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I was hoping for something more ambitious like "once you can detect the full electromagnetic spectrum hitting your phone from any angle, you won't need a lens t
by blixt 9y ago
I was hoping for something more ambitious like "once you can detect the full electromagnetic spectrum hitting your phone from any angle, you won't need a lens to reconstruct a focused picture." The proposed idea is very tedious and requires a tremendous amount of up-to-date data (just the open state of a door can seriously affect the lighting conditions in a photo).
- simmons 9y agoThat's exactly what I was thinking, too, when I saw the picture of the back of the phone without a camera. "Of course! The entire back of the phone could be sprayed with nano-scale sensors that collect photons at varying angles, then you computationally assemble these into a image, using algorithms and the sheer number of data points to compensate for the inevitable noise! Full-field photography, and maybe even enough parallax to capture 3D images! Brilliant! Oh wait, that's not where he's going at all..."
- natch 9y agoYeah I was ready to point out that if you don't have a lens, it can still be a camera. But then it turned out to be a dishonest clickbait title with an article where the author wasn't really thinking clearly or with any sort of deep perspective at all about what cameras are for, or the value of what photographs of actual messy reality deliver.