Originally posted by officiousbystander How about a phone camera which downloads a photo that has been taken before at the same place in the same light but simply interpolates the taker's face? This would take care of 99% of tourist selfies.
We're going there. We have a startup working on this over here. From the demos I've seen , they've done a pretty good job, from pictures posted on the web I couldn't tell if it was fake or real (the pictures were all fake). We don't see small miss-matches at feature edges on computer display, even less on a mobile phone display. Of course, I'd see the fakes immediately on a 24x36" print.
I think, in the future, we will have a bigger gap between ILC cameras and smartphones. Most volume of junk from phones on social media, and less and less of a much higher quality images in prints (from very expensive ILC cameras). Maybe some days, paper prints will be more regarded as art like paintings by the younger generations who were born with a smartphone. These folks born after ~ 2010, are going to rediscover paper prints when they are in their 40s and 50s. We start seeing this trend already for B&W silver prints that used to be mainstream photography, are now regarded as rare art objects. The kind of photos that my grand father would have disposed during room cleaning, are now seen as precious photographs.
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