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Pixel 5 only Android phone with computational RAW?

Started Mar 16, 2021 | Discussions thread
OP Sgt_Strider Senior Member • Posts: 2,674
Re: Computational RAW?

PhotoFactor wrote:

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/

I'm surprised there aren't more articles written about the Pixel 5 and whether there have been any advancement in its computational RAW technology.

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