For photography you can buy all kinds of filters. Filters for colour, filters for types of light, filters that just reduce the amount of light getting to the camera (ND filters). The thing that I don't get is, why can't this be done in software on the camera. e.g. Set up the picture, and then going under "pre-picture, filters, ND, and then choose a level". All that filter does is cut down the amount of light getting to the camera, why can't the software just toss out every x photons that it gets to the sensor? I would have thought that would be a trivial feature to add. Same idea could be done with an grad ND - choose the amount, chose the transition line, etc. Why bother bringing around more expensive gear with you if this should be able to be done in software.
Sometimes I wish that I could hack the hardware that I deal with. It would make life a lot easier, or explain why this can't / shouldn't be done.
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