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05/03/2012 04:45:58 PM · #1 |
The Perfect Moment
The smart phone folks are going to pass the digital camera guys, this is getting scary. In addition, when you consider Nokia's new 41 megapixel camera-phone and they are coming at photography from several angles at once.
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05/03/2012 04:52:13 PM · #2 |
Hey, you can do it if all you want is a 2Mpx still from a video! ;-)
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05/03/2012 05:09:56 PM · #3 |
| Yeah, DSLR's have been able to record videos for a few years already =). Also that Nokia advertising thing is ridiculous, it's the "more megapixels = better" crap advertisers have been pushing since the start of digital (which I thought was a dying trend), but taken to the extreme. If the 41mp's on Nokia's new phone are there for any reason other than advertising then you should be able to make a roughly 26"x18" print at 300dpi (that's a print >A1 at 300dpi), meaning you can shove your nose in the print at that size and still see only fine details. While "for a camera phone" the sample images Nokia have released are good, it's still all progress spearheaded by the companies marketing department, and that's never the best way to make real progress. |
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05/03/2012 05:39:34 PM · #4 |
Perhaps neither of you looked at the link. It is not about video at all. Have a look and then tell me that you are not impressed.
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05/03/2012 06:11:59 PM · #5 |
Casio was working on a p/s a year or so ago with this same capability. In effect, it compensated for some shutter lag and reflexes by recording images as soon as the shutter release was halfway down, and kept recording image frames thru and after the shutter release. I think you could set an offset time for the image capture if you wished, or keep the series of images to choose from later. This seems a bit more sophisticated, though it seems targeted only at faces.
But, yes, so much effort has gone into making digital cameras behave like film cameras, it is nice to see some few innovators stepping outside those boundaries and looking at how the digital medium could perform in unique ways when the limitation of "standard" cameras are removed.
I think this particular thing is new and somewhat workable, but the technical issues are going to be processing power, memory, and speed of both in order to accomplish this on larger format cameras. But think about something like this, combined with the lytros tech that allows choosing focus points after the image is captured. Image making is going to be filled with some amazing new alternative approaches over the next decade or two.
Message edited by author 2012-05-03 18:13:22. |
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05/03/2012 06:13:04 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Morgan:
Perhaps neither of you looked at the link. It is not about video at all. Have a look and then tell me that you are not impressed. |
I did take a quick look, but w/o sound :-P
I'll take a better look later this evening. I do think it's a neat idea, particularly the interface.
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05/03/2012 07:53:25 PM · #7 |
I would think that this may be done by recording a continuous stream of images anytime the camera is activated, into a buffer, while dumping the tail end and keeping what's coming in fresh.
When the shutter is clicked, the buffer moves the few seconds before and including the shutter press, into the chip, allowing you to go back to images made before the shutter was clicked.
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05/03/2012 08:01:19 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
I would think that this may be done by recording a continuous stream of images anytime the camera is activated, into a buffer, while dumping the tail end and keeping what's coming in fresh.
When the shutter is clicked, the buffer moves the few seconds before and including the shutter press, into the chip, allowing you to go back to images made before the shutter was clicked. |
Waddy, I believe you are exactly right. It's essentially equivalent to the "negative time delay" on a digital oscilloscope. You trigger on an event, and you can capture a certain time "into the past."
It goes one step further, in that it seems as though you can "roll back" or "roll forward" just one portion of the image, like the face with the eyes closed. The interface is what makes it so cool. You could do the same thing with two frames extracted from a video file, but at a big penalty in time spent.
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05/03/2012 09:27:37 PM · #9 |
wake me up when any of these phones can take a low light image that even resembles something of a clean image.
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05/03/2012 10:13:43 PM · #10 |
It looks like this camera is so slow that by the time you take a picture the person being photographed goes to sleep, with your d800 you should be able to get the smiling face every time without the extra work ;)
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05/04/2012 08:36:43 AM · #11 |
Okay, you made me laugh with this comment - touché
Originally posted by vikas:
It looks like this camera is so slow that by the time you take a picture the person being photographed goes to sleep, with your d800 you should be able to get the smiling face every time without the extra work ;) |
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