Prediction: What will be the future of photography?

john farrar wrote:

( Ah, they'll never ever reach the moon, at least not the one that we're after - Leonard Cohen)

Predicting the future as extraploated from the present, produces only nostalgia for what could have been. We invariably get it wrong because paradigm shifts come out of the Left filed. When talking about camera size and image quality you would we wise to remmber that the world as seen through the eye of a mouse is no less detailed than that as seen through the larger eye of a much bigger animal. So it's basically down to scanning and processing power. Is it not inconceivable that direct information reads from the visual cortex of the viewer might just get shared in information space? It won't require a camera so much as a super duper wi-fi chip with a - for want of a better term - 'artistic talent' enhancement filter.

And mirrorless is already here, as is Sony's SLT technology at the bleeding edge of innovation. It is only because Canon and Nikon are grandfathered into the pro market that there is sufficient peer-press inertia to discourage anyone at that level from wanting to jump ship. Maybe by 2017 they'll find they can work more efficiently with mirrorless technology.

Until then I'm just going to enjoy my Sony A57 and make even more use of my android smartphone. Sadly for the industry when my last P&S died it did not get replaced by the next iteration.

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