Ancestors

Written by Matt McIrvin on 2025-01-18 at 13:32

A Sony camera from 2014 that sounds like the best of the unsuccessful "external camera accessory for your phone" products:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoivGxxNUdE

Amazingly, it still works. This kind of thing seems like it was the logical endpoint of the "prosumer" camera category, but for most people, phone cameras just got good enough, and people seriously into photography probably want something more like a traditional camera, so it got squeezed out.

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Toot

Written by Matt McIrvin on 2025-01-18 at 13:44

I think the problem with this whole category is that it negates the biggest advantage of taking pictures with your phone, which is not that it's wirelessly connected, but that it's a thing you're already carrying around.

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Descendants

Written by Matt McIrvin on 2025-01-18 at 13:44

If you need to have this separate camera too, then the camera might as well just have a viewfinder and be a whole camera.

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