If I had a photograph of you or something to remind me...
PMA 2006 is just around the corner. The two three biggest items on my digital camera wish list remain the same.
1. GPS. I am still waiting to see built-in GPS become a standard feature in digital cameras. I believe someday in-camera GPS will be ubiquitous. Why? With the advent of digital cameras people are taking a lot more pictures than they used to (because they're free) and this translates into organizational challenges. Space and time are two of the variables most useful in organization. When was the picture taken? Where was the picture taken? Digital photographs are currently getting tagged with the time taken, but (in most cameras) they're not being tagged with the place taken. The EXIF tags are there, waiting to be used. We can do it, we should do it, and we will do it.
2. HDR/HDRI. Someday, I believe we're going to see cameras with more dynamic range in the mainstream. The megapixel war seems to be slowing down. Rather than wider and higher, more effort needs to be directed at making images deeper. This won't improve the quality of your prints or how they are displayed on a monitor (unless you have an HDR display), but it will make for a better digital negative and provide more control for those of us how retouch our own images. A long time ago, I posted a link to Jon Meyer's comments on HDR photography. A few days ago, Adobe's John Nack posted a link to it, and I realized that it was updated quite nicely last April. It's a good read on the subject.
3. Bluetooth or some technology that makes cables obsolete. There's no need or excuse for them in the year 2006. We were supposed to have personal spaceships by now. The least we can do is get rid of all these cables.
1. GPS. I am still waiting to see built-in GPS become a standard feature in digital cameras. I believe someday in-camera GPS will be ubiquitous. Why? With the advent of digital cameras people are taking a lot more pictures than they used to (because they're free) and this translates into organizational challenges. Space and time are two of the variables most useful in organization. When was the picture taken? Where was the picture taken? Digital photographs are currently getting tagged with the time taken, but (in most cameras) they're not being tagged with the place taken. The EXIF tags are there, waiting to be used. We can do it, we should do it, and we will do it.
2. HDR/HDRI. Someday, I believe we're going to see cameras with more dynamic range in the mainstream. The megapixel war seems to be slowing down. Rather than wider and higher, more effort needs to be directed at making images deeper. This won't improve the quality of your prints or how they are displayed on a monitor (unless you have an HDR display), but it will make for a better digital negative and provide more control for those of us how retouch our own images. A long time ago, I posted a link to Jon Meyer's comments on HDR photography. A few days ago, Adobe's John Nack posted a link to it, and I realized that it was updated quite nicely last April. It's a good read on the subject.
3. Bluetooth or some technology that makes cables obsolete. There's no need or excuse for them in the year 2006. We were supposed to have personal spaceships by now. The least we can do is get rid of all these cables.
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