Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: 6cmsquare on September 15, 2015, 06:02:40 AM
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this is sort of ridiculous, and sort of awesome -but mostly dumb.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3051023/when-you-point-it-at-a-cliche-this-camera-censors-itself?utm_source=facebook (http://www.fastcodesign.com/3051023/when-you-point-it-at-a-cliche-this-camera-censors-itself?utm_source=facebook)
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No doubt it'll appeal to the digerati at some level. Thankfully, it doesn't seem that they've brought out a module to bolt onto a film camera. Anyway, what's wrong with shooting chiches?
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What I'd really like to see is a camera that automatically puts black bands on people's eyes for trouble free street photography :o
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That could spell the end of photography! Dashing the fondly-held beliefs of the general public that anything they do is original is also likely to make you many enemies: hence a business plan that's doomed. I wouldn't invest in this. Now how about a brain-implanted chip that gives TV personalities a sharp shock whenever they're about to spout a verbal cliche. That would spell the end of television as we know it!
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I loved the perplexed look on her face when there was no internet connection. It was like, "Well, now what am I supposed to do with this odd looking box in my hand?" If her camera isn't telling her it's okay to take a photo, she just wanders aimlessly until she gets the green light. This sort of restriction really has nothing to do with shooting cliche's. All I see it doing is preventing a good photographer from taking a good photo of something of which the digirati have clogged up the internet with bad vacation snaps.
This is why I take my '39 Bessa places like this. There have probably been thousands and thousands of photos taken at the Salk Institute, but not many like this one (I checked).
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2853/9828291706_956ee87c92_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/fYuyHh)
Salk 04 LInes (https://flic.kr/p/fYuyHh) by James Harr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/harrlequin/), on Flickr
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Jharr - I'm with you all the way on this. I really like your photo - and it takes a FW to 'see' a different picture from all the usual stuff. It's not the places that are the cliche - it's the framing and the picture post card square-on view which is repeated a thousand times
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The camera may know where you are, but unless it does image matching, it still doesn't know what you are (trying) to take a picture of. Stupid device, literally.
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I do know one thing: stupidity sells ::)
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Nice one James.