Saturday 14 February 2009

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3




















I found this a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to blog it any earlier. 


"Sony has introduced the Cyber-shot DSC-G3, the first Wi-Fi enabled digital camera with a built-in web browser. By clicking on the WLAN button, the user can open the web browser and directly upload images and videos online. Along with a 10MP sensor, 3.5" touch-screen LCD and 4GB built-in memory, the G3 includes features such as Intelligent Scene Recognition and Face Detection with Anti-Blink function."

(Read up on it here and here)

Anti-Blink?? Can someone enlighten me? The bafflement aside, its pretty high-spec, and interesting to consider in the context of the future of photography technology. To me, its not progressing photography, only the way in which we begin to combine our technologies, such as with the iPhone, and in this case, upload speed. When they get this technology onto DSLR's there'll be no stopping the paparazzi. I watched a really interesting, if slightly poorly produced, documentary on paparazzi's last night on the old iPlayer. They take the snaps, run to their car and upload them from their Macbooks straight to the internet to basically be the first and get the exclusive. Magazines then print the snaps within minutes. I liked the sum up by one of the paparazzi;

 "If that makes me a bad person, because I'm taking the pictures, then that makes you a bad person, because you're reading about them." 

"The bottom line is, if we're scum, then almost everyone's scum". 

So, supply and demand? Or demand and supply?


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