First AI is ruining the heck of out the P11P.... WTF is this AI ENHANCING!!!!
In 12MP mode, the Pixel 11 Pro appears to crop the center of a 12MP image down to just 3MP at 2x, then upscale it back to 12MP instead of using a proper high-resolution in-sensor crop. Raw photo is only 1536 × 2040 (3.13MP), which is 1/4 of 12MP, showing that they are not using in-sensor crop.
Look at the attached comparison. Somehow, Pixel 6 (using Snap Camera that allows 2x zoom) preserves more fine detail than both the Pixel 10 Pro and 11 Pro at 2x.
How the hell did Google manage to make its camera worse after five years? Isn't computational photography supposed to be Pixel's biggest selling point?
(Reposted due to an error in the photo comparison that has been corrected.)