| Telephone | PhoneArena Digicam Rating |
Photograph 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 Digicam Rating testing protocol right here.
Primary Digicam
The Pixel 8a is provided with a 64MP principal shooter with f/1.9 aperture and a 26mm lens. It makes use of a 1/1.73″ sort 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 offers a superb quantity of element.
Apparently, the OnePlus 12R has the Pixel 8a beat for principal digital camera high quality. It has fewer points with oversharpening, which contributes to extra pure trying images.
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 photos.
Zoom High quality
Similar to most telephones within the $500 value phase, you do NOT get a devoted telephoto lens on the Pixel 8a, so you have to depend on digital zoom. You will have a 2X zoom preset within the digital camera app and the utmost zoom degree is 8X.
Zoom high quality remains to be a powerful 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’ll be able to zoom in as much as 3X which provides you a extra zoomed in portrait, however because it’s all digital zoom the standard is sort of unhealthy.
Extremely-wide Digicam
The Pixel 8a comes with a 13MP ultra-wide digital camera with an f/2.2 aperture, and the focal size barely qualifies as ultra-wide at 20mm. This seems to be the very same digital camera as on final 12 months’s Pixel 7a, a minimum of relating to {hardware}, and unsurprisingly the rating is nearly precisely the identical with solely slight variations in publicity and colours.
There are some points with nook sharpness as properly.
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 assist for macro capturing, which the Pixel lacks.Â
Entrance Digicam
Whereas it underperforms barely relating to the ultra-wide digital camera, the Pixel 8a does excellent with selfies, scoring on par with the extra premium Pixel 8 and outclassing the $500 crowd.
Its principal benefit over its friends is the upper quantity of element that you simply get with selfie pictures.
The selfie digital camera {hardware}, nonetheless, has not modified a lot, and it appears to be the identical 13MP shooter as on the Pixel 7a, in case you have been questioning.
Primary Digicam – Video
Pixel 8a 1X video body
Video high quality captured with the Pixel 8a seems to be nice with a superb 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 digital camera, you can’t swap to the ultra-wide.
Other than that, video high quality seems to be good and you’ve got well-performing video stabilization on board.
Zoom High quality – Video
Pixel 8a 5X Zoom video body
You possibly can solely zoom as much as 5X in 4K video on the Pixel 8a, which is lower than on premium telephones.
However truthfully, for a telephone with no devoted telephoto digital camera that’s sufficient. The Pixel does properly for what it’s, however on the longer zoom vary element falls aside shortly.
Extremely-wide Digicam – Video
Pixel 8a ultra-wide 0.5X video body
Footage with the ultra-wide digital camera seems to be a bit grainier in comparison with the principle shooter, however you continue to have good publicity and pleasing colours, so when you have sufficient gentle, the footage is unquestionably usable.
Entrance Digicam – Video
Pixel 8a entrance digital camera video body
Lastly, we’re impressed with selfie movies captured on the Pixel because it is ready to render pores and skin tones very properly and also you get a superb quantity of element.
