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Android Authority has obtained a leak that particulars the digital camera techniques that Google will embody within the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional later this 12 months. This leak, from “a supply inside Google,” signifies that these handsets will obtain “a substantial {hardware} improve” over the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional.
In keeping with the weblog, the largest improve this 12 months applies to each telephones: the place Google final 12 months used a Samsung ISOCELL GN1 principal (large) lens, this 12 months they are going to get the Samsung ISOCELL GN2, which is a bigger sensor that allows 35 p.c extra mild. It additionally helps 8K/30 fps video seize (although it must be famous that present Pixels run very popular at 4K/60 fps) and staggered HDR.
From there, the telephones differ (as they do for the Pixel 7 and seven Professional).
The Pixel 8 Professional is getting a pleasant ultra-wide improve, too: Google is changing the traditional 12 MP Sony IMX386 lens used within the Pixel 7 with a 64 MP Sony IMX787 lens. However the Pixel 8 Professional will sadly embody the identical 48 MP Samsung GM5 lens with 5X optical zoom as its predecessor. This can be a respectable lens, however my spouse’s year-old Samsung Galaxy S22 Extremely has dramatically higher optical and hybrid zoom capabilities, so that is an space the place Pixel stays inferior.
The (non-Professional) Pixel 8 is getting a minor improve to its ultra-wide lens. Right here, Google is utilizing the identical 12 MP Sony IMX386 lens as final 12 months, however it’ll have a barely higher zoom ratio (0.55X vs. 0.67X). This looks as if a giant step down from the lens within the Pixel 8 Professional.
Lastly, the place the Pixel 8 will soldier ahead with the identical STMicroelectronics VL53L1 Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor because the Pixel 7 and seven Professional, the Pixel 8 Professional will get a “large improve” within the type of an 8×8 ToF VL53L8 sensor that ought to enhance autofocus efficiency.
And whereas this isn’t associated to the digital camera system, the Pixel 8 Professional will even embody a Melexis MLX90632 thermometer sensor in its digital camera bar that can be used to measure the person’s pores and skin/physique temperature, the weblog says.