Comments on: Camera Software Lets You See Into the Past

By: JayKay

JayKay — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:35:28 +0000

What a weird thing to even dream up…

By: scott

scott — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:38:08 +0000

Chris Armstrong says:
July 29, 2010 at 10:29 am

There’ll probably be an iPhone app for that soon.

“Want your camera to be able to see into the past?… Well theres an app for that, On the NEW iPhone 5 Coming 2011″

I can see it now…
(please note i dont hate Apple i love them XD)

By: Hedz

Hedz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:30:01 +0000

Bit of a coincidence that you’ve posted this as my mother and father in law are returning to the church they got married in to renew their vows and have asked me to retake some of their original wedding photos. Me and my FiL have been umming and ahhing about the lens and other aspects such as height of the camera in an attempt to replicate the photos.

Unfortunately I don’t have the help of MIT and their computer and will be relying solely on educated guesswork, so wish me luck!

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:24:44 +0000

Seems a bit clunky… left a bit, right a bit… why not just have a blank piece of white card or green then let take your picture and let the software add in the photo from the past and resize accordingly.. you could even just hold up your blank card.. then connect to a db containing all photos and select an appropriate photo…)

By: roz

roz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:29:50 +0000

oh wow. now we can fake history too!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:00:48 +0000

I’ve had a camera for ages that can produce images from the past… For many years now, I have often reflected on passed events by looking at scenes stored on a paper recipticle for images. Some people have called these past images “photos”

have peole at MIT not got better things to do?

By: Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:29:27 +0000

There’ll probably be an iPhone app for that soon.

By: Simon Williams

Simon Williams — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:33:15 +0000

Don’t all photographs let you see into the past, already? And I thought Dolly had died.

Seriously, this is a clever bit of work and very handy for amateur historians everywhere.