Here is how Pixel’s AI zoom compares to a real 100x lens

If you have missed it last week among other big news items, Google has sent a phone camera with a zoom feature that uses generative AI. It’s OK: Pixel 10 Pro comes with AI inside the camera app that otherwise cleanses otherwise the Crape Digital Zoom Images cleanses the Crapsed Digital Zoom Images by up to 100x. Whatever it is, it’s a great dream, but it is also great-at least it seems. But it’s hard to believe that what you are making is like making a picture when it is a mail away. So I brought a color to some aspects: Nican Coldics P1100.

For unfamiliar people, P1100 is a large-scale ultrasum camera with an equivalent range 24-3000 mm. When you have optics like this, you don’t have to have any applies like a Pixel 10 Pro. Certainly the camera applies some noise reduction, sharpening and color adjustment. But it doesn’t have to do it completely Seems to be It should look like any individual pixel, as there were some information to start with it.

Digital zoom, such as a Pixel 10 Pro, is a different story. Optical magnetization leaves a lot of space to fill an image 10 or 20 or 100 times without benefiting. The algorithm can make a lot of good guesses, but they are the only: guess. The Pixel 10 Pro -Pro Race creates these estimates with the help of Zoom Generative A. And if we are taking AI zoom photos, what is better to start with the moon?

It is asking a lot of smartphone camera to take a picture of the moon, and Google is not the first to make the first phone to bring AI. The Pro Race Zoom version certainly looks like a moon, but AI gives it a strange structure that doesn’t look exactly-especially compared to the P1100 version.

Pictures above the outer section of the Lemon field were taken from a mile distance of a mile from a mileplace, a neglect of the city Seattle. It was a fast, cloudy day, so apologies for the pictures of the drab, but they give a better guess where the pro -zoom is better than where and where it falls. The AI ​​model enables to read numbers on symbols and really cleanses the edges, but it mainly eliminates metal cleaning on the side of the building, such as a lack of aggressive noise. And once again, AI doesn’t know what to do in writing.

These photos of the Starbucks Headquarters, which are a mile south of Lemon, were taken from the same point of view. On a small screen the AI ​​version looks fine, but if you look closely, you can see where it turned some lamps into windows and gave the clock a slightly salvo treatment to the tower.

One sunny day I identified both cameras on another historical sign of Seattle. I was about three miles away from the space injection and faced another enemy of photography over a long distance: the heat of the heat. AI did not know exactly what to do with distorted lines and created Tim Burton’s Space Injection Instead, you can see that P1100 was not much better, what is with all the hot environment between the lens and the article.

The heat of the heat is also clearly a problem in this situation. I was not standing too far from the Boeingfield planes in the above photos, but there was a very hot asphalt between me and the aircraft, photographing the image of producing heat waves. But this is clearly where AI shines. In fact, it may be yours Only Option If you are trying to fix the hard thing like a heat dusk.

This is the place where everything is complicated. Generative AI has been in the photo editing tools for years, and it is very useful for things like eliminating noise from an image taken with the old DSLR. The heat of the heat is another problem. Random disturbances and waves are impossible to fix with traditional digital photo editing tools. Landscape and wildlife photographers are already embracing AI editing tools that can only dream your regular light room slides.

Is this different when the AI ​​camera is inside the app, not just in the professional image editor you will use after that fact? Exactly what pro races make zoom things very wrong? Yes. But this has been a bright exercise, and I don’t think it is the last thing that we will be used in the image arrest device about Generative AI.