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Posted by sajomes 3 days ago

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo(photosynthesis.camera)
300 points | 280 commentspage 5
jnsie 17 hours ago|
Interesting. I wonder if this could be extended to take MPO 3D photos.
sajomes 16 hours ago|
That is something I want to look at post-1.0-launch.
tantalor 13 hours ago||
Leading with a concert photo example is cringe. Camera phones are a scourge on the concert experience. It should not be encouraged.
cchance 12 hours ago||
Sily question... why not all 3
sajomes 12 hours ago|
All 3 is in the app! It's a much harder challenge to deal with the parallax and other artefacts that come up from combining 3 lenses, so that particular feature is launching in beta.
iamcoder18 19 hours ago||
Anything like this for Android or Pixels?
column 15 minutes ago|
I guess I will break the general hypocrisy and be the one to say this can be replicated with AI. Fable almost one-shotted it.

The devil is in the details. I ended up tinkering quite a bit because Samsung's software decides for you wether to use the real 3x camera or do a digital zoom (which defeats the purpose). Long story short I got a prototype working, but only when shooting outdoor with good day light. No I will not share it or publish it. The result was terrible for a close up portrait. It works beautifully for outdoor shots of plants/trees.

Here is the catch : when you share your detailed shot by WhatsApp (for example), it gets compressed and you lose those precious details.

A very cool project nonetheless.

guruthechosen 4 hours ago||
nice one!
niek_pas 16 hours ago||
That is a fantastic name.
sajomes 16 hours ago|
Thank you! I was very happy when I came up with it
iAMkenough 17 hours ago||
My hesitations on this are it stores data in a proprietary format that I may not be able to export to another common format if the product disappears in a few years.

For something personal like photos and the memories they capture, that's not ideal for me.

While the app is still with us, I'm not sure how much it will cost me to export to my photos to my photo library each month.

sajomes 16 hours ago|
There is zero lock-in with the files being saved - you can export from the app in HEIC/PNG/JPEG as well as PSD and spatial/SBS 3D. The format the website calls the 'Photosynthesis' file is an HEIC so even if you export that you can still access the data outside of the app.

Unlimited exports of the composite images are part of the subscription (with an option to automatically export to Photos.app and/or a folder of your choosing), but the free tier still offers unlimited saving of the constituent images e.g. the wide & tele shots, just not the composite.

guruthechosen 4 hours ago||
this seems to be legit
BugsJustFindMe 18 hours ago||
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sajomes 18 hours ago|
It's back now!
BugsJustFindMe 18 hours ago|||
FYI you're serving multi-megabyte images on your landing page that could effectively be thumbnails.
lattalayta 19 hours ago|
Similar idea to the discontinued Light L16 camera https://petapixel.com/2017/12/08/review-light-l16-brilliant-...
sajomes 16 hours ago|
That looks insane, definitely a trypophobia trigger!
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