Murchu
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Apple desires your ire here, they put that on by default, and most users are often not aware it is there or how to remove it usually..
This camera I hate
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Apple desires your ire here, they put that on by default, and most users are often not aware it is there or how to remove it usually..
kshapero
South Florida Man
great stuff folks.
burancap
Veteran
😀😀😀😀
I just experienced this at the youngest's dance recital last weekend. Two rows up -a couple no less! It was like 3D.
redisburning
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kbg32
neo-romanticist
One can think of them as modern day "view" cameras......
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oftheherd
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That is so nasty and inconsiderate ... and I have added it to my things to remember should I ever shoot a wedding again. I like it.
fight fire with fire....bring out your mamiya press camera or the polaroid 600SE...
Yep, a Super Press 23 and a Sunpak 544 flash. The size of the camera intimidates a lot of people. When the flash goes off, most reach for the SPF 800. 😀 😀
unixrevolution
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I had the original iPhone...and on the 3Gs I use as an ipod it's still there in my email preferences. I just appended my name to it.
The reason I keep it is so that if everything is misspelled, they know why 😱
robert blu
quiet photographer
I find this i.pad thing quite disturbing when I'm at an event or show as spectator because I cannot see what I'm supposed to see !
robert
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kshapero
South Florida Man
Wow a pretty intense rant. YES!!
kshapero
South Florida Man
Sorry, I think of them as modern day idiots.One can think of them as modern day "view" cameras......
jsrockit
Moderator
I just out-rude them... if the iPad is in my way, I just go in front of them to get my photo. People are usually afraid to get close, so there is always space in front of them. I was photographing someone in central park up close and this girl got mad at me for getting in her photo... I turned around to see where she was and she was like 30 feet away with her iPad. I just told her to stop bitching, get closer, and she'll get a better photo.
jsrockit
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jsrockit
Moderator
Huge screen, but tiny sensor... such a backwards camera.
MarylandBill
Established
I thought modern day "view" cameras were called Large Format cameras and took fantastic pics?
I have to agree with the general consensus here. I doubt any tablet's camera is notably better than the average smartphone camera, which is far more discrete. Using tablets to take snapshots seems far more distracting to me than even someone using a big DSLR (maybe not as a press camera... but a press camera certainly says serious photographer in a way no tablet ever will).
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porktaco
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it's awful even if you're just spectating. worst is at concerts where people periscope the ipads to see over the crowd and block the view of folks in back of them. karen o of the yeah yeah yeahs has told her audiences not to do this.
Aristophanes
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Part of this is due to digital camera makers. With the onslaught of very functional touchscreen systems, for the most part, camera makers put their heads in the sand.
Imagine if most digital camera came with built-in Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and an accompanying app to grab the photos as they are taken for eventual larger screen viewing, editing, and re-transmitting.
The iPad or tablet could then remain in the back or sling bag or wherever and a much higher quality optical system could be used to take the snap with decent enough 3" viewing.
But noooooo......
The Japanese camera makers, mostly trapped out of the smartphone and tablet markets are in a parochial hole of their own making. They put themselves into closed little self-congratulang ecosystems with no concept of how people actually use or innovate with the technology at hand. So instead of people buying dedicated cameras and using them appropriately with an open communications infrastructure, we get tablets used as cameras.
Imagine if most digital camera came with built-in Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and an accompanying app to grab the photos as they are taken for eventual larger screen viewing, editing, and re-transmitting.
The iPad or tablet could then remain in the back or sling bag or wherever and a much higher quality optical system could be used to take the snap with decent enough 3" viewing.
But noooooo......
The Japanese camera makers, mostly trapped out of the smartphone and tablet markets are in a parochial hole of their own making. They put themselves into closed little self-congratulang ecosystems with no concept of how people actually use or innovate with the technology at hand. So instead of people buying dedicated cameras and using them appropriately with an open communications infrastructure, we get tablets used as cameras.
MarylandBill
Established
This argument strikes me as... odd. Essentially what you are saying is that by camera manufacturers sticking to making cameras as opposed to converged devices they are getting replaced by... converged devices. This isn't really a question of the camera makers putting their head in the sand, but the fact that the masses will always choose products that increase the ease of doing things even if it comes at the cost of quality.
The odd thing is not that lower end cameras are in trouble, its that some people seem to be choosing to use tablets for picture taking over phones despite the latter being much easier to handle.
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kshapero
South Florida Man
I still say, rude rude rude.
Aristophanes
Well-known
Camera sales have stalled especially at the low end. Olympus just dropped their low-end digicams. Tablets and phones have taken their place.
For many users, they don't have a cameraphone, just a tablet. So if that has a camera, that's what they use.
Today's cameras do not "play nice". They almost all depend on a PC to act as the software darkroom, yet more and more people do not have a home PC (sales stalled there as well). A few connect to the internet, but it is often a laboured process.
If they "played nice" they'd be more functional instead of stuck in their discrete little world, dependent on a PC which the user may or may not have. That dependency is giving sales of cameras over to tablet and smartphone makers to the point where Apple just launched a $70 million ad campaign trumping the iPhone's dominance as a camera! And for its convenience. So if it is convenience people want, dedicated cameras have to go there as well. I doubt very much that many of these tablet photographers really enjoy photography this way, but they do because their convenience trumps all else.
GaryLH
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I would have tried to take a shot of their stereo iPad shot w/ the recital in the background. 😀
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