DocAndersen
What do you see? It is a concept that is interesting. Many people carry their cameras everywhere (they often call them smartphones). The camera has evolved significantly in the past ten years. The large cloud backup solutions for Apple and Android devices talk about the fact that the rate of pictures has gone from a year over the year growth rate of 10% to a year over the year growth rate of nearly three times that. Billions of pictures taken and added to cloud services over the past year. But the smartphone isn’t the only camera out there. As is often the case, the market existed before Smartphones changed it. Yes, there are more pictures taken by smartphones now than ever before.
The technology of cameras continued to evolve. While smartphone cameras got better and better, so did traditional cameras. The rise of digital made it easier for users to do more with less. Many people only have a smartphone as a camera. But, there are now specialty cameras that provide features and capabilities that smartphones aren’t as easily able to provide. I thought it would be fun to talk about what you can do with a digital camera now.
Things cameras can do now:
- ROV –and underwater camera, you can drive anywhere you want to see underwater!
- Drone – an aerial camera came as an ROV, you control what you see from above
- 360-degree camera – allows the camera to take an image all around the camera.
- Infrared camera – see heat signatures on objects.
- AR cameras designed to help you capture an area for creation as a virtual room identical to the real room. Realtors use this often now to create 3d walkthroughs of homes they are selling.
The best part of all of these new capabilities is most of them directly integrate with your phone. The future is the smartphone in your hand. As we move towards that new world, it is fun to see how cameras are evolving.
Now I wonder, what is going to evolve next?
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have you seen a 360 degree video on Facebook?
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Many just use their smartphone as a camera and that is OK, right?
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Will you share in the comments the coolest thing you’ve done with a camera?
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My phone camera has some really interesting features, I especially love the one for night photos.
low lux is always interesting. The only issue i have is the phone is still awkward to hold and shoot pictures compared ot a camera.
but I do use the phone at times.
To me the phone is more convenient, a proper camera can be too heavy. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
they do, the phone is just awkward in the way you have to hold it. I am used to the traditional camera.
but I do see your point thanks!
I can’t share my photos and say this is the coolest thing I’ve done with the camera. I do them with a lot of love and I like them all.
i love the pictures you share! i agree it is hard to choose!
Q: HAVE YOU SEEN A 360 DEGREE VIDEO ON FACEBOOK?
Yes (4 votes) – 33%
No (8 votes) – 67%
Q: MANY JUST USE THEIR SMARTPHONE AS A CAMERA AND THAT IS OK, RIGHT?
Yes (9 votes) – 82%
No (2 votes) – 18%
Q: WILL YOU SHARE IN THE COMMENTS THE COOLEST THING YOU’VE DONE WITH A CAMERA?
Yes (8 votes) – 67%
No (4 votes) – 33%
Thanks to everyone who answered! Always fun to get a great response!
I only use a smartphone to take pictures … and the camera is great too
the smartphone camera is so much better now then it was. I use mine more often now than I ever did before. But I love my camera as welL!!!!
do different Youtube videos for my Youtube channel promoting OC lifestyle.
very cool do you use for cell phone for that?
my iphone 6. i might do one tonight at the art gallery.
that is really cool – they are useful tools those smartphones!
The coolest thing I have ever done with a camera is taking a selfie. It didn’t work well. I hope they integrate selfie feature in digital cameras.
the new3est smartphones actually have Selphie modes for the camera. Don’t get me started on a drone designed to be a selfie drone!
Hahaha…yah, a selfie drone! It would be interesting.
That’s interesting of newer smartphones having selfie mode for cameras.
the selfie drone exists. I was at the park the other day with my friend (he has a two -year old). There were two mothers with selfie drones following their kids taking pictures.
Wow, I did not know that. That’s interesting.
i was going to take the stick my dog found and wack one out of the air. It was taking pictures of my dog and I!
Someone was doing the work of taking pictures of people and things?
they had a selfie drone buzzing around the park taking pictures. They were foolowing my dog and I.
That’s good. It would have been better if you had wacked one out of the air.
Irritation sadly is not a legal defense. In civil court, I would have paid for the drone, and the emotional damage done by knocking it out of the air.
My goodness, that is sad.
that is a reality at this point.
It appears spying on others has been upgraded to another level.
yes, it has been raised to an interesting new level.
Technology is running very fast. The mobile cameras are also very advanced nowadays.
they really are, plus the things you can add on are amazing!
Unfortunately, I don’t have a camera. My “camera” is a smartphone.
that is a camera! i think the shift away from digital cameras as the only cameras we have is pushing us towards this newer paradigm, Smartphones are the base camera now!
That’s a beautiful photo. I use my smartphone to take pictures whenever I travel.
many do, I think the smartphone is the new camera!
The photo above is like a postcard. My favorite thing I have taken are of course bluebird babies.
you are a master of birds and eggs I am a novice and can’t get a single bird picture!
Having pictures in paper is still very beautiful. I will tell you what a smartphone can do: Making humans dumber. This is what is happening
i truly hope smartphones are not making us dumber. Certainly making us less aware of the world around us.
People abuse of smartphones and we are dumber than before. Trust me. Children should no use a smartphone until reaching 18
that is really hard to prove, test scores have been declining overall for the past 30 years long before the smartphone appeared.
It’s amazing what you can do with camera’s nowadays. They’ve certainly come a long way over the years.
it really is amazing, I am always shocked by the things you can do now!
When I had the panoramic feature on my phone for the first time I went berserk taking pictures until I got bored of it. I love taking pictures of birds , insects and landscape. I am a no selfie or portrait person.
i have a device that lets you create panoramas with any camera. But I went crazy with that feature when it was first on my smartphone!