I’m almost halfway sourcing over 1200 photos of digital cameras - yes, myperfectcamera.com.au is only days away from launch - and I think I’ve seen the entire pre-history of digital cameras float past my eyes.
It’s been fun to see the development of cameras over the years, and to watch the manufacturers come to grips with the types of weird shapes and really weird features that they thought we all would want.
Fortunately, we’ve settled down to a more compact, functional design regime these days, and so the amount of ‘design’ in a camera is now only to make it more ‘usable’.
I’m currently up to K for Kodak in my picture hunt - and I’d hope to be finished in another 24 hours. It’s a strangely demanding job - I’ve automating it as much as possible, but the final act of choosing and grabbing the best photos from the available pool takes about a minute for each item.
1200 cameras in the database times 1 minute per item? That’s 1200 minutes, or about 20 hours.
Yikes. I’d better get back to it.
AB outÂ
