The Big Boys still don’t get it.

With every new announcement from the big camera makers (“Look, no mirror”, “Can make your breakfast”, and so on) I am reminded of our military leaders. Forever fighting the last war. “You mean a single cruise missile can take out our $50 billion aircraft carrier and her complement of 5,000 sailors? Obviously, we need to build more aircraft carriers”.

And Canon, Nikon et al are building aircraft carriers.

• No computational photography
• Massive bulk
• Extremely high cost
• Fragile
• No Night Mode
• Heck, they can’t even tell you where your snap was taken

Wandering around the garden the other night I was reminded of this lack of vision (well, it was plenty dark out there) when I spotted this rock illuminated by a single, distant landscape light. Out came the iPhone, Night Mode came on automatically, I held the thing more or less steady in my hand and click. There it was.

The Mask. Night mode rules.

And like those generals’ war toys, the toys passing as modern ‘professional’ cameras are already so much useless junk.

iPhone 12 Pro Max Snap, no Pentagon technology involved.