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If cameras creating images that never happened how does that fare when photos are used for court proceedings.
They might just be non admissible in the near future.
The huawei moon thing itself is a cool idea, but it should be advertised as that not the camera being impossibly good.
“Tell me what you think”
Well, I think that makeup looks great on you.
I hate basically all "AI" functionalities. They're usually messing with things, I don't want them to mess with. First time I found out my phone didn't switch to the zoom camera when I hit the zoom button, I was so disappointed and thought my phone was broken. No, Samsung chose what camera I'm allowed to use and when. At that point I accepted, that I was scammed and my S9+ didn't have two but only one lens, the other was just for show. Please companies of the world stop thinking you know better what I want than me. Please stop ruining tech.
Photos right from the start were never a perfect "copy of reality". They were always just one respresentation of it. Even your own eyes can deceive you (think color blindness, bad sight, effects of drugs or even emotions etc.). They're, too, just another filter between yourself and reality. If you think about it this way the definition of reality becomes really hard.
I feel, a camera attached to a computer with Internet access and all the other benefits of being on a phone has to operate differently than and everyday DSLR.
You are right when you say that we are bending the definition of photo but we are doing it in a way that doesn't change very much the reality. If you are in front of a bad sunset, that won't become a good sunset because you have AI in your camera. The girl that jumps is really smiling, so taking that picture is not changing reality at all. Eye contact is a bit creepy but in reality is helpful for the sake of your online calls. Let's say that until reality is not changed to a level of something illegal, these adjustments are more like expression of what you really wanted to share with others.
I think computational photography is what we want in general when we take a photo. No one picks up their camera and says 'Let me take a bad photo' which this tech fixes BUT how does this pixel perfect approach impact how we view ourselves and the memories which aren't perfect all the time?
Ok that's it, if I buy a new phone it has to be a Sony Xperia. They have the least 'computation' going on.
I personally disagree
Wow this is terrible
How about Xperia?
Does the perfect camera image exactly replicate what you see with your eyes or does it look better than what you see with your eyes?
great video….
Amazing. I hate it
I'd like to bring the question here even further.
I think we got a misconception of what "the best photo" is back when Photoshop made it onto the scene.
The "best photo" should not be the "best looking photo", so it's not matter of whose control is over tuning. The best photo, theoretically speaking, should be a 1:1 mapping of the current camera view, hence infinite pixels each one mapping to infinite geometrical points in reality. We kind of had this, with non-digital cameras, a part from lens distortion, shutter imperfections and so on. Go and check out your old family photos, they'll look particularly pleasant to your eyes, trust me.
What we can have now, of course, is not infinite pixels. What we should aim for, though, what we shall call "best photo" is the one having the max number of pixels possible, minimizing the loss function of each pixel over color, shape, position wrt the corresponding region in reality. That is, the photo which resembles the actual scene the most.
Note how this does not generally mean the best looking photo. Instead, this is most of the time false. We got used to doped, fake image (and sound, TBH) quality and now struggle to get out of that.
The magic eraser on the newest Pixel already recognizes objects in the photo and can remove them. Currently it's "manual", meaning you have to select the ones you'd like to remove. But it's only a very small step towards it doing this completely automatically, without you knowing – the technology is already there.
i take pitures for memories, and if it looks like what i remember (not blury, everyone smiling, exc.) then I am fine with ai tampering with my photos.
He wasn't smiling at all 😅
Literally
Smartphones can go ahead and see electromagnetic waves or something i don't mind, as long as they have that 'raw photo' option which stores the raw image as well as the main photo.
That thing is kinda useful.
I have iphone XR and canon g7x mark ii. I like taking photos but I look for a unique shot. And somehow smartphone software/screen makes it easy to find one quickly. While when using the digital camera I have to put in some effort to make it a perfect shot. Satisfying but time consuming !