Google software engineer shows what's possible with smartphone cameras in low light

Image: Florian Kainz/Google On a full moon night last year, Google software engineer Florian Kainz took aphotoof the Golden Gate bridge and the City of San Francisco in the background with professional camera equipment: a Canon EOS-1D X and a Zeiss Otus 28mm F1.4 ZE lens. When he showed the results to his colleagues at Google Gcam, a team that focuses on computational photography, they challenged him to re-take the same shot with a smartphone camera.Google's HDR+ camera mode on the Google Nexus ...