What is photography? No, really. what Is it a photo? what teeth photograph? What is be photograph? What is photograph? When you tap the shutter button on your phone, it grabs nearly a dozen frames from a cache that was capturing data long before you pressed anything, stitches together the “best” parts of each frame, and then displays all You can now edit the contents. Do you ever take photos during the process? And in a world where AI is enough to make everything look beautiful, does it even matter? If you repeat the question enough times, it becomes the size of the universe. We definitely asked the question enough times to get there.
About this episode The Verge CastLet’s explore this question again from two different angles. First, we talk to Ben Sandofsky and Sebastian De With, co-creators of the popular camera app Halide. Their perception of the iPhone’s camera, how the way people use it has changed over the years, and Halide’s new feature that removes all processing on the iPhone and just captures one frame at a time without modification. Let’s talk about why process zero mode has been working for us. It was a big hit among users.
after that, The Verge‘s Alison Johnson joins the show to talk about her own experiments. After considering this year’s AI smartphones with AI cameras, she decided to go all-in on AI and leave all the photo-taking and editing work to Google, Apple, and Samsung. She talks about how that approach has changed the photos she takes, how she takes them, and how she feels about photography now.
Finally, The VergeVictoria Song will help you answer questions from. barge cast Hotline on whether Pixel Buds or Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are better for audio while running (866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com). I have some opinions. There are also some other options.
If you’d like to learn more about what we’ll cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started: What is photography?
