These years ago Marc Levoy has been the culprit that computational photography from a mobile it has taken giant steps from the Google Camera or Google camera. Today he left the company.
And is that thanks to this man the Pixels have been able to stand out from other phones high-end for its great capabilities in photography. That is, it has been able to bring the Pixels to the best in this field from a mobile. Herculean task.
We are not going to say that he has been the culprit entirely, but we are going to say that one of the important parts in leading the development of the HDR +, Portrait Mode and Night Sight functions. We are left with the Portrait Mode that today there is no one who approaches it from a mobile.
Those three characteristics have been led by Marc Levoy who left Google already in March of this year. He was hired by Google in 2014 for being an expert in computational photography. In fact, he had previously led a project at Stanford which would later become Street View on Google Maps. As you can know right now, we are above all a software genius in the field of photography.
The surprising departure of Levoy from Google seems to be due to different points of view regarding the fall in sales of the Pixel 4 and those problems he has had with the battery. The decisions taken that led to launching a mobile with a poor battery, has led to today we are saying goodbye to one of the geniuses They have gotten more look at the algorithms in the software than the megapixels in the camera.
We'll see what the Pixel 5 has in store for us when this man is no longer present for the development of new capacities. Of course, we will be interested in knowing where it falls and in which company, since it will surely already have proposals on the table; at the moment we have the HDR in Google's Camera Go.