Whats going to be the next big thing in the world of photography?

People are paid to come up with the next big thing. 3d is here, how big it gets? Who'd have thought it mobile phones with cameras? Presumably the next thing will come' out of left field.' Wearable cameras, (Part of your clothes) cameras must get smaller, higher res longer/wider zooms. Things tend to develop & evolve until they are supervened.
 
STOWITBELOW said:
People are paid to come up with the next big thing. 3d is here, how big it gets? Who'd have thought it mobile phones with cameras? Presumably the next thing will come' out of left field.' Wearable cameras, (Part of your clothes) cameras must get smaller, higher res longer/wider zooms. Things tend to develop & evolve until they are supervened.
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Crotch camera with a super long lens? Yeah I can see that being popular. :D
 
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Wail said:
You didn't hear this from me ;)

Selective Metering will be in higher-end range of DSLR. Basically, you can select the exposure for the whole sensor, and then adjust the settings for each cell within; a built-in ND / NDG filter if you so wish to think of it that way.

How many adjustable cells will there be? No idea, but sufficient to give us the NDG effect we require.
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This would be amazing. A simple, practical concept - can see this being a very big deal in the future.
 
I guess the main thing of the thread was to see what people thought would be the next big thing in the final product i.e the photo!
Obviously technology will keep advancing and changing,but may not necessarily have a dramatic effect on photographs,yes it may yield better quality or ease of use in capturing a great picture,but at the end of the day you still end up with a photograph.
Recently light photography and also hdr seems to be popular all over the place,anyone see any new trends/styles coming anytime soon to actual photographs as opposed to the technology side of things?
 
RBHD1 said:
I guess the main thing of the thread was to see what people thought would be the next big thing in the final product i.e the photo!

Recently light photography and also hdr seems to be popular all over the place,anyone see any new trends/styles coming anytime soon to actual photographs as opposed to the technology side of things?
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Fortunately, HDR and selective colouring have just about entered the graveyard, resting alongside other fads from the past like tobacco grads and star filters.

The only 'next big thing' I can see happening, is a shift towards reality, as sensors get larger, and more sensitive, there does seem to be a shift to more natural looking images, moving closer to the quality one once expected from the medium/larger format film cameras of the past, alongside this there is less reliance on some of the fancier bells & buzzers of photoshop.
 
Touch screens instead of LCD displays. Point where you want to focus.
Better control of video features such as:
Presetable focus distance points with programmable focus rack between the points.
Face detection with focus follow.
 
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Leica shaped enclosures to put your cheapo digital compact inside.
Oh wait...

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SimonM said:
laptops with 3d capable screens are available, you just have to wear the glasses
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3D viewing has always been the problem, and always will be. The problem is that we have two eyes. 3D comes and goes every few years, but basically nothing much has changed since the 1800s, and nothing at all since the Nimslo debacle of the 1980s. 3D is for the movie business.

The new mirrorless cameras are the next big thing I think. Well they're big already, and we ain't seen nuffin yet - from Nikon and Canon. I want a full frame version, but with a square sensor so I can choose the exact crop without turning the camera around in the rather ridiculous fashion we have to now.

The oblong format of current DSLRs is a throw back to 35mm film (a lot of older film cameras used to be square) and partly related to mechanical shutter/mirror considerations. The mechanical side gets more significant with physical size and a mirrorless medium format camera would benefit enormously. Watch out Hasselblad ;)
 
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artyman said:
Presumably this wasn't too successful as it seems to have died the death.
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Hmm, not sure why though.
I Have an old EOS film cam somewhere, will dig it out and see what it's like and whether it actually works:lol:
 
artyman said:
Presumably this wasn't too successful as it seems to have died the death.
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Yes it was appalling, I had a friend a college who had one, he switched it off after a week of trying to get it to work properly.

Next step, like Hoppy said, do away with the flip up mirror and use something like the EOS RT
 or why not put a preview screen in the viewfinder so you don't have to look at the back of the camera.


Maybe Canon will realise the error of there ways and finally release a full frame 8fps EOS1 :lol:
 
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Edtog said:
Yes it was appalling, I had a friend a college who had one, he switched it off after a week of trying to get it to work properly.

Next step, like Hoppy said, do away with the flip up mirror and use something like the EOS RT
 or why not put a preview screen in the viewfinder so you don't have to look at the back of the camera.


Maybe Canon will realise the error of there ways and finally release a full frame 8fps EOS1 :lol:
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We already have an RT style transluscent mirror in the the new Sony a55/33 (which was never a way forward) and electronic viewfinders in all sorts of cameras (which are getting better).

The thing that is holding back the MILC/EVIL cameras is the quality of the EVF and slow contrast-detect AF, but it won't be long :)
 
aligibbs said:
Multiple exposures on the same frame would be cool- almost like HDR but with a single image. Could do this with dynamic ISO set across the frame or something like that. Could get a massive range of highlights and shadows then.
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If Nikon moved away from the drive mode dial present on it's more advanced cameras or changed the programming to allow selection of multiple drive modes at one time this would very nearly be a reality.

But then would it really work? Anyone that's made an HDR image knows the problems that movement within the scene causes, it takes a lot of pping to overcome and I don't think the camera could cope.

Being able to bracket and have your images saved together as 3 layers that would transfer into PS would be nice.

Or how about a bracketing mode that could automatically shoot one image correctly metered, one that had no shadow clipping and one that had no highlight clipping possibly giving you a viewfinder warning if the difference between the correctly metered and unclipped exposures was more than 1/2 or 1 stop.

Going even further, the camera could detect what part of the sensor was over or under exposed and only make bracketed exposures in that area. Ie, you have a mostly in gamut scene with just a little highlight clipping in top left of the sky and some shadow clipping in the bottom right of foreground so the camera takes one complete, correctly metered shot, one of the top left over exposed area of the sensor and one of the bottom right under exposed area. You would have the full image covered within the gamut and use less memory space than 2 complete frames.

Changing the drive mode dial as I said before could also allow, mirror up burst shooting, mirror up self timer shooting and self timer burst shooting which could be interesting.
 
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