Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: OldRoy on September 24, 2012, 01:53:53 pm
-
http://www.omgplc.com/news/2012/159/innovative-hands-free-consumer-device-launched-to-market
OMG = Oxford Metrics Group (wonder if they registered the name first?)
This device is basically a wearable time-lapse still/video camera with some clever triggering "targeted at the consumer market" - apparently there have been similar devices aimed at people with severe memory problems, dementia etc. The blurb on their site includes the description:
"Autographer is designed to change the way we think about photography: one where moments are captured without intervention. The user can live the experience while Autographer spontaneously captures the stories that unfold. This is not just a new camera but a whole new photographic approach."
I was reminded of the story by Borges (an idea which I believe he purloined from Lewis Carroll) where cartographers decide that a map of the Empire is only adequate when it coincides point-for-point with the Empire itself - ie 1:1.
This news comes on a week where I see that we have reached a stage where 10% of all photographs ever taken were created in 2011, a statistic I find strangely horrifying.
An artist friend once did an installation which involved accumulating a vast number of snaps from friends and acquaintances and displaying them sequentially on a monitor in a gallery. After about 5 seconds the screen blanked and displayed the word "deleted" followed by the next in sequence.
Roy
-
This news comes on a week where I see that we have reached a stage where 10% of all photographs ever taken were created in 2011, a statistic I find strangely horrifying.
Roy
You're not the only one.
-
I think somebody made that up. (I haven't read the original article in Fortune so I'm not sure how they arrived at that conclusion).
Even if it's true, all it means is people enjoy using their camera phones to communicate ...
-
This news comes on a week where I see that we have reached a stage where 10% of all photographs ever taken were created in 2011, a statistic I find strangely horrifying.
I shouldn't worry about it. 98.4% of all statistics are made up on the spur of the moment.
Jeremy
-
I shouldn't worry about it. 98.4% of all statistics are made up on the spur of the moment.
Jeremy
I thought that it was 98.6% ;)
Nigel
-
Statistically, if I take a 5 minute shower with 2.5 minutes scalding hot and 2.5 minutes freezing cold I would be comfortable!
Marc
-
Isn't this just Lifelogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog)?
-
Statistically, if I take a 5 minute shower with 2.5 minutes scalding hot and 2.5 minutes freezing cold I would be comfortable!
But never forget the statistician who drowned in a lake of average depth six inches.
Jeremy
-
I shouldn't worry about it. 98.4% of all statistics are made up on the spur of the moment.
He he he, good spirit!
Cheers,
Bernard
-
Indeed, the growing illusion of time standing still through the pervasive focus on a recursive replay of our past actions or the total waste of energy resulting from huge amount of memories nobody will ever watch?
Cheers,
Bernard
-
This camera is about as stupid as the Lytro...