The DSLR is doomed...

[forty-two]

At least that what Nokia think...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/dslrs_to_d...

Makes for funny reading...

[RobDickinson]

OOoh good , were breaking the laws of physics so I can cary a lighter camera, sweet!

[Simpo Two]

What's the betting the next version of the D3 will have a phone in it?!

[Webber3]

theregister said:

Vanjoki was, however, accurate in one of his Helsinki comments: "It will not take long, less than a year, when phones can record HD quality video and you can transfer it directly to your HD television set." With small-sensor pixel counts increasing and the power required to operate them decreasing, he may very well be correct.

It will, however, most likely be relatively crappy-looking HD video.

What are they talking about, 'less than a year'? My phone already records HD video and yes it is pretty crappy looking.

[sherman]

I would love to see someone having a phone call with a DSLR stuck to their ear.

[RobDickinson]

Haha.

Not sure why we cant have voice activated SLR features now though

[Elderly]

Simpo Two said:

What's the betting the next version of the D3 will have a phone in it?!

Remember this?

[Simpo Two]

RobDickinson said:

Not sure why we cant have voice activated SLR features now though

I can imagine myself at a poorly-lit church wedding saying out loud 'Focus ya bd!' (which I probably do mutter silently anyway!)

[dilbert]

I'm not about to say that a camera phone is likely to beat a DSLR in the near future, but consider this...

Mk I eyeball is 1" in diameter, and has a neural processor the size of a small football attached.

Mk I eyeball is the ultimate arbiter of quality.

Edited by dilbert on Thursday 22 April 10:01

[CVP]

dilbert said:

Mk I eyeball is the ultimate arbiter of quality.

Spot on. It doesn't matter what kit or processing techniques we use, it all comes down to, do we like the image we procduced when viewing the output with our eyes.

[strudel]

Maybe it's down to these quantum dot sensors I remember reading somewhere, that will double the pixel density or something.

[Dave^]

Nokia's test mule...

[Dogsey]

dilbert said:

I'm not about to say that a camera phone is likely to beat a DSLR in the near future, but consider this...

Mk I eyeball is 1" in diameter, and has a neural processor the size of a small football attached.

Mk I eyeball is the ultimate arbiter of quality.

Edited by dilbert on Thursday 22 April 10:01

Except that the human eyeball isn't a mk1 design, rather it's about mk10^n.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Elderly said:

Simpo Two said:

What's the betting the next version of the D3 will have a phone in it?!

Remember this?

I actually want that... how cool!






In fact looking at it again it rubbish, how do you dial the number? or do you have to just stand by it forever waiting for it to ring.

Edited by Pixel-Snapper on Thursday 22 April 15:42

[GetCarter]

Pixel-Snapper said:

do you have to just stand by it forever waiting for it to ring?

Welcome to my world.

[dilbert]

Pixel-Snapper said:

Elderly said:

Simpo Two said:

What's the betting the next version of the D3 will have a phone in it?!

Remember this?

I actually want that... how cool!






In fact looking at it again it rubbish, how do you dial the number? or do you have to just stand by it forever waiting for it to ring.

Edited by Pixel-Snapper on Thursday 22 April 15:42

It's cleverer than that. You write the number down, and take a picture of it.

[Simpo Two]

dilbert said:

It's cleverer than that. You write the number down, and take a picture of it.

- and then print it out, scan the print using OCR and then use a modem to send it down the phone line...