Frankencamera – Evolution of Digital Photography
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Just when you thought that digital photography couldn’t progress any further, some brainiacs at Stanford bust out some new technology.
Introducing the open-source camera, dubbed "Frankencamera", a piece of technology where programmers can fine-tune a camera’s response to light and motion--outside of Photoshop. Without getting too technical (algorithms, blah blah blah), this means that multiple images of a particular scene can be taken, processed to a particular exposure level and then recombined into a composite image.
But wait, can’t you already do this on a computer? Yeah, sure. But in a camera… on-site? That’s what Marc Levoy, a professor of Computer and Electrical ...