On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:19:05PM +0300, Boris Liberman wrote: >> On 9/10/2010 2:41 PM, eckinator wrote: >>> I think IR is nice if you want to transfer one or a few images to a >>> printer or whatever but at 6 to 8 megs per shot IR is certainly not >>> fast enough transfer images to a computer in bulk or on the fly. >>> personally, I still wonder when the first camera will come out with an >>> iPhone dock instead of a rear display... >> >> Ecke, for this thing to work there has to be (almost?) accurate eye >> contact. Wifi and BT take care of this limitation rather nicely. I am >> also unsure as to the connection speed/rate that IR can provide. But it >> is all moot until it clears out whether the protocol Pentax indicated is >> used by anything other than Pentax themselves. >> >> Boris > > Well, it's not a Pentax invention. > > IrSimple(tm) is already used by Fuji in their digital cameras, > and apparently it shows up in several mobile phones as well. > > While current implementations are slow, when VFIR and Giga-IR > make it to the marketplace it should be possible to transfer > those 8MB images fast enough to keep up with an 8FPS camera. >
It's an interesting idea, but IR's dead in the marketplace and Bluetooth has replaced it. 10 years ago most laptops and smartphones had IRDA ports, today almost none have them and everything's Bluetooth. IR is finicky, slow and requires fixed positioning. Bluetooth is simple, easy and ubiquitous. Wireless USB is the future though, easier and much faster than Bluetooth, but still not quite to market. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
