Technology Aug 12, 2026 · 1 min read

Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse

If you look at a photo taken by a smartphone today, it's hard to find much that's technically wrong. Faces are bright and visible. The skies are pristine and blue. Even at night, scenes are well lit and noise-free. If the physical limitations of a tiny camera are what you're trying to solve for, you...

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by David Imel
Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse
A coral pink Google Pixel phone

If you look at a photo taken by a smartphone today, it's hard to find much that's technically wrong. Faces are bright and visible. The skies are pristine and blue. Even at night, scenes are well lit and noise-free. If the physical limitations of a tiny camera are what you're trying to solve for, you could probably label smartphone photography a mostly solved problem.

But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless - and that's created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras. "The gap between what two random people want from their camera is growing dramatically," says Isaac Reynolds, who leads the P …

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