Pixel 4A Camera Samples
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Pixel 4A, main camera. This phone captured a bleak morning at a quiet beach well. There's good detail, accurate colors, and nice contrast.
Pixel 4A, Portrait mode. Phone cameras are still a ways off from mimicking the classic DSLR-style bokeh effect, but the Pixel 4A does a solid job here. The blur falloff around the subject isn't as effective here, but the subject is well exposed and filled with strong detail. You can see the stem on the left and right are a little messed up, though.
Pixel 4A, main camera. Sunny scenes are never over-saturated or over-sharpened as they are on many other budget phones.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu01Pixel 4A, main camera. This phone captured a bleak morning at a quiet beach well. There's good detail, accurate colors, and nice contrast.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu02Pixel 4A, Portrait mode. Phone cameras are still a ways off from mimicking the classic DSLR-style bokeh effect, but the Pixel 4A does a solid job here. The blur falloff around the subject isn't as effective here, but the subject is well exposed and filled with strong detail. You can see the stem on the left and right are a little messed up, though.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu03Pixel 4A, main camera. Sunny scenes are never over-saturated or over-sharpened as they are on many other budget phones.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu04Pixel 4A, Portrait mode. I love this photo. Yes, the blur outline isn't perfect (it messes up around the ears a little), but the 4A does a pretty great job overall. This is one of the few phones that maintains a healthy amount of detail in portrait mode.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu05Pixel 4A, main camera. The underside of these leaves are exposed incredibly well against the bright backdrop. It also has natural colors and great clarity.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu06Pixel 4A, Night Sight. Compare this photo to the following one, and you'll find far better white balance here and sharper details.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu07Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus, Night mode. This photo isn't bad, but the color temperature is all wrong and detail isn't as sharp as it should be for a $1,200 phone.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu08Pixel 4A, Astrophotography mode. When you place the Pixel 4A on a tripod and go to Night Sight, you'll automatically trigger astrophotography mode if the phone is pointing toward the sky. If you're in a dark enough place, you'll be able to snap wonderful photos of the stars, but this is the best I could do in New York City.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu09Pixel 4A, main camera. This was initially a Portrait mode photo, but the image without the blur effect ended up looking nicer. Colors are really nice here as is exposure.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu10Pixel 4A, Night Sight. This scene was much darker than this photo lets on. I'm under a bridge on a dark street at 40 minutes past minute, with a nearby streetlamp as the only light source. The Pixel 4A lights it all up and retains good white balance, detail, and color.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu11OnePlus Nord, Nightscape. It took me a few tries to get a non-blurry equivalent with the slightly more expensive OnePlus Nord (which is not being sold in the US). You can see how much better the white balance is on the Pixel, though props to OnePlus for faring relatively well.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu12Pixel 4A, Night Sight. I cropped this photo a little bit, and it still looks great. Compared to the photos I took on some other phones, the 4A holds a lot of small details throughout the photo, especially with the ripples on the water and texture on the rocks.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu13Pixel 4A, Night Sight. The sky is very grainy here, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think the white balance could be a tad better here, but this is still a very nice photo.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu14Pixel 4A, Portrait mode. Here's a photo where portrait mode excels on my dog. The falloff toward the back of my dog's head is wonderful, and everything just looks *so* sharp. He is a very good boy.
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