I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6 If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied. Computational photography is really aw…
A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rolling shutter could in principle explain this, but it’s probably too fast to capture these three poses which must be temporally rather far apart.
Not probably too fast - definitely too fast. Rolling shutter occurs over a single read-out of the sensor, so she'd have to have held all the three poses during the 1/100th of a second or so exposure for it to be possibly related to rolling shutter.
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#25The article says that “The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment.” But that doesn’t make any sense. If the there were three real people, rather than one person and two reflections, the algorithm would have created an image of a moment that never existed, stitching together different images taken at different times. The only difference is that we might not notice and mi…
Imagine such an image being used as evidence is a court case. E.g. showing someone pointing a gun at another person when that actually never happened.
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#26The article says that “The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment.” But that doesn’t make any sense. If the there were three real people, rather than one person and two reflections, the algorithm would have created an image of a moment that never existed, stitching together different images taken at different times. The only difference is that we might not notice and mi…
There's a reason professional photogs use the mulitiple snaps mode for non-sports. It used to be a lot of work in post, but a lot of apps have made that easier to now it's a built in feature of our phones.
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#27So the mirror with the hands clasped?… is just completely made up? Because she’s clearly not doing that irl.
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#28The article says that “The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment.” But that doesn’t make any sense. If the there were three real people, rather than one person and two reflections, the algorithm would have created an image of a moment that never existed, stitching together different images taken at different times. The only difference is that we might not notice and mi…
Imagine such an image being used as evidence is a court case. E.g. showing someone pointing a gun at another person when that actually never happened.
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#29[0] This one, I think: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-talk-show-with-joh...
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#30So the mirror with the hands clasped?… is just completely made up? Because she’s clearly not doing that irl.
> Coates was moving when the photo was taken, so when the shutter was pressed, many differing images were captured in that instant.
> Apple's algorithm stitches the photos together, choosing the best versions for saturation, contrast, detail, and lack of blur.