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I think the issue is that people don't know what the camera does. The woman who tried to take a picture of herself in her wedding dress had no idea she'd end up

I think the issue is that people don't know what the camera does. The woman who tried to take a picture of herself in her wedding dress had no idea she'd end up looking like three different people. I expect that as more and more people come to learn that their iphone photos are all fakes we will see more people reaching for cameras instead of cell phones for the important things when they can.

dylan604 3y ago
I think like most things on HN, people are confusing the people here are a much smaller percentage of the population and the majority of the world does not think like HN. Most people don't care one little bit about what the camera does. They only care that it shows them a picture that looks like what they saw. Does it hold up to further scrutiny? Maybe not, but these are also not the people that will be scrutinizing it. Unless they take a picture of their cat and it ends up with the head of a dog, the "your moms" of the world are not going to care.
- Dah00n 3y ago
  >They only care that it shows them a picture that looks like what they saw Here it most definitely does not look like what they saw.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    Maybe, but how many "your moms" would even actually notice this on their own? As far as computational imaging goes, I've seen way way way worse and much more offensive. Samsung's total replacement of the moon comes to mind as being much more offensive. This one just makes me laugh as a developer at the realization of what happened as being such a strange edge case. Other than that, I've seen similar results from intentional creative ideas, so it's not offensive at all to me. It's just another example of we can not believe anything we hear, and only half (maybe less) of what we see.
NavinF 3y ago
Are you serious? Lemme try: I expect that as more and more people come to learn that their iphone's auto mode is better than their DSLR's auto mode, we will see more people reaching for cell phones instead of cameras for the important things when they can.

dylan604 3y ago

I think like most things on HN, people are confusing the people here are a much smaller percentage of the population and the majority of the world does not think like HN. Most people don't care one little bit about what the camera does. They only care that it shows them a picture that looks like what they saw. Does it hold up to further scrutiny? Maybe not, but these are also not the people that will be scrutinizing it. Unless they take a picture of their cat and it ends up with the head of a dog, the "your moms" of the world are not going to care.

Dah00n 3y ago
>They only care that it shows them a picture that looks like what they saw Here it most definitely does not look like what they saw.
- dylan604 3y ago
  Maybe, but how many "your moms" would even actually notice this on their own? As far as computational imaging goes, I've seen way way way worse and much more offensive. Samsung's total replacement of the moon comes to mind as being much more offensive. This one just makes me laugh as a developer at the realization of what happened as being such a strange edge case. Other than that, I've seen similar results from intentional creative ideas, so it's not offensive at all to me. It's just another example of we can not believe anything we hear, and only half (maybe less) of what we see.

NavinF 3y ago

Are you serious? Lemme try: I expect that as more and more people come to learn that their iphone's auto mode is better than their DSLR's auto mode, we will see more people reaching for cell phones instead of cameras for the important things when they can.