Wednesday February 01, 2023

The Limits of “Computational Photography" 

Every time I tried to take a picture of the engraved text, the picture on my phone looked terrible! It looked like someone had sloppily drawn the text with a paint marker. What was going on? Was my vision somehow faulty, failing to see the rough edges and sloppy linework that my iPhone seemed to be picking up? No, in fact - when I took the same picture using a “real” camera, it looked exactly as I expected!

(via The Limits of “Computational Photography” :: Will Yager)