For me, the camera gets more important as I get older. I realise that, althougth I'm not into photography either, it's very easy to capture day-to-day memories.
However, I'm one of those people who would never buy a dedicated camera. I'm just not into it that much.
I'm courious to see if the hardware would be OK. If so, how much more can we get by writing good software. After all, there's only so much we can improve with hardware until it becomes irrelevant!?
Yeah, software is a big part of this and can hopefully improve it. But it's also a huge undertaking. I strongly suspect that computational photograhy improvements make up a majority of Apple, Google, and Samsung's smartphone research spending. It's the main thing that drives sales of their most expensive phones. There's a gigantic amount of closed source research / development to catch up with.
But also there's some important hardware features that just aren't possible to make up for in software (e.g. my 3x zoom camera module is really important to me).
For me, the camera gets more important as I get older. I realise that, althougth I'm not into photography either, it's very easy to capture day-to-day memories.
However, I'm one of those people who would never buy a dedicated camera. I'm just not into it that much.
I'm courious to see if the hardware would be OK. If so, how much more can we get by writing good software. After all, there's only so much we can improve with hardware until it becomes irrelevant!?