Pixel 3a XL

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albert

#15
September 08, 2019, 10:04:23 PM
Oops, I totally didn't realise I wrote that. Nice spot!
Cheers, Bert

smilodon

#16
September 12, 2019, 08:50:57 PM
This phone really reminds me of those halcyon days when the Nexus phones were the things to have. State of the art everything and a camera that really impresses me.

I seriously think I could submit commercial work using this phone.

Even quick snaps look like DSLR shots. I found the most difficult thing for Google to try to isolate from the background, a fluffy flower thing.
Using DSLR it would be simple to take this with narrow depth of field.
In Adobe Photoshop it would take a while to separate the fine strands of the flower from the green foliage behind. The Pixel 3 did it almost instantaneously.
If you look really hard you can see a couple of places where the software has messed up. However basically it's taken the same shot as a Pro DSLR and lens. Impressive.

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The real treat comes when you find a new and perhaps silly feature as I just did in the camera.
Taking the dog for an evening walk, so quite low light bordering on twilight and who did I meet walking her own dog.... Nebula.

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It's fairly impressive that all the heavy lifting used to insert her into a pretty dark image was done in phone. In fact Youtube seems to degrade the image a bit as by default it plays in 360p while it can be set to play in 1080p.
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BrotherTobious

#17
September 12, 2019, 09:43:05 PM
Agreed the even the panic mode specialist like me I am very impressed with the night mode and the quality of it all.
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

albert

#18
September 30, 2019, 11:35:01 AM
It's a total ripoff. google do not sell phones directly in the Netherlands, they sell through cell companies. They charge â,¬50+ more than Google do in other European countries direct.

In Germany and France the Pixel 3a is â,¬399. That's whole £45 cheaper than the UK. I was going to get my wife one but I'm darrrrnnnnnned if I'm paying more than the Germans or French people do.
Cheers, Bert

Mikep1212

#19
October 01, 2019, 11:31:16 PM
you could get flights to Paris, have a nice weekend with the wife and pick the phone up whilst your there :D

BrotherTobious

#20
October 01, 2019, 11:38:32 PM
You old romantic Mike
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

albert

#21
October 03, 2019, 06:03:13 PM
Quote from: Mikep1212;439394you could get flights to Paris, have a nice weekend with the wife and pick the phone up whilst your there :D

Sort of a bit of a false economy but I get your tactic there mate.
Cheers, Bert
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