Here’s how the Pixel’s AI zoom compares to a real 100x lens

Optical zoom takes on generative AI.

In case you missed it last week among other big news items, Google shipped a phone camera with a zoom feature that uses generative AI. That’s right: the Pixel 10 Pro comes with AI right inside the camera app that cleans up otherwise crappy digital zoom images all the way up to 100x. It’s a what-is-a-photo nightmare, but it’s also pretty good – at least it seems to be. But it’s hard to be completely sure what the thing you’re photographing is supposed to look like when it’s miles away. So I brought in a ringer for some side-by-side comparisons: the Nikon Coolpix P1100.

For those unfamiliar, the P1100 is a massive ultrazoom camera with an equ …

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