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Google's Night Sight Feature Arrives For Pixel Phones (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the groundbreaking-developments dept.

Google on Wednesday started to roll out 'Night Sight', a much anticipated-feature to the Pixel smartphones that is designed to help users capture better photos in low-light conditions. From a report: Night Sight made a premature debut in October courtesy of a leaked app, but today marks the start of its official rollout. Beginning this week, Night Sight will come not only to the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, but to the Pixel 2 and original Pixel. And judging by our preliminary testing, it was well worth the wait. Further reading: Google gives the Pixel camera superhuman night vision

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  1. Re: Honest AC Question by TimMD909 · · Score: 2

    No. You must suffer like the rest of us.

  2. Night sight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Night sight? Why don't they just rename it form Google 'Pixel' to Google 'Pervert' or Google 'Stalker'?

    1. Re: Night sight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Why doesn't slashdot just rename it from anonymous coward to anonymous moron?

    2. Re: Night sight? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Don't be a moran.

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  3. Re:Great by mikael · · Score: 1

    I once used my smartphone to make a video of a dry thunderstorm while it was directly above my house (the lighting was cloud-to-cloud). With the regular camera video, it would only capture the brightest flashes inside the clouds, but take the mp4 video file onto a PC, run some ImageMagick to boost the contrast and reconstruct the video, and all the other lightning flashes would appear.

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  4. Re:Great! by msauve · · Score: 1

    "I've spent years working on a robot that can find a black cat in a pitch black room, and then annoy the piss out of them."

    Sorry to inform, but someone beat you to it. It's called a Roomba.

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  5. Forget smartphones by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

    I want to see that technology integrated directly into car windshields.

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    1. Re:Forget smartphones by jaa101 · · Score: 1

      The key trick they’re using is exposure stacking, i.e., aligning and adding together a sequence of images. While you could use this to achieve night vision, the price would be lag of a substantial fraction of a second, to collect the required number of images. Not what you want while driving. Worse, I bet the system will fail with fast-changing scenes because it won’t be able to align consecutive images. So there could be a market for a night vision device based on this approach, but it’s going to have to be plastered with warning stickers about not using it for things like driving where reaction time is critical for safety.

  6. Re:Honest AC Question by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

    You can. Simply go to your settings, then "exclusions" and tick the box next to msmash.

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  7. It works! by p51d007 · · Score: 1

    I have an Essential. It's amazing how it pulls a decent photo out an almost black scene.