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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by joenot443 on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:55AM (#33831250)
Artificial bokeh (like in Portrait mode on an iPhone) is getting better and better. It went from looking cheesy to somewhat natural in only a few years. It’ll be a while before it’s close to the example you gave, but I can imagine a future where Camera.app has a “tap to blur” feature using live CV object detection.
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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by hef19898 on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:58AM (#33831288)
If you use artificial bokeh, and why stop there, probably not taking pictures to begin with and just use AI to create one is the way forward.
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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by toqy on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:20AM (#33832549)
In the hypothetical future scenario where the output is good enough I don't think there's much of a point in making a distinction between something that is optically manipulated via lens vs done so via software.
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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by aembleton on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:08PM (#33833284)
Because you want to capture memories but not necessarily everthing in the field of view.
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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by yamtaddle on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:38PM (#33833768)
I'm a serious luddite in a lot of ways but don't see a meaningful difference between blurring the background by focusing the lens a certain way, and blurring it after the fact using depth information captured in the photo.
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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by meatmanek on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:59PM (#33840077)
The way phone image processing pipelines work these days, this doesn't seem too far from the truth. Images from phones are essentially AI renderings which use pixel data as a prompt, and have less and less relation to the actual pixel data with each new device.
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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by joenot443 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:54AM (#33843899)
If I could ask an AI for a photo of my dog and it looked better than one I took with my camera, why wouldn't I? We're representing the world as series of pixels on a bitmap, makes little difference to me where it came from.
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