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(door squeaking) - Okay, so after waiting two weeks for this package, I finally have it. So right inside of this package right here, I'm going to open it, we should have my Google 6 Pro. And it is right here, so let's go back home and unbox it. (air whooshing) (stream trickling) For those of you who are new to this channel, I'm Loïc Bellemare-Alford a young photographer and filmmaker on the journey to become better at this art. And if you don't know, I was a really big fan of my Google Pixel 4a, so I'm super, super excited to open this Google 6 Pro, especially for the new cameras, so let's get right into it. So we're going to start by opening the box right in behind here. So we're going to open these little tabs. Let's just remove all these books from here, and now, for the big reveal, we going to open it, and here's the phone. So first thing, it's big. It's really, really big. I don't really like big phones, but I guess to get the cameras in the back and everything, it's not really a choice it's actually pretty cold also now. It's all metal in the back instead of plastic on the Google Pixel 4a. So this is the front right here. There's nothing to remove in the back. The Camera Bar is not as bad as I thought. Actually, it doesn't look that bad at all, especially maybe in the black right here, I don't think it's terrible but it doesn't have a lot of fingerprints in the back. So I think we're ready actually to open it right up here so we going to press it and here it goes, it opens. And while we open it we can have a look at what else is inside of the box right here. So we have our cable right here to charge it. There is no charging brick so that's one thing you need to know, and we have a normal USB here and some instructions that I'm probably never going to read. definite instructions, they're right here. So you have the phone here, so I'm going to have to set it up, and we going to be ready to go outside and actually go do a little photo walk, and take some pictures (camera clicking) and really test these cameras because I'm super excited (camera clicking) to see how this wide angle lens, this normal lens, and also this telephoto works. And yeah, first looks, it seems to be really well-built. It feels really good in the hand. It is good to have happening right now with me moving this around. So really excited to test it out. (air whooshing) I'm finally outside and ready to test this Google Pixel 4a. So I'm currently using the front-facing camera to record this video. I also enabled speech enhance, so I hope it's going to help with the background noise because there's streets around and a lot of background noise. But I'm really excited to test the photo capabilities (air whooshing) of this device. So right now, I'm first going to go buy a case because one of the disadvantage of this phone is that the back is very slippery. It's a huge phone, so pretty hard to keep in your hand. So I'm first going to go get a case so I can make sure that it's safe, then I'm going to go outside and walk around around here before it becomes too dark and also it starts raining. And then, I'm going to take a bunch of pictures so I haven't really tested the camera yet, I actually just took like 10 pictures yesterday. So I'm really excited to see how it's going to look. I'm going to put the full resolution pictures down below so you going to have a link to be able to view all of them, if you want to go and see how they look and judge by yourself if they're good or not. But this is not going to be an in-depth review of the phone or of the full capabilities, This is really just a first look of how the camera is performing. If you want to see the full review, I'm going to have one that's going to be coming out about in one or two weeks. And then I'm also going to have a bunch of other videos about the Google Pixel 6 Pro, including some videos about... Okay, so I'm not too sure what happened, but my Pixel 6 stopped recording because I said something that it didn't like. But yeah, I'm going to have other videos about comparison, including one comparing it to the Google Pixel 4a. I'm also going to have a video comparing it to my DSLR and also the one I'm going to be receiving a little bit later, so the Sony A74. So I'm really excited about all this comparison. I'm also hoping to film a full vlog using only this phone. So yeah, there's going to be a lot of content to see. So definitely subscribe if you're not already part of this community. (upbeat music) (camera clicking) (camera clicking) (camera clicking) So right here, I'm going to go inside of the camera here. I'm going to switch back on the main camera. So one thing you going to notice right away is that now we have point seven two times and four times zoom. And if you go on two times, four times, you can actually select the exact zoom once. We can start it here to exactly what they want and we going to get really good photos. I think if I come here, I won't have to hop a little bit up the rocks in the front door to background. So maybe do something a little bit like this and take (camera clicking) this shot right here. I might want to have a wide angle here. So I think the path over here is pretty nice. So can come out here and we go on the wide angle we going to walk back a little bit. This going to be a good test for deep head-on mic range, cos we have the sky, we have all kinds of colors inside of here. The shot of this front here, we have actually have some pretty nice architecture right here, so I'm pretty happy with this one. So we're going to see here. It's going to be a great one for wide angle photos if you take it up one times, it's looking pretty good, for now we go up and have a wider angle. This is a much more interesting shot. So I'm really happy to have the wide angle. I wasn't expecting to use it too much, but I've already been using it quite a lot. So I think here something like this can be a good test maybe support portrait mode photo, so it can maybe go clear, I'm just going to get a picture of the music here. (camera clicking) See how portrait mode works on that. (camera clicking) But I can see that we going to recap portrait mode we already have quite a lot of blur inside of the photos. So now there's a nice still deer here. So I think one time zoom (camera clicking) is looking pretty good, but now I want to really run out the time I try here four times zoom and see how this looks. So, can see we can actually zoom in quite a lot right here and that all the detail (camera clicking) right here. And then I go on and test a few shots of the portrait mode with the colors in leaves that are here. So I'm going to come up here, let's go on the side, we going to switch to portrait mode and always remember to tap to focus. So right here, I'm going to tap to focus here. (camera clicking) Take a picture I might zoom in right here, so you can actually use a two times zoom here. Let me see portrait (camera clicking) mode right here. I can zoom back out here, but portrait mode still enabled. So I'm really excited to see how it's going to come out. (camera clicking) Oh, this one right here is pretty nice. We have some nice red instead of the sharp right here in this leaf contrasting with all the yellow in the background. So we going to take this one (camera clicking) here and I'm cooking it and look at my results here so, up to now it's looking pretty good, and the screen right here is really high quality, (camera clicking) but this zoom on a portrait mode doesn't look that good, (camera clicking) but the pictures in general are looking pretty good, sharp detail. I definitely want to show pictures of the center claves right here. So I'm going to come here, again I love using foreground subjects here, but if you were just on, so on wide angle lens here, (camera clicking) let me see it's a decent shot. If you go onto one time zoom still looks pretty good, but you going to see that (camera clicking) zoom in using the zoom, make it much better. So now we can actually go for here. (camera clicking) Okay, let's do few other test shots here, the flowers. (upbeat music) (camera clicking) (camera clicking) (camera clicking) (camera clicking) Okay. So just take the winter here and it's not looking too good. It's looking next to be raining for a full rest of the day. So if I want to be able to get this video out tomorrow, I'm actually (camera clicking) going to have to stop filming (camera clicking) and I go edit the video. So we might not have as many test shots as I would like, but I'm still going to try and take as much as possible while walking back home. (upbeat music) Okay, so one thing I definitely want to be testing out before going back home is a new motion mode right here so we're actually going go on action time. So I'd have to wait for a car to pass and we going to simply turn around the phone while the car is passing This one is actually turning, so maybe you can try it out with this. (car passing) (camera clicking) You see, oh, this is actually pretty cool. This is actually pretty decent. You could take this one here. (camera clicking) Okay. So Jamie is actually (car passing) quite hard to get. Yeah. So just different, some pretty cool shots, (camera clicking) but let's just wait, just a red car coming over there. (car passing) (camera clicking) And just quickly I want to talk about, so this is not a 50 megapixels sensor, back right here this is a 50 megapixels sensor for both the main camera and also the zoom lines, but they're actually not 50 megapixels in the end, the 12 megapixels get to binding the pictures at the sensor level. I'm going to go into more detail about that inside of my video, where I'm going to do for review of the camera. But it's just good to know that it's not actually 50 megapixel you cannot get for assuming you got pixel pillows with this phone. So if you're wondering, that's one thing to note. (camera clicking) So I'm pretty happy with the detail in the clouds here. It's actually really wide for me. So even since the beginning, a little bit more detailed than I do. So that's definitely quite impressive. I want to get a picture of this very one, one time zoom. (camera clicking) Perfect. So again, it's so cool having a zoom. So I do see that the pictures, of the zoom are a little bit over sharpened here, so definitely some curving over sharpen, but it's still a lot more, a lot better than the old ones where you had a zoom using AI. So pretty happy that we're getting this. So actually realized that I didn't really test the portrait mode, so let's go on here. We going to turn on the camera and I'm going to take a little selfie here so (camera clicking) this is how so destined to have a fixed focus lens, which is not great, talk more about it and whenever I have videos where I explained how to take some better portrait photos, by the way you haven't seen, I have a full series on how to take some better pictures using your phone so definitely go check that out, but let's just take a few other ones here. (camera clicking) And if we going to make it a little bit harder here, we going to have to choose them backgrounds and mix, it's probably going to be a little bit harder for the software to detect what is the edge of my hair. So we going to take a few ones right here. (camera clicking) So now we check again, the processing is not live, so it's not like an iPhone where you see a live preview, you have to wait it after the posing afterwards, I'm actually surprised it still takes quite a long time cos I was expecting it to be a little bit faster using the tensor chip, but if you look at the result here, it does seem to be doing a pretty good job with my hair all around. But I would say it's pretty similar to the results we used to have on the previous Google Pixel phones. So now I'd probably want to do a little walking tests. So for this, we going to switch to the video. They have new stabilization modes, so I'm hoping to be better. So turn around the camera, I have the video right now set, I think at 40, we just going to check that four key, 40 frames per second. So we going to turn around the camera here and I'm simply going to walk. So I'm walking normally. So the camera's a little bit bouncing around, but see if it's actually stabilizing it well or not also on it looked at the image to see if it's still completely over sharpened. So for this, I'm just going to turn around the camera a little bit here, try and get some of the detail, go back here and up. And I'm really excited to see how stable is my camera. It does seem to be looking pretty good right now. It's going be a question of, does it actually good look good or not? So let's take a few other photos right here so we can actually see we're having like some nice colors in the background. So actually think here a wide angle photo, it's going to be looking pretty nice, but I want to try and zoom it because there are some ducks right here. You couldn't see them when I was under wide clear photo, but now that we're zoomed in we can actually see them a little bit more. (camera clicking) I think this also going to be a good test to zoom even more. So if you want it to go over four we can actually go up to 20 times. Optical, digital zoom. I don't use this at all (camera clicking), but still we going to be able to test up if the quality (camera clicking) looks any good or not. So yes she is coming back down. (camera clicking) Oh, could I get a motion photo of the person running right there? (camera clicking) Oh, that looks really good. That was actually pretty cool. You can actually use the telephoto right here to take some motion photos. I really like this view right here. So let's take an another one to the photo lens photo here. I do want to include the trees a bit more on the right here because they're nice and colorful. (camera clicking) So yeah, as you can see, it's really cool having multiple lenses here where we're really able to go through the different modes and get some different types of shots. So it just a little bit too late for fall colors right here. So that's a bit disappointing, but I'm doing the best with what we have. So right here, (camera clicking) I do want a wide angle lens photo right here. (camera clicking) So we going to continue moving. I should mind on wait here for another back to pass by if I can get somebody, it could be really cool or so let's go in motion. (brakes screeching) (camera clicking) Oh, so these are really cool. So it's not perfect. It's definitely not a perfect but (camera clicking) motion photos are definitely something I'm going to be (camera clicking) using way more than I expected. I wasn't super excited about this feature, but I'm having a lot of fun using it right now. (camera clicking) There's not even portrait mode on and we have really good depth of a film incentive days (camera clicking) in my viewpoint for some portraits or things like that. (camera clicking) But if you want to just take pictures without having to use portrait mode to get some blur, it's actually a really well welcome (camera clicking) update here to have a bigger sensor that allows to get some more natural (camera clicking) blur inside of the photos. Okay. So here almost 1:00 p.m. So I'm going to go back inside. I'm going to eat my lunch and then come back outside, if it's still looking nice, I'm going to take the car and go get some pictures by the lake. Cos I really want to get a few landscape shots to be able to test this out. But up to now, I must say I'm pretty pleased with the results we're getting. It's actually pretty good result. Other photos, just that I, they expect from the Gulf Associates. I'm not sure to as good as some people hope because it was so hype as a phone, but just still really good results and I think it brings back the Google Pixel 6 and the Google Pixel 6 Pro up to the top of some of the best camera phones and smart phones. Sadly, it's been raining nonstop since I came back earlier, so I haven't had time to go out and take some other pictures, but I want to quick as possible. So I decided to finish editing it instead and look at the pictures. So I must say that I'm pretty happy with most of the results (camera clicking) I've been getting up to now using the Google 6 Pro. So they're pretty (camera clicking) much similar to what you would expect from a Google Pixel 4a, but a little bit sharper, (camera clicking) they look better and the addition of the telephoto lens and also the wide angle lens are very welcome. I really enjoy using both of these lens and make much better pictures overall, allowing to have some optical lenses, not using digital tricks to be able to fix them. I would say one thing where I agree with review is that sometimes they overprocess a little bit too much to pictures, (camera clicking) which sometimes especially I would say on the wide angle lens makes them look kind of a little bit unnatural. But apart from that, it's a really great camera on this android phone. I also really enjoyed the motion photo option. It wasn't something I was really expecting, (camera clicking) but overall I've been having a lot of fun, but it definitely have to test all of these camera systems much more in detail for my upcoming review. So that's going to be coming out in a few weeks, and if you want to watch our videos to learn how to take some good pictures in your phone, I'm going to have some other videos that I already made on that subject, I have plenty of them. So definitely go check those out, while waiting. So if you enjoyed this video, please let me know by hitting the like button below and definitely subscribe for more content on the Google Pixel 6 pro, but also our photography and filmmaking. See you in the next one, (upbeat music) (camera clicking) That was beautiful. It's nice. It's a wide angle selfie. (upbeat music)
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What is this video about?
After two weeks of waiting, the Google Pixel 6 Pro finally arrived. I was a big fan of my Pixel 4a, so I was genuinely excited to open this one—especially to test those three new lenses everyone's been talking about. This video captures my unboxing and takes you along on a photo walk where I put the cameras to work for the first time.
The phone itself feels solid. Coming from the plastic back of the 4a, the all-metal construction is a noticeable upgrade, though it's definitely slippery. The camera bar on the back isn't as intrusive as I expected. Size-wise, it's big—noticeably bigger than what I usually prefer—but I understand the trade-off when you're packing three lenses and larger sensors into the chassis.
During the walk, I tested the wide-angle, standard, and telephoto lenses across different scenarios: architecture, portraits, detail shots, and motion photos. A few things stood out immediately. The zoom capabilities are genuinely useful—being able to dial in exact focal lengths rather than relying on digital tricks makes a real difference. The 0.7x wide angle proved surprisingly essential; I found myself reaching for it more often than I expected. Portrait mode is snappy, though still processed after you take the shot rather than previewed live. The motion photo feature, which I was skeptical about going in, turned out to be genuinely fun to use.
One thing worth knowing: while the sensors are technically 50 megapixels, the phone bins the pixels down to 12 megapixels at capture, so you're not getting the full resolution. Some reviewers have mentioned that the processing errs on the side of over-sharpening, especially on the wide lens, and I did notice that tendency in some shots.
Overall, after just one day with the Pixel 6 Pro, I'm pleased. The photos are sharp, detailed, and consistent with what you'd expect from a Google Pixel—but better, thanks to those additional lenses. It brings the Pixel line back to the conversation about the best camera phones out there. This isn't a full review; I'll have one coming in a couple of weeks. I've also got comparisons planned against the 4a and my DSLR, plus some other Pixel content down the pipeline. All the high-resolution photos from this walk are linked below if you want to examine them yourself.