All images courtesy of Yanko Design
Camera “concepts” are a dime a dozen. BUT…I always love it when smart designers take an idea we take for granted–like that consumer/pro-sumer camera made up of a singular body with various other moving parts–and totally shreds it. This is the case with numerous new/emerging manufactures at the moment…RED, GoPro, and even iPhone all fall into this category. I happen to love them all. There’s a new one of these concepts on the block, still in development since October, that reminds us that this stuff is not going away… The Digimo Camera Concept. I heard a rumor that this design is alive and well, not dead. Click thru the image tabs above to see more on this concept…
Regardless of particular concept or manufacture, by providing a base model that requires no add ons (GoPro for example) and then giving options for super-small but sync-able screens, as well as ball joints and attachement legs to make a building block-like structure, these cool idea allows for greater customization, and the ability to snap the camera into places that a bigger, less-mobile machine just couldn’t go–like the handlebar of your bike. Basically, it’s not too dissimilar to LEGOs concept.
As technology gets smarter and lighter, making consumer/pro-sumer grade cameras easier to manipulate and “build” is a great idea. Will the legacy camera manufactures get with the program?
I love concepts that make us rethink the images that are possible. We photographers and artist see the cool image possibilities some where other minds are seeing, medical uses, or public safety uses. business, travel. who knows what imaginations are coming up with out there. this technology is at its beginning. i can’t wait to see where it goes.
I’m all for this…but I won’t get my hopes up until I see it in it’s physical production and how well it performs compared to the GoPro Hero or the Miveu for the iPhone 4 & 4s….My money is stocked into the Mivue as I have a 4s, and for $100, you can’t go wrong with that type of convenience for modular.
We shall see, good post/find Chase.
Is the third picture the gopro case? Just curious.
I’m skeptical about this, while modular systems are common in Medium and Large Format cameras in smaller cameras like high-end compacts or SLRs I find harder to achieve. I think the increase of size of having a modular system in these smaller cameras would be noticeable when compared to the more dedicated systems we now have, unlike bigger cameras.
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