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Any hardware reason for it to only work on Pixel phones?
Supports a better Camera API - some people have cracked it to work on non-Pixel devices already though. See: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
What the Pixel cameras are doing is staggeringly good. My father is the founder of https://www.imatest.com/ , and has a substantial collection of top-end cameras. He's probably in the top 0.0001% of image quality nerds. But most of the time, he's now entirely happy shooting on his Pixel.
If you don't mind my derailing the conversation a bit, could you ask your father what he would recommend for 4K/60fps video as competition for the Panasonic GH5s? In its weight class, it's one of the few 60fps (and 400Mbps bitrate capable) cameras that can be mounted to a relatively small sized gimbal, and flown on a drone that doesn't cost $10,000. Is there anything expected to be released in the next few months tha…
If you're interested in learning more about this stuff the head of the Pixel team (Marc Levoy - Prof emeritus at Stanford) has an entire lecture series on this stuff from a class he ran at Google. They are here along with lecture notes: https://sites.google.com/site/marclevoylectures/home What's really cool is you can see him talk about a lot of these ideas well before they made it into the Pixel phone
If you're thinking of taking a look, I particularly enjoyed Lecture 7 of this series. The practical applications of Fourier analysis in image recognition/filtering/processing are really quite amazing. Plus, if you're at all curious about the technical details for how exactly something like Night Sight is implemented on the Pixel, understanding what Fourier transformations are and how they are utilized is vital.
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I never knew I wanted a "smart" fridge, but a fridge that can detect food going off sounds incredible. Sign me up if this is feasible.
A fridge that prevents food going off would be better, no? That wouldn't require smarts, just replacing the air with pure nitrogen, like modern grain silos do. Doing it at "consumer scale" would probably only require the same sort of compressor that your fridge already uses for its cooling.
For meat we've got freezers. Is ready food going spoiled a big issue?
What the Pixel cameras are doing is staggeringly good. My father is the founder of https://www.imatest.com/ , and has a substantial collection of top-end cameras. He's probably in the top 0.0001% of image quality nerds. But most of the time, he's now entirely happy shooting on his Pixel.
If you don't mind my derailing the conversation a bit, could you ask your father what he would recommend for 4K/60fps video as competition for the Panasonic GH5s? In its weight class, it's one of the few 60fps (and 400Mbps bitrate capable) cameras that can be mounted to a relatively small sized gimbal, and flown on a drone that doesn't cost $10,000. Is there anything expected to be released in the next few months tha…
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Yeah he's a good egg. I'm sure it'll keep going as long as he does. His startup actually grew out of those articles -- which were basically supposed to be his retirement hobby -- and now it employs 20 people! I'm really proud of what he's accomplished.
Wow, what a cool guy. I know we don't do AMAs on here but it'd be amazing to get HN to pick his brains for a bit.
That said, the effect of some of these photographs is striking, and I'm sure the tech is interesting.
This might be a weird criticism but... making photos taken in the dark look like they are not actually dark seems kind of like a weird thing to do? I've struggled with my micro 4/3 camera to capture accurate night photographs, but the last thing I wanted of them was to be brighter than I was perceiving them to be. That said, the effect of some of these photographs is striking, and I'm sure the tech is interesting.
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While I'd like to believe pulling off these levels of photos is as easy as you proclaim (because I would have a lot of old shots that are usable) the level of discounting you assert here is unfortunate, because it's simply not true. The proof is in the reality that nothing has done this good of a job to date. If you do have examples that match or exceed please share and I will be in line to buy.
Just to be clear, I've been a serious photographer (amateur, not professional, but with all of the gear) for two decades, and actually made a pretty popular computational photography app for Android. I honestly don't know which part you're doubting. Long exposures? Do you doubt that other cameras can do long exposures? Do you doubt that they can do noise reduction? Do you doubt that OIS allows for hand-held long expo…