Blog - Taking Photos with Hands

Article: "Incredible Camera Takes Photos With Your Fingers" - found at Fast Company



There is an awesome piece of technology originating from researchers at IAMAS called the Ubi-Camera, which allows users to take pictures of whatever they want using the traditional 'setting up a composition with your hands' technique most people use before shooting photos with traditional cameras instead of with said traditional camera. The camera piece is placed on the index finger of the left hand, and the thumb of the right hand pushes the button when the picture is set up. You can even zoom in and out my moving your hands further from and closer to (respectively) your body.

Though this camera is only a prototype at the moment, it is a fantastic idea, especially if it can get an image quality similar to high-pixel cameras of most smartphones (even better if at the level of DSLRs, but that's unlikely). The use of this camera, though it might look weird having something on the tip of your index finger, is taking advantage of something everyone does. I'm a little amazed, now that I think about it, that this is the first time this has ever been attempted.