “exposure bracketing” tool since the original Pixel . For this reason, although it is not a great novelty, we can expect incremental improvements in this function.
Wide angle photography
What is new is the ability to work with photographs with a greater angle of view thanks to the incorporation of a wide-angle lens. Logically, this can only be compatible with mobiles that have a sensor of this type in their camera. In the case of the Pixel 5, it is a wide angle with a viewing angle of 107º.
Night portrait
Although there are not many mobiles that support this combination, what could reach older Pixel models is the new tool that allows you to take portrait photographs with Night Sight . Now the phone’s camera will not only have to calculate the subject and create a synthesized bokeh effect, it will also be able to do so in unfavorable lighting. In this way, portrait mode and night mode are combined in the same place.
Portrait lighting
Portrait Light is a new function that allows us to illuminate the face of a subject where there may be too much shadow or if the subject is facing a very bright sky. The Google camera allows you to manually select where in the photo to add or subtract light to your subject’s face and get the best image. This function will reach other mobiles via Google Photos, the company’s app that will be updated to allow us to do this with old photos as well.
New stabilization modes
When it comes to video recording, Google’s smartphone launches three new stabilization modes: Locked, Active and Cinematic Pan. The latter is the one that Google focused the most on during the live broadcast and it is a mode that it will basically shoot at 60fps and then slow down the video 2X to create smoother and more dramatic cinema-style videos.
