DBrown
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I've got all sorts of other ways to get images onto my PC (scanner, webcam, dedicated digital camera), so having pictures larger that the Visor's screen resolution is kind of a waste to me. The only time people ask to see my eyemodule pictures is when I'm nowhere near my PC, but always with my Visor. Unless an eyemodule can REPLACE my dedicated 2 megapixel digital camera, I don't need the extra resolution. Keep upping the pixels, IDEO.
The tilted lens will be a good improvement if you've ever seriously tried taking someone's portrait with EM1's straight ahead lens. A pivoting lens would have been a GREAT improvement. Looking straight back at you, the preview mode would have been a great way to make sure your hair was combed and there was no corn in your teeth.
Is it still a fixed-focus lens? If they'd added a focus ring, or even a 2 or 3 postition focus switch (near or macro, normal, distant) I'd have bought one in a flash. I want to take (very)CLOSEUPS.
Zoom, anyone?
If it's a CCD instead of the EM1's CMOS, it "might" provide better low light images. I'll believe it when I see them, though. My Sony camera takes movies in NO LIGHT (0 lux), but they aren't worth watching. A flash, or even the ability to add a flash should have been a feature. I remember old cameras that had flash cubes you'd mount on top. The cubes were cheap, and you could take 4 flash pictures with each before throwing them out. How about bring back that technology, maybe? No batteries required. They were explosive flashes, I think.
Where's the tripod mount I asked for? I'd love to take time-lapse pictures, then make a mini-movie out of them. I just don't want to have to hold my visor in the same position all that time. A tripod mount, near the low end of the module, would have been easy. The circuit board could have simply wrapped around it. An offset mount could have been included to allow you to actually mount your tripod beneath the visor's perfect center of gravity. I made one (an offset mount)for my poorly balanced Sony camera for about 15 cents. Easy.
What they did right? Kept it pocketable. Tilted the lens (at least a little). Switched to CCD. Put more useful software right on the module.
Could it have been better? You bet.
What else would be nice to do with your EM1 or EM2? How about an LCD picture frame that has a springboard slot on the back. If the EMs had on-module memory where pictures were stored, then slipping the camera into such a picture frame could start a slide show of the images you'd captured. I'd want one!
How about Video-out? 640x480 is great resolution to view on a TV. Even 320x240 looks good. That's what VideoCD resolution is. Better yet, include a Visor cradle with TV out. Set atop your TV, the visor might pass video thru it's sync buss. Just park your Visor/EM in this cradle, and watch your EM pictures on TV. While they're at it, an IR remote control would have been great too. Both for TAKING pictures remotely, and viewing them on TV remotely. Though the Visor's IR port has limited sending range, it can "see" IR commands sent from stronger remotes. The "Presenter-to-Go" folks think so, at least.
IDEO... You can have all these ideas. Just send me an EM3 that encorporates them in exchange. Deal?
Dave
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02-12-2001 08:10 PM
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It only applies if you bought an EM1 in Feb 2001. Unless you were living under a rock, by Feb 1 you had seen rumors about the EM2 and wouldn't have buoght an EM1 anyway!
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