I aways find camera concepts very interesting (see the category "Future of Photo Equipment"). Today's entry is designed by Yaniv Berg - the "curved" camera:
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19 Comments
Um…. Does it vibrate, too?? lol
my thought exactly. should be flexible too…
just from the photos I can tell that the thing, apart from looking horrible, is a nightmare to hold and use. Tell her to change job, clearly she never touched a camera before and hasn’t a minimal clue of what a proper camera grip purpose is.
Remember: first function then form.
As an Industrial Designer, I am always amazed at how many nay-sayers there are in the world that are so afraid of things that are different from what they are used to.
Guys, this is a CONCEPT! An exercise in design. Sure, it probably isn’t perfect but neither is the current design of DSLR cameras. But unfortunately we will probably be stuck with the 35mm SLR design based DSLR’s in the same way that we are stuck with the double diamond bicycle and the neck tie… There are better ways around them and the neck tie is just plain dumb – but we’re stuck with them because it’s what people are used to and people are afraid to stray from the curve.
Photomic, I’m sure she knows more about form vs function then you do. Besides, look at how she is holding the camera at waist level. Her elbows could be tightly pressed up to her body with her hands in a natural grip position. Now think about how you hold your DSLR up to your face – Right forearm is almost vertical with your right hand in an unnatural right angle twist with your left hand at an equally unnatural position grabbing the lens.
The 35mm SLR design is pretty good (the cameras from some decades ago, not the huge and bulky D3s/1Ds etc.) and also the rangefinder design is excelent, for me anyway. You can hold a SLR too at waist level, if you remove the horizontal finder and you can do that in the Nikon F3 and a few other models. Too bad everyone gave up that design option.
How do u shoot at eye level? Fail.
I guess you can’t. But you can probably shoot it at chin level.
How do you shoot an SLR at worms eye level without attachments? Fail.
Who would want to hold that thing near your chin out in public?????
How do you shoot down at a 45 degree angle or steeper like sometime you do with handheld macro? Fail.
You bend at the waist. WIN!
Speaking of waist, would you walk around with that thing hanging near your waist and crotch as shown in the picture??? by golly that looks hideous!!
Come on now seriously. Let’s grow up. It doesn’t look anything like a dick!
Luke, I am your father.
Looking at her website, she seems to have an obsession for phalic forms & Holes !…
It could go where no other camera has gone before.
8^) I remember SOME cell phones having “entered” into THAT domain, nudge nudge… do not recall if they were equipped with a camera.
I really like her chair, the espresso machine and the bulb packaging. She is good. (Never mind the camera).
With today’s hypersensitive security regarding photography in public places I could imagine whipping that gun out and getting shot by police.
Perfect for NatGeo photographers. It can double up as a weapon as well. Just in case a hungry lion tries to get too close
Bring two, tie them up and you have a nunchuck.
Use a “modern” viewfinderless video camera outdoors and/or on rapidly moving objects just once and one will realize that this exercise in design is a total fail for these situations. Additionally, one has to move both hands in using any of the controls so egonomically does not make sense.