Agh the megapixel wars. Gone the way of the Berlin wall. They were fun while they lasted but alas no war can go on forever. The latest rage is adding silly, sometimes useful, features to digital cameras. Cnet looks at what we got for Christmas this year?
- Micro 4/3rds – Uh why?
- A 3D digital Camera – Again uh why?
- Built in Wi-Fi GPS – Say wha?
- Waterproof – That’s actually cool!
- A camera with a projector built into it – Breaking out the “say what” for that one.
- A point and shoot with a screen on the front and back. This is neat at party’s but useless 98% of the time. Very hard to see in dark rooms as I got to play with one in a bar in NYC last month.
- Cameras that spin around recognize faces and take pictures on their own. I hate this from a job security anti robot standpoint.
All quite odd but I say keep it coming. Let’s see what 2010 brings. Maybe sharks with freakin’ laser beams.
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2 Comments at "Megapixels Schmegapixels I Want Gimmicks"
I can see a use for built-in WiFi and GPS:
With the WiFi, if you’ve got multiple shooters at an even like a wedding or party, you can uoload your photos to a library as their shot and have them ready to go for slide shows or parting gifts. Didn’t we have a parting gift booklet *idea!* post a while back on here?
With GPS, it can be a kick-a** way of travel logging, especially when you’re trying to remember what the hell you took a photo of. Not only do you have a place on a map of exactly where you were (or pretty close) in the entire WORLD (used it on a 2 week euro-vacation last summer), some loggers let you record voice notes to describe the situation or lighting or mood, etc. etc. $80 for hardware and $20 for geotagging software was well worth this added function for my shooting.
If you’re a landscape photographer, backpacking photographer, or anything that doesn’t but you at a cross street, having an exact map of where a certain scene was is invaluable if you want to revisit it for a different kind of light at a different time of year.
If you’ve got the ability to have this metadata built-in to you camera (though it prolly drains the battery), that’s $100 I could have saved, minus the voice notes functionality.
Just sayin’.
I love the build in GPS too. I also forget my GPS logger…
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