As someone who bought a "real" camera (a Sony a6000) a year or so ago, I
completely agree with that article - I was stunned that things I just took
for granted with my smartphone camera were impossible with a "real" camera
- both photographically and sharing - the lack of sharing is the reason
that for many things i still reach for my phone to snap a photo of
something if I just quickly want to post it or send it.
And even photo things - if you look at what you can do with a smartphone
camera these days, the results, given the size of the sensor etc, are
really incredible, and it's all down to the software - what if you could
have that kind of computational image improvement backed by a good sensor?
Even just in terms of photography - I enjoyed creative apps on my phone
where I could play with false colour, or other tricks, or slit scan
photography, or double exposures, all of which are largely impossible with
a "real" camera - I've found out some offer basic forms of some of these,
and for most of them it's possible - eg you can make a slit scan photograph
by taking a video on the camera, and then running it through a program on
the PC.
Even from the camera manufacturer's point of view - instead of writing a
whole system to run their camera, they could just concentrate on the
hardware, basically bolt it to an off the shelf phone processor, and employ
an 18 year old to write an android app to run it.
And getting back to the group topic - you could use Talkback or magnifier
in the camera interface - you could use Google lens to read a sign 30
metres away with a proper zoom lens. With a macro lens you'd have
something which would make a great portable video magnifier and so on and
so on...
One day :)
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 22:09, <grtdane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi.
If the blog entry below is still accurate – no reason to assume otherwise
– then the read came as somewhat of a shock to me.
I recently bought a Nikon DSLR camera for some filming work round our new
farm.
I should receive delivery of the camera early next week so in the meantime
I’ve been going through the manual and following along – wherever possible
– with the video tutorials.
In the meantime I started wondering about the existence of a dedicated
DSLR camera running Android OS, hence the article I found below.
https://www.clove.co.uk/blogs/news/i-want-an-android-powered-dslr-camera?currency=AUD
