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DSLR cameras should become iPhone docks
- anigbrowl 15y agoUnfortunately, DSLRs are painfully outdated. With them you can’t tweet or email photos, you can’t crop or adjust them and you can’t organize your library. And to get your photos anywhere, you’ll need a cord or a compatible card reader. This is ridiculous given that it’s 2012. I don't want to have my phone in my camera - I certainly don't want phone calls interrupting my pictures. Actually, yes I can do quite a bit of editing from my DSLR and it's not even a top-of-the-line model. I don't mind transferring my photos over USB and storing them on cards, but if I was in a big hurry I would get a wi-fi enabled SD card or battery pack to offload my pictures/video automatically I shoot them. These products have already been on the market for several years. My DSLR generates files that are about 22mb/shot or ~225mb/min for video. I really don't want to be trying to send that sort of data over a cellular connection. And although the idea of a swappable data-processing module such as a phone is basically a Good Thing, I really don't want to be locked into a single manufacturer's platform.