I can fit more dials on here, dammit. Just you see if I can’t. Picture: Charlie Nghiem
If something is good, then more is surely better, right? That seems to be the thinking behind Charlie Nghiem’s Rotor Digital Camera.
Taking the popular (and excellent) resurgence of manual dials as his cue, Nghiem’s concept stacks eight (8!) dials on top of each other, nestled into a cylinder of control underneath the regular mode dial up top.
When you turn a dial, a strip appears on-screen right next to it, showing the results if your efforts. It thus combines the vagueness of a menu-driven interface — which requires you to always watch what you are doing — and the awkwardness of finding an individual button to do it.
I don’t see how this is any better than the button-and-dial method on most digicams, especially as those dials look almost impossible to turn (apart from the top one, and the one with the red nubbin).
I’m all for extra, dedicated manual controls. It just seems that, in this case at least, less might be more. Now, why do I suddenly feel like eating a Polo?
Charlie Nghiem: Rotor Digital Camera [Design Boom via Andrew Liszewski]
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