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as somebody who owns the pixel 7 pro it is the better camera for point and shoot. I would say the pixel is the best camera available on a smart phone at present.
Except it cannot take advantage of the 50MP sensor... it bins the pixels down to 12.5MP even in RAW.
On the main camera (1x) I'm yet to see any smartphone that will even come close to the 48MP ProRaw files the iPhone 14 Pro models produce... and I am a photographer by trade so I'd like to think I know what I'm looking at.


In point and shoot jpeg only file maybe so, but even then there's not much in it and I’d still choose the iPhone in most shots I’ve seen.

 
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The new cameras are an upgrade but you have to use third party apps with widgets on the lock screen and those widgets have to point only to the wide lens and then shoot 48mp and instantly convert to jpg at 15mb per shot - for your standard shots. The other lenses for the other shots like low light are alright.



Then the photos are better with the 14 Pros.
 
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Except it cannot take advantage of the 50MP sensor... it bins the pixels down to 12.5MP even in RAW.
On the main camera (1x) I'm yet to see any smartphone that will even come close to the 48MP ProRaw files the iPhone 14 Pro models produce... and I am a photographer by trade so I'd like to think I know what I'm looking at.


In point and shoot jpeg only file maybe so, but even then there's not much in it.


Sure pro raw is great but most people do not want to shoot in raw. People want to point and shoot and capture the shot not spend time editing. So really pixel doesn’t need to shoot in raw due to the capabilities on on h software processing.
 
Sure pro raw is great but most people do not want to shoot in raw. People want to point and shoot and capture the shot not spend time editing. So really pixel doesn’t need to shoot in raw due to the capabilities on on h software processing.
Still no comparison between a 48MP ProRaw and a Pixel JPEG, not even close. All things equal there's still nothing in it between the iPhone and Pixel, at times one might do better than the other and vice versa depending on user, scene, weather etc...again as the video I posted above shows.
 
Of the ProRAW pictures I've taken, they look really good without editing. If I wanted to edit, there's more information to play with, sure. But I haven't seen a reason to yet.
 
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