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Aware-2, New Gigapixel Camera, Takes Photos 30

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Aware-2, New Gigapixel Camera, Takes Photos 30 Times Better Than Current SLRs


Tech | 207560 hits | Jun 22 10:48 pm | Posted by: canucker
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An advanced camera powerful enough to shoot one billion pixels of still or video image is currently being tested at Duke University. Details of this research were released in the scientific journal Nature earlier this week.

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  1. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:46 am
    What does it matter once you reach the point where the sharpness is too fine for the human eye to differentiate between one and another.

  2. by jeff744
    Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:01 am
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    What does it matter once you reach the point where the sharpness is too fine for the human eye to differentiate between one and another.

    Lets you blow them up to massive sizes without a loss of quality.

  3. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:19 am
    Space exploration, and mapping would likely be the only real beneficiaries of this technology.

  4. by Prof_Chomsky
    Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:45 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Space exploration, and mapping would likely be the only real beneficiaries of this technology.



    Imagine just being able to set your focus to infinite with a super wide angle lense and snapping a generic photo of wherever you are. You don't need to worry about getting the proper framing or anything. Then you go home and select the part you want to print out into a memory. And if you should want to blow it up int a 8x11 the quality doesn't get worse either.

    And if they couple this technology with this other camera, things get reallllly interesting http://www.lytro.com/#
    Anyone, at any skill level can take a flawless shot everytime.

  5. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:48 pm
    "Prof_Chomsky" said
    Space exploration, and mapping would likely be the only real beneficiaries of this technology.



    Imagine just being able to set your focus to infinite with a super wide angle lense and snapping a generic photo of wherever you are. You don't need to worry about getting the proper framing or anything. Then you go home and select the part you want to print out into a memory. And if you should want to blow it up int a 8x11 the quality doesn't get worse either.

    And if they couple this technology with this other camera, things get reallllly interesting http://www.lytro.com/#
    Anyone, at any skill level can take a flawless shot everytime.

    Kinda takes the art out of photography, don't you think?

  6. by Prof_Chomsky
    Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:53 pm
    Yeah it does a bit. But I guess you still need the eye to see what makes for a good shot in the first place.
    I'm kind of happy it exists. No need to pay 3k to a wedding photographer when a child can do it with a 400$ camera.

    I don't know why, but for some reason this reminds me of Boogie Nights when the "art" was lost lol.

  7. by avatar EyeBrock
    Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:09 pm
    "Prof_Chomsky" said
    Yeah it does a bit. But I guess you still need the eye to see what makes for a good shot in the first place.
    I'm kind of happy it exists. No need to pay 3k to a wedding photographer when a child can do it with a 400$ camera.

    I don't know why, but for some reason this reminds me of Boogie Nights when the "art" was lost lol.



    I can never see a time when a kid with no knowledge can out class a trained photographer.

    Photoshop hasn't replaced good composition or getting the light right and never will.

    Those who can’t see the art in photography will be happy with sterile images. Look at canuckers web site and do that with your iphone.

  8. by Prof_Chomsky
    Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:26 pm
    I don’t disagree at all. True photographic art is very hard to come by and extremely rare.

    But the day when backyard photographers are no longer needed to take wedding pics, school photos and the like is fast approaching. Light field cameras capture every light exposure from every angle so you don’t need to know anything about lighting or focusing.

  9. by avatar EyeBrock
    Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:01 pm
    "Prof_Chomsky" said
    I don’t disagree at all. True photographic art is very hard to come by and extremely rare.

    But the day when backyard photographers are no longer needed to take wedding pics, school photos and the like is fast approaching. Light field cameras capture every light exposure from every angle so you don’t need to know anything about lighting or focusing.



    I couldn't disagree more. You can get acceptable snapshots with zero knowledge on Auto.

    Getting anything more, decent bokeh, good light on your subjects face or the right depth-of-field on a landscape/building shot takes skill and a knowledge of your equipment.

    A computer with a lens isn't going to know any of the above. It will average a scene out, meter it according to it's AI and that will be ok for many people.

    I've seen some very sad wedding pictures taken with good cameras and good lenses that are way beyond the users skill set. Good gear does not equal a good shot.

    The tech side of cameras is always going to progress but the skill needed to get a particular shot is always going to be the most critical part of a photograph. It's the 12 inches behind the camera that matter the most.

  10. by Prof_Chomsky
    Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:25 pm
    Aside from wanting some fantastic compositions like mountains in the background fading into the tree's shadows and landing on the happy couple’s faces, the light field camera covers all of those problems. Lighting, focus, lenses… none of it matters anymore. http://www.lytro.com/#

    Agreed, there is no substitute for a good photographer who can get the right poses and compositions. But realistically, 90% of them just know how to use a high end camera to get proper lighting and focus. Maybe this is a good thing, it will make it so future photographers are true artists, not just tech junkies.

  11. by avatar EyeBrock
    Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:30 pm
    Prof, I can safely say that the camera in this thread is not going to supercede my 5D2 +35L lens.

  12. by avatar raydan
    Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:41 pm
    I'm sure a lot of people thought that photography would replace painting.

    ...It was rather the popular Salon painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), celebrated for the technical precision of his work, who reportedly declared, on seeing his first daguerreotype, ‘From today, painting is dead.’ The fear that photography would replace painting was felt primarily by those who, like Delaroche, understood painting's purpose within a fairly narrow concept of visual representation.

  13. by Prof_Chomsky
    Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:45 pm
    Lol. I don't mean today, I mean 5 years from now. Couple a gigapixel camera with light field capabilities and the best zoom lens with the finest hand crafted optics in the world aren’t going to hold a candle to it.

    It's a good thing. Now photographers can focus on composition and art rather than light gain or proper focus.

  14. by avatar EyeBrock
    Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:57 pm
    "Prof_Chomsky" said
    Lol. I don't mean today, I mean 5 years from now. Couple a gigapixel camera with light field capabilities and the best zoom lens with the finest hand crafted optics in the world aren’t going to hold a candle to it.

    It's a good thing. Now photographers can focus on composition and art rather than light gain or proper focus.



    The only thing I see in the next 5 years are cameras with better dynamic range, higher, usable ISO and better AF.

    This is an area in which I am particulary well read.

    I think your Jetson rocket car is ready for pick-up prof.



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