been thinking about this...
Thinking a lot these days. I've come up with a few more thngs that the camera needs to be and or have in order to be the kind of camera I'm thinking.
1) A screen. This wasn't in my original design, but it would be nice, and it opens up a lot of possibilities. In-the field editing, conversion from raw, and blogging of pictures, for one. Multi-touch screen and fold out keyboard, maybe, too.
2) Big internal memory (I'm talking really excessive, like a 160gb drive) plus removable storage. This is a camera to replace your computer.
3) Media center - Since it's a full computer, throw in MP3 and MPEG playback, just a port of something already out there probably.
4)User interface. This is so important it makes everything else look stupid and small. The touch screen has to be finger-usable, no stylus. Shutter lag has to be under 75ms, and should ideally be less than 50.
5)Ambidextrous- For the last few days, I've been without the use of my right thumb due to an accident working on my car. There aren't really any left handed cameras on the market. there's no reason we can't change that, especially in a one-off environment.
Also, I'm talking to some people at stanford about moving this site to their servers and letting them take over the domain. I'll still be doing my thing, but the blog will move to be a sub section of their efforts. This is a very good thing, because honestly I don't know a lot of EE stuff that I was going to have to learn, and they do. I have to talke to my hosting providers about that though. Seems the domain is locked for some reason.
I've had ideas for several versions, from the micro-mini stripped down version, to the one above that's a desktop replacement for people who only need email, internet, and GIMP. Video is a possibility, although the sensor I want to use is probably not going to support it.
1) A screen. This wasn't in my original design, but it would be nice, and it opens up a lot of possibilities. In-the field editing, conversion from raw, and blogging of pictures, for one. Multi-touch screen and fold out keyboard, maybe, too.
2) Big internal memory (I'm talking really excessive, like a 160gb drive) plus removable storage. This is a camera to replace your computer.
3) Media center - Since it's a full computer, throw in MP3 and MPEG playback, just a port of something already out there probably.
4)User interface. This is so important it makes everything else look stupid and small. The touch screen has to be finger-usable, no stylus. Shutter lag has to be under 75ms, and should ideally be less than 50.
5)Ambidextrous- For the last few days, I've been without the use of my right thumb due to an accident working on my car. There aren't really any left handed cameras on the market. there's no reason we can't change that, especially in a one-off environment.
Also, I'm talking to some people at stanford about moving this site to their servers and letting them take over the domain. I'll still be doing my thing, but the blog will move to be a sub section of their efforts. This is a very good thing, because honestly I don't know a lot of EE stuff that I was going to have to learn, and they do. I have to talke to my hosting providers about that though. Seems the domain is locked for some reason.
I've had ideas for several versions, from the micro-mini stripped down version, to the one above that's a desktop replacement for people who only need email, internet, and GIMP. Video is a possibility, although the sensor I want to use is probably not going to support it.
posted by matt at
9:24 PM
1 Comments:
If you are going to include MP3 / Video playback, you may want to include a headphone jack and try fitting the device into the size of a large iPod. I've oft-times wanted an all-in-one device that can fit in my pocket.
Actually... I just want more software control, a medium-format sensor and interchangeable lenses for my iPhone.
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