[Google Pixel 8 Pro] CHH2:
I used to work for an art museum here in KC. During my time working there and continuing past that, I use it as kind of an ultimate test any time I get a new camera. Just got home and had some initial observations. Photo examples from today to come later after I figure out how I want to do that.

1) Changing between normal resolution and high reso on the normal and tele sensors causes a shift in WB. And it's not even consistent! I was about to say normal reso is warmer than high but then I have images that are reverse. Wide angle lens so far seems the most consistent but I also didn't shoot that one as much.

2) The change in reso between normal and high is most definitely enough to show deficiencies in hand holding technique AND image stabilization.

3) Tying in with #2, the image stabilization on the 5x lens could definitely be a lot better all around. It's jumpier than a route setter who hasn't slept for days and is propped up by several cans of Red Bull the day of the comp. (Gee, that's an oddly specific example. Wonder where that one came from. /s ) And it doesn't do so hot in either reso if light isn't in what I'd call the half way decent range. In which case, I'm not sure if I'd really need it then unless shooting high reso.

Overall, I'd say shooting the tele lens in less than spectacular light isn't a better experience than I had with my P6P. Scrolling back to when I went into the museum with the P6P two years ago, there's one statue that I don't have an image of from that phone and I'm certain I took it. Which tells me it didn't work out. It'll pretty much be the same for the P8P for the same statue.

4) If you can get a clean shot, there certainly is a difference in the two resos but you'll only really be able to tell when you zoom in. Which tells me that Google is probably doing some processing magic on the pixel binned shot that they aren't doing on the full sensor reso shots because it is closer than it should be.

5) At the moment, super zoom is a mixed bag but I'm interested to see what zoom enhance does for us once it arrives.

6) I've only done some limited night shots so far around town but so far, they've been good.

7) Pro controls! Oh, happy day! Interesting choice in color for focus peaking. It works well for me which is good because I don't see an option to change it in the menus.

8) When in Google Photos and zooming into the images I took at full reso, it takes a sec for the image to correctly render.

9) One of the early reviews mentioned Google was working on a camera update. Not sure if that's the one that was there when I initially set-up my device or if they already have another one coming soon. I'm hoping for the latter. (Reso switching any lens and

10) Opening the camera app at the "normal" lens and getting kind of close, I think it automatically swapped to the wide angle lens for a macro shot. (I think the exif data on lens used supports this.) I got a yellow flower symbol in the middle of the camera UI. Buuuut, the lens switcher bar below continued to show the "normal" lens. When I open the camera and switch to the wide lens myself and then get close, I don't get any sort of macro symbol in the camera UI.

11) There's this stairwell railing there that I've take a macro shot of before years ago with a Nikon D600 and 28-105 lens that had a macro function. Initial look at the P8P macro image is highly encouraging. Can't wait to play with the image in post. (I'm usually gunning for a B&W image unless I have a good reason to be shooting for color. This railing detail is monochromatic even in color soooo.....) Only downside is that we don't have aperture control so the DOF is looking thinner than what I shot with a full frame sensor. Still need to assess how smooth the fall off is.

As I said above, I still need to figure out how best to present the needed details in the images and how to get them on here (or hosted somewhere else? No idea if there's an issue with image sizes here?). Hoping to get that done by tonight.