A glimpse at the future?
Canon wonder camera concept displayed at Expo 2010
"You know all those precious lenses you've been stockpiling for your SLR since the 90s? They're still safe for another couple of decades, but in round about 2030, you're gonna be trashing all that glassware and buying yourself a Wonder Camera. Why would that be? Canon is pretty confident that by then it'll have figured out how to do a single lens capable of going from macro shots all the way out to a 5000mm focal length."
The guy's voice is pretty tiring on the soul, but it's an interesting concept
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 19:04,
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It'll happen sooner than 2030, shirley?
I'm not expert on camera technology, but the rate at which stuff is moving at the moment is immense. Surely it can't be that far off?
PS it looks like my mum's hairdryer.
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I'm inclined to agree
the pace of change is still quite frankly mind blowing
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 19:48,
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Looks amazing
But something about it makes me feel deeply uncomfortable and I can't put my finger on why. There's a fantastic bit of kit being demonstrated there, but the lifestyle it fits into is something I want no part of.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 19:57,
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Complete compliance on digital technology over traditional mirrors and glass?
I'll be honest, but there has been a certain inevitability things in our lifetime would evolve so; all the lenses I own will one day become antiques and redundant to newer technology, the pictures-the moments in time-they have captured, superseded by something better. I guess it's called technology and evolution. Just like the difference in photography from the turn of the twentieth century to what we are capable of doing now.
I suspect what you are touching on, or can't put your finger on, is that ingredient in photography which will always elude your average joe handling a camera to a pro handling one; talent, with that eye to capture something above and beyond what most people are capable of.
Even with such evolutions in technology, I don't think that ingredient is going to go anywhere. People earning serious money from photography aren't just doing so because they've got great kit like a £30K Hasselblad or Phase One; they also know how to use the space presented before them.
Agree on your second point; but that's just a marketing thing for the masses
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:05,
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