I'm confused. So this is just producing a single photo that is clearer in a middle rectangle and blurrier outside that rectangle?
Of course the extra detail in the middle is nicer, but won't the edge of the "detail rectangle" be extremely obvious and distracting? Like when you zoom into satellite view on Maps and it's clear that there's a blurry area and a sharp area?
I don't understand why you'd ever want these two things combined into a single image. I can understand why you'd want to snap photos with both lenses simultaneously as save them as separate photos, but I don't understand why you'd combine them.
> I don't understand why you'd ever want these two things combined into a single image.
An image with the FOV of the wide-angle camera but the quality of the main one in the center? Assuming the border interpolation works well (which tbf is probably hard for close objects), why would anyone not want this?
I can't think of anyone who would want this, because if the photo is displayed at a high enough resolution to show the center detail, then a majority of the photo is distractingly blurry.
Plus I'm assuming the border interpolation doesn't work that well, since it isn't shown anywhere in the post. Because even if it's fuzzed, it will still be super-obvious that it's a high-detail fuzzy rectangle in the middle of a low-detail broader image. That's super-distracting.
I can't think of a single case where it wouldn't be better to just simply have the wide-angle photo side-by-side with a zoomed shot.
People do add fake depth of field to their photos that essentially has the same effect.
>but won't the edge of the "detail rectangle" be extremely obvious and distracting?
Your own eyes work that way, so you tell me.
My eyes are also always focused at the center of what I'm seeing, as opposed to a picture that you can pan.
> So this is just producing a single photo that is clearer in a middle rectangle and blurrier outside that rectangle?
Yeah that looks to be the case. Not sure what use case this solves with that 'limitation'. I don't think photographers would particularly like this.
> I don't think photographers would particularly like this.
No we really don’t.