A strange bug prevents taking close-up photographs with the flash on on some Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro.
Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are quality-packed smartphones that we had tested in our columns. Since their launch in the spring of 2022, the Mountain View company has managed to convince millions of customers to buy their devices. It is rumored that this range is the one that flows best. Google has never sold so many cell phones.
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The launch of these concentrates of technology, in the field of artificial intelligence in particular, is not, however, not gone without problems. Whether it’s a YouTube video crashing their Pixel 7 or unexplained auto-rotate misfires, there’s always been more feedback from disgruntled users of their Google smartphones.
A crippling bug affects the optical zoom of the Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
It is on Reddit that we find the first testimonies of users complaining about the malfunction of the camera of their Pixel 7, or even their Pixel 7 Pro. One of the community members shared a video in which he tries, in vain, to take a close-up photo of the inside of his PC tower. He uses his camera’s optical zoom and flash. Everything happens normally if he photographs a wall or another element of his home. On the other hand, the smartphone refuses to save the image if it tries to capture the components of its computer. A very strange bug, especially sincehe’s not the only one in his case.
Other Internet users have corroborated this strange phenomenon. They also can’t save close-up and flash photos. Is the bug of hardware or software origin? What all affected users have in common is that they use all the same version of Google Camera. According to the cross-checks, the bug would therefore be due to a problem with the image processing algorithm and its processing of HDR images. The components of the Pixel 7 are not in question. No doubt Google engineers are currently working on a fix.
Source : GizChina