I noticed a lot of the newer cameras have a feature called pre-capture where essentially you can go back one or two seconds and still have a photo that you didn't actually take. I'm really amazed that no one has actually raised this until now and I've been thinking about it and I'm not a fan of it. Given the Photography industry has been complaining about AI in the last few years this is completely AI!
The difference is this is inside the camera and maybe people seem to embrace that? I would hate for an award-winning photo in a competition to be won by a using pre capture. Where do you sit on that now? I know that people are going shout me down in this and say you're Nev - you're being crazy. You're actually missing the point in all that! Blah Blah but am I? If you look at the act of taking the photo it occurs when we fire the shutter. That's what we do. How can anyone sit there and be happy with an image that they actually didn't create? You could argue they were there at the right time and all that, but I just think that's the mystery of Photography.
Discuss - and no, I'm not crazy. I just look at the amount of AI built into cameras these days and people are whining about AI taking over photography but AI is taking over cameras.
Pre-capture require you to press the shutter. Isn't this along the vein of pulling a single frame from a video?
No AI involved, it's just a better way of "Spray and Pray".
Hmmm and thanks. Still not a fan of it. Thanks
I fully understand. I'm not in favor of oversaturated photographs in the name of HDR. 🤣
I don't use HDR....lol but agree
So it really doesn't matter what anyone thinks, or whether you are a fan or not. Sort of like what you think of auto focus doesn't matter. The technology exists it will be used, and there is no way to tell in looking at the RAW file as to whether it was pre-capture, or auto focused. So yes eventually a pre-capture photo will win a photo contest (likely already has) and you may never know.
It makes it easier to capture the exact instant of an important action (bird taking off, ball meeting bat, ect.) what it doesn't do is provide the framing and composition of the photo. In my mind the "art" of the photo, as opposed to the "technique" of the photo (how well you can operate the camera, i.e. choose exposure, hold the camera steady, or time the shutter).