If the camera always recorded "objective reality, " viewers would draw the same inferences and conclusions irrespective of the perspective of the camera.

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But from another perspective, the camera phone is a technology that frees you from the narcissistic tendencies of an individualistic culture.

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Canon's primary motivation, at least from an official perspective, was to create a camera that serves to bridge the gap between pocketable compacts and full-size DSLRs with a simple user interface designed to educate, not intimidate.

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Pikmin 3 Photos: The upcoming Pikmin 3 game includes a feature that lets players use the Wii U GamePad as a camera to share the same perspective as Pikmin and take close-up pictures of landscapes and creatures in the game and share them in Miiverse.

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Or, from a security perspective, you could have an IP surveillance camera set up so that it sends a picture to your Twitter account whenever there is unusual activity.

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Mr Cuaron's camera is restless, moving fluidly from one perspective to another.

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At minimum what it may mean is that developers should rethink the moment-to-moment scale and camera position of a console title handheld port, even if from a computational perspective they can deliver an exact copy.

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