The cameras on the Pixel 8 may not be getting the kind of overhaul we saw when the main camera on the Pixel 6 upgraded from a 12.2MP sensor toa 50MP one. A dedicated video stabilization menu will apparently let you choose between Standard, Locked, and Active via a pop-up menu. Once you pick a mode, the usual array of different camera modes appears.

We've also heard talk of a Video Unblur feature that cleans up blurry subjects in captured video as well as the addition of a Night Sight mode for shooting videos in low light.Ī report from August claimed the Camera app on the Pixel phones was going to get an overhaul, led by a streamlined menu carousel for toggling between photo and video modes. (That same sheet also shows a feature called Macro Focus coming to both Pixel 8 models, though we haven't heard many additional rumors about that capability.)Īs for other photo editing tools, you'll also be able to adjust lighting and even where the subject is located in a photo - a feature that sounds an awful lot like the Magic Editor tool Google showed off at its developer conference earlier this year.Ī number of rumored improvements are supposedly coming to video capture including a version of Magic Eraser that can do away with unwanted background noise in the footage you capture. A camera spec sheet posted by leaker Evan Blass refers to this feature as Best Take. In the spirit of the photo processing tools added to recent Pixels that fine tune your photos, rumored AI additions this time around, Google could add a tool that lets you edit in faces from other shots for those times when not everyone's looking at the camera. This approach would reduce the chance of strobing and other artifacts that can crop up when combining different exposures.

Recent flagship releases have been accompanied by AI-driven photo processing - think the Magic Eraser tool with the Pixel 6 and Photo Unblur with the Pixel 7 - and rumors suggest several possible additions to the Pixel 8's photo toolkit.Įarly reports claimed the Pixel 8 would turn to staggered HDR, in which long and short exposures are taken at the same time instead of a camera capturing exposure in rapid succession. Computational photography has always been Google's calling card, and it sounds like that's continuing with the Pixel 8.

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