iPods and Cameras?

[alpha_harblo]

I like that idea. I can see the iPod becoming the next PDA. It already has much of the functions of older PDA's. By that time, bluetooth may be a little quicker (or have a technology much like bluetooth), and you'll even be able to buy a little keyboard for it, much like PDA's today.

Something to think about.

 

[SiliconAddict]

Yes, because then they might have been able to sell a few iPods, and maybe that would have allowed their stagnant stock to go up in value. If only...

What the heck does that mean? So you think that just because the iPod is a fantastic seller Apple shouldn’t keep moving the device forward in features? I can tell you there are more then a few semi pro photographers out there that have been drooling for this feature on the iPod for a while. The third party solutions are slow and clumsy at best. Watch dpreview go nuts over this news.

 

[Dave00]

Yup, here are details from Macnn.com:

. Apple also introduced the new iPod Camera Connector, due in late-March for $30. The optional accessory enables customers to connect their digital camera to iPod photo and import their photos into the iPod. "By simply connecting the iPod Camera Connector and a digital camera, customers can easily transfer digital images to their iPod photo."

Coolness.

Super yay! Hopefully it'll also work with a media reader, and not drain the ipod like the belkin connector.

--D

 

[ClimbingTheLog]

Expect much more, soon

Apple's latest trademark filing includes these features for the iPod:
"editing of audio-tapes; editing of tine-films; editing of video-tapes; editing of written text; film editing (photographic); videotape editing; digital imaging services".

Let's see what NAB brings. I'm looking forward to an iPod Photo (err.. Video) that integrates with Final Cut 5 and lets the editor get some rough-cut work done on the Subway.

 

[Stanislaus]

Why not Sony?!?

I thought we were becoming such good friends with sony; how come steve's not having a camera deal with them? (and cameras made by sony are not the worst...)

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Apple should have, and could have, done this 2 generations ago.

2 generations ago, it did not make a lot of sense. Now with the iPod Photo, and greater market penetration of digital cameras, the time is right.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/

On the new ipod photo page near the bottom on the right-hand side it mentions a new camera connector accessory coming in March (along with the new software update)

Now the question is will it support the RAW formats supported under iPhoto? Though with many newer DSLRs that is less of an issue with the RAW+JPG shooting option.

 

[SiliconAddict]

2 generations ago, it did not make a lot of sense. Now with the iPod Photo, and greater market penetration of digital cameras, the time is right.

Whatever. Digital cameras have been hot sellers since at least 2000 if not earlier. The time has been right for years. Hell a lot of home printers have started integrating SD, CF, MS into their design over the last 4 years. I'm sure they have been doing that because up til now digital cameras have been "just a fad"