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It would be very useful if a large portion of the status display of a digital camera could be offloaded into the realm of an sonified display - perhaps a users existing bluetooth headset.
For example, and among other existing status indicators: Now that digital cameras can tell if the camera is being
held horizontally or vertically, it'd be an interesting progression if this status could be tightened up so that it could tell if the user were holding it more or less precisely at horizontal or vertical orientation, and let the user know (akin to the 'in focus' indicator, for example).
In the future, it could mate with a bluetooth headset and give an audible status display. This would inform whether the camera is being held slightly off or not, even if there's nothing in the shot that visually conveys this information.
Other factors of the photographic scene response could also be audified/sonified, and the photographer could learn quickly to interpret what the camera is experiencing by listening to it. A further enhancement could occur if stereo bluetooth headsets become commonplace.
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Not unrelated [Ian Tindale, Apr 12 2006]
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Slightly modified - I've sort of changed the idea. |
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I like this, but I've got a feeling that there'd be an inclination (no pun intended) to orient oneself to the apparent source of the sound in a stereo system, which could spoil the composition. It would take some training to get used to the (I assume) tones. |
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It'd be of benefit in that you could manually straighten the shot yourself if you could hear that you were unstraight to begin with. Or, ignore it. If it's unobtrusive enough (ambient enough), the sonified information can simply add a channel of input that doesn't demand, but can perhaps contribute if you're alert to it. Most people will ignore it, though, but it's there if you want it. I'd rather shoot straight than mash up the pixels later through interpolation (although many (too many)'s the time I've had to straighten it up in Adobe Lightroom because I can tend to be about three quarters of a degree off the beam). |
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