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  Computational Digital Photography has become possible thanks to better and better hardware, particularly the ever more powerful microprocessor chips. Nowadays most photos are taken, and processed in smartphones, hence the progress of hardware in this area is leading to better and better computational photography. In the last few weeks …

Lately I have posted a few news of using artificial intelligence to create an image out of a sentence, describing what you are expecting to see. Today I stumbled onto yet another (free) software, Midjourney, that can let you do that (you just need to subscribe to their beta version …

2 and a half years ago I published a post on a Samsung beginning the production of a new digital sensor designed to fit smartphones’ cameras. It had 108 million pixels making the point that resolut6ion (image definition, in other words the capability of the sensors to capture more and …

I remember 20 years ago looking in awe at a new Nikon digital camera: it embedded a 5 Mpixel sensor, 5 million pixels! At that time I had a 1.3 Mpixel camera. Now my smartphone has a 12 Mpixel camera (plus another one for selfie). However, even my current 12 …

Synthetic Media It is now several decades that video games have acquainted us with synthetic reality. Imaginary landscapes and ambient are recreated by computer graphics along with sounds that match the objects and the ongoing actions providing a “credible” reality. Actually, the first synthetic environment screamed “fake” at all times …

I still remember my first film camera (I was really proud of having a camera!). It had an optical indicator that as I turned the focus ring on the lens showed a detailed area in the frame split in two that recomposed into a single image once the focus was …

It is now about a year (since last CES, the physical one back in 2020, not a virtual one like this year) that 8k television has become available (it has a definition of 7680×4320, vs a 3840×2160 of a 4k television). But you needed big pockets to get one (consider …

There is quite a bit of confusion when we talk (and hear) about resolution. Resolution is measured in pixel per inch, that is how many different points are in an inch. On a 4k television you have 3,840 points horizontally and 2,160 vertically. How many per inch? Well that depends …

I have been seeing news and hearing talks on smart contact lenses for at least ten years (more if it was just speculation). The hurdles to be overcome are just staggering and these have delayed the actual availability of products. Samsung was possibly one of the first “big” companies to …

Sony has announced a new digital image sensor designed for video cameras, more specifically security cameras, able to take 8k videos at 30 frames per second.  8k requires a resolution of 8192×4320 pixels, that would be 35 Mpixels, approximately, and the chip has a 8192×5556 pixels, 47+Mpixels. 8k is a …