• What's in a photo? What the camera wants to be there ...

    From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 13 19:21:19 2023
    Smartphone cameras know more about the subject than the photographer?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afpDuTb-P0&ab_channel=MarquesBrownlee

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  • From Alfred Molon@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 14 18:38:31 2023
    Am 14.03.2023 um 00:21 schrieb Alan Browne:

    Smartphone cameras know more about the subject than the photographer?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afpDuTb-P0&ab_channel=MarquesBrownlee

    No, but for instance all these subject AF modes rely on models of faces
    / things / animals etc. which the camera uses to lock the focus.

    And there should be more and more subject/scene recognition based image processing in cameras.
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    Alfred Molon

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Alfred Molon on Tue Mar 14 15:34:38 2023
    On 2023-03-14 13:38, Alfred Molon wrote:
    Am 14.03.2023 um 00:21 schrieb Alan Browne:

    Smartphone cameras know more about the subject than the photographer?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afpDuTb-P0&ab_channel=MarquesBrownlee

    No, but for instance all these subject AF modes rely on models of faces
    / things / animals etc. which the camera uses to lock the focus.

    Not the point. Using that in order to select a point for focus (and/or exposure) is fine.

    And there should be more and more subject/scene recognition based image processing in cameras.

    Perhaps - but at some point one will wonder if the "improvement" is data
    from the camera (a "better photo chunk") pasted in place of the captured pixels.

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    danger to American democracy.”
    - J Michael Luttig - 2022-06-16
    - Former US appellate court judge (R) testifying to the January 6
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  • From Chris Schram@21:1/5 to Alan Browne on Thu Mar 16 00:04:10 2023
    On 2023-03-13, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
    Smartphone cameras know more about the subject than the photographer?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afpDuTb-P0&ab_channel=MarquesBrownlee

    Apple's video mocks their own customers in front of the eyes of the world. https://youtu.be/1S8L7t2tu0U?t=10

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