People are always a making a lot of fun and interesting concepts. Some of them have real potentials, some are just extremely cool and then there are concepts like this one, which is something we all want, but are not going to get anytime soon.
Mac Funamizu has created this camera concept in the form of sun glasses. It has a built in digital camera and a number of very interesting natural interaction techniques. You frame your scene with your hands in front of the camera lenses - and to take picture you simply shut your left eye.
He doesn't say how you are supposed to zoom in/out, so I would suggest that zooming could be done raising or lowering your eyebrows.
(via Petite Invention)
How futuristic but at the same time, how 'now'. It'll come sooner than we think. I'm sure.
It'd be really easy to take pictures of people when they don't want to be photographed.
If they did it with video, movie piracy would be revolutionized.
Cool and just what I am waiting for as when I do not have a camera to my face [a small part of the day it must be said] I spend the rest of the time imagining the pictures all around me, wherever I look. I like the cropping idea too. I spent the hour lesson the other week with one of the people I teach photography just walking around with her, with a camera frame proportioned hole cut in a piece of cardboard. It waw how I, in my first week of photo school years ago, spent the first weeks being taught how to 'see things'. It's much easier to crop bits of the world out into potential photos when you dont have one eye shut and the other rammed up against the back of a camera viewfinder. Having both eyes free to see the world and the 'hole' to look through to see how you might crop things is a great way of teaching people and it's a great way to frame up what you then want to capture. I shall be following this guy's concept with some interest......
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Milena, The problem is the light-sensor that sits right behind the camera lense... they have to invent a camera that can take picture without a lense to make this work :)
Alfie, That is true... I have never felt comfortable using the viewfinder. I just look at the display on the back off the camera. But I would rather have this :)
Aku, I see a new law being passed by ignorant politicians... that you may no longer wear glasses when going to a movie theater etc... In any case, I think the whole piracy issue is self-inflicted issue caused by the movie industry. It is the result of being too greedy, and putting an unresonable restrictions in place. Not that I think piracy is acceptable, though.
Thomas said: "that you may no longer wear glasses when going to a movie theater etc.."
By that stage this chap will have a contact-lens version on the market :-)
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probably :)
... I see a new law for that too, though... everyone going to the movie theater must be blindfolded :o)
Why is it in the framing photo, that one of the hands looks like it's a man's and the other a woman's? I would think the idea is that they are both one person's hands. :)
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That's nice. I wish it would exist. :)