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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
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah but how many iPhone pictures are taken every day? I'm not saying I'm convinced, but even something with 1/1,000,000,000 odds isn't really out of the question for an action that must happen at least millions of times a day.
Your probability estimate is off by a dozen orders of magnitude. As a back of the napkin estimate, an iPhone with 8GB has 64 billion bits that can be flipped. One bit flip per week per user would already be extremely bad, as it would mean on average one random crash or case of data corruption per week. If you suppose the bit flip happens in the CPU registers, the number of state changes on a modern CPU is so incredib…
also most cpus have ecc on registers.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s what you desire your skin to be .
Yeesh. I can't be the only person for whom this sentence makes my skin crawl.
And I can't be the only person who feels modern life is like perpetually flying through Miyazaki Hayao tentacles and making out the best of it.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Taste. It takes time and experience to develop, and the masses on average don't have it. As in, they might have developed taste for a few products, but not most products. Hence, the mass-market products are aimed at people with no taste, because that captures the largest slice of the consumers. Random examples: - In A/B tests, the typical personal will rate louder music as better. Hence, all bars and pubs turn their…
Or they just have different tastes then you do, which is a far cry from having 'no taste'. People consistently prefer and rate headphones with more bass as more appealing, for example. That's why consumer brands are bass-heavy. It matches the taste of the market. If you need a flat audio profile where the mids and highs and bass are all at the same level you have to pick up a pair of studio monitors.
There is nothing wrong when it comes to subjective taste. However I think there is some level of objectivity to many things that can be applied to an extent. For example, if there is so much bass that much of the other frequencies are not audible, then I think it is an objectively bad setup. Or if your food is prepared with so much sugar/salt/fat/seasonings that you can't even taste the main ingredient, then it's objectively not very good (or at the very least, a waste of the main ingredient).
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it’s also just weird. That’s not my daughter’s skin in the photo, it’s 1000 other people’s skin blended together and textured in.
It never has been accurate. Even on dumb traditional cameras, colors are more of an interpretation than a reality.
I don't know about this - RAW files are recordings of sensor values. Those sensor values are accurate of what light the sensor measured.
Then the sensor values are converted to a JPEG. So it's still an accurate rendition of the light - even though yes, it is a rendition of the light.
But to completely replace some sensor values with some computer-generated values is a different ballgame, IMO. It's more akin to Photoshop editing, as opposed to Lightroom.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it’s also just weird. That’s not my daughter’s skin in the photo, it’s 1000 other people’s skin blended together and textured in.
It never has been accurate. Even on dumb traditional cameras, colors are more of an interpretation than a reality.
There is a difference between getting the colors subjectively wrong and replacing the entire texture of the material
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
That might be good for myself, or if I’m honest even my wife, but my daughter looks perfect to me and I only want to see her in reality.
No imaging system reproduces reality. You're always getting a compromised result.
Sure, but altering the hue/saturation/lightness of colors is a little different than replacing a bunch of pixels to achieve a "prettier" result.
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, even your eyes don't reproduce reality perfectly but at that point it's just semantics. He means he wants to see his daughter the same way through the camera that he sees her through his eyes, in real life, otherwise known to him as "reality". I don't think it's unreasonable to allow context of the statement to allow us to disregard "reality" as it pertains to quantum wave functions, in favor of something more…
As far as I understand the goal of using ML augmentation in camera phones is to capture what the eye sees. It's to compensate for the limitations of the hardware which on its own is not able to produce a true-to-eye result. You seem to be implying that the goal is to improve the photo to be better than reality but I don't think that's the case.
> You seem to be implying that the goal is to improve the photo to be better than reality but I don't think that's the case.
I think it is, Afterall that's what all the Instagram filters are for, and that's where most photos end up
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not accurate to compare the capacity in Amp-hours because the Nikon EN-EL15C battery has twice the voltage (two Li-ion cells in series) of a single-cell smartphone battery.
As well I'd like to add the thought that the smart phone could be running all kinds of battery draining things in the background. So actual battery life depends not only mAh but how efficiently the device uses its capacity.
Alternatively: I'd point out that the camera app tends to be a highly battery-draining activity on a phone. Most phone users do not leave the camera app up 24/7.
(And as a digital camera user - at least I can hot swap batteries. I miss my old cell phones that allowed for this.)
Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had to check that, as these big chunky camera batteries “feel” like they should have a lot of mAH compared to a phone. And I am wrong. Depending on the phone. A Nikon battery: 2280 mAh. An iPhone 13: anywhere from 2406–4352 mAH. Yeah, that’s a way smaller power budget than a Pro iPhone, especially as you have autofocus and image stabilization systems that have to move around a lot more mass.
It is not accurate to compare the capacity in Amp-hours because the Nikon EN-EL15C battery has twice the voltage (two Li-ion cells in series) of a single-cell smartphone battery.
Napkin math: 7V/2280mAh = 16Wh or equivalent to 3.7V/4300mAh (USB power banks are always measured and marked in 3.7V and mAh as unit to produce largest comparable numbers)