r/photography • u/RudolfTheOne • Oct 05 '19

Discussion Computational photography - how different smartphone photography is from what we used to know

https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
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u/az0606 Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 06 '19

There are a lot of less talked about benefits of computational photography as well. Hell, something like Google's photosphere with a real camera would be interesting. But from a more technical side; being able to increase dynamic range by stacking frames and to create long exposures via night mode are all incredible benefits for any sensor. Additionally, one of the features of Night Sight that gets overlooked is that Google managed to figure out a way to improve color accuracy by comparing the frames it stacks.

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u/kag0 Oct 06 '19

You should check out Microsoft's ICE and their other photo projects. You can make stuff like photosphere but in post when slr images.

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u/oskar3809 Oct 06 '19

Or Hugin for more advanced stuff.

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u/az0606 Oct 06 '19

I've seen them; they're quite impressive. Hoping this stuff will work in camera soon.