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Posted 09 March 2011 - 08:11 AM
Of the features listed, I think the touch-screen may have the most potential, appealing to the widest range of users. This is because people have already become used to touch screens on their smart phones and, increasingly, their media tablets. I can imagine rolling through my camera menus on a touch screen as opposed to pushing buttons on the camera back. Of course, there's the problem of fingerprints on what also serves in many cases as the view screen/review screen.
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 08:20 AM
After playing with a Motorola Xoom tablet, I think the next big thing is photography and video with a large 10.1 inch viewfinder! This is what I found interesting on the Xoom and is why the iPad2 with it's crappy video camera's disappoints. Having a large table screen as your viewfinder is a different experience. Brings framing of you shot into a new realm. Work needs to be done on the software side of things to make the camera apps take advantage of this.....
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 08:24 AM
sarriola, on 09 March 2011 - 08:20 AM, said:
After playing with a Motorola Xoom tablet, I think the next big thing is photography and video filming with a large 10.1 inch viewfinder! This is what I found interesting on the Xoom and is why the iPad2 with it's crappy video camera's disappoints. Having a large tablet screen as your viewfinder is a different experience. Brings framing of your shot into a new realm. Work needs to be done on the software side of things to make the camera apps take advantage of this.....
made corrections to my original post.
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 08:52 AM
I think I'd like a 10" viewfinder. In the film days, I used to shoot large format cameras and loved the real estate when creating compositions. Made it more interesting when printing too.
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 09:30 AM
sarriola, on 09 March 2011 - 08:20 AM, said:
After playing with a Motorola Xoom tablet, I think the next big thing is photography and video with a large 10.1 inch viewfinder! This is what I found interesting on the Xoom and is why the iPad2 with it's crappy video camera's disappoints. Having a large table screen as your viewfinder is a different experience. Brings framing of you shot into a new realm. Work needs to be done on the software side of things to make the camera apps take advantage of this.....
A little confused as to what you are saying. Are you saying that the Xoom is great for taking video or- do you mean that you would be using the Xoom hooked up to a pro level camera to take video?
As soon as I get my 7D back from Canon I'm picking this up: http://www.ononesoft...mote/specs.html
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 09:40 AM
KenjiSugahara, on 09 March 2011 - 09:30 AM, said:
sarriola, on 09 March 2011 - 08:20 AM, said:
After playing with a Motorola Xoom tablet, I think the next big thing is photography and video with a large 10.1 inch viewfinder! This is what I found interesting on the Xoom and is why the iPad2 with it's crappy video camera's disappoints. Having a large table screen as your viewfinder is a different experience. Brings framing of you shot into a new realm. Work needs to be done on the software side of things to make the camera apps take advantage of this.....
A little confused as to what you are saying. Are you saying that the Xoom is great for taking video or- do you mean that you would be using the Xoom hooked up to a pro level camera to take video?
As soon as I get my 7D back from Canon I'm picking this up: http://www.ononesoft...mote/specs.html
The video the Xoom takes is 720p but having the 10.1 inch tablet screen as a viewfinder was interesting. The Xoom's camera
and lens is not that great compared to real video camcorders of course but real video camcorders also don't have 10.1 inch lcd screens
as viewfinders.
And yes, Xoom hooked up to
a pro level camera would be great too but the hdmi port on the Xoom is for output. Is HDMI bi-directional?
I guess you could use the Xoom as a viewfinder with a pro
level camera if the camera has usb2 output, which can be connected to the microUSB2 port on the Xoom to input the video.
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Posted 10 March 2011 - 03:51 AM
seho, on 09 March 2011 - 02:17 PM, said:
bastion, on 09 March 2011 - 06:15 AM, said:
Surprised to see nothing about mirrorless interchangeable-lens designs.
Read the text that accompanies picture 4 of 9.
I see no mention of the word "mirrorless." Granted all compacts are mirrorless and that's the general thrust of the article and the market in general. But I'm talking about a push toward mirrorless models that are viable SLR alternatives. The PEN is in that class, but barely gets a hand-wave.
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Posted 10 March 2011 - 03:52 AM
Martian, on 09 March 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:
How about the in-camera stitching for a panoramic sweep. If it works as well as Sony marketing says, it could PARTIALLY obviate the need for ultra-wide angle lenses.
It doesn't work as well as Sony would like you to believe. It's finicky and relatively low res. Sufficient if you've got no better option, I suppose.
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