Nilay Patel’s iPhone 16 Pro Review Addresses the Nilay-Patel-iest of Questions: What Is a Photo?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/23/nilay-patel-iphone-16-pro-review
Nilay Patel’s iPhone 16 Pro Review Addresses the Nilay-Patel-iest of Questions: What Is a Photo?

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/24247538/apple-iphone-16-pro-review

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@daringfireball I don’t think Clean Up is at all counter to their stance. They seem to be talking about the output of the camera, here. The camera, when you press the shutter button, should give you something that’s fairly representative of what was really in front of it. Maybe as if you used some funky film, or decided to really over-expose it, or whatever.

You can do what you want with the image afterwards. Photoshop, stickers, Clean Up, whatever. They just promise a base.

@daringfireball i need to check my glasses, I read "What is a potato?"
@daringfireball Something like Clean Up is of course also part of photography's long history. Politburo members images kept disappearing from Soviet photos: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge

Stalin didn’t have Photoshop—but that didn’t keep him from wiping the traces of his enemies from the history books. Even the famous photo of Soviet soldiers raising their flag after the Battle of Berlin was altered.

HISTORY
@daringfireball I have some thoughts, used iPhone as an example, but…