Our first testing of Google’s super resolution zoom recently announced in Pixel 3 shows that it indeed can restore some image details, but is still behind the best in class solutions. Comparing to the “normal” digital zoom, which is basically an upscaling plus edge enhancement, Google’s zoom reveals some details that are indistinguishable in the “normal” image: […]

Please read the updated post. After publishing this original post we were contacted by Google engineers who pointed out that HDR+ Super Res was not always on in the images we took. Of course, it happened unintentionally, there’s just no obvious way to make sure that Super Res kicks in when taking an image. We […]