{"id":6046,"date":"2017-10-12T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2017-10-10T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T05:39:08","slug":"behinds-the-scenes-of-the-new-pixel-2s-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/behinds-the-scenes-of-the-new-pixel-2s-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Behinds the scenes of the new Pixel 2&#8217;s camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fun insights from my new teammates, including:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYou essentially have the space of a blueberry for the camera to squeeze into.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The lens is actually six lenses.<\/li>\n<li>Each pixel is split into two\u2014useful for sensing depth.<\/li>\n<li>The whole thing weighs .003 pounds, about the same as a paperclip.<\/li>\n<li>HDR+ looks tile-by-tile across a range of captures shot in quick succession, moving chunks as needed to align them. This is good for \u201cscaring ghosts.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A neural network trained on 1 million images built a model for what\u2019s person-like and should be kept in focus while blurring the background.<\/li>\n<li>A hexapod rig is used to generate (and thus find ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/demo-amazing-video-stabilization-in-the-google-pixel-2\/\">combat<\/a>) various kinds of shakiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIbeiddq_CQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/INewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NewImage-12.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NewImage-11.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PIbeiddq_CQ\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun insights from my new teammates, including: \u201cYou essentially have the space of a blueberry for the camera to squeeze into.\u201d The lens is actually six lenses. Each pixel is split into two\u2014useful for sensing depth. The whole thing weighs .003 pounds, about the same as a paperclip. HDR+ looks tile-by-tile across a range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}