Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Initial Ideas - Concept One

Careful consideration over each photograph taken could be the key to helping people value their photos more. In modern digital photography, users are free to take as many photos as they like in quick succession without much care or consideration. This can lead to valuable photos becoming buried among an avalanche of rapidly taken poor value photos.

To tackle this problem, this concept slows down the photo taking process. While the camera lets you take as many photos as you like, a key feature of digital cameras which would be sorely missed if removed; the camera instead places a short disabling time delay after each photo, of a few seconds.




The camera needs to be cocked before each shot, much like tradition film cameras. While this serves no mechanical function in a digital camera, it does serve a psychological function, enforcing the idea that the photo which is about to be taken will be something valuable to remember. The camera is cocked by twisting the two halves of the body opposite to each other 180 degrees. This will align the now activated shutter button with the bank of exposure lights.

Manual setting rings can be used, with the exposure lights blinking in accordance to how under or over exposed the image will be, before finally the shot can be taken, and time delay forces the users concentration back onto the subject.