The futur of camera technologies.
Article 1: 5 futuristic camera technologies that will change how we take pics.
Technology is constantly changing. It seems like every day we hear about a new smartphone, tablet, or smartwatch outfitted with cutting edge features. The mobile device market isn’t the only space seeing innovation, however. Other areas are also improving, including our cameras.
Smartphones are being equipped with higher resolution camera sensors, and digital cameras are getting better color and low-light performance options, as well as better zoom capabilities with stronger lenses. That said, these features are pretty much expected at this point. No one is surprised when a new camera has advanced features such as these.
Perhaps, what is interesting are the features that will define the future of camera technologies — those add-ons that will change the game.
Yes, you can already capture photos and video in the dark but you need a special kind of camera with night-vision capabilities. Future camera and imaging tech won’t need any such thing.
Canon is launching a new 35mm camera with a maximum ISO of 4,000,000. In short, it means the device can practically see in the dark, without any additional filters or enhancements. Why is this so exciting? Because when you currently look at the night sky, you see a lot more colors than just black and white, especially during dusk and dawn. Canon’s camera should be able to capture vivid photos even in low-light environments.
Sadly, most consumers won’t be getting their hands on it. The ME20F-SH camera will cost in excess of $30,000 at launch. Who knows, though? Maybe in a few years that technology will be implemented in more affordable models that everyone can use.
Imagine snapping photos with voice commands, or doing something simple like blinking your eyes. Sound crazy?
A new camera concept called Iris is designed to merge two technologies — eye-tracking technology and biometric detection — to create a uniquely controllable camera via sensors. Essentially, it tracks your eye movement and allows you to snap a photo by blinking your eye twice. To zoom in on a subject, you can squint your eyes. To zoom back out, you just open them up again.
There’s no need to press a shutter button, or slightly depress to focus the image. Even better, you could mount the camera on a tripod in front of you and never touch it, outside of setting it up initially.
Now, even though this camera technology is in a concept stage, there are lots of other options out there, such as voice commands. With services like Siri, Google Now, and Amazon Echo, it’s not far-fetched to imagine the technology being adapted to work with cameras.
Article 2: 5 camera technologies that will change the way you take pictures
Imagine snapping photos with voice commands, or doing something simple like blinking your eyes. Sound crazy?
A new camera concept called Iris is designed to merge two technologies — eye-tracking technology and biometric detection — to create a uniquely controllable camera via sensors. Essentially, it tracks your eye movement and allows you to snap a photo by blinking your eye twice. To zoom in on a subject, you can squint your eyes. To zoom back out, you just open them up again.
There’s no need to press a shutter button, or slightly depress to focus the image. Even better, you could mount the camera on a tripod in front of you and never touch it, outside of setting it up initially.
Now, even though this camera technology is in a concept stage, there are lots of other options out there, such as voice commands. With services like Siri, Google Now, and Amazon Echo, it’s not far-fetched to imagine the technology being adapted to work with cameras.
Article 2: 5 camera technologies that will change the way you take pictures
By Shay Meinecke
It seems every day that cameras are getting better: camera phones and digital cameras keep improving – higher resolutions, better color, better low-light performance. But none of these improvements are really game changing. What does the future hold for cameras? Is it more of the same, a revolution, or a bit of both?
A Look Ahead with Apple
Just a few years ago, Apple’s iPhone 4 took 5 megapixel (MP) pictures, and 3MP selfie pics. The camera on the iPhone 6s is expected to take 12MP pics and 5MP selfies. A vast improvement in only a few years.
But what’s even more exciting is Apple’s $20 million acquisition of LinX Imaging, an Israeli digital photography tech firm. Linx develops a technology known as ‘multi-aperture photography,’ which is the use of software, data, and multiple cameras to produce a picture far better than anything that could be produced using a single lens.
Camera Phones More Powerful Than A DSLR
Why will these pictures be better? Single lens cameras are inherently limited by physics. To resolve a sharper image, the lenses have to get thicker – too thick to fit in a point-and-shoot or camera phone. Hence the ‘camera bulge’ on many phones. Camera arrays can, in theory, get around this limit, by combining information from many thin cameras next to one another. So far, this potential has been hamstrung by difficulties combining the images.
LinX thinks it can solve these problems, and make a tiny, cheap smartphone camera that can go head to head with any digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR).
The camera array tech created by LinX as seen in a presentation to Apple in 2014, which compares LinX 8 vs. the iPhone 5s, appears to show sharper objects, stunning images at lower light levels, and better, fuller color.
What makes this exciting is that LinX promises to do this with cameras that are smaller in size, weigh half as much as current cameras on the market, and require shorter exposure times.
Futuristic Auto-Focus
What LinX cameras also promise to do is provide better auto-focus.
Nowadays you can focus on an image before taking a picture. The focus is expected to provide for a better picture as it brings light and color “forward” or “backwards” in the picture.
LinX’s tech aims to provide better auto-focus not only before a photo has been taken, but also after!
This is possible because of the parallax between the images – the difference in perspectives between the many lenses. This is similar to how light-field cameras like the Lytro work.
Imagine taking a photo, not liking the resolution on a certain area, and then refocusing on where you want to the image to be improved. It’ll be that easy.
Better Facial Recognition
This technology will also enable better facial recognition. The parallax between the cameras gives a lot of information about depth. This info can then be used to determine much more accurately which feature is which, and where it’s located. It also allows the background to be dropped, to reduce error rates.
What Will the Future Look Like?
It’s impossible to know the future for certain, but we can certainly make some enlightened guesses. These technologies depict a future that will look much more clear, colorful, and life-like with the help of future camera tech. I’m excited. How about you?
Resume:
The camera is an object that has a great future of innovation. Today, competition on smartphones is made on the speed and performance of the laptop but also on the quality of the camera. This shows how important the camera has become.
As shown in the two articles, there are still many possible improvements for cameras. Taking pictures in the dark or blinking is perhaps the future of our cameras.
The major problem of the future of these devices is that they are likely to cost very expensive because of all these improvements.
Innovation is therefore a good thing but we must keep the possibility that these devices are accessible to many people. However, this does not seem to go in this direction by seeing that the camera that can take pictures in the dark is suceptible to cost $ 30,000.
So improvement is a good thing but not at any cost.
Innovation is therefore a good thing but we must keep the possibility that these devices are accessible to many people. However, this does not seem to go in this direction by seeing that the camera that can take pictures in the dark is suceptible to cost $ 30,000.
So improvement is a good thing but not at any cost.
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