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Pixel 5 only Android phone with computational RAW?

Started Mar 16, 2021 | Discussions thread
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Re: Computational RAW?
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Sgt_Strider wrote:

Wayne Larmon wrote:

Patrick T. Kelly wrote:

For me, I'm not sure the term "computational RAW" isn't an oxymoron.

For the Pixels, it means that it does tiled stacking with all the frames it has captured in raw mode (so as to effectively multiply the effective size of the sensor.) It saves the single stacked raw image. It hasn't been demosicaced or tone mapped at this point so it is still considered a raw file.

The tiled stacking is the "computational" part.

Wayne

I can't seem to find any definitive sources about the Pixel 5's computational RAW feature.

It's in an article right here on DPR:

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7921074499/five-ways-google-pixel-3-pushes-the-boundaries-of-computational-photography

This is a also good article:

https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-pixel-3-camera-rewrites-photo-rules-with-nifty-new-tricks/

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