First up is the Multi-Ball (above), a camera with many, many spherical eyes arranged on yet another, larger sphere. Its purpose is to “capture the atmosphere of a scene,” but coming in the wake of the amazing Lyto plenoptic camera, which lets you focus pictures after you have shot them, it looks rather old already.
The Big Screen Camera is just that: a big LCD screen with a pair of handles and a small camera embedded somewhere inside. Anyone who has used a tablet to take a photograph will know that this is simultaneously great (big screen!) and awkward (you look like a dork). Still, at least with Nikon behind it, you'll be sure to get a good-quality capture, unlike the crap you get from the iPad which looks like you shot it through a piece of frosted, dimpled glass.
Third is this new take on the SLR. The lens is the biggest part, and the screen and handle hang off it like appendages. This, too, has been foreshadowed in the current market. Take a look at Sony's NEX cameras to see tiny bodies clipped onto big lenses.
Finally there is the mystery i-Ball. Nikon is saying nothing. The paranoid Englishman in me says that this is some kind of surveillance device. But in reality, Nikon probably has no idea what it does either, and just included it because it looks cool.
None of these concepts seems to be anything particularly thought-provoking. I'm sure y'all can do a lot better. I'm going to lead off with a lens-changing camera with a 3G radio and a Android-running processor. I could then have Hipstamatic-style fun with a proper, big-sensor camera. What about you? Suggestions, as ever, in the comments.
A Vision of the Future of Photography [I Am Nikon via Rob Galbraith]
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