This gives me the same feeling as those ML-powered “enhanced zoom” features: where does the photograph end and the machine made-up fantasy start?
Obligatory Red Dwarf reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
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Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#22I’ve noticed some sort of image post-processing on the newer iPhones that removes noise and graininess, and instead adds this fake smoothness to all pictures. Haven’t found a way to disable it, save for shooting in RAW, which is impractical due to file size. Really disappointed that this seems to be a forced setting.
I've had this (very agressive de-noising I think it is - it's at least almost identical) since I got my iPhone 6S in 2015: basically if you look at 1:1 (i.e. on a computer, as opposed to the small screen of the phone), it almost looks like a watercolour painting, due to how agressive it is.
You can pretty much see it in almost all iPhone camera review sample images (and that of phones from other manufacturers).
Even in photos taken in direct bright sunlight!
I imagine it has an added side 'benefit' (due to the lack of noise/grain) of decreasing the images' sizes after compression.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#23Maybe iPhones are now making aesthetic decisions? "No, that person's face... Well, let's just cover it with a leaf."
It puts the censorship of Renaissance paintings & statues with figleafs over the naughty bits in a new perspective.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#24I wouldn‘t completely exclude the possibility that a random bit flip caused the ML processing to go haywire.
The probability of a bit flip enabling the leaf-replacer logic instead of causing a weird heisenbug and just crashing the camera app is astronomically low.
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#25I hate how much phones lately alters the images. Of course it most of the time makes the images look better, and cameras are a big selling point on a phone. But I don't like how my photos of people suddenly have a filter applied to the faces, how a picture of leaves during fall have vibrance exaggerated, how the sky looks clearer than it really did.
This is so common in consumer tech. Is there a name for it? Like how any new TV has horrible motion interpolation and sharpening enabled by default, or the bassiness of Bose/Beats headphones.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#26This reminds me of Huawei camera app detecting pictures of the moon and superimposing a clear stock photo into your picture: https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-p30-pro-moon-mode-co...
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#27Maybe the person really is leaves, and we're all just blind to the truth
Just like the fnords.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#28I hate how much phones lately alters the images. Of course it most of the time makes the images look better, and cameras are a big selling point on a phone. But I don't like how my photos of people suddenly have a filter applied to the faces, how a picture of leaves during fall have vibrance exaggerated, how the sky looks clearer than it really did.
Big tech has this uni-modal aporoach to users: they find what maximizes a metric, and works for 75% of the users, but roll it out to 100%. Dealing with the remaining 25% would have low ROI.
I never understood this one size fits all approach of a lot of companies. Controlled opposition would often result in higher market penetration and more net happiness
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#29Those of us who have been shooting large digital cameras for the past decade and are some times sad that our photos often come out unsharp in poor light compared to smartphones can at least take some joy in this “no free lunch” demonstration.
If this is due to stabilization and not some background blur face detection then it’s probably not something you can (or would want to) disable. Taking a telephoto shot with a tiny sensor in something other than great light (even a heavy overcast is often not enough) will require a lot of software processing. I’m not sure exactly what happened here but I’m pretty sure everyone asking for “unmodified raw photos” to be produced don’t understand what they are asking for. Those “unmodified” photos would be unusable in most cases outside very bright conditions.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#30I’ve noticed some sort of image post-processing on the newer iPhones that removes noise and graininess, and instead adds this fake smoothness to all pictures. Haven’t found a way to disable it, save for shooting in RAW, which is impractical due to file size. Really disappointed that this seems to be a forced setting.
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