Arsenal: the intelligent camera assistant
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filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
Where's the eye roll emoji when you need it?
Roger Hicks
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I can only see two major quibbles: with "intelligent" and "assistant".
Camera.... well, yes, for a given value of "camera". Can't see it being much use with my Gandolfi 12x15...
I've worked as an assistant, and with assistants. This really doesn't meet the criteria even for beginner assistants, as I was in the 1970s. For a start, it can't carry your cameras!
Cheers,
R.
jsrockit
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Yet... $465,067
pledged of $50,000 goal
pledged of $50,000 goal
Rob-F
Likes Leicas
I will pass.
x-ray
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Amazing! What's wrong with the old fashioned way of learning photography rather than depend on a device to do everything for you. It's an extension of program mode. With this your work can look just like everyone else's.
infrequent
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And in only 6 days!
infrequent
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Indeed. One wonders if this is an admission there is no longer an original take or shot anymore.
infrequent
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Haha...now you carry the assistant instead.
infrequent
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I don't think I have even been astonished and yet equally disappointed by something new.
x-ray
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Talent is no longer required.
The thing is it doesn't make you creative.
The thing is it doesn't make you creative.
Prest_400
Multiformat
I'm seeing quite some usefulness in heavier lift drones however!
We could say that since the inception of P mode, or even since Kodak released its Brownie camera.
Tools are tools. I may see some usefulness on this if I had, say, a couple cameras rigged; and let one be more automated.
I've had a strange day discussing tech in photography. An acquitance dropped me the phrase of "tech advances" and went defensive when I talked him about simplicity in gear and approach.
robert blu
quiet photographer
Will this than produce art ? Oppps, sorry my mistake, wrong thread 😀
robert
robert
ptpdprinter
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It seems like some of its wireless capabilities would be helpful, particularly on a tablet.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Actually a couple features of that would be very useful to a serious photographer.
It shows a live preview on the screen and allows manual setting of aperture and shutter speed, and also serves as a remote shutter release.
If you have the camera on a tripod and want to shoot the same scene at different settings (exposure bracketing, or trying different apertures for depth of field), you have to touch the camera to change the settings, then wait a short time to let the vibrations die down before taking the picture. This lets you do it hands-free.
The full auto stuff is worthless to me and most RFF members, but the manual control features would be great.
It shows a live preview on the screen and allows manual setting of aperture and shutter speed, and also serves as a remote shutter release.
If you have the camera on a tripod and want to shoot the same scene at different settings (exposure bracketing, or trying different apertures for depth of field), you have to touch the camera to change the settings, then wait a short time to let the vibrations die down before taking the picture. This lets you do it hands-free.
The full auto stuff is worthless to me and most RFF members, but the manual control features would be great.
tightsqueez
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People with more money than brains need this.
ptpdprinter
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I think it is more about convenience when working on a tripod than anything. Certainly not a neccessity by any means.
infrequent
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Excellent point. Those features are genuinely useful, just not the "AI" stuff they are exhorting. Or to me at least.
x-ray
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I had a Hasselblad digital system for a several years. I often tethered it to my MacBook and could control all functions plus see a live view. I had clients install the Phocus app on their iPads and iPhones and through wifi my clients could sit in another location and see what I'm shooting in real time and browse folders of images I'd just shot. In addition they could rank images as they're shot and by browsing folders on the MacBook. The difference is my back had to be tethered to the laptop. It's been a couple of years since I had it and things may have advanced to total wireless. Anyway it was a great system.
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