then both are very good but also very different see in a way the iphone plays it safe it generally goes for softer tones and subtle levels of gradual background blur as objects get further away from the camera the pixel just dives in head first it uses a little bit of digital zoom to get closer it dials up the contrast and instead of being gradual with its background blur its shots look an awful lot like they've just kind of cut the subject out and then slapped a huge amount of uniform blur on everything else around them and while that sounds like going down the easy route it might be to be honest it doesn't necessarily mean that they're worse in these situations the benefit of confidence like this is that when things do work out they can look astonishing and while i do think that the iphone is more reliable with human subjects and that the way it handles blur is technically more correct if you were trying to mimic a higher end mirrorless camera things get spicy when you start talking about inanimate objects that didn't sound right the pixel is much better at figuring out objects like hands watches bottles glasses etc and one will spend so much time on the iphone faffing around trying to find the right distance for portrait mode to activate on these things with the pixel you just tap the subject to lock focus and hit that shutter button however there is one thing to bear in mind with this portrait category if you go right up close to someone's face to take a shot this is what it will look like if you step back a little and then use a bit of zoom it'll look nicer and basically the further you step back and the more zoom you're able to use the more flattering a person's face will appear because your lens won't be distorting their features as much this is why when you go onto portrait mode on this new iphone it will straight away switch to its three-time zoom camera by default but this is one of the downsides of the pixel because it doesn't let you instead only allowing you to use digital zoom from its main camera which you won't want to do because it's going to wreck your quality it feels like a glaring oversight especially given how good the pixel zoom camera is and without it when you allow the iphone to take portraits with its three-time zoom camera it definitely gains back some points in how it allows for more realistic and flattering proportions so i'm giving portraits a draw overall oh yeah and thanks to rhino shield for sponsoring this video and speaking of glaring oversights i'm kind of surprised to see that google also skipped the macro feature pretty much every major flagship phone this year samsung apple oppo vivo when you bring these phones close to an object they will automatically detect this proximity and switch to their ultrawide cameras which have now been given the ability to focus really close now it's not what i'd call a major camera feature but it's also not a minor feature and it feels kind of weird that we have all these wacky crazy niche software modes like action pan on this pixel but not one of the more standard industry features like the ability to take close-ups but let's talk about these software features actually because the pixel does have quite a lot that are worth a mention yes it misses out on the macro mode that the iphone has which also includes macro videos as well as macro photos and it doesn't have anything close to apple's
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