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The New Hotness

  • Pixel XL Camera vs. Barred Owl

    A pair of barred owls have been doing call-response “Who cooks for you” chants during the late afternoon, we finally spotted one, and I have a Pixel XL in my pocket:

    Barred owl - overview
    Barred owl – overview

    That’s with the camera zoomed all the way, so it’s blowing up the raw pixels by a factor of four. Cropping out the middle and resizing by 300% shows the result doesn’t have much detail:

    Barred owl - zoomed 3x cropped
    Barred owl – zoomed 3x cropped

    We snagged the binoculars on the way out the door, so we got a better look than you do. The camera you have is much better than the camera you don’t, but big glass always wins over tiny optics!