Originally posted by photoptimist 32 GB of RAM in a camera is a horrible idea because RAM requires constant electrical power to maintain -- the camera's battery would die within a 4 to 12 hours if it's just sitting in the bag. And if the user swaps batteries or pulls the battery after a glitch, all the pictures in RAM would be gone. ...
Think of RAM I mentioned (because I was not specifying exacting patent) as a sort of memory storage of the smartphones' like. But memory 'disks' today are of various kinds, and I did not propose an exacting solution — just a principle. Regarding battery concerns, smartphones with far greater capacity can be on standby for days. But that is beside the point — the point is that camera has both, internal memory storage and the SD card, but releases the data onto card when it's best time to do it. Also, if the data is still in memory storage, when the user turns off the camera, camera first warns that transfer of data onto a card is recommended.
Such a camera is more engaging in use that a regular digital camera, and therefore different dynamics is delivered to a suitable audience.
Say, one can choose to fill entire fast internal memory and then release all data onto a card. Other options are also possible, which a camera could predict depending on drive mode used. Regardless, a few days of use of such a camera would quickly accommodate any user to maximise on its benefits, and find a suitable way of work. Which are far greater than what current approach allows — it allows only one approach and that's bad in itself.
Current digital cameras = A large sum of many crippling 'features'
One can ask what is better; have a far more responsive, seamless and more engaging camera that surpasses smartphones in ease of operation, but which needs to be charged more often, or, a classic digital camera with all its shortcomings, and which can be charged once a month, because we don't take it out anyway for we know it's is slow, and we will take it out only when we feel forced to do it.
We find smartphones very useful and therefore don't mind charging and syncing them daily. But we don't find current camera so very useful, and that is why we engage with them occasionally, and then, we want minimum
extra fuss about them: long battery life, because most of our attention is dedicated to — a smartphone, which we use and charge daily and hardly complain about it.
So, you see, the state of digital cameras today and why they lay abandoned on a shelf most of the time, is determined by
a sum of compromising features of that camera, and
current cameras have too many of compromising, crippling features. That crippling factors and half-baked solutions are called 'features' is another problem, because then many take them as the holy Gospel, that cannot be changed. But that is not true.
Removing some of them, and increasing level of engagement with a device and improving on positive feedback in use, increases their usability, and value.
Last edited by Uluru; 05-18-2017 at 04:51 PM.