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I'm not sure if combining two widely-available off-the-
shelf products without modifying either of them qualifies
as inventing something. It's like putting an airplane motor
in a boat or putting forklift tines on your tractor. Sure, you
can impale a banana on the horn of a rhinoceros, but
you've still just got a banana and a rhinoceros. |
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//Sure, you can impale a banana on the horn of a
rhinoceros, but you've still just got a banana and a
rhinoceros.// |
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Depends how much the rhino likes bananas. |
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wibni, yes, but not impossible. Maybe the rapid pace of innovation with digital cameras doesn't justify the cast metal bodies of old. |
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Phone camera modules are typically cuboids less
than a centimetre on a side, and that includes the
focusable optics and some level of onboard
processing. Just add batteries (and some storage). |
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My first digital camera was not a commercial model
as such, but a 5x5x1.5cm thingy that took a single
AAA which it needed to keep the memory as well
as to operate (if it went flat you had no photos),
the memory being a few 640x480 stills. |
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This idea is clearly possible 15 years on from my
example, but market forces seem to have dictated
that average level digital cameras are included in
phones and better quality is dictated by optic size
(and how wobbly your hands are when holding
something tiny) and are made as separate devices. |
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To summarise, not WIBNI, just no market to make
it for, but if you think otherwise, there's a factory
in China waiting for you to request it. |
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Something on the first link nearly made me spit beer
on the keyboard. I'm used to a language selection
icon being a combination of a British and USA flag... |
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//if you think otherwise, there's a factory in China
waiting for you to request it.// Or just hack a
mobile phone. |
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I have been asking for this for a long time but as others have said, there's no real market for it. |
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However, if you're interested in mini video cameras, the 808 keychain cameras are absolutely fantastic. They come with essentially no manual or brand name, but are very cheap, very small and usually better quality than cell phone cameras. I have the 808 #11 and it's brilliant. |
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The only downside is that they come in a shoddy plastic case. I honestly considered trying to cram the innards of one into an old Hit camera, but never got round to it. |
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Even the top-of-the-line #16 808 keychain takes only 0.9MP images, and has no viewfinder to compose images. |
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So glue a 1/2" length of drinking straw to the side of it. |
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