i love this This is a question from Youtuber Marques Brownlee who is active in MKBHD. He asks: “What is photography?” A deep question.
Think about how early black-and-white film cameras worked. For example, I pointed the camera at a tree and pressed a button. This opened the shutter, allowing light to pass through the lens (or lenses) and project an image of the tree onto the film. When this film was developed, it displayed an image, a photograph.But that picture is just Expression What was actually there, or even what the photographer saw with his own eyes. No color. Photographers adjusted settings such as camera focus, depth of field, and shutter speed, and selected films that affect image brightness, sharpness, and more. It is the photographer’s job to adjust the camera and film parameters. That is what makes photography a form of art.
Let’s move on now. We use smartphone digital cameras instead of film, and these phones are a huge improvement. Features include better sensors, multiple lenses, image stabilization, longer exposure times, and higher dynamic range. Combine different exposures to create more stunning images.
But you can also do what used to be a photographer’s job. Their software can edit images. In this video, Brownlee used the camera on his Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra to take pictures of the moon. He used his 100x zoom to get a very nice and stable image of the moon.perhaps that too good.
The video (and other similar videos) prompted a reply from a user named “ibreakphotos” on Reddit. In tests, they used a camera to take pictures of blurry images of the moon on a computer monitor. not yet Created crisp, detailed images. what was going on?
Brownlee posted another video and said he replicated a test with similar results. He concluded that the details are a product of the camera’s AI software, not just the camera’s optics. The camera’s process, “basically the AI sharpens what it sees in the viewfinder to what it knows what the moon looks like,” he says in the video. Ultimately, he says, “what you get from your smartphone camera is not so much reality, but a computer interpretation of how you want reality to look.”
(When WIRED’s Gear Team covered the dust-up of the lunar shot, a Samsung spokesperson said: AI will then improve image quality and color detail. I’ve posted an explanation of how the Scene Optimizer feature works when taking photos, and how to turn it off.You can read more from gear.The team on Computational Photography is Here, and more information on this topic by Brownlee here.)
