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Future of photography/optics

Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 10:19:08 2021 No.12766392 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12766449 >>12766466 >>12769926

Will the future of photography/optics, theoretically, allow resolutions so high you would be able to inspect the skin of a people kilometers away? Or even further?

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 10:39:09 No.12766449 Report

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>>12766392
0no, light refracts in and is absorbed by the molecules in the air.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 10:52:26 No.12766466 Report

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>>12766392
optics aheve some pretty hard limitations in what is possible. There is a reason light microscopes havent changed in decades. There is only so much you can do with lenses, sooner or later you hit limits, like focus point of the objective being micrometers away from the object, or resolution cap based on wavelength of light. I'm not as experienced with teleobjectives and telescopes as i am with microscopes, but i would asssume there are hard limitations in that too. Just the dust in the air makes teleobjectives over long enough distance impossible to have very high resolution, and telescopes have to be bigger and bigger, so there is a cost limit and a hard limit just by size.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 11:37:18 No.12766550 Report

Quoted By: >>12766566 >>12766619

we already have it.

heres a test of a canon 5200mm f14 telephoto lens with a minimum focus distance of 120m. only 3 of these were ever built. with a dslr adapter it turns into a 8350mm lens, this thing is a beast, it weighs 220lb,100kg without its stand, ungodly expensive, the one in the video was $45.000 used on ebay. canon stated on the brochure "This is the only ultra-telephoto lens in the world capable of taking photographs of objects 18 to 32 miles away (30km to 52kms away)" but even it is struggling with atmospheric disturbances over large distances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRq18WpQZC0

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 11:43:34 No.12766566 Report

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>>12766550
this video clearly shows the limits of zoom lenses and what is even possible. you can throw all the money in the world at them, you still wont overcome the air wobbles.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 12:09:00 No.12766619 Report

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>>12766466
>>12766550
>>12766566
Think further in the future. Shouldn't some kind of AI be able to correct all of this? Predict an image from just a few photons and the probability pattern?

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 12:38:58 No.12766699 Report

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>>12766619
the ai would just create fictive information from experience to fill out the missing information it does not have, which will not represent the actual object

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 12:49:29 No.12766720 Report

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>>12766699
So you would say that the question posed in the OP is forever impossible?

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 12:58:59 No.12766735 Report

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>>12766720
even if the ai would have the rational capability, capacity and experiences of a human it would not be doable. you cant make up information you do not have and recreate what you want to take a picture of at that detail. and optics are way to limited in earths atmosphere. it would work in space though, atmosphere and optics quality are the limiting factors

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Anonymous Sun 28 Feb 2021 23:41:55 No.12768971 Report

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>>12766699
like me when I speak to women?
also, nice get

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Anonymous Mon 01 Mar 2021 04:22:00 No.12769926 Report

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>>12766392
Possible, but only in extreme circumstances that wouldn't be particularly useful scenarios

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Anonymous Mon 01 Mar 2021 04:24:21 No.12769936 Report

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>>12766466
>Light microscopes haven't changed in decades

Lol no. Try actually looking into the state of the art there. Superesolution is insane

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