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I've been thinking about the same thing since Google impressed everyone with their computational photography tech years ago. The software in DSLRs is really pri

I've been thinking about the same thing since Google impressed everyone with their computational photography tech years ago. The software in DSLRs is really primitive in comparison. 2014: https://ai.googleblog.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dynamic-range.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dyn... 2017: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/experimental-nighttime-photography-with.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/experimental-nighttime-pho... Really makes you wonder what could be achieved by combining Google's computational photography algorithms with a bigger sensor and high quality optics. I'm probably not going to buy another high end camera, until I see something like that on the market.

philsnow 7y ago
there is e.g. https://magiclantern.fm/about.html https://magiclantern.fm/about.html for Canon DSLRs that allows you to do some more interesting things, it's been around for a decade or more
jedisct1 7y ago
Indeed, a traditional camera with the post-processing of a smartphone would be incredible. But indeed, camera manufacturers are way way way behind. The best they can do at the moment is find faces on a picture (and still, not that well except on Sony cameras). This is disappointing to say the least. The Zeiss ZX1 runs Android, but I don't know how much computational photography it provides, since all the reviews about it only emphasize the fact that it can run Lightroom (which sounds completely useless).