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by jakobegger 2847 days ago
There is nothing "prescient" about that scene. It's fiction, and it will never become reality. There's no way to capture an image with that much information in it. Noise will always limit you, especially in dimly lit indoor scenes like that in Blade Runner. If you want to do that kind of trickery, you need a big controlled setup -- nothing you can put in a small box like a camera. And it's not a question of miniaturisation, the problem is that there's a physical limit to the resolution you can capture with a device of a given size.
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What if the camera was super high resolution and hyper-spectral?