I had a Pixel 6A and 7A in the last couple of years, mostly as an experiment. The computational photography side of it was a complete mess, mutilating many photos from crazy levels of over-sharpening through to turning things into weird oil paintings. Absolutely hated both of them. I do have photos of myself with a North Face hat taken on them though and they came out fine!
Crawled back to an iPhone and paid through the nose in the end.
Edit: crop from the 6a: https://imgur.com/a/RO0UYev
Another user posts an example of numbers being blurred out[1].
[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/1c98wpq/i_not...
It's an interesting observation, but I couldn't replicate this by taking a photo of a Google Images search for "north face logo", or with a photo of the reddit user's photo. Pixel 7, stock Camera app. The photo turns out as expected.
It will be a crazy world when a company has to pay a camera manufacturer if they want their logo to be legible in any photos taken...
Surely there's a Black Mirror episode...
Clear as day. Taken moments ago: https://photos.app.goo.gl/kB7hnyFh5GymYEnC6
Camera version version 9.3.160.621982096.22
Photos that have undergone such processing should not be admissable as evidence in court.
...and from an even more dystopian angle, although this may be a "bug", it shows just how easy it is for them to selectively change how things appear if they wanted to.
Found on Reddit (posted by u/NeillDrake) and thought HN would find it interesting.
Wasn't able to replicate with a 4a I wonder whether it's realted to the case where North Face "defaced"[0] Wikipedia by changing photos in the site which shows their logo in order to boost brand awareness in google image search results
[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/05/29/lets-talk-ab...
This reminds me of how Samsung got caught using AI to fake high quality pictures of the moon. Someone proved it by blurring an image of the moon, then taking a picture of the blurred image, and it came out with tons of detail.