Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos

Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by londons_explore on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:48AM (#23402341)

> Why would a dedicated camera need to take huge numbers of photos to overcome sensor noise when it's not there in the first place?

Except there is noise. There is always some dark spot that could do with a little more detail. There is always a bright reflection that saturates the sensor losing its color information.

With a decent burst and enough computational photography, you can recover all that information.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by throwanem on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:40AM (#23402659)

First, that's not noise. Second, modern ILC sensors have dynamic range to spare; you can usually pull a couple stops of detail on both sides in post. Third, if you want HDR, which is what you're talking about here anyway, modern ILCs can do it and have been able to for years. You set it up like bracketing and it assembles the shots in camera just like a phone does.

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