Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4

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solarkraft · 2026-05 · Recommendation

To expand on the HDR example: There’s this interesting lecture series about computational photography by Marc Levoy, who worked on the earlier Pixel cameras: [VIDEO] From what I remember, the core thesis is “take a lot of pictures and take the best parts”, which works for a surprising number of cases.

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asafira · 2025-05 · Recommendation

I did my PhD in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics, and despite "optical" being part of that I realized midway that I didn't know enough about how regular cameras worked! It didn't take very long to learn, and it turned out to be extremely important in the work I did during the early days at Waymo and later at Motional. I wanted to pass along this fun video from several years ago that discusses HDR: [LINK] . It's short and fun, I recommend it to all HN readers. Separately, if you want a more serious introduction to digital photography, I recommend the lectures by Marc Levoy from his Stanford course: [VIDEO] . I believe he runs his own group at Adobe now after leading a successful effort at Google making their pixel cameras the best in the industry for a couple of years. (And then everyone more-or-less caught up, just like with most tech improvements in the history of smartphones).

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sys32768 · 2023-01 · Recommendation

Marc Levoy's Lectures on Digital Photography: [VIDEO] >This is one of 18 videos representing lectures on digital photography, from a version of my Stanford course CS 178 that was recorded at Google in Spring 2016.

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