> Everywhere, including Wikipedia, you get a definition like this: computational photography is a digital image capture and processing techniques that use digital computation instead of optical processes. Everything is fine with it except that it's bullshit. The fuzziness of the official definitions kinda indicates that we still have no idea what are we doing.
Seems rather harsh. "digital computation instead of optical processes" makes complete sense to me. Capture information about light at a scene, not in a simple plane but akin to a hologram, then later 'in post' compose the image from the data which can reconstruct the scene from many perspectives or other conditions determined after capture.
Seems rather harsh. "digital computation instead of optical processes" makes complete sense to me. Capture information about light at a scene, not in a simple plane but akin to a hologram, then later 'in post' compose the image from the data which can reconstruct the scene from many perspectives or other conditions determined after capture.