2017 was a big year for phones. The iPhone X came out, the Google Pixel 2 came out, and the Galaxy Note 8 came out. And for those of us that are relatively behind on the big tech crunch and are out of the loop with all the big tech details, that just means the major phone companies released some pretty great technology. Last year there was heavy pressure from companies to produce better-than-ever cameras and that is exactly what they did. IT has access to a Pixel 2XL that we have been using for some of our media and we've been loving the photos that it's producing. We won't really go into too much of the technical details on how these camera's are doing well, but it has a lot to do with some pretty cool software processing. These photos are turning out so good that IT is using them on their website projects, and we can't tell the difference on our high resolution monitors.
For those of you on campus who love photography and don't want to drop ten thousand dollars on a good camera, maybe consider one of these phones for your next upgrade. You'd be amazed at what type of photos you'll take with something that fits into your back pocket. Below are a few samples taken by myself on campus and on road trips, and you might have seen several others taken with the Pixel 2XL on some of our websites. Enjoy the photos!
-Warrick Rodgers
IT Student Web Developer
