Someone with the best camera on an Android phone leaves Google

To say that cell phones have been replaced by digital cameras is obvious. Part of the blame is on developing the Hardware that we are able to use and that the manufacturers have been upgrading year after year. But that is also true of the cameras.

The true connection of quality has come to the so-called computer images, mathematical algorithms and algorithms that can sometimes include synthesizers and other algorithms.

If any company has been at the forefront of this, it's undoubtedly Google. Multicational has shown for several generations on its pixel phones how important software is.

The head of the Pixel cameras is leaving Google

According to The Information, Marc Levoy reportedly left the company in March. The developer is responsible for the Pixel capture phase, arguably the best that Googles offers.

Levoy was in charge of the Pixel camera group, and ideas were strongly opposed by the industry, such as when he said telephoto lenses are better than big lenses. Personally I agree with him, but the industry has shown that what users want is Ultra wide angle rather than optical zoom.

Pro despite the anecdote, he was behind the teams that created the mods HDR + either Night Vision and after the ability to shoot Pixels with photos of photo.

Pixels don't sell anything well even though they have a very good camera

We don't know the exact reason for Google developer's departure, although it was originally offered for the first time Pixel sales numbers. Pixel 3 sold more than 3.5 million units in its first six months of life, while its retailers, Pixel 4, sold nearly half, about two million in the first half of life.

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This can be partly explained by the volatile independence shown by Googles last year, something that has been noted in the analysis as a whole and can make sales not as high as its predecessors. .

We do not know if Marc Levoy will leave the cellphone industry or he will sign with another company looking to improve their photographic skills.