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The Vergecast

Marc Levoy on moving from Google to Adobe and the ethics of computational photography

The Vergecast

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4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel talks with former Google engineer Marc Levoy about his move to Adobe, the state of the smartphone camera, and the future of computational photography. We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here: voxmedia.com/podsurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Think a smartphone can do when taking a photo. Computational photography, if you don't know,

1:56.0

is when the phone takes a series of images and merges them together to make a final image. That's

2:02.2

how you get those HDR effects. That's how you get tone mapping. That's how you get things

2:05.3

like refocusing on something like Lightro. Mark has worked on all of this stuff. We talked about

2:09.4

the jump from Google to Adobe, why he decided to make the switch. Edadoby is team, his task with

2:14.8

building a universal camera app that will work across platforms. We talked about what that might

2:19.0

look like with the next frontier of smartphone photography might be, how video factors into it.

2:23.9

And of course, if you've ever heard us talk about computational photography on the Vergecast,

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