As much as ever, in-camera filters will represent a large portion of each model's feature description, and touchscreens will continue to proliferate, especially among higher-end models.
What Apple is apparently proposing, though, is a camera with such privacy filters built into the camera module itself.
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The slender and affordable Olympus VG-160 is packed with in-camera Magic Art Filters, HD Video and an intelligent, iAuto.
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Express your inner artist with the Olympus TG-320's in-camera Magic Art Filters that enable users to enhance and customize images as they're being captured.
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The new phone has an 8-megapixel camera enabled with smart filters.
Additionally, the camera's frame comes equipped with speaker and microphone filters to prevent water from penetrating the camera.
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Eleven filters such as Toy Camera, Invert Color and Posterization can be applied even during the shooting of still images and movie clips, while the remaining eight are applicable only during playback.
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Just as photos on camera phones needed Instagram's filters for their distribution to grow, and GPS chips went from preventing you from getting lost to Foursquare's social check-ins, so the physiological signals that are currently generating charts, graphs and analysis will eventually be moulded into more social experiences, he argues.
The F800EXR has six new filters: Pop Color, Toy Camera, Miniature, High Key, Partial color and Dynamic Tone.
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If you snap a photo in the app, you can then edit it using all of Android's built-in camera features (cropping, color balancing, photo filters and borders).
The Android camera app may already have a set of friendly filters, but it lacks the simplified sharing and marketing buzz of Facebook's recent acquisition.
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Using filters on the rover's Mast camera (Mastcam) and an instrument which shoots neutrons into the ground to probe for hydrogen, researchers have detected more hydrated minerals near the clay-bearing rock than at locations Curiosity visited earlier in its mission.
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To start with, they had to rely on a high-resolution camera mounted on a frame, and a series of filters attached to a rotating wheel, to create a set of single-frequency images from the same perspective, in order that they could be merged as desired.
The package consists of a cradle that contains an assortment of lenses and filters which line up with the handset's camera, along with an app that guides the user through the testing process.
Attaching Sigma's optional dedicated 52mm DG filters such as the DG wide circular PL to the camera body extends the shooting possibilities.
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The OM-D EM-5 has a bunch of fun art filters, but the .jpg files right out of the camera are nothing to sneeze at either, and in most cases the limiting factors in image quality are the lens and photographer, not the sensor.
That three-inch screen is big, if not particularly bright, but does the trick for the camera's fairly simple menu system, which also includes a number of filters like Fisheye, Sepia (move over Instagram) and Monochrome -- the processing on each occurs after the photos are snapped.
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Bloggers also were spotlighting tools like Hipstamatic and Camera Awesome, as well as Twitter's own new photo service that includes Instagram-like filters.
Ten Magic Art Filters power your creativity by adding a whole range of special effects to your images directly in the camera.
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Users can also use popular Photoshop features such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images, or use the high quality GALAXY Note 10.1 camera to fill an area on a layer with the unique camera fill feature.
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