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I guess the big one was film to digital. I saw a video with a Sigma chap who reckoned the next major phase of technology would be liquid lenses. Was chatting to a photographer mate who reckons cameras could soon have wireless techology that will allow you to beam your photos straight from your camera and back to the edit houses!

Does anyone else have any thoughts on what the next thing will be? :)
 
wifi would be cool, there's nothing worse than having to take out the memory card and copy everything over :( Also gps so you can remember/see the exact location a shot was taken!
 
Inductive charging has got to be on the cards, so instead of taking batteries out of the camera ou just put the camera on the charging plate and away you go. It also means that you can charge more than one camera at a time and cameras of different types (e.g. a 40d, a g9 and an Ixus 80 etc.)
 
gman said:
Was chatting to a photographer mate who reckons cameras could soon have wireless techology that will allow you to beam your photos straight from your camera and back to the edit houses!
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Thats been around since 2004. Canon WFT-E1.
 
Another new idea I thought was really good was Apple doing the magnetically connected power lead so that if you tripped on the wire it wouldn't pull the laptop off the table!
 
If you can imagine it - it'll happen.
 
petemc said:
Thats been around since 2004. Canon WFT-E1.
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No. He was meaning straight from your camera from any location via satellites, similar to using your mobile with your laptop as a connection - only much quicker. That unit would require you to be within range of a network or other transmitting equipment.
 
4hero said:
wifi would be cool, there's nothing worse than having to take out the memory card and copy everything over :( Also gps so you can remember/see the exact location a shot was taken!
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And a solid state compass so as well as location you'd know which direction you were facing.

The GPS thing can already be done, in a roundabout way, by matching the timestamp on the images with the recorded location from the GPS - just need to make sure the clocks in the camera and GPS are synch'd
 
petemc said:
You say that but I've never had a squad of naked cheerleaders fall into my lap.
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That many at the same time can hurt:lol:
 
i will put my body on the line for a test :D :lol:
 
Dam it you got it wrong thats not what i was voluntering for :( :lol:
 
gman said:
I guess the big one was film to digital. I saw a video with a Sigma chap who reckoned the next major phase of technology would be liquid lenses. Was chatting to a photographer mate who reckons cameras could soon have wireless techology that will allow you to beam your photos straight from your camera and back to the edit houses!

Does anyone else have any thoughts on what the next thing will be? :)
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Something similar is already in existence. My Canon IS binoculars use liquid crystal prisms. The prisms change shape as the binoculars are moved in order to stabilise the image, rather than use a mechanical IS system. prisms are as important as the lenses when glass quality is considered, so I imagine that it wont be long before lenses are manufactured using LCs.
 
I'd hope for the end of the megapixel race and the start of the iso noise and dynamic range race. But i bet it won't happen.
 
I may have mentioned this before but I was talking to a guy from Manchester Metropolitan University a couple of months back and he said they are developing something called, I think, Optimum Point Technology. It is being developed for use in cancer treatments and can photograph individual cancer cells by having 8 billion pixels per inch (possibly, it was a while ago) and he said that the probability was that this would filter through to ordinary cameras within the next 5 years.

Andy
 
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