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Whisky-dave wrote:

the future is computational photography, where what was once considered
impossible is now trivial to do.

Which doesn't actually mean much, I've been waaiting for the pre exposure
thimng for years and it's only just happened in the photogrphy world.

that's been around for ~20 years.

yes I know I've been using it for years but not with a still camera with a
webcam connected to a computer and it was the software on the computer that
made it possible it wasn't the camera.

no you don't know. i was talking about still cameras, which have had it
for ~20 years.

I;ve said for a long time that one thing a smartphone camera can't do is
have
aperature control. They still can't but they can fake it to some extent.

if you mean more than one f/stop, that exists too. however, that's
hardware, not software.

So all smartphones are limited, how long has it taken for smartphones to be
able to change the aperature, we've had this on cameras for 100+ years.

everything is limited, especially 100 year old film cameras.

what kind of depth map did you get with it?

What diffence does it make whether it's software or hardware as every company
has the same problem(s) which havenlt been overcome yet.

they have been.