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What is computational photography?
Computational photography is when your camera (usually a phone) takes multiple exposures and uses on-device AI to merge them into a single better photo — combining the bright parts of one frame with the shadow detail of another, denoising at night, or faking shallow depth-of-field. Every modern smartphone shot is computational.
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Is computational photography cheating?
It's editing that happens before you see the photo, not after. Every JPEG from any camera has always been processed — phones just do more of it.
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