[celeritascelery]

> A cursory glance shows the Pixel 3's camera the best of the bunch, sometimes by far.

I am surprised that you drew that conslusion from the review. I got the impression that iPhone and Samsung flagships consistently beat the Pixel 3 in daylight and normal light shots. They just have better hardware. He stated multiple times that iPhone is a better representation of the actual scene. However the night mode is obviously best in class (given nothing in the frame is moving).

[rackforms]

Yeah, looking for I should qualify in overall presentation yes.

My comment was more a remark on the de-noise Apple's default camera app applies.

Again, I'd check out that image I linked to. At 100% zoom the ground detail is quite literally erased from the iPhone X image, to the point where it looks like a stylized art filter was applied.

The Pixel at least retains detail in such places (also, for example, on the roof tiles). Link: https://images.anandtech.com/galleries/6731/G_Pixel3_IMG_201...

None are perfect of course -- Samsung loves them some sharpening, and the Pixels images have a slightly garish blue cast I'm not a fan of.

[celeritascelery]

I will agree with you that iPhone X photo looks poor. But that is last years flagship. The iPhone xs looks as good, if not better then the pixel. And if you compare the pixel 3 and iPhone xs at 2x zoom for the same photo, you will that the iPhone has much more detail (thanks to the telephoto lens). Google just can’t compete with the better hardware of the iPhones and Samsung phones, even with their better algorithms.