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Google Pixel 6 Pro 🍂 Real-World 🍂 Review: 1200 photos later! // New photography beast of 2021?
In the last 4 weeks, I have been using the Google Pixel 6 Pro in the real-world to really test it out before creating this in-depth review. I took over 1200 images and videos to really put the test the camera of the Google Pixel 6 Pro. How does the telephoto and wide-angle lens perform? Does the new sensor help in low light? How's the build quality? Are the AI features any good? These are all the question I answer in this review of the Google Pixel 6 Pro.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Google Pixel 6 Pro 4k B-Roll Sequence
01:05 - Build quality and design
02:06 - Fingerprint scanner
02:50 - Screen
03:08 - Real-World Performance
03:38 - Smart AI Feature: Call screening, call wait and more!
04:19 - Real-World Battery Life
04:39 - Google Pixel 6 Pro 4k B-Roll Sequence
05:21 - Camera system
06:30 - Camera App Walkthrough
07:48 - Picture Quality Results
08:35 - Main Camera Review
09:40 - Ultra-Wide Angle Camera Review
10:19 - Telephoto camera Review
11:55 - Motion Photos: Long exposure & Action Pan
12:57 - Portrait Mode & Front facing camera
13:40 - Night Video B-Roll
13:52 - Night Sight & Night Photography
14:29 - Other camera modes
14:49 - Waterproofing
15:11 - Magic Eraser
16:48 - Video Upgrades!
19:50 - Final thoughts
20:43 - Conclusion - Thanks for watching!
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- 0:00 Introduction
- 0:45 Google Pixel 6 Pro 4k B-Roll Sequence
- 1:05 Build quality and design
- 2:06 Fingerprint scanner
- 2:50 Screen
- 3:08 Real-World Performance
- 3:38 Smart AI Feature: Call screening, call wait and more!
- 4:19 Real-World Battery Life
- 4:39 Google Pixel 6 Pro 4k B-Roll Sequence
- 5:21 Camera system
- 6:30 Camera App Walkthrough
- 7:48 Picture Quality Results
- 8:35 Main Camera Review
- 9:40 Ultra-Wide Angle Camera Review
- 10:19 Telephoto camera Review
- 11:55 Motion Photos: Long exposure & Action Pan
- 12:57 Portrait Mode & Front facing camera
- 13:40 Night Video B-Roll
- 13:52 Night Sight & Night Photography
- 14:29 Other camera modes
- 14:49 Waterproofing
- 15:11 Magic Eraser
- 16:48 Video Upgrades!
- 19:50 Final thoughts
- 20:43 Conclusion - Thanks for watching!
- Hello everyone. Instead of throwing out a one day review of the Google 6 Pro, I wanted to take a full two weeks as using it as my daily driver, and also take over a thousand images using it, to really get a good idea of how this one performs. Let's get started by rolling the intro. (birds chirping) (water rippling) For those of you who are new to this channel, I'm Loïc Bellemare-Alford, a young photographer and filmmaker on the journey to becoming better at this art. Before getting started with this video, I want to make a few things here. So first of all, I bought the Google 6 Pro with my own money and have no sponsors for this video. I also consider myself being mostly a photographer, so this video is going to be really geared towards photography and video of the Google 6 Pro. I've tested the camera in multiple conditions and cannot wait to go out tomorrow and do a hike to test this camera even more. (woodwind music begins) Now let's talk about the design build quality and performance of the Google 6 Pro. I didn't really like the design of the camera when I saw it on the renders because it has a camera bar that spans the whole width of the phone. But after using it for two weeks and especially with a case on it, I can say it's not a big deal at all, you barely notice there is a camera bar in the back. Having a full width camera bar has actually one advantage is that when you put it on the table or lay it tilted, it actually doesn't wobble as much as other phones. Overall, the phone has pretty good build quality and also feels pretty premium. Yes, you can feel the seams on the side, but that's not a big deal in the end, especially if you put a case on because you never noticed them in the end. One of my biggest problems with this phone is that it's super, super, slippery in the hand. This is a specialty a problem for somebody like me with smaller hands. When you take it out, you feel like it's going to fall each time. That's why I have a case on it right now. I definitely prefer the size of the Google Pixel 4, making it much easier to have it inside of my hands, but I don't really mind having a bigger phone if it means having bigger cameras in the end. (upbeat music) (camera clicks) (upbeat music continues) If you've seen any of the reviews of the Google 6 Pro, you probably have heard about the fingerprint scanner and people are complaining about it. The good news is that Google came out with an update last week that makes it much better and much faster. I still prefer the rear fingerprint scanner on the Google Pixel 4a, but I must say that update makes it much faster and also makes it much more accurate, which is much more important. It works now 95% of the time, instead of working one time out of two, like it did a few days ago. (quirky music) (camera clicks) (quirky music continues) We can not talk about this phone without talking about its huge screen. I didn't have any problems with the curved edges and the content on the screen looks beautiful, especially when you're looking at your photos and videos. I don't really notice 120 Hertz, but it does help making the whole interface look a lot more responsive. I'm not someone that judges the performance of a phone by doing some benchmarks, instead, I try using the phone and seeing if it's fast or not. This phone is very fast and it had no problems at all for most of my tasks, including some photo editing. This is not surprising because the processor inside of the Google 6 Pro is as fast as some of the fastest ones from Qualcomm, and also has 12 gigabit of RAM. The only place where I did have some slowdowns, is editing some funky footage from the Google 6 Pro in the end it is your app. But that's not very surprising because even my computer has a hard time with 4K footage from the Google 6 Pro. What is much more impressive in my opinion, are the AI features that the Tensor chip brings to the Google 6 Pro, without having to be connected to the internet. My favorite feature is one that not many people talked about and it's a much more powerful auto-correct, it the works a little bit like Grammarly or Microsoft editor, where it doesn't only correct words that are misspelled, but also correct words in the context when you're using them inside face. You also have all the other AI powered experiences that make Pixel devices so unique. I've been using the costume screen options for the last few years and really enjoyed it. What really surprised me is that a few days ago, I called my bank and I started seeing options on the screen appear, and I could simply click the options on the menu instead of having to touch the phone or set the options on my phone, which was pretty cool. One of the problems I have with the phone is actually the battery life. Okay so I was going to complain that the battery life of the Google 6 Pro is terrible, but it's actually been fixed when the last update, so now I get about 40% to 50% at the end of the day, even when I take a lot of pictures during the day. So I have no problems at all using the battery on this device. (Upbeat music) If you're enjoying this video, why don't you let me know by handing like button below, you should also subscribe to the channel because I'm going to have much more videos on the Google 6 Pro, including some comparison with my DSLR and also the Google Pixel 4a. If you haven't checked my Instagram account, you should I still go check that one out because I'm going to be posting more pictures from the Google 6 Pro right there. (upbeat music) Now let's talk about the real reason where getting to Google pixel 6 Pro, and this is for its cameras. So it has a main sensor at 50 mega pixel F1.85, a 48 megapixel telephoto lens at F3.5, and a 12 megapixel ultra wide at F2.2. What is very important to understand with these camera lenses is that you cannot get a 48 megapixel or a 50 megapixel image, in the end, it does pixel binding, like I predicted where it takes four physical pixels and then merges them together into one final pixel. So this means whatever camera app you're going to be using on your phone, you're going to end up having a 12 megapixel photo, in the end. What is much more interesting about these camera lenses is how big they are, at one over 141 inch and half an inch for the main and telephoto lens, it's allows to capture much more light inside of the photos. It also means that you're getting more natural depth of field, but more about that a little bit later in the video. The Pixel 6 Pro also has a new sensor for the front camera and also new lens with a wider field of view, and also much bigger image quality from the front facing camera. It's still a fixed focus lens, but more about that later. (upbeat music) Let's do a quick walkthrough of the camera app, if you're a Pixel user, it's going to look very similar to the previous versions of the camera app. But if you look at the bottom here right now, we're going to see that you have an option to select the ultra wide lens right here. And then you can also select the telephoto right from here. We also have an option on the left, if we click on the screen right here to select if the image is cooler or warmer instead of the shot, and we still have our options to select how the shadows and the highlights look individually, which is really cool because you get a lot of control on how the final image is going to look. If you also look at the auto focus here, we can actually select an object, is going to track it automatically. So this is very cool because even if you move your phone a little bit around, it's still going to be checking that object and making sure that's perfectly in focus. If you look at our more advanced options right here, we first have the option to use Night Sight as our default option when it becomes a little bit darker so it's going to be using Night Sight instead of using the flash, which I think is really cool. And as your option here is that we can select some raw images. So this is really useful because it doesn't only put a raw image, it also use the other computer photography before saving the raw image, which means you get a super, super high quality raw image, that you can edit it afterwards to get exactly the look that you want. (quirky music) Overall, the Google 6 Pro tends to produce consistently great photos. The HDR is top-notch allowing to get a lot of details and also information instead of the brighter and darker parts of the image. The image processing from the Google phone didn't really change from the previous versions of Google Pixel phones, but it's not a bad thing because Google was already really good at image processing. The two main problems with this photos from this phone are actually that its color tend to be a little bit more on the blue and magenta side. And also that the images tend to be a little bit over sharpen. It's not really a problem if you're looking at them on your phone, but it is one when you bring them on your computer. (upbeat music) Camera is by far the best one on this phone. At 24 millimeter equivalent, it's wide enough to get a lot of things inside of your shot, but not too wide to be, and not so wide to worry. with an aperture of 1.85, you also get some natural background blur or what we call bokeh. This is very important inside of photograph, because it allows you to guide your eyes to certain parts of the image by making the foreground or the background of your image more in detail, and the other apart blurry. I have a few example here where I'm going to show where I take the foreground in the background and how different they are depending on if the foreground or the background are in focus. The main disadvantages of having such a small aperture is actually, that you're getting a lot of the parts of the image that are blurry in the end. This is a specialty or problem if you're taking pictures of things like flowers, you might have your main flower in focus, but the ones that right around completely blurry. So this definitely something to keep in mind, and it's very important that you use tap to focus to make sure that the camera knows exactly which part of your photo should be focused and which one shouldn't. (quirky music) I know, I know I use a complaint that I prefer getting a telephoto lens and the ultra wide lens, but in a situation like this, it's actually really useful having a 60 millimeter equivalent lens to get more information out of the shot and just get more things that show that's a more massive scene. The two problems that have with the ultra wide lens is first of all, that's a little bit over sharpen in most of the images, again, not a big deal if you're looking at the pictures on your phone, but really a big deal, if you're looking at them on the computer. And the second thing is that there's a little bit too much over processing, which makes some parts of the image that should be darker or lighter in grey in the end, which doesn't really look good, and this is a problem because Google is just trying too hard to keep some details and some parts would be okay to have a little bit more contrast inside of the image. My favorite lens is by far the telephoto lens. I think most people underestimate how useful it is because it allows to get some more details inside of the image and also focus on some parts of the image instead of other ones. And 106 millimeters, this is about a four times optical zoom. My biggest disappointment is I was expecting to have an optical zoom between two to four-times, we could move inside of it, but instead it's locked at four-times zoom. This is a problem because the two-times zoom is only digital, which means that it's not a great quality of zoom at two-times. With that being said, the four-times telephoto zoom looks really great and has very similar image quality to the main camera lens, which is really great. Again, Google seems to be over sharpening the images, but in case sometimes it looks perfectly fine, and in other ones, it just looks completely over sharpen, so it's hard to know when it's going to look good or not. I got multiple questions about using the telephoto lens to do some macro photography, and I definitely wouldn't recommend this using this phone. The problem is that, the minimum focus, this is actually quite far. So a lot of the times, if I were trying to focus too close, it just wouldn't focus and ask me to move back to get the focus working. So this is definitely not a good option for some macro photography. Another problem to be aware of is that actually have to hold the phone pretty steady to get some photos that are not blurry because you moved it a little bit. Another problem of the system is actually that the optical image stabilization inside of the phone moves a little bit around. So when you're composing the shot with four-times zoom, sometimes the image is just like jumps around, which is a bit weird and makes a little bit harder to compose your shot perfectly. I think it's a shame that Google doesn't add its telephoto lens to all of its other phone, because it's actually a really useful lens to have that a lot of people could use in all kinds of situations. (upbeat music) ♪ Ye ♪ ♪ Ye, ye ♪ The Google 6 Pro has two new AI powered mode that allowed to get a much more advanced effects. Long exposures and motion pan, both of these modes are work by analyzing the motion inside of your shot, so for motion pans analyzing what is moving at the same speed as a camera and blurring the background and for long exposure, it's another thing, what is moving inside of a shot and blurring that part. This is very cool for a scene like right now, we have the waterfall in the background where you want to get the whole water nice and smooth inside of the shot. Both of these are pretty hard to get using a DSLR, so it's really cool, I can click one button and get the results inside of the Google Pixel 6 Pro. I'm going to have a more in-depth video to explain how both of these modes work and how you can get them if you don't have a Google 6 Pro, but more about that in the next few weeks. (upbeat music) ♪ Ye ♪ ♪ Ye, ye ♪ Another AI power mode, inside of the camera is the portrait mode. But I must say I'm a little bit disappointed because the results are very similar to what I was getting on my Google pixel 4a. I was expecting to get much better results of the tensor chip inside a Google 6 Pro, but it's not the case, you get the same problems with edge detections and things like that. It still works really well in most cases, but sometimes it just has a hard time getting the edges of some of your subjects. One upgrade that was really nice inside of this phone, it's actually the front facing camera on this phone where you get a lot more dynamic range and it's night and day compared to Google Pixel 4a front facing camera, and also the wider lens means that you get sharper images of yourself without having to hold the phone as far away. So this is a really nice update, if you're taking a lot of selfie photos or using the front facing camera. (quirky music) My favorite features on the Google Pixel phones is actually Night Sight. If you don't know what is Night Sight, it basically allows to take pictures in the dark by taking a picture for a few seconds and then processing it afterwards. The final result is very detailed and also sharp images, even in very dark conditions, these pictures would actually be really hard to take using a DSLR, so it's pretty impressive that a phone can do this. And it also presents surprise to realize that it works on all lenses, so including telephoto and the wide-angle lens, but it works best on the main camera lens because the other ones are not as sharp and detailed in the end. Also has an (indistinct) photography mode but I didn't have to test it out. So that's going to be for another video in the coming weeks. Google 6 Pro also has to have two other camera modes which are panorama and photosphere mode. I honestly don't really use either of them, they're not the best image quality in the end, but if you want to take a panorama or (indistinct) view photo, you can, and they're built in, so it's pretty nice that they're right there, just a few taps away. (water rippling) If you're a bit scared that I've you seen me under the rain don't stress, I think this phone is rated IP68, so it's not a problem at all to be filming under the rain, but I'm going to have to go back home and finish filming this video at home because I actually cannot film the rest of video because the other cameras are not waterproof. (opening the cars door) (car engine revving) Okay, so now let's talk about the last photo feature and this one is Magic Eraser, you're going to see this one is actually pretty cool. So if we go inside of Google photos here, I have a picture of Trevor, and let's say, I want to get (indistinct) Trevor of the picture because he was a tourist or something like that. Now we can simply go inside of the edit tab right here, then go inside of the tools, select Magic Eraser, is going to tell us that to remove somethings out of the image, it can be a person, It can be an object, it can be pretty much anything. All we have to do is draw a circle around that person or object. So here we're simply going to draw a circle more or less around him, and we're going to see right away, it's going to detect who he is and remove him. A little trick now, is that we're going to see it didn't work perfectly. So if we want to try and make it even better, we can come back here, zoom in, and then circle around the parts that we're missing here and just try and correct it until we get something that looks a little better. So here, I'm just going to go through a few times and if we zoom out, we see this is looking pretty good. So this is a feature that's very similar to what we have inside of Photoshop. So it's already something I used to do inside of Photoshop, but here it's really simple. All you have to do a circle on object and it disappears almost magically. It doesn't work perfectly all the time, you need to have something in the background that is repeatable, so you want to have some patterns, some colors that are easy to replicate or something like that. And if you're trying to remove something a little bit more complex, it's not always going to work. And sometimes it looks really bad. So for more complex cases, you're not going to have a choice to still go inside a Photoshop or a more advanced software like that. But it's really cool that now it's built in inside of a Google photos. I can really see this being useful, if you want to go in a tourist spot, take some pictures and then just remove the tourists that are inside of your shot. Let's finish by talking about the video. Google has finally fixed or over sharpening issue, and the video looks really good and I'm actually going to start using it inside of these YouTube videos, which I didn't do from a Google Pixel 4a, because if you do, just wasn't good enough from that camera. All main cameras on the phone can actually film in 4K, including your front facing lens, so this is a really nice upgrade. The only limitation is actually that only the main camera can film at 4K, 60 frames per seconds, all the other ones are limited at 4K, 30 frames per second, but didn't have any overheating issues or things like that. So that's a really nice upgrade here that they can also shoot in 4K, without much of a problem. The video also supports HDR, which is a really nice upgrade because that means you're getting more detail inside of the shadows and the highlight of your image, creating overall a much better video, there's much more pleasant to look at. This also means that the colors in general are much more saturated. And I would say it's a little bit too saturated to my taste, but the skin tone (indistinct), that's still of a good, so that doesn't really annoy me, that they oversaturated a little bit too much the video. You can also switch between the different lenses while filming, so this is a really nice thing if you want to get closer or move back. But the only thing you need to know is that when you're jumping from the one-time zoom to the four-time zoom, you actually have this weird jump between the two, because the first digitally zoom then actually switched the optical zoom of the four-times lens, and there's always a jump between the two, so that's not very fluid transition between the two. There are now four stabilization mode inside the video, but I use the standard one, most of the time, because it just seems to avoid the one that works the best, in most use cases. I would say it's a huge upgrade compared to the previous Pixel phones, because the stabilization used to look a lot digital with warping at the corners and all kinds of weird artifacts like that, that just didn't make it look that good. In this case, it looks a lot better. You can walk around with your phone, you still get a little bit of that up and down motion, but it doesn't look as digital or as fake as it was in the past, but it's still not as good as something like an iPhone or something like that, but it still is good enough for most use cases. And it's not going to be a huge problem anymore, and you don't have to remove the stabilization because it was looking so bad in the past, like I used to do a few times. So this is a huge upgrade on the Google 6 Pro. I'm going to test the four modes a lot more in my upcoming vlog and I'm just film only using my Google 6 Pro, so definitely stay tuned for that one. Another really cool feature on the Google 6 Pro is actually have speech enhancement when you're filming using different facing camera. And this actually allows to remove some of the background noise and really make sure that your voice is clear instead of the videos. The slow motion and time-lapse modes are still here, but it's really disappointing because Google didn't update either of them. So we really liked that they update them in the future because slow motion is still a cap at 1080p, 120 frames per second, but it just doesn't look good, they cropped in and the whole image just doesn't look good and saving for time lapses, they're not smooth. They don't really look good in the end. So these are two places where Google can definitely improve in terms of video in the future. But overall, the video modes on the Google 6 Pro are a huge improvement, making them good enough for me to use inside of my YouTube videos. So this is just a proof of how good they have become. In my opinion, the upgraded sensors of the cameras finally bring back the Google 6 Pro to being one of the best camera phones, or if not the best. The smart features, the performance built quality, new processors and all of these things also make it a flagship that is actually pretty easy to recommend. I personally would select the Google 6 Pro for the telephoto lens over the Google Pixel 6, but if $500 more is too much for you, the Google Pixel 6 is actually a great choice also, I know that $900 is actually quite expensive, but when you compare it to other flagship phones, it's actually not that bad. And it's actually cheaper than most of the other options like iPhones, some of Samsung device, Huawei or other brands like that. So overall it's really a phone that it can easily recommend. And I'm going to have a link down in the description below, if you want to go check out some of the pictures I took, they're going to be high resolution pictures, so you can really judge by yourself if you think that the pictures are good or not from this phone. 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I spent the last four weeks living with the Google Pixel 6 Pro as my daily driver, shooting over 1200 images and videos to give this phone a proper test. This isn't a quick first-impressions review—I wanted to see how it really performs in the real world before forming my opinion.
Let me start with the design. When I first saw the renders, that camera bar spanning the full width looked odd to me. But after two weeks of use, especially with a case, it's barely noticeable. The phone feels premium and has solid build quality overall, though I do wish it wasn't quite so slippery in hand. The fingerprint scanner had some rough edges initially, but Google's recent update made a huge difference—it now works about 95% of the time instead of hit-or-miss.
Performance-wise, the Tensor chip is snappy, the 6.7-inch curved screen is beautiful for viewing photos, and the 120Hz refresh rate makes everything feel responsive. Battery life was a concern at first, but again, software updates fixed that—I'm getting 40-50% remaining at the end of each day even when shooting heavily. The AI features are genuinely impressive, from advanced autocorrect that understands context to call screening and call wait that actually work offline.
But the camera is really what matters here. The 50MP main sensor (F1.85), 48MP telephoto (F3.5), and 12MP ultra-wide (F2.2) all use pixel binning to deliver 12MP final images, but what's important is that these are physically large sensors that capture much more light. The main camera produces consistently excellent photos with top-notch HDR and natural bokeh from that wide aperture. The telephoto is my favorite lens—at 4x optical zoom, it delivers sharp, detailed images, though I wish you could zoom fluidly between 2x and 4x instead of jumping between digital and optical zoom.
The ultra-wide has a tendency toward over-sharpening and over-processing, and portrait mode didn't improve much from the Pixel 4a. But Night Sight is phenomenal—it works across all lenses and produces detailed, sharp images in darkness that would be nearly impossible with a DSLR. The new AI-powered modes like long exposure and motion pan are genuinely useful, and Magic Eraser in Google Photos removes unwanted objects with impressive accuracy.
On video, Google finally fixed the over-sharpening problem. All cameras can now shoot 4K (main camera supports 4K 60fps), with HDR support and much-improved stabilization that no longer looks digital or warped. It's good enough that I'm now using it for YouTube content. The only disappointments are that slow-motion caps out at 1080p 120fps and time-lapse still isn't smooth.
Overall, the Pixel 6 Pro brings back Google as a serious photography contender. The upgraded sensors, smart features, solid performance, and especially that telephoto lens make it one of the best camera phones available. At $900, it's competitive with other flagships—and honestly, cheaper than most iPhones or Samsung devices. I'd easily recommend the Pixel 6 Pro if you value photography.