Interesting technology. I do try and purposely over expose sometimes but do not wish to blow highlights. I wonder if you will be able to control the level of recovery. Thanks for sharing.
I saw that article yesterday. From what I can glean of how they are accomplishing it, it would seem like an intermediate step to the ultimate goal, which would be a detector that just counts photons continuously rather than accumulating and later reading out charge. Such a detector by definition would have infinite dynamic range, limited in practice only by the bit depth of the data storage used.
Well OK, I lied, the *ultimate* goal would be to record, for each photon received by a pixel, both the energy and the direction. Now you've essentially got a "light field" camera (think Lytro) with infinite dynamic range and no color filters needed.
if the pixels cut off light gathering I'd assume you'd be able to control it all in post. i'd also image you could turn this off to intentionally overexpose.
one of the comments mentioned this app which attempts to guide you to the best composition ... would be interesting to see how well it chooses. Combine these 2 technologies with drones and you no longer need human photographers ;)
one of the comments mentioned this app which attempts to guide you to the best composition ... would be interesting to see how well it chooses. Combine these 2 technologies with drones and you no longer need human photographers ;)
sorry, but I feel letting the camera take control and not attempting to learn to control the exposure factors yourself takes the art out of photography. The images all look very soft too. So even though it capture the colors, it does not seem to capture the detail very well. jmho from an ordinary person who happens to own a regular old camera
sorry, but I feel letting the camera take control and not attempting to learn to control the exposure factors yourself takes the art out of photography.
You wouldn't lose control at all... the only change would be that you wouldn't ever have to worry about blowing highlights. You'd still need to control aperture for DoF, shutter speed and/or ISO for low-light exposure...
ETA: Now, if you wanted to blow highlights in post for artistic purposes, you'd of course be absolutely free to do that!
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
The images all look very soft too. So even though it capture the colors, it does not seem to capture the detail very well. jmho from an ordinary person who happens to own a regular old camera
I'm sure that this "technology demonstration" uses a relatively low resolution sensor. In theory, the pixels are no different than those in a standard camera, it's the read-out that differs. So there should be no loss of pixel-level detail compared to "standard" technology.
Best technique to not over expose, set ISO at 204,800 ISO and leave on len's cap. so strong ISO, it will photo through the cap and makes good image, maybe some grains but general clever trick. I do this in all photograph. You are most welcome for my advice
