{"id":2908,"date":"2013-09-14T07:50:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T08:17:10","slug":"touch-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/touch-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch Screen Devices: The next “big thing” for professional photographers?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Touch based gadgets are everywhere! (c) Engadget<\/p><\/div>\n
As a professional photographer, I\u2019m used to having to use my hands a lot. Changing lenses, moving from one DSLR body to the other, swapping memory cards and sometimes executing a perfect catch when that expensive lens slips from your grasp(!). It\u2019s interesting how technology has evolved where the act of using your hands for much more than turning knobs and levers — and actually using menu driven software to \u201ctouch\u201d what you want — therefore making it much more intuitive and effective.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always been fascinated how technology evolves with how we want to interact with things that we love and use a lot. Touch screen technology used to be the domain of science fiction till not very long back — something that slowly invaded our lives when Apple first introduced the iPad a couple of years back. Today, mobile phones and tablets thrive on touch technology. Everywhere you look, your everyday device now has some form of touch technology built in — whether it\u2019s an ATM machine or even a printer.<\/p>\n
Nikon S70 (c) Manufacturer<\/p><\/div>\n
Photography wasn\u2019t far behind – and consumer point and shoot cameras soon entered with completely touch screen driven UIs which made taking that perfect picture that much easier for the general customer — who couldn\u2019t be bothered with technicalities like aperture speeds, shutter speeds and the rest of all that mumbo jumbo. The technology behind it is SO intuitive, that all a user needs to do is touch what you want to focus on, and the camera does the rest! For example, the Nikon S70 <\/a>features an almost completely touch driven system – where you can move between banks of menus with a simple swipe of your finger!<\/p>\n