Modulo Camera is not able to take lighted photos



    Problems with overexposed photographs will forever be a thing of the past if the development of specialists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is as good as described on the institute’s website . And this is quite possible: it is not in vain that scientific work took an honorable second place at the International Conference on Computational Methods in Photography (2015 International Conference on Computational Photography).

    The new Modulo Camera with High Dynamic Range takes great pictures regardless of the lighting conditions. The darkest and lightest objects in the frame will be equally well detailed.

    HDR methods are widely used now, especially in smartphones with smart software. Typically, an HDR photograph is composed of several photographs taken at different shutter speeds. This approach has a serious drawback: it takes time to shoot several frames. If the hand faltered or some object quickly moves in the frame, then nothing will work. The picture comes out blurry. In other words, this method is only suitable for landscape photography.

    Unlike this approach, Modulo Camera generates an HDR photograph from a single frame.

    Developed by MIT in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Technology and Design, the camera needs only one shot to calculate the value of each pixel on the photosensor using computational methods, as if shooting was carried out with ultra-fast shutter speed.

    No matter how the photographer lights up the frame, the Modulo Camera will still determine the original values, see examples in the illustration.



    The “focus” is due to the unusual design of the pixels on the photosensitive sensor. Something like “feedback” works for them: as soon as the number of photons reaches the maximum value that the photocell is able to register, the pixel “resets” and starts to register the photons again. Then the results are processed and the original color of the “illuminated” object is restored.



    This approach not only allows you to expand the scope of HDR photography beyond landscape photography alone, but opens the door to HDR video! It can be absolutely fantastic technology for cinema.



    Even novice photographers will begin to take pictures that look even more like professional work. Although the horizon they will be littered as before.

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