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I maintain that digital camera manufacturers' biggest failing is not eliminating the friction between taking pictures and video and getting them online to socia

I maintain that digital camera manufacturers' biggest failing is not eliminating the friction between taking pictures and video and getting them online to social networks, like Instagram. It's super frustrating.

foolfoolz 6y ago
whenever i use the gopro with my friends they complain how hard it is to see the footage after. it’s like for every minute of end result footage it takes an hour of work. sometimes more
hrktb 6y ago
That’s pretty broad though. Like saying Kodak’s failing was on the digital shift. It’s completely true, but you would travel back in time and tell that to the CEO, the result would be the same. There are so many structural issues to solve to prevent that. Hell Olympus took decades to give up and join the SD card wagon.
vncecartersknee 6y ago
Is it really that difficult? I can connect to my entry level nikon d3400 over bluetooth and send an image to my smartphone, edit it a bit and upload it to instagram pretty easily. Granted the bluetooth is very slow and image editing on a smartphone is fairly rudimentary but personally I prefer not to edit images too much.
- acjohnson55 6y ago
  The bar for broad market consumer products--which digital cameras once were--has a much higher bar than that. "Good enough" would be that you take a picture on your camera, and it's available as a thumbnail in your phone's gallery without any further action. Sharing it would trigger a full transfer. "Great" would be being able to edit and upload without taking your phone out of your pocket at all. It blows my mind that we still live in a world where product makers don't get the cloud. People no longer want to think of data as living within physical devices, managing copies and transfers. They want to skip to the "job to be done".
  - lm28469 6y ago
    I for one want my camera to be able to take pictures, and that's it. I don't want it to be a cloud aware 5g connected behemoth running a desktop tier operating system and lightroom.
    - acjohnson55 6y ago
      That's fine. But it's a shrinking market.
neop1x 6y ago
Instagram is not the place for these kinds of photos. They compress them to 100 kB JPEG garbage with the same width and height. And videos of 1000 mbps bandwidth are limiting like crazy. I still don't understand why people use Instagram. I never used it and never will.

foolfoolz 6y ago

whenever i use the gopro with my friends they complain how hard it is to see the footage after. it’s like for every minute of end result footage it takes an hour of work. sometimes more

hrktb 6y ago

That’s pretty broad though. Like saying Kodak’s failing was on the digital shift. It’s completely true, but you would travel back in time and tell that to the CEO, the result would be the same. There are so many structural issues to solve to prevent that. Hell Olympus took decades to give up and join the SD card wagon.

vncecartersknee 6y ago

Is it really that difficult? I can connect to my entry level nikon d3400 over bluetooth and send an image to my smartphone, edit it a bit and upload it to instagram pretty easily. Granted the bluetooth is very slow and image editing on a smartphone is fairly rudimentary but personally I prefer not to edit images too much.

acjohnson55 6y ago
The bar for broad market consumer products--which digital cameras once were--has a much higher bar than that. "Good enough" would be that you take a picture on your camera, and it's available as a thumbnail in your phone's gallery without any further action. Sharing it would trigger a full transfer. "Great" would be being able to edit and upload without taking your phone out of your pocket at all. It blows my mind that we still live in a world where product makers don't get the cloud. People no longer want to think of data as living within physical devices, managing copies and transfers. They want to skip to the "job to be done".
- lm28469 6y ago
  I for one want my camera to be able to take pictures, and that's it. I don't want it to be a cloud aware 5g connected behemoth running a desktop tier operating system and lightroom.
  - acjohnson55 6y ago
    That's fine. But it's a shrinking market.

neop1x 6y ago

Instagram is not the place for these kinds of photos. They compress them to 100 kB JPEG garbage with the same width and height. And videos of 1000 mbps bandwidth are limiting like crazy. I still don't understand why people use Instagram. I never used it and never will.