Topic: A camera that won't let you take cliché photos...

[6cmsquare]

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

[Late Developer]

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?

[Francois]

What I'd really like to see is a camera that automatically puts black bands on people's eyes for trouble free street photography

[Terry]

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!

[jharr]

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).


Salk 04 LInes by James Harr, on Flickr

[zapsnaps]

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

[Ezzie]

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.

[Francois]

I do know one thing: stupidity sells 

[Terry]

Nice one James.