Sony Launch New Photo-Assist Service

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Sony today launched a great service for aspiring photographers that is guaranteed to help them take better pictures. All you have to do is sign up to their Photo-Assist app and link your Sony camera to your phone.

By combining the image on your camera, a vast library of online photographs and your geolocation data; your camera will be able to tell you were to move to get the best image and will even set up the camera for you. The new technology uses advanced machine learning to compare what your camera sees to all the available online photographs and works out how your pictures could be made better to get more "likes". It uses landmark information, skylines, geographical information and weather forecasts to suggest how you should relocate to improve the photograph. The system compares the image on your camera sensor to the most popular and award winning images to set up the camera to take the perfect picture. It even has options to replicate the photo style of award winning photographers or classic cameras/lenses.

It doesn't matter what you are photographing: landscapes, portraits, vehicles, weddings or even insects, Photo-Assist will take the hard work out of photography and make all your pictures as good as Sony ones. The pictures are automatically shared through your phone to whatever app you chose, so your friends can get instant access to your photography skills. The service will also work with all current Sony camera phones.

In the words of a Sony spokesman "All you have to do is hold up the camera in live view, move where the camera tells you to go, point it towards the direction and frame shown the screen and press the shutter button. We'll do the rest."
 
Nearly ;)
 
I detest the homogenisation of photography that this represents. What's the difference between this and sending a postcard (electronically)? I get that the intent is well-meaning, and will appeal to many people (briefly), but the principle is depressing.
 
Perfect :)
 
A giant step towards the elimination of the photographer. Genius!
 
This sounds like just a repost of Sony PR BS to me, @Erty are you a Sony shill?

I'm very tempted to take this thread down unless Sony want to pay us for advertising
Jessops just sent me an email on their brand new Scratch N Sniff instant camera. Probably the same PR team.

1st thing I did was phone cousin April. Fool was her reply,
 
Who forgot todays date? MEEE!!
The thing that's scary is that this "idea" is probably not too far off from happening. Hopefully not in my lifetime though!
 
O.K I then I very nearly started ranting !
 
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Who forgot todays date? MEEE!!
I very nearly started ranting along the same vane as you Lindsay, luckily for me a few people had posted after the original message and I woke up ! Also luckily I decided to read them first !
 
Thanks for all the replies. I wrote this a while back but thought I had better get it in this April before someone does it for real. I think it is coming in reality (less than 5 years) but most photographers don't want to be the physical element of Photobot GPT.
 
Having just bought a new Sony, I was nearly sucked in but quickly realised that a) it was AI based and b) posted early yesterday morning. Good effort!
 
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