If you have a Pixel 2 you are in luck, because now You can have the 'Super zoom' of the Google Pixel 3 on your mobile. A zoom that pulls the software to match the optical quality and that is another reason why the big G is at another level over the rest of the competition; engaged in mobiles with 3 or 4 lenses in the back.
Super zoom arrived with the Pixel 3, as did 'Night sight', the night mode that does not need or pull flash for amazing photos. We repeat that Google is above the others with features like these, so if you have a Pixel 2, you can already try the Super zoom mode thanks to an APK that we share below.
All software, yeah
Some have compared the night sight of the Pixel 3, of which we have already talked in depth, with the Mate 20's night mode, but nowhere near what the great G. has achieved. Best of all, you get these amazing advances through software. Computational photography and algorithms they play an important card in the masterful play carried out by Google with its Pixel 3.
Super zoom is another function that uses computational photography and algorithms to obtain quality zoom in which sharp objects visible. Being by software, Google already mentioned in the presentation of the Pixel 3 that it would bring these modes to the rest of the Pixel range. And although it has not yet officially arrived, thanks to the APK provided by a member of XDA Developers, we can start using it on Google's Pixel 2.
In Super zoom the software uses our efforts to leave the mobile phone still for an amazing zoom. Yes, that constant movement that can hardly be perceived by ourselves is what the Pixel 3's camera app uses for zooming and thus giving more details to out-of-focus scenes when zooming in on the view.
How to have 'Super zoom' of the Pixel 3 on the Google Pixel 2
So now you can have the Super zoom on your Google Pixel 2:
- Download the APK: Google Pixel 3 Camera APK.
- We install it as any other APK and we will already have the Super Zoom and another series of features.
Thanks to the large number of developers found in XDA Forums we can get APKs like this. And, apart from the Super zoom mode, this version of the Pixel 3 camera app it also offers these advantages that you don't have on your Pixels:
- Now with a Google Pixel (not the 2), you can use portrait mode, although only on human faces.
- Mode Night Sight it is available on any Google Pixel.
- You can use the manual focus button on Night Sight.
- HDR + setting selection has been added.
In the Pixel 2 we have this series of advantages added:
- Activated on focus tracking.
- Photobooth activated.
- Options for FPS of videos: Auto, 30 and 60 FPS.
- Google Lens suggestions in the viewer.
- Switch between H265 and HEVC encoding.
- Super Res Zoom.
- New improved HDR + mode.
With all these advantages, and if you are about to go to the purchase of a mobile that is between 500 and 600 euros, we recommend that you look at the Pixel 2 from Google, since, apart from being a great smartphone, it will allow you to enjoy a photograph that is on another level. None of the big ones, such as Samsung, Apple or Huawei, can say that their mobiles take better pictures than the Pixels. Only take a look at these group selfies with the front camera.
So, if you have a Google Pixel 2, now you can have the «Super zoom» mode on your mobile that allows you to enlarge photos like you have never thought before with your smartphone. You do not need two lenses or any accessories, just a Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 and enjoy like a dwarf zooming in with the pinch gesture. The magic is in your hand.
