The PetaPixel Team flew down for the Made by Google event where the Pixel 9 series launched and have some immediate reactions to the new features. With a strong emphasis on AI-based features, does the Pixel 9 Pro have anything compelling to offer photographers and videographers?
Read the full first impressions: https://petapixel.com/2024/08/13/googles-pixel-9-pro-first-impressions-hands-on-may-have-finally-made-ai-useful/
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0:00 – Intro
1:07 – Cameras
2:05 – Displays
2:31 – AI Functions
3:48 – Panoramas
4:19 – Video
5:08 – The wrap
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Google may not exist the following week. So why bother with the pixel phone
You do such entertaining videos (as well as informative). Thanks for making me smile Jordan – good luck with the running (cough splutter 😜 )
Curious to see if amount of sharpening is still beyond excessive like past 6 generations
It feels like the best minds in the world are now working on tools nobody asked for to create fake photos and fake videos, which is the last thing we need. I know I sound like a luddite, but it would be great if those brains were unleashed on a real problem, like terrorism, catastrophic climate change, war, pollution, education, you name it.
Only watching for the GH7 footage. And the humor, of course.
UFS 3.1 and a midrange chip for a highend price..
Just pre-ordered the Pixel 9 Pro XL. Can't wait to try out these new features!
Pretty sure my Nokia 1030 had a similar panorama layout
25 – 112 mm is only 4.5 times zoom, not 5x 😕
I dont want more AI features 😐 i just want a modern snappy Pixel 4a with big battery life
Add me option for all the Lonely instagram models living fake lives.
The ai features probably won’t be free for long.
This "fake photo" nonsense has gone too far.
Give me a "reality" mode that reduces all of this. I'm not 13 years old.
unimpressed
NOT BUYING! 128 GB for $999.00 and Crappy trade in Values! NOPE!
yeah…but i need the log video capability, meanwhile apple is unbeatable…sadly. i don care about 8k, i care about to make not videoish material
I'm so tired of buying phones😢
One of the problems that Google has been known for is that fact that their cellphone reception really SUCKS. Their microphone as in speaker phone really SUCKS. Actually, Google does do a fine job for cameras, my wife has had 2 googles, but as far as a phone is concerned, they are literally the WORST. How much better is the camera, my experience with 2 different Pixels is that, it just isn't worth it. This is actually a VERY well known problem, I wonder why you don't mention it?
Bro looks like al borland
I'm just happy that someone finally made a flagship phone that's not a gargantuan 6.8in phone. Big phones are for old people that can't see lol
Type 1/3.1" ? you mean 1/1.3" ?
You guys are just so fun to watch! But I have a bit of a concern about the rollout of the Pixel 9 Pro here in Australia. It seems that only the ProXL version will be sold with 1TB storage. The smaller Pro will cap out at 512MB. What's up with that? Don't people who like smaller phones take as many hours of video as big handed people?
Sees a photo, wow that place is so beautiful, I'm so motivated to visit and experience it myself.
Goes there Oh, it was mostly AI manipulated fakery…. Further pursues a REAL experience. Do we really want to further degrade the reliability of photographs?
Please test the RAW files Mate.
You guys are so overqualified for this … props for trying to be excited when talking about this phone
Love the smaller pro model , I pre ordered the smaller pro model as soon as it dropped on there web site .
Love the smaller pro model , I pre ordered the smaller pro model as soon as it dropped on there web site .
honestly don't give a S#@T about ai
Interested to see if they've fixed the annoying lens jumps when recording a video.
Review the modem
There is no "artform" between photography and AI. Everything you showed about the AI features on this phone might suit the typical phone user but as a legitimate photographer I shudder at the idea that we would implement these into real world photography.
I don't know, I have never been a big fan of fake photos, as in if it didn't really happen then it doesn't have the same feel to me. Taking multiple photos and choosing the best is different though.
I love a lot of the features coming to it, but I will definitely be keeping camera AI at a minimum. It just feels deceptive.
@3:52 that looks like an iteration on the windows 8 mobile panorama
Please explain me a thing : How come that a Product which was released at the event you were at , you are not allowed to test all those features? What do they have to hide?
Does it have good face unlock? My P7 sucks
2:18 It might be brighter, but how does the device temperature feel? I know my Pixel 8 Pro gets incredibly hot when the screen is at peak brightness for more than 30 seconds, especially when I direct sunlight.
4:00 Samsung used to have this. I used it to get an incredible pic of Safeco Field (now known as T-Mobile Park).
4:59 Hopefully they'll allow not having the 8k upscale.
This video looks really good! Love the colors. The folding version looks really compelling. I just wish it had some kind of active stylus support like the S Pen.
I have the pixel 8 pro because I wanted to go back from Apple to android. I literally NEVER use the AI functions. The camera enhances the pics i take automatically and its pretty annoying. The AI features take ages to load and are pretty useless. So basically the pixel phones are outdated, because the processor is outdated and slow. The battery is also really bad.
I hate paid videos with no actual testing, just blah blah blah
no Prores , no Log video …. okkk
This AI will kill Photoshop designer and photography editors soon.
I want to know if the Pro bins to 12 mega pixel and that's that like the 7 Pro or can you shoot in actual 48mpx?
Did people forget that photosphere was the new panaroma mode???? It had a multitude of different ways to capture a scene, it captured photos with hdr+ (although lower resolution than the main camera mode). The biggest difference i forsee is that we may be able to get full 12mp photos on each snap, and shoot in nightsight with it as well.
I do wish they would have just worked on and improved photosphere. it was one of my favorite features on the pixel lineup