On 2020-09-25 18:13, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 24 September 2020 08:49:40 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2020-09-23 18:12, RichA wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:40:38 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2020-09-22 20:03, RichA wrote:
https://petapixel.com/2020/09/22/ali...tional-camera/


Oddly enough this resembles an idea I had some time ago, though the
Alice looks much better than what I was thinking.

The article is clear that this is only at the pre-crowd-funding stage so
far so renders and 3D models are all that there are to date.

You should love it. Micro 4/3.

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"...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white
man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
-Samuel Clemens

They couldn't even afford a mock-up, how flat-broke are these people?

They had a mockup, 3D printed I assume. They have little capital and
are about to do an indigogo fund raiser. Try reading what you post
links to before posting.

It's a fine idea. Put all the hard work into the smartphone - that's
where the heavy lifting processors are - and they are updated often,
software updates are cheap and easily deployable. It's where the
communications and storage are.

The front end just needs to support the most basic photographic things.
Mount, aperture and shutter control, sensor - all to the minimum
possible and then offload the captured image to the smartphone...

--
"...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white
man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
-Samuel Clemens


Your newsreader doesn't strip signatures.

It's going to end up like all the other things that worked in a similar fashion.

Are you referring to cameras or crowd sourced funding?

Pebble watch was quite successful and delivered. The co. ultimately
collapsed but the IP was acquired by Fitbit. Leftover funds from their
second round product were returned to contributors.

Oculus was so successful that the evil empire (aka Facebook) acquired it
for $2B.

Skybell video doorbell - another success.

Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success.

Many others.

As to this project:

Depends on:
- funding
- ability of the concept/engineering team
- ability of the marketing team
- lens and flash compatibility (and other accessories)
- sustaining engineering (based on revenues)
- continued development

I'd go for this if it gave my lens collection a fresh lease on life.
Given the oddball aperture interface on Minolta/Sony lenses, that would
make it a "last item" compatibility goal for the project, I 'spect.

--
"...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white
man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
-Samuel Clemens