Images will combine into breathtaking results

Mar 17, 2009 09:58 GMT  ·  By
Major camera manufacturers will start focusing their efforts on improving the quality of their optical sensors and not on adding more
   Major camera manufacturers will start focusing their efforts on improving the quality of their optical sensors and not on adding more

Over the past few years, advancements in the construction technology of most digital cameras have moved forward to such an extent that cramming more and more megapixels on a single optical sensor has become useless, according to representatives of some of the largest camera manufacturers in the world. That's why most of these producers are currently shifting their R&D departments to improving the actual quality of the picture, in terms of colors and brightness. But the real issue is what happens afterwards.

That is to say, some envision that, in the near future, 12-Megapixel digital cameras will not be simply used to take photographs, but to collect materials for larger compositions, such as 3D images or immense panoramic views of an objective. Of course, there will be people who will use them simply for snapshots, but others, most of the consumers, will demand something more, as in more options of what to do with the photos after they are taken. Basic editing software will be added-to, with most producers aiming to introduce several new features, such as combine, in the near future.

Pictures will no longer be manually cropped near each other, as it's the case today, but will simply be “tagged” accordingly by the camera, and a computer program will then automatically and flawlessly stitch them together. Images will gain never-before-seen, depth-of-field and zoom capabilities, and what's great is that the technology to do this already exists, and, moreover, it's commercially available at a decent price.

Other methods will allow multiple photographs of the same type to be combined or superimposed in such a manner that the result will reveal details invisible in any of the individual pictures. In addition, new manipulation software will also be able to make a 2D face in a picture appear more bright and more attractive via a simple click, while other programs will be able to turn 2D images into 3D ones at the touch of a button.