Huawei wants to use an AI to help judge a photo contest. The Kirin 970 CPU with its NPU (neural processing unit). Pictures too grainy? Nvidia developed a new AI-based method to de-noise photos without prior knowledge of clean image data. (The research paper, PDF). This has the potential to get us to grain-free low-light photography with small image sensors.

Ade has been away on a UK vacation. This included being underground in a tine mine, sea kayaking, an outdoor theatre production and more. So what cameras do all that? And more importantly ;-) how did Ade build a wish list for future cameras - whilst also celebrating the cameras we already have! Links: Geevor Tin Mine, Koru Kayaking, Minack Theatre, Olympus TG-4, Some other tough cameras

The number of lenses in smartphones has increased from zero to now three in some phones over the years. An article in the Washington Post mentions a prototype of a smartphone by Light that features nine lenses. This might become the next version of their L16 camera that we discussed in ep09.