InfoTrends published a report (digital camera market forecast for Western Europe) in which they outline that connectivity will play a major role in the camera development over the next 5 years:
“Sharing images instantly with friends and family is becoming a more important aspect of photography. Smartphones currently provide this ability, but digital cameras generally do not. Consumers will soon come to expect that cameras will interface with any device that they use to store, share, manage, and print their photos. As connected devices become more widespread, cameras will need to become connected to compete.” (Mette Eriksen, Director at InfoTrends)
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I live in Western Europe and I can definitely agree with this. I often use the camera of my mobile phone to quickly upload a picture to facebook. It would be great to have a compact camera with a 3g connection and some basic editing tools which would allow to quickly take a decent picture, do some basic editing and immediately upload it to your favorite social networking site. Just be careful what you use it for while drunk!
Or a compact camera which could easily send pictures to your smartphone which can do the editing and uploading part. Thay would make more sense than a all in one package.
+1 on Facebook –> but also important, would be a storage website.
Amazon.com offers free 3G connections so that users can download books. I think Nikon and Canon could easily offer either a Paid Subscription for uploading pictures, or free up to a certain number of GB with higher end models.
The lower end models might just automatically resize before sending.
Welcome to 5yrs ago camera makers!!
Bluetooth in camera or a well implemented wifi (but that wont work in real world)…
Is a tech that has been around for soooo long…
And the fact camera makers are not software makers… You got that right. If they were functions would be way more advanced and corespondingly hardware would also be stronger. Make an Android or some open OS camera if you cant write your own…
We need/want this…!!!
+1 for open source / scriptable cameras
Thats nonsense the least, people know how to upload pictures via the computer. Instead they better focus on sensors, camera output and image quality which can be improved. Camera is not a cell phone nor should look alike!
Thwat would depend on its intended use. i’m not going to use this technology for important shoots, but for the occasional party/holiday shot, intended to only appear to your friends on facebook or twitter, this is very useful. This site is mostly visited by serieus amateur or professional photographers, but the majority of camera owners isn’t.
The Samsung CL80 (US) offer WiFi and bluetooth connection to smartphones, routers or hotspots.
You can set it up to send automatically the picture to the phone, you also can send it by email directly from the camera.
Sony had the G3 camera with 3G connection.
Ivan’s photo is from Indonesia