03-19-2015, 01:15 PM
I agree with Thom Hogan's assessment of things. Phones have made it stupidly easy to take photos and share them. I've seen pro photographers post shots on social media of the back screen of their DSLR -- taken with a phone camera, because it's too slow/impossible to get it directly from the camera.
We can talk about all these technical bits, but it isn't me or anyone posting here who is part of the fiscal demise of cameras.
I'm convinced that the first person who implements a fully open developer kit will come up with something neither we nor the camera producers can conceive. Apple won more customers because of third-party apps (free or not) than because of their own software. (Sony's "Play Memories" or whatever it is does not qualify as being fully open. They heavily restrict what you can and can not change. I believe Samsung uses an Android app in some cameras too?)
We can talk about all these technical bits, but it isn't me or anyone posting here who is part of the fiscal demise of cameras.
I'm convinced that the first person who implements a fully open developer kit will come up with something neither we nor the camera producers can conceive. Apple won more customers because of third-party apps (free or not) than because of their own software. (Sony's "Play Memories" or whatever it is does not qualify as being fully open. They heavily restrict what you can and can not change. I believe Samsung uses an Android app in some cameras too?)