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

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a free, serious introduction to digital and computational photography from a professor who helped build the early Pixel cameras.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Marc Levoy

Topic

digital photography

Format

lecture

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

• The star tracking feature of the astrophotography mode definitely has me interested. I'm disappointed to see the continued lack of battery capacity on the smaller phone though. While I'd love a larger battery, I'm one of the unfortunate ones whose small hands can already barely …

• > No google pixel / iOS quality level HDR & night sight modes Marc Levoy (the brains behind Google's amazing Computational Photography technology), said that he had gone to the Camera companies before and they rejected his proposals. Camera companies were too afraid that someone …

• 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.