Better signal processing, amplification, read noise and probably lot more that I can’t even imagine.
And of course, all the stuff during capture you mentioned could be a lot better too.
Picture being a camera engineer and suddenly have 10X more speed and a decent platform to work with. 32bit multiple exposure RAW in a single click, who knows.
> Better signal processing, amplification, read noise and probably lot more that I can’t even imagine.
Yeah, I get that, but I don't think there is an improvement here by sticking a modern smartphone CPU and OS into a camera.
Making improvements to those metrics ultimately require newer sensors with lower read noise and better on-chip ADCs. The camera manufacturers can't do 24-bit RAWs @ 20fps when the sensor only outputs 12-bits @ 10 fps.
If we are doing multiple exposures, then as you know, cameras already have exposure bracketing, and I can do the rest in my PC.
>Making improvements to those metrics ultimately require newer sensors with lower read noise and better on-chip ADCs.
Which big pocket tech companies could do :)
>If we are doing multiple exposures, then as you know, cameras already have exposure bracketing, and I can do the rest in my PC.
Sure, but we have gyroscopes, accelerometers, electronic shutters and 2Ghz processors on this dream device of mine.
Surely we can do better than using a tripod, exposing entire scenes multiple times and try to align and blend them in the computer hours later.
Yeah, unfortunately I don't think big tech is that interested. Unless it is a strategic move, even at $1b/year in profit, it is not worth Tim Cook's time to do this ($1b/year is less than 2% of AAPL profit). I am not sure there is $1b/year in profit to be made across all the ILC manufacturers at this point.
> but we have gyroscopes, accelerometers
These are helpful and I wish cameras would record these and stuff them into the EXIF data somehow, so that I can do better post. I think we just have some disagreements about where post-processing should happen :p
And of course, all the stuff during capture you mentioned could be a lot better too.
Picture being a camera engineer and suddenly have 10X more speed and a decent platform to work with. 32bit multiple exposure RAW in a single click, who knows.