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And some togs will still find something to complain about....
 
Oj9400 said:
And some togs will still find something to complain about....
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Well yes, the image quality for one thing, look at the CA on that ;)
 
Oj9400 said:
And some togs will still find something to complain about....
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Like me, as it means any old idiot can take the perfect shot and it'll take away part of the 'art' of photography ;) :p
 
twist said:
HDR shots arent always great. Look at how well Lytro did.
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Well it technically isn't HDR (in the traditional sense) but yeah I can imagine shots might not always come out as intended ;)
 
That's a very interesting way of fixing that problem. I can see it working well on mobile phones and compact cameras.
 
“No more will photographers or even ordinary people have to fumble with aperture size and exposure length,” writes lead scientist Hang Zhao. “The algorithm would enable people simply to click the camera button and let the computer deal with exposure problems.”

Sounds like fun.

I'm looking forward to the games console that plays itself, the Caterham Supersport that drives itself, the fishing rod that fishes itself, the films that watch themselves.... I could go on :)
 
odd jim said:
I'm looking forward to the games console that plays itself, the Caterham Supersport that drives itself, the fishing rod that fishes itself, the films that watch themselves.... I could go on :)
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It must have a mind reading option via near field comms or something, very clever. I'm assuming so anyway as it must have to know, somehow, how the photographer wants to shoot it and the desired end result?!

The more I think about it the more it irks me, so yes OJ9400, I've found plenty of reasons to dislike this!
 
Interesting, but it is still only a proof of concept, with the colour images being simulated. Like many things, likes this, it may never see the light of day.
 
Not every picture wants to look as if it was exposed on a bright sunny day what ever the light conditions.
Of course there is no disadvantage in capturing the whole of the possible tonal range, but it would make the job of achieving what you saw pretty difficult to do in pp, unless you had both the right visual and technical skills, and the software to achieve it. This is outside the ability of incamera jpegs.

Would we see even more outrageous HDR, and at the other extreme bland unrealistic single level shots, with the shadows and highlights as detailed as the midtones, than we do now?

The ability to capture a greater tonal range must be a good thing, and something of the holy grail of for photographers, but it must not destroy a photographers ability to use light to create shape, texture and mood.
 
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