Lightmancer
Legend
- Location
- Sunny Frimley
- Name
- Bill Palmer
Triggered by Amin's recent thread about a camera that can upload to a phone in realtime, I would like to pose the following questions...
1. Why are there no cameras with SIM cards?
2. Why are physical SIM cards still a thing anyway?
3. Why does my phone have a biometric sensor but my camera doesn't?
Now, I know that the imaging capabilities of portable telephones are improving, and that some manufacturers, notably Panasonic and Samsung have produced what I would refer to as "converged devices" - essentially telephones with Zoom lenses bolted on - but why can I not today buy a pro-spec DSLR with full connectivity built-in?
Which brings me to my second point. Why do portable telephones still rely upon a SIM card anyway? Why, in short, do we have a physical dongle? The tech is there - when you get a new laptop, tablet, TV, etc, you simply log in. Why the SIM? It feels like an anachronism.
Which brings me to 3. When I leave the house to take pictures, I carry a £1000 portable telephone and a £1600 camera plus lenses. If I am mugged, my portable telephone is protected by a biometric sensor; it is useless without my finger to fire it up. But my more expensive camera can be picked up and used by anyone. Similarly my lenses are "unprotected". Again, the tech is there to protect high end cameras with biometric sensor tech built into the grip; it would be a simple matter to "pair" lenses with a specific camera body or bodies and render it useless if connected to another camera.
Someone like Sony even has all the necessary tech in-house to do all of the above.
Am I missing something...?
1. Why are there no cameras with SIM cards?
2. Why are physical SIM cards still a thing anyway?
3. Why does my phone have a biometric sensor but my camera doesn't?
Now, I know that the imaging capabilities of portable telephones are improving, and that some manufacturers, notably Panasonic and Samsung have produced what I would refer to as "converged devices" - essentially telephones with Zoom lenses bolted on - but why can I not today buy a pro-spec DSLR with full connectivity built-in?
Which brings me to my second point. Why do portable telephones still rely upon a SIM card anyway? Why, in short, do we have a physical dongle? The tech is there - when you get a new laptop, tablet, TV, etc, you simply log in. Why the SIM? It feels like an anachronism.
Which brings me to 3. When I leave the house to take pictures, I carry a £1000 portable telephone and a £1600 camera plus lenses. If I am mugged, my portable telephone is protected by a biometric sensor; it is useless without my finger to fire it up. But my more expensive camera can be picked up and used by anyone. Similarly my lenses are "unprotected". Again, the tech is there to protect high end cameras with biometric sensor tech built into the grip; it would be a simple matter to "pair" lenses with a specific camera body or bodies and render it useless if connected to another camera.
Someone like Sony even has all the necessary tech in-house to do all of the above.
Am I missing something...?