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For the time being it's a little bit immature but without doubt it is coming

 

Coming, it's coming. I doubt it's useful for me. For instance: one of the first application of advanced techniques (not really AI, but on that road) has been in the light meter: they used a self-learning software taught with a high number of test case photos, provided with the correct exposure. This kind of system is capable, with a very good ratio, to apply the correct exposure even to scenarios not previously seen. It's fundamental for people shooting in JPG. For me, in RAW, is totally useless. I'm 99% exposing to the right, and then I decide the "correct" exposure in post-processing. In this scenario the only usefulness of a sophisticated light meter is to reduce the amount of over-exposure I have to dial to align the histogram to the right. Well, completely negligible. If they provided my cameras with a "brute force" light-meter that exposes to the right by "trial and error", I mean with a coarse guess at the beginning, then it measures the brightest spot and applies a fix (which I think it's completely doable with the CPU power on modern camera bodies), I'd be completely happy.