Comments on: Would You Buy a Camera with an In Built Projector?

By: Alan Hyatt

Alan Hyatt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:20:08 +0000

Adding built-in projector in Camera is an excellent idea. By right, they should have done it 5 years ago.
I believe this feature will be available in mobile phone, laptop, game console very soon!
However, the downside, it will kill the existing lucractive projector market.

By: Somone

Somone — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:37:52 +0000

We need to be more open minded.. i think this is a great idea

By: plumb

plumb — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:54:58 +0000

I agree with ignas, cameras are so sophisticated ,the more gadgets in it the more to go wrong

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:08:48 +0000

If the quality is good, then YES I would buy it!

By: Ignas

Ignas — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:45:04 +0000

This is my first comment on this site. I would like to make a general statement with regards to Cameras having added devices. I strongly believe that camera manufacturers should divide the types of cameras into three categories.
The first category should be all high end cameras -which should only focus on picture taking and develop machines that only specialist on picture improvements and noting else.
The second category should be mid-end cameras that focus on picture and video taking. and lastly
The third category should be those mid end and below cameras with other added facilities like with a projector. This will meet the interest of various customers with various needs.
As we can note: machines with added on facilities do not produce better results. Only machines that focus on one or minimal facilities produce better results.

By: Vince Stephens

Vince Stephens — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:43:41 +0000

Pesonally,no!
However,as a fun thing when out and about socially,I can see there being a market for it,but for the seriouse photographer I would think its a definite no no.

By: Wilfried

Wilfried — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:58:12 +0000

Whatever quality they provide, it will be half cooked, not for me.

By: Luschka

Luschka — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:49:40 +0000

I would consider it – I think it’s handy on long trips when you don’t have a laptop with you (i.e. we backpacked Europe for a month last year and would have been great to thin out photos on a larger screen than the LCD), however I would only consider it if it didn’t affect the quality of the CAMERA elements.

By: adrian sensible

adrian sensible — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:46:17 +0000

The concept is useful – but full of dire results. Get on almost any bus, and some dope will have their music machine on so loud that the leakage round the earplug is annoying. I can’t imagine listening to nearly 100% of the garbage teenies seem to let seep round the plugs, but at least the sound is tiny, compared to a visual image, in fairly good definition, assaulting the eye.

The dirty pix lot tittering round smutty phone images are another bio-hazard I would gladly be rid of. Imagining a college campus, a cinema, or a bus/train/city centre at night, with dirty-minded idiots shining some vile image they think is funny onto walls, bus interiors, cafes, pubs, clubs, and so forth gives me the creeps.

Take any technology, and evil uses are found for it almost immediately. In the current climate of moronic binge drinking by some stupid people, loud drunken shouting, crass laddettes out on some pub crawl, where the general quality of mind tends to be taking a nosedive, and give them projectors, and there is likely to be a public equivalent of visual sewage sprayed around for all to be sickened by.

I don’t like mixing with that sort of people, and tend to avoid pubs, clubs, and places they gather. It’s not too bad when they are quiet, as their polluted thinking is not always on display, so there is a measure of protection, but if their polluted lives are sprayed around like some live rerun of tacky excess, then it is going to make having a good internal mind – life a real problem when forced to view crass pix from some low-life’s personal image files.

Myself, I look forward to having such a thing as a DSLR camera with a projector in it, which will be bright enough to just put my camera down when I get home from a day’s pix, point it at the wall, and see something at least as bright as my TV, and preferably about four times as big, so about 80 inches wide, with all 12 megapixels clearly on view. The light output of the most efficient LED is much improved, but maybe some sort of laser-based illumination would give the brightness needed. I wonder what would happen at cinemas though, if this became common – we get unhelpful people using mobile phones in the dark – what happens if 30 dopes are shining their junk images on the screen too I shudder to think

Hopefully, this will not be around so bright for about 2 years or so, so we have a breathing space.

Personally, I would like to see a 4 inch monitor screen on DSLR’s, much brighter than now, for viewing in full sunshine, as I mainly use mine to check and review pix I have just taken, but use it for about a half hour at a time, so this would be of more use to me.

I am impressed though, that Nikon have been able to do this at the £350 or so which it costs – more power to them I feel, or at least light to their projector – cams!

By: fiona

fiona — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:37:08 +0000

it sounds cool. but i think it will be useless feature, or at least feature-only-for-fun.