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Google was wrong to drop the telephoto lens on the Pixel 5 - Android Police
Oct 22, 2020 1 min, 9 secs

One of my favorite features on the Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL were their telephoto camera lenses.

While they lacked the kind of extended range you might find on a phone like the Galaxy Note20 Ultra, the effective 2x zoom factor coupled with Google's Super Res Zoom AI made the Pixel 4's maximum digital zoom usable, at 8x.

Here are two photos, one taken by my Pixel 4 XL, and one by the Pixel 5, at 7x (the Pixel 5 maxes at this zoom factor).

Like carving a statue out of marble, it's a matter of raw material — when working with a full-sized, original quality file from my mirrorless camera, I've got a much bigger hunk of photo to chisel away at.

Working with something shot on a smartphone, even a photo shot at a modest 2 or 3x digital zoom doesn't have any margin for error.

Super Res Zoom does its job.

On the other hand, I can't count the number of museums, parks, and tourist destinations I've been to where I see someone desperately trying to capture some detail by zooming in their phone's camera.

This is a real thing that happens, and I know many of you can recall the days of telling your older relatives not to use the digital zoom on their point-and-shoots since all it did was a straight crop, without any of the fancy supersampling or processing we have today.

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