The goal of keeping a camera at a price point where it can be had by as many people as possible was always in the designer's mind.
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Of course, that'll only happen if the popularity of this camera reaches a tipping point.
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To demonstrate the overhanging motion sensor, a camera was positioned at the same point, visualizing a yellow box to show when the system detected movement toward the multimodal controller and a red box to show if hands were near the gearstick.
The Frenchman Christophe de Ponfilly, a committed activist filmmaker, returned to Afghanistan again and again over a seventeen-year period, even after he halfway convinced himself that it was useless to point a camera at a war.
The Nokia Lumia 720 delivers a high end camera performance at a mid-range price point.
Unlike some camera manufacturers, we weren't interested in stripping down a camera to reach that price point.
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Packed with advanced imaging technology, the HTC TITAN II features a 16-megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens, autofocus, dual LED flash, red eye reduction, image stabilization, a backside-illuminated sensor and a physical camera button, offering a viable replacement for digital point-and-shoot cameras.
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You don't have to point a camera with a 28mm lens into someone's face to get to the truth, or even to start the conversation.
One of the apps that has been getting a lot of buzz is Word Lens: an iPhone app that instantly translates languages on signs instantly - fire up the camera, point it at a sign and off you go!
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And then you must take a moment to find and launch that app before you point your phone's camera at a QR code.
For example, you could point your camera at a street scene, and the image on your screen would be overlaid with cafe reviews, directions to the nearest subway stop and other useful travel information.
In back, the collapsible zoom lens, xenon flash, and aluminum battery cover mimic a point-and-shoot camera.
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Snappgrip is a case that turns your iPhone into a point-and-shoot camera -- partly for kitsch's sake, but mostly to make one-handed shots easier to pull off.
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In the hands of the right athletes the footage shot on a point-of-view action camera is viral crack.
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Abary holds up the NX200, a new point-and-shoot camera with SLR features.
For example, an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera does a reasonable job of taking pictures but cannot begin to compare with the imaging quality of a professional SLR.
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For the uninitiated, the Lynx A is billed as a point-and-shoot 3D camera that uses Kinect-esque hardware to obtain depth mapping and imaging info from your surroundings.
Someone using Layar can point his phone's camera at a street in Paris and see information about, say, well-known restaurants in it and call up pictures showing what they looked like in the past.
In doing so, it edged out Sony's own RX1 full-frame compact, which receives an honorable mention in the category, as does the Samsung Galaxy Camera for joining a powerful Android smartphone with a superzoom point-and-shoot.
You'll also find a 5 megapixel AutoFocus camera and video recording, and beautifully enough, the phone can double as a WiFi access point to share its blazing fast connection over WiFi with up to ten devices.
The presence of a Retina display and built-in camera could also point to video-calling capabilities.
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The myTouch 4G Slide features the most advanced camera of any smartphone with zero shutter lag, backside illuminated sensor and additional premium digital camera features that offer consumers a viable replacement for their digital point-and-shoot cameras.
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Now, the cause of those rumblings is quite clear: a touchscreen model that bundles mobile successes with full camera functionality -- it wasn't a smartphone to replace your point-and-shoot, but a powerful hybrid compact that capitalizes on each segment's strengths in an attempt to return cameras to relevancy, and perhaps even bring them into the spotlight.
Dr Coen's team, for example, uses an infra-red camera to video fires as they happen, from the vantage point of a crane or a small aircraft.
As you've probably already heard, the main selling point here is that said "smart camera" is powered by a slick (and near-vanilla) Android 2.3.3 with Google services, so with the built-in WiFi, you can upload your 16-megapixel images or 1080p videos straight to your various social networks or other cloud services.
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To support the ample sensitivity of the new camera's sensor, the EOS 6D camera's Auto Focus (AF) system includes a newly-developed 11-point AF sensor featuring a high-precision center cross-type point with an exceptional EV -3 sensitivity rating for accurate focusing even in extremely low-light conditions.
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"At one point I tried to take a picture of a young boy attacking a camera, " Sussman wrote.
They found the photos to be on par what "an average" point-and-shoot digital camera with the caveat that this is still a phone first, and then a camera.
Sony demonstrated the system using feeds from an F65 4K camera earlier this year at NAB, but was only able to present a simulation at that point, with pre-recorded output cropped from larger-format footage.
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