An intelligent Camera? ! !....?

[casualcollector]

Oct 31, 2013 9:55:40 GMT -5 mickeyobe said:

Frankly, I am happy about this "Thinking camera".

At last I can put my brain in a jar and give it a much needed rest.

Should I use formaldehyde, alcohol or dill pickle Juice?

Mickey

I suggest pickling it a shot at a time with some of that fine Canadian whiskey you folks export to us. Administered orally, of course.

[daveh]

It's funny really how things go. I remember a friend being laughed at by others for buying an 80mb hard drive costing a few hundred pounds twenty years or so ago. "What could you possibly want that for" they said, "you will never fill it".

I can see applications for a camera such as this. Imagine what information we would have if explorers of the past had worn them. There would have been proof positive that Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. never made that North Pole flight. People such as police could wear them: gangsters too.

Is anyone aware how many hours of CCTV are recorded each day. Do you ever wonder where those pictures come from of suspects or a victims as their path is traced? Do you ever wonder how much is actually looked at?

Do you ever wonder also how many people said that the film camera was an unnecessary evil? Each generation can get stuck in a time warp. I just wonder why such things as lenses, shutter speeds and f-stops are really necessary. Why not just have a light box with a cap that the user can manually remove and replace. That is what photography should be all about. It should be a struggle and an expense to take any photo. Any system that makes it easy just isn't real photography. Those silly little things that fit in your hand taking film just an inch or so wide. Hell, that's not a real camera. It's a toy. You need big: full plate or bigger. And why, on earth, would you want to take 36 exposures, no one will want to look at all them, especially not in quality that low.

And so the argument goes on. Each new generation having a level that it believes to be "correct". Some will be stuck in a previous time warp. Others will move on, picking the best out of what is developed by science. Hands up, who is still using a wind-up gramophone to play music, or a horse and cart for transport?

It's probably not for me, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not a good idea.