| Cellphone | PhoneArena Digital camera Rating |
Picture Rating |
Video Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pixel 8a | 132.9 | 140.3 | 125.5 |
| Galaxy A55 5G | 131.5 | 140.3 | 122.7 |
| OnePlus 12R | 135 | 144.4 | 125.7 |
| Pixel 8 | 141.8 | 145 | 138.7 |
| Pixel 7a | 131.5 | 138 | 125 |
| Galaxy S24 | 149.1 | 154.2 | 144 |
*Study extra about our PhoneArena Digital camera Rating testing protocol right here.
Predominant Digital camera
The Pixel 8a is supplied with a 64MP foremost shooter with f/1.9 aperture and a 26mm lens. It makes use of a 1/1.73″ kind sensor, so fairly a bit smaller in comparison with a typical 1/1.3″ sensor used on premium telephones.
With quad pixel binning, you get a 16MP default picture, which supplies a very good quantity of element.
Curiously, the OnePlus 12R has the Pixel 8a beat for foremost digicam high quality. It has fewer points with oversharpening, which contributes to extra pure wanting pictures.
The Pixel 8a additionally lacks a hi-res mode, so regardless of having a 64MP sensor on board, there is no such thing as a approach to seize a 64MP picture, whereas different units can simply seize full-resolution footage.
Zoom High quality
Similar to most telephones within the $500 worth phase, you do NOT get a devoted telephoto lens on the Pixel 8a, so it’s essential depend on digital zoom. You’ve gotten a 2X zoom preset within the digicam app and the utmost zoom stage is 8X.
Zoom high quality remains to be a robust level for the Pixel in comparison with friends just like the OnePlus 12R and Galaxy A55, which have extra points with oversharpening and seize much less element.
Portrait Mode on the Pixel 8a nonetheless lacks a correct preview of the background blur within the viewfinder and also you get a 1.7X and 2X presets for portraits. The distinction between these focal lengths is tiny and it makes completely no sense to have these preset values. Fortunately, you may zoom in as much as 3X which provides you a extra zoomed in portrait, however because it’s all digital zoom the standard is kind of dangerous.
Extremely-wide Digital camera
The Pixel 8a comes with a 13MP ultra-wide digicam with an f/2.2 aperture, and the focal size barely qualifies as ultra-wide at 20mm. This seems to be the very same digicam as on final yr’s Pixel 7a, not less than in relation to {hardware}, and unsurprisingly the rating is sort of precisely the identical with solely slight variations in publicity and colours.
There are some points with nook sharpness as effectively.
This seems to be a weak spot for the Pixel 8a, because the Galaxy A55 5G and OnePlus 12R have fewer of those points and have help for macro capturing, which the Pixel lacks.
Entrance Digital camera
Whereas it underperforms barely in relation to the ultra-wide digicam, the Pixel 8a does superb with selfies, scoring on par with the extra premium Pixel 8 and outclassing the $500 crowd.
Its foremost benefit over its friends is the upper quantity of element that you simply get with selfie photographs.
The selfie digicam {hardware}, nevertheless, has not modified a lot, and it appears to be the identical 13MP shooter as on the Pixel 7a, in case you had been questioning.
Predominant Digital camera – Video
Pixel 8a 1X video body
Video high quality captured with the Pixel 8a appears nice with a very good quantity of element and pleasing colours.
The utmost decision is 4K and also you cah select between 4K30 and 4K60, which is nice, however there are some limitations to the 4K60 footage particularly, as when you begin recording with the principle digicam, you can’t change to the ultra-wide.
Other than that, video high quality appears good and you’ve got well-performing video stabilization on board.
Zoom High quality – Video
Pixel 8a 5X Zoom video body
You’ll be able to solely zoom as much as 5X in 4K video on the Pixel 8a, which is lower than on premium telephones.
However actually, for a cellphone with no devoted telephoto digicam that’s sufficient. The Pixel does effectively for what it’s, however on the longer zoom vary element falls aside rapidly.
Extremely-wide Digital camera – Video
Pixel 8a ultra-wide 0.5X video body
Footage with the ultra-wide digicam appears a bit grainier in comparison with the principle shooter, however you continue to have good publicity and pleasing colours, so when you’ve got sufficient mild, the footage is certainly usable.
Entrance Digital camera – Video
Pixel 8a entrance digicam video body
Lastly, we’re impressed with selfie movies captured on the Pixel because it is ready to render pores and skin tones very effectively and also you get a very good quantity of element.
