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That'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 s
by simmons 10y ago
That'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 10y 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.