There won’t be another one of those “Man, that person really messed up that photo by blinking” thanks to the Nikon Coolpix 550.
This little thing beeps when someone you’re taking a photo of blinks. Now it would be perfect if the camera would beep when you took a terrible photo. Although upon further thought, if I were to get my hands on a camera like that, people would probably think I was carrying around a morse code machine or something.
“A new Nikon camera warns you if someone blinked. If someone’s eyes close when you click the shutter, the Coolpix S550 will throw up a warning and give you a chance to quickly retake the photo.
It’s just one of a number of features that camera makers are adding to digital models, which they fear are saturating the market. The new tricks move beyond ever-rising megapixel counts as incentives to upgrade. The blink feature joins smile mode, which doesn’t take a picture until everyone’s smiling, and something we’ll call “still-camera still mode”—shutters that will wait until everyone quits moving before snapping a frame.”
Camera makers trying to cram all these features into these point-and-shoots isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it just means that we’ll constantly see improvement. This particular camera retails for about $230 and you can read the original post about the non-blinking camera here.























