Canon’s “Wonder Camera” concept

An interesting article by Mike Hanlon @ Gizmag, discussing the introduction of Canon’s “Wonder Camera” concept at the recent World Expo 2010 in China.

“With video capturing everything in perfect focus, and over time becoming cheaper and all pervasive, will still image photography become democratized and immensely popular, or redundant? If the algorithms of a camera such as imagined by Canon’s concept capture perfectly exposed images in perfect resolution at all times, then every frame of every video will contain countless perfect still images. Will the law of supply and demand devalue the currency of professional still image photographers? ….”
“Will still photography become an irrelevant artifact of artistic endeavor whose time has come and gone because something better and easier has come along – like calligraphy – everyone has a pen and paper, it’s just that no-one does it anymore because we’ve found a different way to communicate.”

Read the rest of the article here, or watch the video above.