Google aims to change the definition of good photography with Pixel 4's software-defined camera

Google's new Pixel 4 camera offers a ton of new tricks to improve its photographic chops, and to emphasize the point, it had Professor Mark Levoy, who leads camera technology development at Google Research, up onstage to talk about the Pixel 4's many improvements, including its new telephoto lens, updated Super Res Zoom technology and Live HDR+ preview. Levoy started by addressing the oft-cited saying among photographers that what's most important to a good photo is first subject, then lighting and followed after that by your hardware: i.e. Lens is still important in the equation, he said, and the Pixel 4 represents that with the addition of a telephoto lens to the existing wide-angle hardware lens it offers.