Just posted: OMG Life Autographer Quick Review: Digital Photography Review

make it smaller size of a dice.

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LOL at the price! :) With Google Glass coming for probably less who would buy this?

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Somehow I'm sure people you meet will be more concerned about spy-glasses with direct link to NSA than a black box (though that black box is far from ideal too)

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Iz teh sok.

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a long & very far relatives of Google glass.

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There is nothing stupid about it, its a tool that could be very useful for specific tasks. I'd definitely use one for street and documentary photography, but at £400 imho its priced way too dearly.

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It's not really street photography or even documentary photography if you have absolutely no input as to what is being photographed or when.

Since the camera makes the decision when to shoot the "photographer" is an unnecessary part of the equation other than being a means of transport.

In that sense you could call surveillance camera images street photography too.

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So deciding where you are going with the camera, what you are aiming it at and what situations you are getting in is not an input?
Is it just the act of physically pressing the shutter that makes a photograph? I would say that there is more artistic input in taking a conscious decision in using surveillance camera footage and organising that footage in a way that it tells a story to , say, taking pictures of cats and obsessing over their sharpness and colour , perhaps spending hours comparing them online with other pictures of cats taken with other cameras ;)

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The act of composing a scene and pressing the shutter release button at the right moment is MAKING a photograph. Walking around hoping the camera shoots at the right moment is being a transportation device for a snapshot machine. Maybe I'm l'd old school, but I still believe the "decisive moment" should be up to the photographer to capture. Otherwise it's just luck. The old "Put enough monkeys in a room with a typewriter they'll produce Shakespeare" scenario.

That is truly a situation where one could say "dude, your camera sure takes nice pictures!".

As far as dissecting cat pictures (pun intended), well, every photographer needs to find his niche. If it weren't for those folks camera discussion forums would be lonely places (and probably much more pleasant). :)

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Yes, I think you're definitely very old school but nothing wrong with that. :)

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I love how you can call everything photography these days.

What whawha does is kinda like calling a random string generator a "writer".

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Nice try, NSA.

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That's nothing. Just wait for Google Glass.

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I like it! It makes photography available to physically challenged people who cannot manipulate the complex menus and scroll buttons.

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Not to mention mentally challenged people, who will absolutely love it.

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Nice derogatory comment there, Manuel.

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Decadent? Perhaps... Stupid? Sure!

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Finally, a camera that is auto-everything; relieving the photographer even of the burden of actually having to take pictures. Ain't progress wonderful?

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All it needs to do now is auto-delete and we are golden.

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Three words: get a life. This is really, really stupid.

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is "a" really a word?

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Several points:

Whether you love or hate this (or Glass), it's coming and you may as well get used to it. This reminds me of early digicams - large, clunky, and with poor image quality. The next gen., or several after, will be cheap, very small, and take great pictures.

As for privacy - what privacy? (if in public). I get photographed by CCTV a zillion times a day - so if people on the street do it, who cares. What I DO have issue with is if someone did this without my knowledge in my home.

What will be even more interesting is when micro-UAVs the size of an insect are (eventually) produced. That's perhaps more a worry than what people can stick around their necks. And that too is coming - perhaps sooner than people realise.

As for this device - way too expensive, way too big. But as I said, this is early days. I'd wear one because I'd like to make a diary and I have no time to write one each day, but I'd only be interested if it was not intrusive (which this thing is).

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Who cares? I do. You may not care but plenty do. Don't take your own opinions as more than that. People don't want to feel like they are treated like criminals with CCTV's everywhere.

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Trollshave, tell it to the street shooter thread.

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CCTV's and the police state is not the same as street shooting.

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Trollshave: it is you who are taking my opinions as "more than that". While I am partly stating "my opinion", I'm mostly just stating what is inevitable - personal always-on camera recording is here to stay, whether you (or I) like it or not. Now, unless you are so sure that there is a chance to legislate in every country in the world and remove the right to take street photography, then I'd say the chances of stopping this are close to zero. Don't forget - you'd have to legislate against street photography, because why should someone holding a camera have more rights than someone wearing a camera? And how will you define holding/wearing once the cameras become really small?

As for my *opinion*. I'm neither for nor against. I can see useful things and also misuse with this tool. My main concern is what happens in private. In the street (i.e.: in public) I still say "who cares".

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I love the idea of CCTV everywhere, so long as the footage is available to everyone, and not just the State.

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I think as soon as Google Glass comes out - everyone should aim themselves with high power laser pointers. These can damage DSLR sensors, so surely they can damage Google Glass as well, right?
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BTW: I have no idea why they heck you compare CCTV to Street Photography, and that to Google Glass or any other spy camera. All of these are completely different things.

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I have a wristwatch that records video

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I already have a ballpoint pen that records (admittedly primitive) stills and video - and it looks like an ordinary pen.

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The sense of this thing aside (there are smaller cell phones with cameras around) - this thing disqualifies itself by its absolutely abyssmal image quality.

5MP is low to begin with, and the real resolution is far worse (I see no features less than 3-4 pixels in size, so those images could be reduces to at most something like 1280*720 if you want a sharp image).

The tiny sensor with a slow lens makes it almost useless except outside at sunshine... and there you got the crap flare resistance, and with such a wide fisheye the sun will be in the frame quite often.

But the last straw, and the worst part, is the price. If it was $50 from a chinese direct distributor, fine. but 400 pound? thats ridiculous!

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Real perverts will want one that fits in a shoe.

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Mmm, You need look : www.memoto.com :)

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Too bbbbbb expensive, at £100 or $148 I might just buy one on a whim but at $279 your having a laugh.

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And $9/month to use it after 1st year? No thanks...

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It's not stealthy enough. A small camera head and a box on the belt, connected by a wire, would be better.

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I'll wear my GOPRO around my neck instead.

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I call Epic Fail on this one. Then again, I also called Epic Fail on Instagram.

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Wouldn't the device work better if part of a hat or eyeglasses? Hanging on a strap, it is bound to shift or dangle about, aligning with the person's line of sight only accidentally. The tortoise (or is that a Tory MP?) in the stop-action video gets cut off.

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Can't wait for a Hasselblad version ...

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It will have a hardwood handle bolted to it and will cost £2000.

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And dont forget the grip!!!

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Why WTF and Why followed by Why springs to mind

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FAIL! This will be horrible for taking pics of my nine cats...

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No image stabilization even at that price? I mean considering its usage, IMO some sort of image stabilization is a must.
I do like the concept. I've been thinking of wearing one of those Sony Cybershot TX cameras in a similar fashion. :D

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OMG Life has the built-in OMG for pricing! Wow.

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Capture the moment people keep saying WTF is that and the horror reply when they understand what it is. Google glass -2.0

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Just make an app for your smart phone to do the same thing and wear it around your neck like a tech geek who can't get a date.

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Next up, a medicine cabinet which, at certain times of the day, will lob pills at you if you're standing in front of it with mouth open and then open its door. What? You don't get it? Why have to actually reach in, take out and open a bottle or two, then take your pills manually, when technology can do 98 percent of the work?

Eventually, the Chow Plower — speed and efficiency preparing and feeding you a meal, beyond anything you ever imagined. You won't even have to lift a fork!

Seriously, this OMG Life "innovation" comes across as an odd, redundant contrivance in this era when most of the population feels naked without a smartphone-with-camera, and all-weather mini cams are reasonably priced and plentiful.

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You won't meet the woman of your dreams looking like a creepy camera geek. That means no kids moments ect.

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"what we don't like..
Image quality isn't great"

shocker. I love the understatement though. British humor I think

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We're probably looking at a Bronze award. Silver at most.

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Fellas, try to see the possibilities. Like may creative types, I'm getting a vibe from you .. a lot of resistance to new ideas here. Yes, resistance from creatives. ?

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Sadly, that's DPReview readers in the main. Anything that isn't the latest/greatest DSLR or doesn't have a tack sharp lens or is slightly outside of their narrow vision gets knocked.

This isn't necessarily something I'd personally be interested in using but I can see the possibilities of devices like this.

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The concept is absurb for a forum full of photographers. But this is no joke. There is an emgerging flow of thought brought along by Google Glass called Timeline. In the timeline, the present is most important. Then unimportant things in the past slowly fade away. That's how human memory works. Our eyes observe everything constantly, then retain only remarkable things in the past.

A person can just wear this device, or Google Glass, everyday and it silently takes pictures whenever something new or interesting happens. These pictures are only stored for a short period of time. When something interesting happens, the person, or friends can later revisit the photos and make them sticky, meaning to save them permanently. The photos that are not looked at are eventually deleted.

You'd be surprised how many interesting things in life are missed because they didn't seem photo worthy at the time. Think about the interesting moments of your life and whether you have pictures for them.

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Let me name a few of those moments that you could've missed:
. When you first met your spouse
. When your kid ran to greet you with open arms
. When the 8rd grade friend punched you in the face
. When you stood in a podium to receive your diploma, and looked over the crowd seeing your parents clapping for you.

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When I showed up late for work one time too many and had to go see the vice president of the company (and this was at Leitz, no less.) Alas, there are no photos of the event.

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Very interesting. I think you need two of it -ware one in front of you and one in back. Thus you wouldn't miss any actions.

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It's great for photographers that inject art into their photography. Including landscape, portraiture, photojournalism (capturing a story rather than a moment). Because they will be further differentiated from the masses.

And this type of device, plus phones, glass etc. is great for photography where content wins and artistry comes second. E.g. The kind of photo we see in news these days captured from security cameras. Because nobody else and nothing better was there.

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It's great for photographers that inject art into their photography. Including landscape, portraiture, photojournalism (capturing a story rather than a moment). Because they will be further differentiated from the masses.

And this type of device, plus phones, glass etc. is great for photography where content wins and artistry comes second. E.g. The kind of photo we see in news these days captured from security cameras. Because nobody else and nothing better was there.

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It's great for photographers that inject art into their photography. Including landscape, portraiture, photojournalism (capturing a story rather than a moment). Because they will be further differentiated from the masses.

And this type of device, plus phones, glass etc. is great for photography where content wins and artistry comes second. E.g. The kind of photo we see in news these days captured from security cameras. Because nobody else and nothing better was there.

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Hoosh, can you repeat that again, please?
Today something important happened and I didn't have a camera with me to register it: I got into a bus and the driver actually looked at me. What makes this memorable is that they never look at anyone. I wish I had this OMG thingie with me to capture that unique occasion. (The moment I bought my cigarettes was also memorable, but admittedly not so much as that bus driver looking at me.)
It is very important to capture all significant moments in our everyday lives. And there are so many.

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Sorry for the repeats. I got an error every time I hit post, then went back and tried again twice because it said to try again later. Surprised to see it worked actually and now annoyed at looking like a noob. Login system seems to have changed to amazon web services which has problems with china, which is where I live.

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I thought it would be impossible to top the level of nerdiness seen in photog's that wear a camera with a neck strap or use a vest, but I stand corrected.

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Better a neck strap than a camera fallen to the ground or getting impregnated with lint in a pocket. Is today's fashion to balance one on the head or to carry it in a rolled-up shirt sleeve? Of course, most don't carry a camera at all, but only a phone.

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Nerdy like Alfred Eisenstaedt, for example.

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It's a car camera for your body. Maybe good for police, etc., but really needs smarter software for searching the images. Gordon Bell at Microsoft was pushing this concept for quite a long time, and had some interesting stuff in MyLifeBits, etc. Links at his website: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/

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$609.59 US Dollars is alittle much for an iPhone accessory.

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Makes the GX7 at $1000 look a bargain

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$610 is dirt cheap if it provides you with proof of having been brutalized by police. This just happened a week or so ago, and the police said that the people had no right to complain to the press. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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OMG! The Price!

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No doubt this is very useful for Alzheimer's patients, but there's a pretty big jump between that and normal everyday wear for everybody, which seems to be how it's being marketed.

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Would an Alzheimer's patient remember how to view the photos? Would the patient remember who or what were in the photos, or when or where they were taken?

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Initially, this technology was created for Alzheimer's patients in the UK. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/05/lifelogging.camera.memory.loss/

The research showed that these patients would forget significant amounts of their lives even in a few short days. With the cameras, they remembered as much as 85% when presented with photos of their day.

This technology has amazing potential for people who suffer from memory loss.

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@ 400 pounds, it's also for people who lost the concept of value of money.

seriously thou, i understand the concept for alzheimer patients, but the price has to be reduce significantly before making it viable for the average public to use

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Do the patients really "remember" what is in the photos? Or do they simply see images images and ponder, "Oh, that looks nice," and 5 minutes later not remember seeing the pictures or what they were about?

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As my dad has Alzheimer's I can say that in the very early stages it might be helpful but at the stage he is now he lacks comprehension to switch his TV on (he used to an aerospace engineer who worked on building Concord and Airbus) or to follow a newspaper - so a very small window of opportunity sadly, what I do for him is convert all his old slides to digital so I can show him things from 40 or 50 years ago in my youth and those he often does remember.

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Interesting abuse of the word "intelligent".

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Could be something good for a wedding photog to sit down later and analyse your day. Maybe for some other professional.

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Not for me... privacy?

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Yet another scheme to part the gullible from their money with the illusion of effortless recording of great images of great moments. There was the Brownie box camera, there was 110, and Polaroid and countless cheap plastic cameras. While with concentrated effort a skilled photographer could produce worthwhile images even from these, the main result was hundreds of millions of fading, worthless snapshots. This new toy promises to increase that by an order of magnitude...or two.

The making of images worth a second look almost always requires effort and concentration and disciplined skill. This new toy promises the opposite. But it may well sell.

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As I suspected, the low light performance is not great ... and especially as a party camera ... that's important. Perhaps there should be an Infrared version with a IR flash that is invisible to our eyes. I use to shoot with an IR flash ... pretty neat getting full (IR) exposure in near darkness.

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I'd like to have one of these, smaller so I could hide it in my tie clip, to go with my Hai Karate aftershave. But if that's not to be, I still want one for the dog. He's not in a league with Garry Winogrand...yet.

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Love the idea of one for the dog - especially if it's a dog big enough to deter thieves!

"A day in the life of my dog" - sounds great.

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For those of us who have missed being in the moment while we take photos for a big part of our lives, this could be great for certain social and sport functions. Of course there is software to removed distortion. Like anything ... there is a time and a place ...

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I would think the place to release this would be Japan

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This could pay for itself, as a party blackmailcam. (grin)

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Simple question: Would you feel comfortable around folks wearing these?

Thought so.

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I might wear one. We'll see how all my friends who love red-light cameras feel about this.

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This thing takes narcissism to a new level.

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How does taking picture of everything but yourself count as narcissism?

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Because you obviously feel that everything you are doing in a day is so awesome that it warrants recording.

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because it's *your* P.o.V.

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Great point. Portraiture can be done from the photographer's point of view or if one is skillful, the subject's

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Maybe he meant that narcissists usually enjoy looking at themselves in the mirror, so then the camera works in that regard. *shrugs*

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'just 'cause I sent the huge alarm clock that usually dangles from my neck back to the shop for chroming... (facepalm)

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