Google to Start Rolling Out Update to Minimize Halo Effect in Pixel Camera

When it announced Pixel smartphones earlier this month, Google stated that the smartphones come with the best camera on the market, as they received the highest score from DxOMark, a trusted industry standard. However, some Pixel owners have taken to Reddit in order to express their discontent with a halo effect that appears in images taken by some of these smartphones. The effect isn’t present in all pictures taken with the rear camera on Pixel phones, certain light conditions must be present. The halo effect appears when a flashlight is used as a light source, as images posted to Reddit reveal. It seems that many Pixel owners have noticed such a flare effect in pictures taken with the 125GB Black Pixel XL. Pixel owners would need to use HDR+ in order to enable the fix Some say that the effect isn’t determined by a hardw...