What Would Improve Image Quality?

[gary0319]

I was thinking a trip to Bora Bora would improve my images considerably.

Ha ha, reminds me of a quote from Joel Sartore: "If you want to take more interesting photos, you need to stand in front of more interesting stuff."

I tend to believe that every image is interesting. If not, then it tells us something about the person who captured it...

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Photography is so easy, that's what makes it highly difficult - Robert Delpire

Especially the ones of the sidewalk, or the sidewalk and my foot.

;-)

I have quite a few long videos like that....

 

[Guy Parsons]

Morning and late afternoon shooting works better than middle of day shooting.

Unfortunately that means being available at those times and that turns out to be a problem if moving ever onward with some tour group or even on a busy personal tour.

The trick might be to stay in one place for a number of days and scout out the scenery and judge the best time of day to shoot said scenery and then come back at the right time. Weather dependent of course, many things get in the way.

Notice that I have not said anything about the camera, that is the least important part of the equation. The last 10 years or more have seen cameras fit for purpose. Plus of course raw conversion software gets better and often improves marginal shots.

 

[Bruno Zarokian]

Getting rid of demosaicing would be big.

Getting rid of mosaicicing would be the big thing, if you don't mosaicise you don't need to demosaicise.

The bayer filter not only removes precious spatial info but also filters out a lot of photons. Foveon was an interesting direction that sadly proved to be impractical, but there is hope. Dual gain exposure would be nice, and starts to appear on some cameras I think. I would take 24MP with full RGB info per pixel over any 45-60mp bayer image any time. That said, when time is not an issue, 45mp pixel shifted images are awesome.

In the meantime most of the progress will come from computational trickery, like high speed multiframe stacking and other AI hacks, exactly what phones do.

I'm not sure how dual gain sensors would allow the removal of the Bayer filter. Dual gain affects sensitivity and makes the sensor ISO invariant, nothing to do with colour.

My bad, missing new line, the two point are unrelated, one is about somehow moving away from single color per pixel capture for a bit less spatial compromise (and possibly filtering out less photons), the second is about gaining more DR with a bit of a temporal compromise (but still much less than by bracketing at max fps). Both relate to image quality but that's about it.