Future Applications

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To Whom It May Concern,

What are the future applications of digital cameras? This is one area of a project that we are stuck on.

Thank you.

Christy

-- Christy Jensen (cmj84@homtail.com), March 28, 2000

Answers

Christy:
I'm not so sure it's the issue of new applications of digital cameras, it's more of future applications of digital imaging in general.
Digital technologies takes the process of capturing live, life-like images into territories here-to-fore unexploited by many non- photographic devices. Digital imaging is truly disruptive technology to the photographic industry, but it is newly enabling technology for many others.
PDA's with built in camera's, Laptops that can recognize the face of it's owner, cars that can play dead for unauthorized drivers, cars that take pictures of accidents as they occur....
...my brain just broke...

Des

-- Dan Desjardins (dan.desjardins@avstarnews.com), March 29, 2000.

I can name a specific application - copying documents with a camera. I do it all the time, but as far as I can tell, almost nobody else does.

Only in the past six months has it become possible to make a readable copy of a letter-size page in a few seconds. I guess I'm not really talking about one page in three seconds, but a thousand pages in maybe 5000 seconds.

Imagine getting a good photo of every car going past a point on the street. Or a photo of every license plate in a particular parking lot at a given moment. Or a good clear ID-quality photo of every person entering a shopping mall. Or every gravestone in every cemetary in an entire state. Or the front of every house in your subdivision.

Some of these things were "possible" before, either at lower quality, or at considerable expense for equipment and/or labor. But suddenly they're the sort of thing YOU could do, if you wanted to and had reason.

Digital cameras are making things possible that weren't, just last year. Lots of them have big commercial or social payoffs. Others are scary. But they're possible now.

-- Mark Grebner (Mark@Grebner.com), April 02, 2000.


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