Small Surfaces » camera http://smallsurfaces.com mobile user interface design / user experience design / interaction design resources Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:10:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Camera UI tour http://smallsurfaces.com/2009/03/camera-ui-tour/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2009/03/camera-ui-tour/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:06:20 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/?p=626 “Here’s a sampling of user interfaces across compact cameras from every major digital camera maker: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Casio, Olympus and Fujifilm. User interfaces matter in these cameras more than ever because they’re increasingly the major way you drill down to change settings or switch modes—rather than manually cranking a dial, like on a pro DSLR. Some are pretty good (Canon, Samsung) while some are pretty bad (Casio).”

Link: Click: A Visual Tour of Camera Interfaces (gizmodo.com, thanks Dan)

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]]> http://smallsurfaces.com/2009/03/camera-ui-tour/feed/ 1 Gauges are back! http://smallsurfaces.com/2009/02/gauges-are-back/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2009/02/gauges-are-back/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:20:20 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/?p=617 Leaked photos of an upcoming Samsung camera show memory and battery gauges. Reminds me how wonderful analogue controls and displays are.

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Link: New Samsung TL320 (WB100) has OLED display and analog gauges (1001noisycameras.com)

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]]> http://smallsurfaces.com/2009/02/gauges-are-back/feed/ 0 How Canon prototypes camera bodies http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/09/how-canon-prototypes-camera-bodies/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/09/how-canon-prototypes-camera-bodies/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:42:58 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/?p=578 Taking the form of a DIY tutorial, the Canon web site shows how they prototype the forms of their cameras.

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Link: Balsa Wood Mock-up Modeling Tutorial (canon.com)

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]]> http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/09/how-canon-prototypes-camera-bodies/feed/ 7 Polariod to stop making instant film http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/02/polariod-to-stop-making-instant-film/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/02/polariod-to-stop-making-instant-film/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:48:21 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2008/02/polariod-to-stop-making-instant-film/ The original instant gratification photography will soon be no more. Follow the link for some great Polariod TV ads of past.

“I greeted today’s news with an instinctive combination of shock, grief, and indignant fury: Polaroid has announced it’s ceasing production of its instant film, which will become unavailable after 2009. What will I do when I need more film my trusty Polaroid? What will all those people buying new Polaroids do?...I don’t really need to explain why the once-iconic Polaroid instant camera was rendered obsolete: When photography went digital in the late 1990s, all cameras became instant cameras in most respects that mattered. Poor Polaroid became an anachronism; thousands of people at the Cambridge, Massachusetts company that was an icon of my Boston-area youth lost their jobs.”

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Link: PC World’s Techlog A Heartfelt, YouTube-Based Wake for Polaroid Instant Photography (pcworld.com)

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Link: DIY gotomobile’s mobile cam (gotomobile.com)

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]]> http://smallsurfaces.com/2007/04/mobile-testing-camera-rig/feed/ 0 Capturing fleeting emotional experiences http://smallsurfaces.com/2006/03/capturing-fleeting-emotional-experiences/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2006/03/capturing-fleeting-emotional-experiences/#comments Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:15:10 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2006/03/capturing-fleeting-emotional-experiences/ “Emosive is a service for mobile devices which allows capturing, storing and sharing of fleeting emotional experiences. Based on the Cognitive Priming theory, as we become more immersed in digital media through our mobile devices, our personal media inventories constantly act as memory aids, “priming” us to better recollect associative, personal (episodic) memories when facing an external stimulus.”

Link: Instant Feeling Messages (we-make-money-not-art.com)

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”...The era of cheap, lightweight digital cameras — in cellphones, in computers, in hip pockets, even on key chains — has meant that people who did not consider themselves photography buffs as recently as five years ago are filling ever-larger hard drives with thousands of images from their lives.”

Link: Here I Am Taking My Own Picture (nytimes.com)

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