My wife and I have been using the Pixel phones since Pixel 6 and we love the camera. Great pictures! But the best features are google photos, auto-tagging, recommending collages, walking down memory lane.
Then you can magic erase tourists from pictures and pic a better shot from a picture you took on the fly....
You add this "authentic image completion" to my kids pics, and it's game over...
I want this on my Pixel 8 asap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a583U3Sw44
There's also leaks showing another feature where you can individually swap every person's face to get the perfect photo:
https://www.ign.com/articles/google-pixel-8-leaked-video-ai-...
I definitely agree, Pixel has been at the forefront of computation photography and editing since its inception. Things like night photography that we take for granted now, I remember when Pixel 2 first introduced it and it was honestly mind blowing. this use of computation photography and editing that
It's like re-coloring an old black and white photo, or photoshopping out a photo bomber from the background.