News Throw your camera in the trash. AI is here to make photography better

[AC News]

AI has been a major buzzword at MWC 2024, but a handful of companies are making that more meaningful by using it to enhance smartphone photography.

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[Mooncatt]

Throw my camera in the trash? In the words of Dr. Evil:

And then there's this from the article:

They’re also solving a huge problem that has plagued photography since the dawn of time: blurry moving subjects.

I'll refer you back to Dr. Evil above. That problem has been solved for decades. There's a reason photographers use what are known as "fast lenses," full frame cameras, and artificial lighting. It's only a problem if you are unwilling to put in the effort to improve your photography skill set. Maybe blurry images are considered a problem plaguing phone cameras, but I guess that's what happens when marketing is too influential. It's like making you think an econobox car should be able to compete against a top fuel dragster at the drag strip.

People need to ask themselves: Do you want a photo you took, or do you want an image that some computer only *thinks* you want to see? It's not much different than the manual vs. auto mode on cameras. One gives you the photo you took based on your settings, and the other one gives you a photo based on the settings developed by a programmer at the manufacturer.

And if you want an AI based image, I don't really care. Just stop basically lying to us to promote it.

 

[nwh212]

Whoever wrote this must be joking or not as competent about electronics as they think. There's praises to be sung about smartphone cameras, don't get me wrong - there is an unbeatable convenience, they've gotten usable after 15 years of development, and AI is definitely improving photos taken with smartphones. Counterpoint? No matter how much tweaking, how much time spent editing, no matter what you do, you WON'T get the same pictures out of a smartphone. Even with AI, photos have artifacts and noise in many of the pictures you take, and produce a JPEG that is what it is. A DSLR, on the other hand, lets you step down to ISO 50, let in heaps on light with a big lens, and gives you a raw image to work with that is sharp from edge to edge. And, don't even get me started on video - phone videos are HORRIBLE compared to cameras, because the AI or image cleaning happening on phones takes heaps of information for a photo. It wouldn't be able to do that consistently for every video frame on the fly. Not to mention that heavily relying on AI can give you inconsistent images back to back. No wedding is gonna be shot on iPhone/android, and Hollywood is not going to approve making a movie with a phone camera. The fact is, DSLRs have a sensor at least 40x bigger, lenses that have true, actual depth of field, and colors that you control. People said this back when the iPhone 5 came out, and they'll say it another 20 years, but the fact is, the moment you replace my Sony A7IV with a phone camera is the moment I'll take you out back and we'll go 1v1. I might lose, but I won't go down without a fight.

 

[Ranger Ric]

Suggestion when capturing video, always orientate the camera horizontally (landscape). Every TV screen, monitor screen, computer screen, movie theater screen, are orientated horizontally. In videos where the camera is vertical (portrait orientation), then played back on the aforementioned devices the left one-third, and right one-third of the screen is cut off, causing the video to appear as a stick video, tall and narrow. We humans, maybe all lifeforms, view our surroundings considerably more horizontally than vertically. Holding a cellphone or camera vertically the video produced is similar to looking through a tight vertical keyhole or wearing horse blinders. In addition, when held vertically then to view the entire scene the camera person must pan more left and right which creates much camera movement; not good. Also, because of our way of viewing our world more horizontally, a video captured vertically becomes spatially disorientating.

 

[Village_Idiot]

Meh...another click-bate article written by someone who thinks that technology didn't exist before he was born.