On 2023-03-14 13:38, Alfred Molon wrote:
> Am 14.03.2023 um 00:21 schrieb Alan Browne:
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>> Smartphone cameras know more about the subject than the photographer?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afpDuTb-P0&ab_channel=MarquesBrownlee
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> No, but for instance all these subject AF modes rely on models of faces
> / things / animals etc. which the camera uses to lock the focus.
Not the point. Using that in order to select a point for focus (and/or
exposure) is fine.
> And there should be more and more subject/scene recognition based image
> processing in cameras.
Perhaps - but at some point one will wonder if the "improvement" is data
from the camera (a "better photo chunk") pasted in place of the captured
pixels.