androidcameraphotography

What is "antibanding" in photographing?


What is "antibanding" in photography? I read this term in Android documentation for the android.hardware.Camera.Parameters.setAntibanding() method.


Solution

  • Nice example from this website:

    Gradient effects may suffer from banding (contouring)
    where noticeable steps can be seen from one shade to another.

    enter image description here

    Apparently this artifact can be typically caused by jpeg compression.
    The Antibanding() feature tries to prevent this artifact.