THE intelligent camera Assistant coming your way!

[pk5user]

Hi, What do you think of the latest coming our way...please check out the video in the link:

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[Hankosaurus]

I think it's simply amazing what the technology is bringing to the fore.  Just add a creative mind and stir.  Thanks for sharing that.

[Nishit Dave]

Very soon, getting there will be all the fun.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Some people might like the make my picture something I couldn't do with my own own photo and editing abilities. OK... I might like that sometimes!

But some functions like stacking, stitching, etc could be neat.

As to actually buying one, unless traveling, the risk of super-high customs duties always looms and I wouldn't want to risk it. 

[pk5user]

Thank you friends for your interesting replies which I resonate with partly/mostly :)

Henry: me coming from film days I remember the 1st 360deg walk thro' movie I made for a website (it could be early 2005 to 2010 or so) and I rigged a contraption to mount the Nikon fm2n with a 20mm nikkor lens and made a series of shots and then scanned and put it on a software to make the 'panoramic 360deg' view of a facilty. It was one of the 1st of those done around those times. And here we are now with a gadget that simplifies and computes all that is necessary to take the shot and you have the freedom to be creative about other things. So technology is at times a boon :)

@Nishit Dave: I very much live that way what you say about "getting there will be all the fun" :) My photography is largely done on film and the most important part of it is about how you 'get there'.. the process makes you slow down and you contemplate a lot before even taking a picture and especially so when you shoot large format.

@Thad: I agree that quite a lot of the functions are taken care of for us to concentrate on the picture making. As to the duties in buying this gadget: I think it is quite small and if a friend could buy and bring it from abroad it will be hardly noticeable and won't attract any duties, no?

[Thad E Ginathom]

Henry: me coming from film days I remember the 1st 360deg walk thro' movie I made for a website (it could be early 2005 to 2010 or so) and I rigged a contraption to mount the Nikon fm2n with a 20mm nikkor lens and made a series of shots and then scanned and put it on a software to make the 'panoramic 360deg' view of a facilty. I

Wow!

@Thad: I agree that quite a lot of the functions are taken care of for us to concentrate on the picture making. As to the duties in buying this gadget: I think it is quite small and if a friend could buy and bring it from abroad it will be hardly noticeable and won't attract any duties, no?

Yes, sure!  A bit sad that I'm rather short on friends coming from abroad (and completely negative on the chances of going myself) at the moment.

Automation and clever gadgets... I have just skipped forward a couple of generations in Sony mirrorless cameras, from an a6500 to an a7iv and I'm loving the auto-focus improvements. So I'm basically pro the clever-gadget stuff :)

[Hemant Joshi]

Such gadgets will kill creativity in a photographer , Now We have an improved version of background defocus in ACR version 16 , which will eat some shares of Lenses producing creamy Blur like 56 mm 1.4 , This is just the beginning , in many more years to come , lets wait and see what changes    A I technology will do in coming days .

[DeepakS]

Such gadgets will kill creativity in a photographer , Now We have an improved version of background defocus in ACR version 16 , which will eat some shares of Lenses producing creamy Blur like 56 mm 1.4 , This is just the beginning , in many more years to come , lets wait and see what changes    A I technology will do in coming days .

I do not subscribe to the theory that "if it is easier there is no creativity involved" thought process, that many photographers like to express. I believe in the opposite. If it is easier to do what took us hours to do before, it is quicker and gives us more time and opportunity to explore creative directions like never before.
I prefer to look at it as "better for creators" and more importantly takes that creativity out of the hands of a few and opens it up for more among us, to experiment.
That cannot be a bad thing.

[Bharat Varma]

You do realize that before too long, agencies will be able to send out drones, or inexpensive, untrained "delivery" boys for photo shoots with AI enabled gear like this, and get far better than average results at a fraction of the cost? Thereby killing photography as a profession?

That the gig economy is really a dead end for individual human development or individual sustainability?

That these are really not tools that will "free up the human minds for more creative endeavors and/or better lives", but tools that will absolutely exacerbate inequality and disparity, because that is how the modern world works.

In the clash of finance and society, finance always wins.

[DeepakS]

You do realize that before too long, agencies will be able to send out drones, or inexpensive, untrained "delivery" boys for photo shoots with AI enabled gear like this, and get far better than average results at a fraction of the cost? Thereby killing photography as a profession?

That the gig economy is really a dead end for individual human development or individual sustainability?

That these are really not tools that will "free up the human minds for more creative endeavors and/or better lives", but tools that will absolutely exacerbate inequality and disparity, because that is how the modern world works.

In the clash of finance and society, finance always wins.

The fear that "delivery boys will do photshoots" reminds me of the days when computers were so large and and so exclusive that they were housed in dust-proof AC halls with limited access. One needed to make written requests for computational operations, in other words, to use a computer . Didn't take so long for those computers to shrink in size and ease of use, and become so cheap, as to now literally reside in the pockets of "delivery boys". Did it kill the profession of "computer specialists" ? No, It just changed the way we use computers. Made it accessible to so many more people, and, we adapted to those changes quite seamlessly.

I do not see how the mobile phone (actually a computer) in the hands of a "delivery boy" has excarberated inequality and disparity, in the modern world. Mind you if everyone wore chappals - the rich would have more expensive ones than the poor. So also phones. Having an expensive phone is not a disparity caused by the advent of phones. It is an existing condition that also applies to phones.

The Gig Economy is "by definition" temporary and has to constantly adapt to survive.  Actually it has no place in this evolving-tech discussion at all. Due to their temporary nature they come into being after technology makes something possible. Like the delivery boys (a good example of the Gig economy)  having employment only due to and after the "delivery system" was created.

At its heart this a discussion born from a fear (or discomfort with) of change that will force us to adapt and face more competition  in what we blissfully assumed would remain a niche area of expertise.

Fianlly, the fact is that those who have been the field longer when things were more difficult , will have better honed skills and experience  and will find the transition much easier than those just getting into it. It is something to look forward to.

Cheer up, we should be welcoming change, not predicting doom and gloom   ;D