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This previous weekend, I visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with two of my daughters, and the Sony Alpha 7 IV with 28-75 mm lens and Google Pixel 7 Pro in hand. I had no plans to jot down about my experiences on the zoo, however after discovering hidden wildlife with the Pixel 7 Pro, I simply needed to journal my sheer amazement at how far smartphone cameras have come.
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In my colleague Jason Cipriani’s full overview of the Pixel 7 Pro, he said, “I can’t print the first thing that came out of my mouth after taking a 30x picture…” and that was my actual sentiment a number of occasions whereas strolling across the zoo.
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While my youngest daughter was dissatisfied that she may barely catch a glimpse of the snow leopard mendacity down far-off behind a sequence hyperlink fence, the Pixel 7 Pro, with the brand new 30x Super Res Zoom was capable of seize the restfulness of the noticed cat .
The snow leopard is behind a sequence hyperlink fence and barely seen to the bare eye.
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The tiger was additionally behind a sequence hyperlink fence and greater than 50 yards away from us, however I used to be capable of seize its full physique soaking within the solar. The profit of getting a smartphone on this occasion is how fast and simple it’s to open the digicam app and simply snap a shot. With my Sony Alpha 7 IV, I’d should load the digicam, seize focus (both ready for autofocus or manually dialing the lens), after which hope that the tiger doesn’t prowl away.
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Sure, burst mode turns out to be useful for these situations, however I’d relatively not should sift via dozens of frames once I can simply get a transparent shot in a single take.
The Pixel 7 Pro captured what we couldn’t see with our eyes.
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The giant bear and mountain lion (seen beneath) had been each behind thick glass and over 100 toes away, however the Pixel 7 Pro introduced them up shut and private.
With these large claws, I didn’t wish to get any nearer to the bear than this.
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The lynx was barely seen, hidden in a darkish barrel down a hill and likewise about 50 yards away, however the Pixel caught him wanting proper again at me. It was fairly amusing seeing folks round me marvel what I used to be taking footage of.
Others on the zoo couldn’t even see what I used to be taking pictures down the hill and behind the tree.
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The wolf was actively wandering forwards and backwards far up the hill in an enclosure and I caught him as he paused to show round due to the lively focusing on and zoom on the Pixel 7 Pro. I captured greater than 150 photographs of wildlife on the zoo with the Pixel 7 Pro and its output made me query why I even introduced out my Sony.
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Active focusing on saved this lone wolf in focus.
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While most of the zoomed-in photographs could not print out effectively, they captured sufficient element to indicate me the character of the animals and gave me a look directly that might sometimes go unnoticed.
My Sony Alpha 7 IV may have captured printable photographs, however that might have required a greater and way more costly zoom lens. The comfort of utilizing a smartphone with no tripod for capturing topics on the go is hard to beat, particularly if you’re not knowledgeable photographer. The pictures captured by the Pixel 7 Pro had been excellent for sharing the experiences with household and buddies on social media or in a shared on-line picture album.
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The excellent ending to a day on the zoo. Notice how effectively the Pixel’s entrance digicam blurs out the background.
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The selfie digicam on the Pixel 7 Pro additionally jogs my memory of the superior front-facing digicam that Google supplied on the Pixel 3 XL, with choices for wide-angle photographs and stable outcomes. I’m not a selfie man by any means, however having a wider lens inspired me to take extra photographs with these round me.
The child giraffe spent a while within the solar with zoo attendees.
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It was an ideal day on the zoo and we even had the possibility to seize photographs and movies of the 10-day old baby giraffe (seen above). I used to be truly capable of see practically each animal on the zoo that day, which is kind of an achievement contemplating they’re rotated out and in of their areas or are sometimes hidden far up in enclosures or behind bushes and rocks. Having a dependable and versatile digicam in hand was essential for the journey, and on that day, it wasn’t the dearer considered one of my two.
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