I\'d argue that most pictures taken in human history have been taken with the intent to share with others, and the workflow to do so with a smartphone is the best it has ever been, by far.
Everyone I know prefers the pics I get with my dSLR or more likely mirrorless cam vs. their cell phones but aren\'t willing to haul around and learn another device and especially go through the steps to actually get the photos off the camera and shared.
While I\'d never use one, I\'ve \"sold\" a lot of others on the Nikon V1 as a pretty simple and bulletproof way for the non photographer to get much better photos and video than their cellphone with minimal bulk and complexity. I got one for my wife - it is the camera she chooses from many on the rare occassions she wants something more than her iphone. But still a huge hassle for these folk, as they still have to get the photos onto a computer or tablet, which introduces a bunch more complexity, to figure out and do a bunch of steps to get them on Facebook or Instagram or whatever. Versus one click from your camera roll or photo gallery.
I might buy one of the Samsung Android phones just to play around with - they seem to be the only ones trying to build a commercially viable photography product that tries to solve the sharing workflow problem.
Seems you\'ve ultimately got to get embedded mobile broadband in a camera or seamless integration with your mobile phone and make the sharing workflow really simple if you ever want to make a camera that gets masses to step up from the on device camera in their phone.
I actually find the workflow from my Olympus EM-1 and Sony A7 pretty good, better than the earlier implementations I tried on the RX100m2 and Panasonic GH3. I actually post to Facebook and Flickr now on occassion from the EM-1 (did it this evening) and A7.
And the economies of scale around mobile phones mean we might actually get pretty decent phone cameras eventually anyway.
I\'d argue that most pictures taken in human history have been taken with the intent to share with others, and the workflow to do so with a smartphone is the best it has ever been, by far.
Everyone I know prefers the pics I get with my dSLR or more likely mirrorless cam vs. their cell phones but aren\'t willing to haul around and learn another device.
While I\'d never use one, I\'ve \"sold\" a lot of others on the Nikon V1 as a pretty simple and bulletproof way for the non photographer to get much better photos and video than their cellphone with minimal bulk and complexity. I got one for my wife - it is the camera she chooses from many on the rare occassions she wants something more than her iphone. But still a huge hassle for these folk, as they still have to get the photos onto a computer or tablet and do a bunch of steps just to get them on Facebook or Instagram or whatever.
I might buy one of the Samsung Android phones just to play around with - they seem to be the only ones trying to build a commercially viable photography product that tries to solve the sharing workflow problem.
Seems you\'ve ultimately got to get embedded mobile broadband in a camera or seamless integration with your mobile phone and make the sharing workflow really simple if you ever want to make a camera that gets masses to step up from the on device camera in their phone.
I actually find the workflow from my Olympus EM-1 and Sony A7 pretty good, better than the earlier implementations I tried on the RX100m2 and Panasonic GH3. I actually post to Facebook and Flickr now on occassion from the EM-1 (did it this evening) and A7.
And the economies of scale around mobile phones mean we might actually get pretty decent phone cameras eventually anyway.
Dec 30, 2013 at 04:27 AM
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