Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months agoWe might be exaggerating the issue here. Fallibility has always been an issue with court evidence. Analog photos can be doctored too.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Sure, but smartphones now automatically doctor every photo you take. Someone who took the photo could not even know it was doctored and think it represents truth.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fair point, but I still think we’re exaggerating the amount of doctoring that’s being done by the phones. There’s always been some level of discrepancy between real life subjects and the images taken of them.
It’s just a tool creating media from sensor data. Those sensors aren’t the same as our eyes, and their processors don’t hold a candle to our own brains.
In the interest of not rambling, let’s look back at early black and white cameras. When people looked at those photos, did they assume the world was black and white? Or did they acknowledge this as a characteristic of the camera?